As Dreams Come True - PT1
As Dreams Come True - PT1
Silent corporate industrial film regarding the life and times of the Ford Motor Company. This section features a really cool historical recreation chronicling Henry Ford's childhood. Though it was filmed on location at Greenfield Village (living history museum campus) using authentic Ford buildings (including his childhood home), this footage is a great representation of any small-town boy growing up on a farm.
As Dreams Come True - PT1
Opening intertitles : "The birthplace and early home of Henry Ford. The birthplace of the dream, the realization of which has increased the opportunities & added to the share of labor."
As Dreams Come True - PT1
Establishing winter GV birthplace & childhood home of Henry Ford relocated at Greenfield Village, Michigan, a white farmhouse with white picket fence. LS barn structures w/snowy landscape in FG.
As Dreams Come True - PT1
Recreation of Henry Ford's childhood, authentic Ford homestead seen: GV boy bundled in winter clothing walking through snow, leaving his home on the way to school. GV boy walking past barn, picking up unidentified object from the snow covered ground, bridled work horses & men moving hay piles seen through open barn doors.
As Dreams Come True - PT1
Recreation of Henry Ford's childhood, authentic Scotch Settlement School seen: GV children running in circles outside brick schoolhouse, boy climbing tree, kids entering school, lone boy is the last to arrive. Interior MSs sly, curious, industrious boy sitting in class, tinkering with mechanical object, working on his own projects behind cover of a propped-up schoolbook.
As Dreams Come True - PT1
Recreation of Henry Ford's childhood: Title card reading "The First Workshop." MS boy tinkering with mechanics in class, hiding his actions behind a wall of schoolbooks. MS boy working on a small engine in snowy field.
As Dreams Come True - PT1
Recreation of Henry Ford's childhood: Title card reading "The usual arduous tasks did their share to stimulate the mental activities of the Boy on the Farm." GV boy steering horse drawn cart along snowy rural road, cart carries firewood. GV boy driving tractor hitched to flat cart carrying logs. More GVs boy steering horse drawn cart along snowy rural road.
As Dreams Come True - PT1
Recreation of Henry Ford's childhood, authentic Ford homestead seen: MS boy chopping wood with axe, farmhouse in BG, snow on ground. TLS two men using mechanical saw to cut wood, farmhouse in BG. MS boy chopping wood with axe.
As Dreams Come True - PT1
Recreation of Henry Ford's childhood: Title card reading "Confiscating all mechanical opportunities." MS man & teen boy operating an early steam-powered combustible engine on farm. Title card reading: "Realization." GV steam engine on farm, in front of barn structure, teen boy walks into frame checking belts & wheels. Title card reading: "Leaving home at 19 to work, love & serve the world. In this small bldg before & after hours of reg employment the first car".