Explore everything with a free subscription

Video Parts (3)

This clip is Part 1 of a 3-part film.

Model T Fords / Military Parade / Model T Fords Part 1

Description

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Scenes filmed between 1916-1920. Portrait of Henry Ford as young man - Ford talking with another man - motorcade of Model T’s leaving large building - Model T’s on street, driven along huge aqueduct - group of people leaving house, getting into car, and driving away. [1920] b. Military parade - mounted and motorized units. [1917] c. Scenes filmed between 1916-1923. Views of Model T’s fording a stream - car on country road, stopping, passengers with golf bags getting out, car going on - car in park, ice-skaters at edge of pond - Model T on snowy mountain road, workers placing mats made of logs tied together under wheels, making road as it goes, a great deal of pushing along the way - cars on muddy, deeply rutted country road - car moving through high grass - car on mountain road, passing stone gate post - Model T’s on city streets, through deep cut in mountains, following horse-drawn sled on snowy road, on snowy street in residential area, several different styles displayed on street, driven down railroad tracks, being driven down steep embankments - police escorted motorcade of different styles of Model T cars and buses - Model T’s on mountain road - tourists on rock overlooking canyon - views of mountains, Model T’s on road - different styles of Model T on residential street. [1923]

Read more

Collection

Ford Motor Company Collection

Series

Motion Picture Films Relating to the Ford Motor Company, the Henry Ford Family, Noted Personalities, Industry, and Numerous Americana and Other Subjects

NARA ID
Subscribe
Local ID
Subscribe
Date
1916–1920
File
Subscribe
TRT
2:48