Greenfield Village / Spencer Tracy Visits Greenfield Village / Greenfield Village / Greenfield Village, Mickey Rooney, Children / Greenfield Village Part 2

Description

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Greenfield Village. [1940] b. Henry Ford, Spencer Tracy and others outside building. Francis Jehl, Edison’s laboratory assistant, demonstrates early phonograph recording and playback operation for Tracy . Ford and Tracy depart in car. [1939] c. Greenfield Village. [1940]. d. Calendar of October, 1939 - old steam locomotive ‘The President’ and passenger railcars - young school children climb board, sit inside train, train moves down tracks - front of train as it moves toward and over camera - Mickey Rooney at Smith's Creek Train Depot - Rooney in Thomas Edison’s laboratory, working telegraph key - many children walking - children in line shaking hands with Henry Ford outside of Scotch Settlement School - house - dog ‘Old Tray’ rests in front of a doghouse at the Stephen Foster Memorial house - stern paddlewheel river steamboat ‘Suwanee’ gets underway with people watching from the river banks. [1939] e. Greenfield Village. [1940]

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