New York City (Patriotic Parade) / Mountains and Wildlife / A Visit to the Detroit News / Disabled Veterans Working in Industry Part 3
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Military parade scenes including: spectators - views from above - dirigible in flight - parade units carrying banners and signs marching past - sailors, soldiers, Indians, large American flag - Serbian flag. “Gathered in front of the Treasury building on Wall Street, an enthusiastic audience listens to a patriotic speech by Captain Albala of the Serbian Army.” “Fifth Avenue. Described by a zealous New Yorker as ‘the one thoroughfare reserved for the use of polite society…’” Automobile, double deck bus, pedestrian traffic - flags flying from windows of buildings. [1918] b. Mountain scenes including: waterfall - buffalo grazing in high grass - waterfall - bears and cubs by deserted farm buildings - mountains with snow - canyon - herd of elk. [1918] c. Building interior - tourists - bust. Detroit News building, exterior - pedestrian traffic in and out. “And now we’ll journey through the big new plant and learn how a newspaper is made.” Building interior - people come and go - direction sign in corridor - office, men at desks and people moving about. “The vice president visits the general manager to discuss the speech.” Several men confer about story in paper. [1918] d. Disabled workers operate a variety of industrial machines in a Ford plant. Captions as follows: “One concern employing approximately 40,000 people has not discharged a single person because of his physical condition for several years. What is possible for this concern is possible for you, Mr. Employer.” Interior of industrial plant. “Men crippled in France are beginning to return home. Every patriotic employee of labor will stand ready to take a fair share of these men who have been made cripples in the defense of their country.” “If the present war continues three years, it is estimated that…a total of 120,000 disabled men to be absorbed into the industries of the Country…” “There should be a place in our industries for every cripple returning from the war, except those totally disabled…” [1918]
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