Hawaiian Surf Riding / Glimpses of Atlantic City / World War I Patriotic Cartoons

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Hawaiian Surf Riding / Glimpses of Atlantic City / World War I Patriotic Cartoons Produced: 1917

Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Hawaiian Surf Riding-Hawaii, Its Peoples, Customs and Scenic Wonders. “Surf riding is the sport par excellence among the Hawaiians. Excellent swimmers from their youth, they were, as a race, devoid of fear. Leaping from high precipices, 70 feet to the foaming surf below, is still a common sport, but riding the surf is their favorite amusement.” “Surf riders on the beach with their surfboards -- the board is made of Koa wood, coffin shaped and averaging about ten feet in length by a foot and a half in width. They are wade with great care and highly polished.” Tourist poses with surf riders - surf rider dances. “These pictures were secured about five miles off shore in a small native canoe, the motion picture camera was covered with isinglass to protect it from the spray as the big combers broke over the frail craft.” “The swimmers, with their boards, paddle their way out through the shallow water over the fringing coral reef to where the high rollers rise over the outer reef and follow each other in rapid succession over the table-like reef toward the shore.” “Selecting the proper kind of wave, the surf rider gets his board under-way by paddling furiously with his hands and feet. At the proper moment, mounting a high wave, he throws himself on the board just as it is seized by the force of the onrushing water.” “Occasionally, however, despite the swimmers skill, a mighty wave upsets his calculations as well as his equilibrium and he is plunged head-long into the foaming sea.” “Skillful manipulation is required to keep the board just abreast of the towering wave, which, if everything goes as planned, carries the swimmer and his board at race horse speed clear into the shallow water at the beach.” [1917] b. “Atlantic City is probably the world’s greatest pleasure resort. Situated on an island ten miles in length, seven miles from the mainland, its climate is tempered by the Gulf Stream in winter and cooled in summer by southwest breezes from the Atlantic.” View overlooking business district, Atlantic City. “The most distinctive feature of Atlantic city is the Boardwalk, extending for eight miles along the beach. Here gather pleasure seekers by the tens of thousands promenading the walk in a pageant of style.” Overhead view of tourists walking and riding in chairs. “The bathing beach is one of the most popular on the Atlantic Coast. In the summer months, 50,000 bathers are often seen in the water at one time.” Beach scenes of adults and children, surf. “Atlantic City is a city of hotels, cottages and shops. Its sole business is to give rest and pleasure to the people who come from all over the world.” Boardwalk - scenes of rolling chairs, tourists, with shops in the background. “The rolling chair is closely identified with life on the Boardwalk.” [1917] c. Line art cartoon creates Victory depicted as a running woman in classical robes pursued by the wolf of famine - Uncle Sam to the rescue through barbed wire entanglement. “Uncle Sam needs your help! Are you ready to do your bit? Buy A Liberty Bond.” Artist’s hand adds ‘Animated by Ford’ - line cartoon creates Uncle Sam as a soldier standing guard over farming. “Wake Up! America! Let’s Have A Bumper Crop!!” [1917]

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7419106

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