As Dreams Come True - PT2
As Dreams Come True - PT2
Silent corporate industrial film regarding the life and times of the Ford Motor Company, 1920s. Beautiful archival footage documenting the multifaceted innovation of Henry Ford including: Auto Factories, Fordson Tractors, Boat Division, Lumber Mills & Trade School.
As Dreams Come True - PT2
Highland Park: Title card reading "The commercial car on which the company was organized, and later models." Great establishing TLS "Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant", with Model Ts lined up in front & coal cars leading into the factory. GV two Model T automobiles driving out of factory, from assembly line to street. TLS Model T driving away from camera, along vacant roadway outside factory. TLS Model T driving toward camera, using road parallel to the massive assembly plant. TLS Model T automobiles driving away from camera past Ford complex buildings.
As Dreams Come True - PT2
Highland Park: Panning high angle LS massive, sprawling Ford Motor plant, smokestacks spewing thick black smoke; steel mills, railroad tracks, factory buildings, good view of the massive complex.
As Dreams Come True - PT2
Rouge Plant: Title card reading "These industries were built & will endure by faith in your fellowman." Gorgeous ground level panning LS of the Ford plant as seen from across frozen Rouge River, laborious smokestacks spewing smoke. Tighter static shot of same, smoke rising, sifting.
As Dreams Come True - PT2
Title card reading "The First Fordson." MS Ford Fordson, an early combustible engine farming tractor. "Ever present is the thought to use & develop water power to its fullest extent." LS industrialist HENRY FORD looking dapper in a three-piece, standing beside made water fall on the Rouge River located at his Fair Lain Estate in Dearborn, Michigan.
As Dreams Come True - PT2
Ford Lumber Mill: Title card reading "Lumber tracts & ore mines are links in this mighty chain." TLS Fordson tractors hauling large carts of lumber along a snowy road. High angle TLS raw lumber traveling up conveyor outside mill. MS timber w/bark being sawed into planks by automated machine inside mill.
As Dreams Come True - PT2
Iron Ore Mine: LS pan Imperial iron ore mine in Michigamme, Michigan, Fordson tractor seen driving along snowy road.
As Dreams Come True - PT2
Fordson Tractor: Nice MS of Henry Ford dressed in suit, driving a Fordson tractor toward camera, through a field on a summer day, farm buildings seen in BG. Elevated LS pan of Ford Motor Company plant during snowstorm, tractors & employees shoveling. Elevated LS pan stacks of tractor tires in factory lot during snowstorm.
As Dreams Come True - PT2
Boat Division, Rouge Plant: Title card reading "Setting aside one's dearest ambitions & releasing a flood of unnatural power to relieve the world..." High angle LS interior factory floor of Ford Motor Company, employees making engines. MS Ford 2500 horsepower steam turbine engine used for Eagle boats on display. High angle GV rows of work stations on floor. Exterior TLS Ford boat division facility, huge building of steel & glass. High angle traveling GV boat being constructed in shipyard. Traveling shot U.S. naval cruiser sailing speedily. TLS Ford workers working on plant floor. Panning GV biplane taxiing on airfield.
As Dreams Come True - PT2
Ford Employee Grocery Store: Title card reading "After all is said & done, there is nothing in life but good fellowship & goodwill." MS men in white coats working behind counter at store, serving women who place items in baskets. Title card reading "The greatest pleasure or constructive good that can come to any man anywhere in or out of business is doing something..." MS men looking at whole dead poultry in meat market, man hauling whole dead pig in BG (butcher).
As Dreams Come True - PT2
Henry Ford Trade School: Title card reading "Giving the boys a chance, in the trade school." Interior GV/MS teenage boys learning mechanics in trade school funded by Ford Co. Establishing GV Ford Trade School campus as man walks snowy path in FG. GV pan campus buildings. Title card reading "The D.T. & I.R.R. adds another realization to the long list of boy..."