Henry Ford
WINNER!
BEST GENERAL NONFICTION
AMERICANA IN MOTION
THE ONLY USEFUL AND PRACTICAL RESOURCE TO THE MOVING IMAGES CAPTURED BY THE FORD MOTION PICTURE DEPARTMENT
THE ONLY USEFUL AND PRACTICAL RESOURCE TO THE MOVING IMAGES CAPTURED BY THE FORD MOTION PICTURE DEPARTMENT
WINNER!
Henry Ford Heritage Association's
2011
Book Award
This is the first volume of the Henry Ford’s Moving Picture
Show: An Investigator’s Guide to the Films Produced by the Ford Motor Company
series. It focuses on the initial six years (1914-1920) of the Ford Motor
Company motion picture collection that is held in the U.S. National Archives
and identifies 935 films. To assist in your investigation of this historically
significant film collection, two indexes are also provided—an alphabetical
title index and a comprehensive subject index.
The Henry Ford’s Moving Picture Show is a multi-book series of guides written to facilitate the public and professional use of the film footage in the Ford Motor Company Collection and to describe its contents in a way that has been, until now, unavailable. The volumes ultimately published under this title, catalog the surviving films produced or acquired by the Ford Motor Company between 1914 and 1954. When the U.S. National Archives accepted these historically significant films in 1963, it provided an all inclusive formal title of: Films Relating to the Ford Motor Company, the Henry Ford Family, Noted Personalities, Industry, and Numerous Americana and Other Subjects…and this pretty well sums up the visual content of the collection. Altogether, the collection holds approximately 1.8 million feet of silent, black and white, 35-millimeter celluloid film.
The main goal of Henry Ford’s Moving Picture Show is to provide a useful and practical resource to the moving images of the world during the first half of the 20th Century, as seen through the camera lens of the Ford Motion Picture Department and its successor, the Ford Photographic Department. These films have superb historical value that stems from their very broad subject-matter coverage. Overall, the moving images contained in these films are truly Americana in motion.
The Henry Ford’s Moving Picture Show is a multi-book series of guides written to facilitate the public and professional use of the film footage in the Ford Motor Company Collection and to describe its contents in a way that has been, until now, unavailable. The volumes ultimately published under this title, catalog the surviving films produced or acquired by the Ford Motor Company between 1914 and 1954. When the U.S. National Archives accepted these historically significant films in 1963, it provided an all inclusive formal title of: Films Relating to the Ford Motor Company, the Henry Ford Family, Noted Personalities, Industry, and Numerous Americana and Other Subjects…and this pretty well sums up the visual content of the collection. Altogether, the collection holds approximately 1.8 million feet of silent, black and white, 35-millimeter celluloid film.
The main goal of Henry Ford’s Moving Picture Show is to provide a useful and practical resource to the moving images of the world during the first half of the 20th Century, as seen through the camera lens of the Ford Motion Picture Department and its successor, the Ford Photographic Department. These films have superb historical value that stems from their very broad subject-matter coverage. Overall, the moving images contained in these films are truly Americana in motion.
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