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This clip is Part 1 of a 2-part film.
Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour / President-Elect Pascual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico Visits Rouge / State Fair / Ford Thrift Gardens Part 1
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Ford Tri-Motor airplane on field - views of people on field taken from moving vehicle - Henry and Edsel Ford and two sons of Edsel on field - group of men on field including pilot, Edsel Ford and sons - Edsel Ford’s sons climbing into car - Henry and Edsel Ford with others on field near plane - man with flag waving planes off field - Tri-Motor taking off and in flight - views of other planes being flagged to start off - crowd on field, dirigible coming in for landing on field - spectators on field near planes and moored balloons - close-up of balloons. Reliability Tour. [1929] b. President-elect of Mexico visits Rouge, 1930. Final assembly line, large group of spectators - Edsel Ford pointing out something to Mr. Rubio - car driven off assembly line - people leaving plant - new car leaving building. [1930] c. At Michigan State Fair- small band, violin, accordion, and two guitars, playing on raised platform in tent - audience seated in chairs - four Negro boys singing accompanied by accordion - Negro boys singing, accompanied by band - group of people waiting under canopy, car stopping, picking up passengers - car going up ramp, tents in background - car going down other side of ramp. [1932] d. Ford workers and families working in vegetable gardens, houses in background - Negro couple working garden - scenes of people in garden - close-up of baskets of vegetables . Ford Thrift Gardens. These gardens located in Inkster. [1932]
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