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Film Description
Ford Animated Weekly (1916)
Sponsor/Production Co.: Ford Motor Co. Transfer Note: Scanned at 24 frames per second from a 35mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 10 minutes (silent, no music).
Series of some 20 episodes, some with animation, illustrating news events and Ford-related subjects. This episode shows Buffalo Bill and the 101 Ranch Wild West Show, a celebration of the opening of the Ford Assembly Plant in Oklahoma City, a patriotic parade by Ford employees in Detroit, and President Woodrow Wilson attending a memorial service for Yuan Shikai, president of the Republic of China.
Note: Film World and A-V News reported that the series was distributed for virtually no fee to 2,000 theaters and played to a reported 4 million U.S. viewers weekly. Also shown in Hawaii, South America, Europe, and Australia.
Resources
“Ford Film Collection Documents Americana,” Film World and A-V News 20 (Jan. 1964): 8–10; Mayfield Bray, Guide to the Ford Film Collection in the National Archives (Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Service, 1970), 5–6.