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This clip is Part 1 of a 3-part film.
TWENTY MILLIONTH FORD Part 1
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Man on stage in front of microphone, bowing - talking into mic - Henry Ford’s first workshop, Quadricycle inside - Quadricycle on street - close-up of motor running - Ford driving Quadricycle - still picture of Mack Avenue plant - views of several early models of Ford cars - racer ‘999’ on track - Ford Highland Park plant - Model T’s leaving plant - cheering workers around Ten Millionth Ford, workers pulling cars off assembly line - workers outside Highland Park plant - Henry and Edsel Ford examining Quadricycle and Ten Millionth Ford - pedestrian, automobile and streetcar traffic near Flatiron Building, New York - crowd around Ten Millionth Ford, ‘The Ten Millionth, New York to San Francisco Via the Lincoln Highway’ written on side - Ten Millionth Ford and motorcade moving through business district of town, streetcar traffic, spectators - Fifteen Millionth Ford on final assembly line, Henry and Edsel Ford driving it off assembly line - River Rouge plant - assembly line, Twenty Millionth Ford being assembled - Henry and Edsel Ford posing beside Twenty Millionth, driving it out of plant [4/14/31] - ‘A 20000000’ on engine - Henry Ford driving Twenty Millionth - Henry and Edsel Ford and others in or near Quadricycle - Henry and Edsel Ford posing near Quadricycle and Twenty Millionth Ford - Twenty Millionth parked near Ford racer ‘999’ and Fifteen Millionth Ford in front of Ford Museum - Twenty Millionth driven off - crowd around Twenty Millionth - man signing Twenty Millionth log book. “Twenty million Ford buyers can’t be wrong!!” “The End.” [1931]
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