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Geography (1919)

1919 · Newsreel · 6 min

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Geography Produced: 1919 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Geography-The Earth: What Is It? Part Two, Part Three, Part Four. Military parade - marching units and units on horseback - ship ready for launching - spectators - launching - rotating globe - close-up of relief globe. “A Mountain.” Automobile traffic on mountain road, tourists by side of road, mountains in distance - rotating globe. “Steamship Lines.” Hand with pencil traces lines on globe. “An ocean liner.” Liner under way. “Railroad lines.” Rotating globe - close-up of map showing rail lines. “A transcontinental train going from coast to coast.” In Royal Gorge of the Arkansas River. “A New York hotel.” Dining room - rotating globe - detail showing Southern States. “Cutting sugarcane in the South.” Workers cutting cane by hand - rotating globe, northern hemisphere. “Life in the Arctic.” Runners with dog sleds - rotating globe - detail of Mid-Western States. “Indians from the Plains.” In native costumes, afoot, on horseback, dancing. “Like a fat man the earth wears a belt around its fattest part.” Cartoon, fat man - balloon with equator written on it. “Did someone squash the earth on top and bottom while putting in the poles? No, for there are really no poles there at all.” Ball with map sketched on it - two sticks pressed on it flatten it. “The Earth got flat at the North and South poles from whirling so fast while it was still soft after being thrown…

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