Video Parts (2)
This clip is Part 1 of a 2-part film.
Lights Golden Anniversary / Old Sawmill Part 1
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Group of men in front of tintype studio in Greenfield Village, one holding umbrella, one on large wheeled bicycle - group posing in doorway and in front of Plymouth Carding Mill at Pioneer Log Cabin - horse-drawn buggy on rainy road, pedestrians, Clinton Inn in background - Clinton Inn - Martha-Mary Chapel - Edison’s machine shop, horse-drawn wagon - Sarah Jordan Boarding House - tintype studio - blacksmith shop - Sara Jordan Boarding House - horse-drawn carriages - Plymouth Carding Mill - Martha-Mary Chapel - dirigible in flight - Waterford General Store, dirigible overhead - Town Hall and Edison’s machine shop - replica of Independence Hall and nearby buildings - Toll House Shoe shop - Clinton Inn - horse-drawn wagons, one with cover passing Edison’s office and library - crowds milling - Toll House Shoe Shop - Town Hall, carriage passing - Clinton Inn, carriage, people - President and Mrs. Hoover alighting from train, greeted by Henry Ford and Thomas A. Edison - President and Mrs. Hoover, Edison, others posing for camera - people, carriages, railroad train in background - crowd on station platform - people entering horse-drawn carriage - close-up of Hoover, Edison, and Ford - people entering carriage - man and woman talking, posing - two men posing - man posing - Hoover and Edison in Edison’s laboratory, Edison showing equipment. [1929] b. Old Sawmill at Macon, Michigan, Oct. 17, 1928. Workers sliding boards down beams set at angle, sawmill in background, rolling large beam taken from inside sawmill down incline - views of ramshackle sawmill buildings. [1928]
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