Village Of The Past
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Copyright
7Sep45 M16313, renewed 11Oct72 R537606 Renewal claimant: Universal Pictures Original author: Universal Pictures Co
Complete catalog record
A documentary short film about Henry Ford's Greenfield Village, part ofTthe Edison Institute, where Ford moved historical buildings. A sequence of interior shots of artifacts, a general store from 1857 with stock and equipment. the schoolhouse Ford attended as a boy, with old McGuffey's readers, still used during the time of filming. Logan County Courthouse and the chair in which President Abraham Lincoln was asassinated is shown. A church built of bricks from Mrs. Ford's "girlhood home." Thomas Edison's laboratory and original equipment is also filmed. "Learning to do by doing," children run the old silk mill and the weaving shed at the institute to learn by doing.
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Sources
- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, catalog record
- U.S. Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries (renewals, 1970–1978) — copyright
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