AS DREAMS COME TRUE Part 3
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “The birthplace and early home of Henry Ford also --” “The birthplace of the dream, the realization of which has increased the opportunities and added to the share of labor.” Large house, picket fence - barn - boy leaving house - walking to barn. “The first workshop.” Children entering school house - boy at desk tinkering with tools behind propped up book. “The usual arduous tasks did their share to stimulate the mental activities of the ‘Boy on the Farm.’” Barn - boy chopping wood - men sawing log with tractor-powered saw - boy chopping wood. “Confiscating all mechanical opportunities.” Steam engine in operation. “Realization.” Boy examining steam engine in operation. “Leaving home at nineteen to work, love, and serve the world.” Portrait of Henry Ford as a boy - large group of men including a young Ford. “In this small building before and after the hours of regular employment the first car was developed.” First workshop - close-up of Quadricycle motor - Ford driving Quadricycle. “The commercial car on which the company was organized-and later models.” Several different models - large building - views of different model Ford cars - Ford Motor Company assembly plant - new cars leaving building - Highland Park plant, street, traffic - panoramic view of Highland park plant. “These industries were built and will endure by faith in your fellow men -- service to the World, and Justice.” Docks at River Rouge plant, cranes - tractor - pile of tractor wheels outside factory, snow falling - line of trucks - workers in assembly plant - Eagle boat plant - V-12 Liberty engine on cart - biplane taking off. “After all is said and done, there is nothing in life but good fellowship and good will.” “The greatest pleasure or constructive good that can come to any man anywhere in or out of business is in doing something for another.” Commissary, woman buying groceries - men buying meat at meat counter. “Giving the boys a chance, in the trade school.” Boys working at machinery - boy operating lathe, instructor watching - large buildings - Henry Ford Hospital. “Old friends are true friends.” Steam engine in operation - car stopping, Ford and other men getting out - Ford putting on coveralls. “As in the days of ‘Auld Lang Syne.’” Ford tinkering with steam engine - worker feeding wheat into threshing machine - Ford and steam engine. ‘“The Present’ and ‘The Past’ the ‘new’ relieves and assists the old.” Tractor pulling steam engine. “Friends for forty years and more.” Ford and three other men standing near wagon. “Close to nature.” Ford chopping notch in large tree - Ford and others sawing tree, felling tree - Ford on stump, walking on felled tree - sawing felled tree - men using tractor-powered saw - Ford getting out of car. “Boys that’s a whole lot easier than it used to be.” Ford watching men saw - the ‘Square House’ home of Henry and Mrs. Ford from 1889 to 1891 - view of Fair Lane, river - close-up of Fair Lane. “Down life’s lane together, hand in hand we go.” Henry and Mrs. Ford getting into Quadricycle, driving around driveway of Fair Lane - Henry and Mrs. Ford posing. “‘My ambition is to employ still more men; to spread the profits of this industrial system to the greatest possible number; to help them build up their lives and their homes,’ says Henry Ford.” Henry and Mrs. Ford posing. [1921]
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