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Ford English School / Lights and Shadows in a City of a Million: Funds Appeal for Social Welfare Work / Golfing (1918)

1918 · Newsreel · 5 min

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Ford English School / Lights and Shadows in a City of a Million: Funds Appeal for Social Welfare Work / Golfing Produced: 1918 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Close-up of student talking, others in background - students in classroom, professor lecturing - students leaving building - classroom, professor lecturing and acting out meanings of words - finger pointing to chart ‘Preparing Breakfast,’ sentences concerning breakfast preparation. b. “The smallest village has its sick, its poor, its orphans, its helpless old people. These are cared for mostly by neighbors. Detroit, with its million population, has the same classes of dependents, and they must be cared for by community methods.” “Visiting Nurses starting on their daily rounds.” Nurses leaving large house - one goes to door of shabby house, enters. “A typical home where community aid is required.” Nurse washing child. “The community furnishes medical treatment at hospital clinics.” Waiting room of clinic filled with patients. “The children of today are the citizens of tomorrow. The community takes especial care of its sick little ones.” Ward filled with babies and children. “John S--, apparently a helpless cripple is helped to become self-supporting by community aid.” Legless man in wheel chair going down ramp. “Hundreds of inexperienced housewives are shown how to combat old H.C. of L.” Woman baking muffins, looks discouraged - settlement worker…

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