SERVANT OF MANKIND Part 3
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “When America was founded it needed a man of destiny to weld it together...and George Washington came forward. When America was in danger of floundering, Abraham Lincoln appeared.” “When the nation was groping for its way to utilize its vast resources and manpower, a servant of mankind again sprung from the people, his name was…” View of early houses, people and horse and cart on street - street scene, people, horses and buggies - horse-drawn carriage leaving White House - people in front of P.T. Barnum’s American Museum - street scene, people, horse-drawn carts - Conestoga wagons crossing plains - three masted schooner stopped by ice - panorama of cotton field - close-up of cotton - four masted ships at dock, people and cargo on dock - man plowing field - panorama of flatland - man panning for gold - miners beside sluice - view of early Pennsylvania oil field - view of rolling ocean (discussion of transatlantic cable) - pony express rider on plains - guns firing - United States Flag - Civil War battle scenes - log cabin - street scenes - men in streets depicting 1869 market crash - old train under way, at depot - views of San Francisco fire - view of rebuilt San Francisco - band marching through street - panorama of mountains - Niagara Falls - mountain scene - delta scene - forest scene - mountain scene - waterfall - mountain lake - river - boy at desk lighted by kerosene lamp - horse trotting down street - woman washing clothes by hand in tub - woman cooking over open fireplace - hand written ‘Thomas A. Edison’ on paper - view of electric light - static electricity - people going through Edison’s Library - views of early Edison dynamo - woman cranking early phonograph - view of parts of early radio - woman sewing on motor powered Singer sewing machine - wireless telegraphy - woman using early telephone - Edison storage battery - train - lighthouse - miners in mine - railroad signals - ship under way - storage battery - sign on wall, ‘There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. Sir Joshua Reynolds,’ sculpture in foreground - living room in Edison home - Mrs. Edison sitting behind desk - views in Edison chemical laboratory and machine shop - view of universal stock ticker - telephone lines - views of the ‘Ediphone’ [dictation machine], sockets, fuses, meters, plate glass - mimeograph machine - bottles of Synthetic Carbolic Acid and Benzyl - typewriter, dynamos - trains - views of movie making - early Edison cameras and stage - view of title graphic of ‘The Great Train Robbery’ - scenes from Great Train Robbery - portrait of Edison and clock stopped at 3:27 - children looking at portrait of Edison - views of factories - Edison in lab. “The End.” [1940]
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