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| 00:00 | | Introduction – credits; Horse and buggy on a muddy road. |
| 01:09 | | Scenes of a man and woman, who are leaving the hardship and isolation of the country
for the city.
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| 03:16 | | Couple waits at rail station. They are leaving the farm because the man is interested in
machinery.
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| 04:24 | | Scenes of city; crowds walking, horses, buggies, streetcars, fire houses, horse-drawn fire
engines, city people long to leave heat and noise.
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| 05:47 | | Scenes of ocean, bay, amusement park, beach. |
| 06:22 | | Bicycle riding popular pastime, but pavement ended shortly outside of town, so bicyclers
had to turn around.
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| 07:12 | | In Detroit, Ford developed a quadracycle which used gasoline. |
| 08:04 | | Ford developed his “horseless buggy.” |
| 09:08 | | Use of cars developed slowly because of poor roads |
| 09:59 | | Scenes of sail wagon.
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| 10:12 | | Ford developed a gasoline engine of a racing car, 999 |
| 10:55 | | October 5, 1902, 999 could do a mile a minute |
| 11:10 | | 1903 – Ford Motor Company founded. Cars were becoming a more common sight. |
| 11:37 | | Model A cost $850.00 and went thirty miles an hour. |
| 12:32 | | Farmers were left out of transportation revolution until Model T, which could stand up to
rough country driving, came along. It had four cylinders, twenty horsepower.
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| 13:47 | | Ford wanted to reduce the cost of the Model T. He tried using an assembly line. |
| 15:56 | | Mass production was more efficient. The price of cars dropped. A car was produced
every forty seconds, the price was reduced to $300.
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| 17:57 | | The cheaper price allowed more people to have their own car. Scenes of a family taking
a drive in the country.
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| 19:25 | | Use of car brought about demand for better roads. Two lane paved roads developed. |
| 20:42 | | Improved transportation helped city and country people get to know each other better. |
| 21:45 | | Model T became part of American scene, it saved time and speeded up business. |
| 22:22 | | The automobile brought about filling stations and a whole new gas and oil industry. |
| 22:42 | | With cars, people could travel inexpensively across the country. Scenes of Yellowstone
Park and Redwoods.
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| 24:29 | | The nation loves the Model T. Hollywood comedians had a field day with it. |
| 25:52 | | Model T becomes a symbol of the industrial revolution. Mass production created new
skills and jobs. Goods mass produced could be purchased cheaply.
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| 26:31 | | Pictures of Henry Ford at home, with family, tinkering with machine, tractor, in his
office, Edsel Ford, Henry Ford II as a baby, of Ford and wife on quadracycle, camping,
of Thomas Edison.
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| 31:24 | | Last Model T Ford developed was made in 1927, the Lincoln. |
| 33:40 | | Scenes of cars in the twenties and during the Depression. Scenes of jeeps being used in
World War II.
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| 35:25 | | Advent of automobile brought about interstate highway system. Machines have taken
over burden of work. People could live in suburbs away from their work and drive to
work. Automobiles gave people the freedom to go anywhere at any time. In fifty years
the automobile changed the American way of life.
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| 38:14 | | End. |
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