Videoteca

The Ever-Changing Motor Car 1963
An animated short made for Ford.

We Are the Lambeth Boys 1959 star_border 6.2
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.

The Town That Came Back 1955
This documentary film from the 1950s explains how the citizens of a small midwestern town restore community spirit through a 4-H club.

Holiday for Bill 1951
Cliche-ridden rural/urban improbable romance concocted to promote Ford tractors.

Women on the Warpath 1943
Women shown helping the war effort by doing jobs that at the time were traditionally associated with men.

The Harvest Of The Years 1939
History and exploration of Ford's plant in Michigan. Great historical footage of old time manufacturing of Ford cars.

The Hawaiian Islands 1924

Lights and Shadows in a City of a Million 1920 star_border 4
This short was paid for by Ford Motors in an attempt to improve the lot of the working people through advocating social services.

The Reawakening 1920 star_border 5.5
A documentary short on rehabilitating returning World War I veterans

Uncle Sam Donates for Liberty Loans 1919 star_border 5
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 Sam does a striptease and tossing clothes into the effort.

Home Made 1919
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 solo film entitled One Week, a parody borrowing events from the plot and following the narrative structure that divides the action into days of the week marked by pages falling from a calendar.

Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. Rat 1919 star_border 5
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.

The United Snakes of America 1917 star_border 5.5
The animating of an early American political cartoon.

A Visit to Los Angeles 1916
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 beginning of the boom created by oil, movies and aircraft. On the occasion of its centennial in 1953, Ford donated its film to the National Archives and Records Service; this copy derives from a fine grain master printed from the Archive's preservation negative. Music by Frederick Hodges.

The Lively Ones 1962
The Lively Ones is an American musical variety series hosted by Vic Damone that aired on NBC in the summers of 1962 and 1963.