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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221685-13
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1930s
Country: Brazil
Location: Fordlandia
TC Begins: 05:13:52
TC Ends: 05:28:16
Duration: 00:14:24
Ford Motor Company & Brazil Sawmill & Views of River Life ca 1930s (?) Large hall w/ operating turbine or pumps. MCUs. MS pumps & valves. 05:14:24 Small excursion boat at dock. View of Ford water tower & buildings from water. 05:14:50 LS of automobile garage & parts racks; man inventorying parts. 05:15:10 Screened porch around Fordlandia (?) building on low stilts above river bank. Large building w/ workers (?) sitting on porch. 05:15:33 Ford Factory on bluff & people walking down to Tapajos (?) River, pan to other buildings, road & warehouse on riverbank. Other buildings seen thru banana palm fronds; trucks up & down dusty dirt road. LS of buildings spread over cleared land, telephone / electric poles, people walking. MS houses w/ screened porches built on sloping hillside w/ concrete or ?? pilings on downhill side. 05:17:10 Excursion or riverboat, people beside & on board; Brazilian women. Man on board eating ?? Shots of river & clouds from boat past jungle on banks; thatched hut. 05:18:32 Excursion boat moving along shore seen from river. Small sailing boat. Large river mouth (?). 05:19:32 POV from logging train car w/ timbers & steam engine. Thru logged land; arriving at sawmill. Unloading logs, up conveyor into mill seen from top. Saw carriage w/ three men riding & holding levers. Cars of planks to drying & storage yard. 05:21:28 Int. large machine shop; men at machines & lathe (?). Ext of large buildings. 05:22:12 Int., man at control panel w/ pipes & valves. 05:22:25 POV past jungle; village from river. Thatched huts; sailing boat. Clouds, water & jungle. Village w/ muddy beach. 05:23:56 Men in hammocks on boat deck. Passing small native sailing boat. Cut-over cliffs; village. 05:24:56 Brazilian men in suits & straw boaters (hats) walking towards camera along street w/ concrete (?) sidewalks. Store front, natives passing; village street scenes. Boy riding goat; women looking out of upper windows. Military & civilians walking outside government building. Large building above river. Old large church. 05:26:39 POV along river w/ light reflecting. Passing sandy cliffs. Large wide river mouth. 05:27:26 Village buildings on riverbank; pan across river. POV past wooden housing on stilts along river. Ford Motor Company; South America;