# FORD ANIMATED WEEKLY

FORD ANIMATED WEEKLY 1916 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: 1. Parade, automobile, truck and horse-drawn floats - band - ‘Ancient Thrones’ - floats and marching unit with motifs and signs, ‘Egypt,’ ‘China,’ and ‘The Garden of Allah’ - bagpipe unit. 2. “Detroit Mounted Police. One of the finest and best drilled police organizations in the world gives exhibition drill at State Fairgrounds.” Spectators - mounted police drill - riding and firing exhibition - GAR float - industrial plant - viewed from an overlooking hill, cameraman shooting an actor and actress in a domestic setting as they talk and embrace. 3. Institutional building complex. Pedestrians and spectators in a downtown palm studded park area - fountain in park - Spanish type church - peacock struts on church steps - tourists walk along side of pool in church garden - church as reflected by pool. 4. Football game. Football team runs onto field - kickoff and plays from scrimmage before a filled grandstand - forward pass play - one team scores touchdown. 5. Railroad wreckage. Wrecked railroad locomotive and cars - spectators and workmen inspect wreckage - railroad crane removing wreckage. 6. Will Rogers rope handling demonstration. Will Rogers talking and using lassos - close up of Rogers - demonstration with one and two lassos. \[1916\] Show full description... Dates , This item was produced or created in 1916. The creator compiled or maintained the parent…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1916
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Animation, Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-46)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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