In so many ways Henry Ford was a simple ma'am.
He liked to go camping with his friends.
Bad storm status
and behind him he enjoyed old time country dancing.
Areas with Oros the naturalist.
Skating with his grandchildren.
They plant a garden together and read for the second and Benson.
His first car the color that quadricycle.
That's his wife Clara.
He began with an idea that most people thought wouldn't work but he made it work.
And the tools he used were common sense ingenuity
and perseverance along with a Metro instinct for knowing how to put machines
together and make them run.
It was born into a world of limited horizons and though he left the farm
that might have been his heritage.
He never lost his love for the land and the everlasting cycle of seed time
and harvests.
What he accomplished outmanned put the burden of work on machines
and broke the barriers of space and time.
Of isolation and distance his life was a paradox.
While his mechanical genius helped to change forever the lives of people everywhere.
He sought to preserve in some permanent form a record of the world around him
and his ever widening interest in.
He collected buildings the way others collect stamps
and put them in a village where time stands still.
Yes symbols acres of machines
and put them under cover in a vast historical museum
and early he discovered the astonishing capacity of the motion picture camera to
document for all time.
Whatever it saw
when the crank was turned in April nine hundred fourteen at his Highland Park plant.
He organized a motion picture department which through the years produced films
that were shown in theaters
and schools throughout the country travelogues news reels and documentaries
that touched on nearly every facet of American life
to
this is the way the country looks many years before the first rolling
but often in excess of the man on the farm works as his forefathers.
It's a hard line man and.
And a long day for the farmer's wife too
many a quiet evening at home.
Because there's no place to go
and no light to read by a man thinks twice before he goes to market on roads like
this like.
And sometimes he never even gets there.
It's a long walk to school on a muddy road more fun to go by
sleigh in the winter during recess there's time for a snowball fight of a climb
up the old elm tree get to got the spunk for daring deeds like this
the one sure way to get some places on a train one
but you can only go where the tracks
but.
Life in the city moves at a slow pace. This is Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington.
No trip to the Capitol is complete without a tour of the White House President
Wilson lives here down the East. Through with it.
Chandelier is shiny for.
There's more hostile and bustle down at the market Faneuil Hall in Boston
or New York City on the Lower East Side.
Always plenty to do
and see in the big town ride the elevated train all the way from the battery far up
town.
There's the Hippodrome one of the big theater is in New York.
Another way to see the city is a boat ride around Manhattan I board.
Watch out some cities that they may try to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge.
You were passing the battery with its famous aquarium.
There's a Navy cruiser reading for
great ocean liners along the Hudson River mighty tall buildings in New York City
the fire building. Shaped like a triangle
and the wall where the sixty stories high tallest in the world
that kind of peaceful
over Riverside Drive.
Grants to always one of the favorite sites to see. Sunday in Central Park.
There's no place like it for a leisurely stroll or a boat ride on the lagoon.
Grills
and spills at Coney Island the
old
man is the
man who has basically some boats even get where the water's warm.
And where do we go on vacation once again you have to land a city of course
snow that's not a real elephant.
It's a hotel at the end of the boardwalk
see smoke there waving
out the elements on.
The Atlantic Ocean
and a few hearty acts of most of the time to stroll along the
boardwalk or ride along the road to cheers.
Every city has a pretty park.
This is Belle-Isle near Detroit with lagoons for a quiet afternoon ride in the mood.
If you don't mind.
Some like to dance while others gather around the piano dualists in the winter the
adventurous go Ice Baby.
It's easy to know.
By the really daring There's nothing like the thrill of an ice boat on a cold day.
By the fast track kind of toboggans
and there's plenty of speed at an auto race.
Once again thanks.
Buffalo Bill himself. William F.
Cody the A seventy first year it was great as an arrow nineteen sixteen
and he's out on tour with his circus again in the indoor dances.
This is
the opening of baseball season time to throw out the first ball.
Snapshots of other people we know.
John Burrows the naturalist ways to admirers.
Luther Burbank an expert in.
Horticulture in his experiments he's removed the spines from the cactus
says it's good to eat too. We'll take years.
Word for Thomas Edison in San Francisco in one hundred fifteen.
He's out for a drive with his wife and Mr and Mrs Harvey Firestone Joseph G.
Can I'm a little noisy former speaker of the House of Representatives Will Rogers
America's favorite humorist
out west of two hardy souls visit greater national park
a little short on equipment.
Strong in
the view is worth the effort.
So they say all their goals day
and it's
not all play. There's still work to be done them.
No one limited seems to our natural resources
like cameraman can't resist his little joke.
You see a lot of women in the factories now these girls are making footballs.
These are making half.
There is a difference.
Down at the post office they're teaching the girls to sort the myope one thing they
learn in a hurry don't pick up too many at once. Too bad.
Here's a scene place where women to work
and study to.
Some men change their cars twice wouldn't.
Machines do more and more of the hard work these days.
For instance here's the way they assemble the spokes
and make the wheels with the Model T.
Ford in Highland Park Michigan.
The eight hour workday ends and the men go home. Mostly by trolley.
Not many can afford to buy a car of their own yet.
These men went home long ago.
When the War Between the States and but the hardy survivors most blue
and gray still meet together once a year during new old acquaintances.
It's one nine hundred seventy. Seen and their camp that Vicksburg Mississippi.
What memories famous and they have fought their war.
While these Rorie groups at Camp Custer in Michigan are being trained to fight
another war
and call those out a news response
and doozie asked.
How can they know what lies ahead.
Just a year ago we reelected Woodrow Wilson as president.
Now we're in a war we hope to avoid but we're confident he'll lead us to victory.
The mood of the nation changes. We talk about Liberty Loan liberty cabbage.