" DEARBORN HOLIDAY " 1954 FORD MOTOR CO. GREENFIELD VILLAGE MICHIGAN TRAVELOGUE XD95865

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Presented by Ford Motor Company, “Dearborn Holiday” (c.1954) is a travelog and promo film that simultaneously highlights the accomplishments of Henry Ford and Ford Motor Company as well as the various tourist sites and attractions around Dearborn, Michigan. The attractions include, most notably, the Ford Rotunda, the Ford Rouge Factory, and Greenfield Village, an outdoor living history museum that highlights ingenuity and invention across history. The Ford Rotunda was one of the most popular tourist attractions in the United States in the 1950s, and received more visits than the Statue of Liberty. Originally constructed for the 1933 Chicago’s World Fair, the Rotunda, which was moved from Chicago to Dearborn, famously burned down in 1962 and was later temporarily rebuilt for the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

Opening sequence, montage different sites/ attractions/ spectacles to featured at Henry Ford Museum, Ford Rouge factory, Greenfield Village (0:06). Title page, opening credits over outline of Michigan state (1:07). Weeping willow, shrubs along shore of River Rouge (1:24). Detroit skyline (1:43). Ford Crestline at Dearborn Inn (2:01). “Welcome to Dearborn” road sign (2:14). Sequence license plates from Virginia, Rhode Island, Florida, Canada; Profile of tourists visiting Dearborn (2:18). Exterior Ford Rotunda (c.1934-1962) (3:26). Mid-century modern style mobile hangs from ceiling in lobby (3:55). Multi-sensory, flashy museum-style displays detailing advancements to Ford car design, automotive technologies, assembly line in production plants (4:02). Man tests 1952 Ford 8n Tractor (4:36). Two boys admire Ford Mercury-Lincoln 1953 Cosmopolitan Capri Convertible Coupe (5:08). 1953 Lincoln XL-500 Concept Car on rotating floor display (5:18). 1953 Ford Rotunda Christmas display “A Christmas Fantasy:” Larger than life tree, wrapped display gifts and car, Santa’s workshop, live reindeer petting zoo (5:43). Views out tour bus window on way to Ford Rouge factory: Steel mill, furnaces, cranes transporting raw material (6:47). Port Rouge River Factory, freighter ships (part of The Ford Fleet) arrive carrying iron ore used to makes steel; Large cranes unload ore from ships (7:36). Molten steel pours into 200-ton ladle of open hearth furnace, orange sparks and smoke envelop screen; Crowd observes as formed hot ingot of steel is crushed, widened, lengthened, cooled, and cleaned by automated machinery; Long sheet of steel emerges at end of process (8:30). Automobile frame comes out of drying oven and goes through final assembly line (10:18). Completed 1954 Ford Mainline Fordor Sedan rolls off assembly line (11:07). Henry Ford Museum: Ford Model T, B&W portraits Henry Ford, Westinghouse Co. portable steam engine, first gas engine prototype on kitchen sink, 1927 15th million Model T, family mementos and artifacts (11:18). Fair Lane, Home of Clara and Henry Ford; Rose garden; Ford Company Archives (Archivists sort through documents and preserve in file folders in air-conditioned rooms) (13:33). Exterior Henry Ford Museum, clock tower in Greenfield Village (14:53). Display room of 18th/19th century America - early model Fords, engines: Corliss steam engine, miniature steam engines, 22 early American stores and craft shops (pharmacy, gun shop, music shop with dancing music boxes, dress and toys) (15:13). Cheerful music emanates from old-steam calliope, relic of Great American Circus and Tent Show (17:40). 1896 Ten-Person Oriten Bicycle (18:14). Greenfield village, the Edison Institute: Sheep graze village green, Martha-Mary Chapel, Farris Windmill (c. 1600 Cape Cod), Ackley Covered Bridge (c. 1832 Pennsylvania), visitors ride around in old Model T or horse-drawn carriage, Cotswold Cottage (England) (18:47). Reproduction of old American arts and crafts: Weaver demos loom at Plymouth Carding Mill, glassblower in Sandwich Glass Plant, pottery shop, 1880s Tintype studio (Victorian style portrait photography studio) (20:05). Sir John Bennett Jewelry Shop (c. 1929 Cheapside St. London), Gog and Magog figures strike clock (21:35). Wright Cycle Shop, man rides Penny-farthing bike (22:03). Bagley Avenue Workshop, Ford first car Quadricycle (22:30). Railroad Junction: 1858 ‘Satilla’ Steam Locomotive (23:31). Menlo Park Laboratory, model of Edison’s first talking machine (24:10). ‘City of the Future’ display (25:15). Closing credits (25:42). Film ends (26:08).

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