When you remember Henry Ford, you probably think about the Ford Motor Company, cars,
trucks, tractors, industry, Detroit, the five-dollar-a-day wage, or maybe the fact that Ford was the first to use the assembly line in automobile production.
However, there was a time between 1915 and the mid-1920s when Henry Ford was a movie mogul, overseeing the largest motion picture production and distribution operation on the planet. During those years, roughly oneseventh of America’s movie-going audience watched Ford films each week! The opening titles and subsequent subtitle cards of many of these silent movies were also translated
into 11 different languages and shown around the world. Today, these motion pictures and other films produced or acquired by the Ford Motor Company between about 1914 and 1954 are preserved at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland.
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Digital scan of Henry Ford Movie Mogul
Donated By: Phillip W. Steward
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