[FORD AUTOMOBILES, NEW YORK CITY, INDIANAPOLIS, AND DETROIT SAFETY PARADE] Part 1

Description

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Parade scenes filmed between 1918-1927. Model T Ford automobiles - early model Fords with passenger door at rear, men leave, enter this model - automobile traffic along a tree lined street - theater marked with sign, ‘Loew’s State-Norma Talmadge - Secrets - Times Square, New York City’ (1918) - automobile decorated with American and British flags - Goodyear truck with sign, ‘World’s Record - Los Angeles-New York - 13 days 5 hours’ - parade of trucks - business district - building signs include, ‘London Business College’ - parade of trucks with signs, ‘Maxwell, 1½ Ton Truck,’ Delco Light’ and ‘Firestone’ - motorcade (accelerated motion) - motorcade along a mountain road - parents pull child across intersection as automobile approaches - children play in streets, roller skate - wrecked automobiles. Automobile and pedestrian traffic, streetcars in Indianapolis business district - Soldiers and Sailors monument, Indianapolis - policeman directing traffic, Philadelphia - mounted police - views of downtown business district, New York City (traffic accelerated) - streetcar and ‘Bank of Italy’ Building - early model automobiles, one with sign, ‘25th E. Valencia’ - large advertising sign on building, ‘Chalmers Underwear’ - Detroit safety parade with mounted police, floats, safety signs, wrecked automobiles - boys playing ball in street, hitchhiking. [1927]

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