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Elks Convention, Los Angeles, California / Guadalajara, Mexico / Crippled Children / Albion College Inaugural Ceremony, Albion, Michigan / South Dakota Badlands / The Dearborn Independent (Advertisement For Ford Newspaper) / Fordson Tractor Advertising Parade, Detroit, Michigan (1920)

1920 · Newsreel · 10 min

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Elks Convention, Los Angeles, California / Guadalajara, Mexico / Crippled Children / Albion College Inaugural Ceremony, Albion, Michigan / South Dakota Badlands / The Dearborn Independent (Advertisement For Ford Newspaper) / Fordson Tractor Advertising Parade, Detroit, Michigan Produced: 1920 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a.Parade led by band - flag and umbrella decorated open automobiles lined up on an athletic field, sign on umbrellas, ‘B.P.O.E., No. 3, Philadelphia.’ - mounted parade unit - marching unit - tourists on the sidewalk of a street heavy with traffic, board sight-seeing bus - industrial plant. b. Village from a distance - downtown street - natives pose - skyline with church steeples. c. Nurse assists crippled child in walking back and forth across hospital room, in bending - child with crippled spine - (unrelated footage: workers in an industrial plant handling a hot ingot; woman posing with a group of U.S. Army soldiers). d. Visitors and guests leave a building - three men in academic robes converse, two walk toward camera - academic officials in robes pose - procession of girls, adults, faculty and students in academic robes - band leads parade of same group down main street of business district, sign on building, ‘Bullens Big Busy Store’ - auditorium interior with academic procession - visitors on campus grounds. e. Buttes, eroded soil - Indian tepee, tents - Indian family in horse-drawn…

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