Traffic Scenes and Safety Education / Greenfield Village Part 1

Description

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Times Square, automobile, streetcar, truck, and pedestrian traffic, Flatiron Building in background - Flatiron Building (1925) - automobile and horse-drawn vehicle traffic (1918) - Loew’s State Theater marquee, ‘Norma Talmadge, Secrets, Continuous Performances, Vaudeville and Photoplays,’ automobile, pedestrian traffic, street cleaner’s cart next to waste can, ‘Do Your Duty, Deposit Waste Here’ on side of can (1925) - intersection, Bank of Italy, automobile and pedestrian traffic (1916) - street, automobile and streetcar traffic, line of people down center strip of road awaiting streetcar (1921) street, streetcar, automobile, and pedestrian traffic, policeman directing traffic from raised booth in intersection (1917) - crowd on sidewalk, automobile, truck, horse-drawn vehicle traffic (1917) - heavy traffic in a narrow street (1923) - street, crowd on sidewalk, automobile and streetcar traffic, streetcar turning corner (1918) - truck stuck in deep mud, man cranking truck, attempting to stick boards under wheels, truck behind pulling and man pushing truck out of mud (1916) - little boy running across lawn, mother chasing him, cars coming down street, little boy lying in street - man crossing street is hit by car backing around corner - boy on roller skates hitching ride on back of truck, let’s go, is hit by car coming from other direction - boy running into street, being hit by car - couple with child crossing street at intersection, child nearly hit by car when both hang on to her and pull in opposite directions - car approaching railroad crossing, train approaching crossing, men jumping clear of car, train hitting car, pushing it down tracks (1919) - safety parade, sign on side of truck, ‘Drive Moderately, New Traffic Ordinance, Penalties $500 Fine and 3 Months Imprisonment’ - wrecked cars on flatcar type streetcar in business district, sign, ‘This is the first of 52 safety weeks, RU Careful?’ - parade, ‘Cadillac’ on float - tractor pulling Ford Motor Company safety float, safety sign, men dressed as ‘Death’ on float, Boy Scouts marching alongside. [1925] b.Greenfield Village. [1933]

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