Movies: Ford Motor Company

An animated short made for Ford....

This short 1919 cartoon, produced by Ford Motor Company, shows a farmer Uncle Sam braining a huge rat branded with "I.W.W." (Industrial Workers of the World) before it can eat the grain....

Women shown helping the war effort by doing jobs that at the time were traditionally associated with men....

Seminal piece of documentary filmmaking by New Wave director Karel Reisz following the daily activities of members of the Lambeth Youth club in late-1950s London....

This documentary film from the 1950s explains how the citizens of a small midwestern town restore community spirit through a 4-H club....

Cliche-ridden rural/urban improbable romance concocted to promote Ford tractors....

To popularize the idea of automobile travel, Ford Motor Company produced Ford Educational Weekly, a film magazine distributed free to theaters. One 1916 series featured "Visits to American Cities." In this episode, Los Angeles is featured at the very...

A documentary short on rehabilitating returning World War I veterans...

In this one-minute animated short done by Ford Motor's industrial film unit -- Ford was a major producer of films for many a decade -- Lady Liberty keeps opening the chest, revealing the name of various wartime Liberty Loan drives and good old Uncle ...

The animating of an early American political cartoon....

This short was paid for by Ford Motors in an attempt to improve the lot of the working people through advocating social services....

History and exploration of Ford's plant in Michigan. Great historical footage of old time manufacturing of Ford cars....

Ford Educational Weekly No. 164, produced by the Ford Motor Company about prefabricated houses. A new idea in house building in which the parts of the house are made in the factory, all ready to be assembled on the lot. Inspired Buster Keaton's first...

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