Days of Real Sport (Boy Scouts) / Ford Educational Weekly: Water as Power Part 2
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Boys pose for the camera in and out of Boy Scout uniforms - views of Scout activities: hiking, setting up camp, breaking camp, loading trailer with camping equipment, hauling trailer. “He learns how to start a fire a la Pontiac.” Boy starts fire with bow and string and stick of wood-knot tying demonstration - human pyramid. “Like a wild west show.” Boys scale wall with boost from other boys - boys running, marching in formation, swimming - boy in trouble in water and fully clad boys go to the rescue, administer artificial respiration - cooking on open fire - boy eating sandwich. “All the fun is not on land.” Boys in sailor suits row to sailboats, raise sail, hoist anchor. “Finding new thrills.” Sailboats maneuver - scouts marching, helping people across street, administering first aid to dog. [1919] b. Swollen river. “This cry has gone up for centuries, day after day, from one stream to another.” Waterfall. “Perhaps their magnificent beauty hides away all thoughts of usefulness.” River - Great Falls of the Potomac. “And thus they spoke one by one until someone heard.” Waterwheel - dam - buildings by water - dam under construction - power plant - dam. “6,000 horse power operating cotton mills, Columbus, Georgia.” Views of dams, both high and low - power plants - cotton mills - buildings near dams - spillways - water flowing over dams - cities - waterwheels - sheep grazing and resting in shade of old tree roots - summer cottages - people threshing grain with tractor power, filling sacks. [1920]
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