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Ford Animated Weekly / Henry Ford: Personal Shots / Ford Assembly Line / Ford Airport, Plane, Balloons, and Dirigible / Eagle Boats / River Rouge Parking Lot / Ford Trucks (1914)

1914 · Newsreel · 7 min

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1914 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. “Detroit, Michigan. Helen Keller visits Henry Ford. By remarkable development of the sense of touch Miss Keller is able to understand what is being said to her. Note how she listens with her hands to what Mr. Ford is saying.” Miss Keller feeling the lips of Henry Ford - Miss Sullivan, Miss Keller’s teacher, in background. b. Henry and Mrs. Ford walking down through garden of Fair Lane - view of house in background - Henry Ford and others broad jumping in field - Ford in doorway of barn playing violin - Ford on horse-drawn wheat binder in field. c. Interior of Ford factory, workers painting cars on assembly line. d. Henry Ford with another man in front of Ford hangar and, ‘Maiden Dearborn IV, Ford Airport of Dearborn’ - side view of airplane with Fordson tractor in foreground - (‘July 18, 1928 Gordon Bennett Balloon Race R 4-5’ written on film) - view of field, crowd, airplane and several balloons - close-up of Gordon Bennett and another man in basket - Bennett being presented with flowers by two ladies - balloon ascending - several views of Army dirigible ‘RS-1’ moored at the Ford Airport mooring mast - close-up of tower, base and automobiles. e. Views of Eagle boats with men on decks - several views of Eagle boats at dock. f. “Parking grounds for thousands at River Rouge plant.” View of thousands of cars outside plant. g. Ford truck being loaded from N&W railroad car -…

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