Bibliography: Ford Motor Company Photographic and Film Department

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Ford Motor Company Photographic and Film Department Bibliography

This bibliography was compiled by staff of the Benson Ford Research Center’s Archives and Library Department based on materials in our collections. If you have questions about these resources, please use our Submit a Question feature. If you are interested in duplication, please see our Duplication Resources FAQ.

Archival

  • Acc. 6 Edsel B. Ford Office Papers
    • box 2 E (includes Ford Educational Weeklies list of films), 1919-1921
    • box 33 P-PK (includes Photographic Department – suggests how EBF should load, unload and send film to them), 1926
    • box 63 PA-PI (includes Photographic Department – Rear Admiral Richard Byrd), 1930
    • box 82 IC-IS (includes The Iron Age re: cooperation from Ford Motor Company Photographic Department), 1932
    • box 85 PE-PI (includes Photographic Department memos, including permission to send photo of EBF to Diego Rivera), 1932
    • box 92 PA-PI (includes Photographic Department re: Albert Kahn), 1933
    • box 100 PH-PU-QU (includes Photographic memos re: work requests), 1934
    • box 112 UNITED STATES (includes U.S. Department of Interior re: industrial film on metallurgy and car construction), 1935
    • box 114 BU-BY (includes Bureau of Mines circulating film made at Ford Motor Company on production of V-8 engines), 1936
    • box 118 PE-PH (includes Photography Department re: locating print of current Hollywood film for EBF), 1936
    • box 131
      • BU-BY (includes U.S. Bureau of Mines congratulations to FMC for ‘Safety Glass’ film), 1938
      • CR-CY (includes James Cromwell, film of manufacturing operation supplied by FMC), 1938
    • box 146 PA-PH (includes Photographic Department, memos requesting work done for EBF), 1939
    • box 147 UD-US (includes Department of Interior report on Ford sponsored films distribution), 1939
    • box 239 Photo Dept. (Requests for film development), 1938
    • box 245 Photo Department (Requests for film development), 1939
    • box 251 Photographic Department, (Request of film development), 1940
    • box 257 Photographic Department, (Requests for film developing), 1941
    • box 261 Photographic Department, 1942
       
  • Acc. 285 Henry Ford Office Papers
    • box 9 Ford Motor Company; Photographic Department, 1921
    • box 2287 Ford Motor Company; Photographic - George Ebling, 1939-1940
       
  • Acc. 951 Ford Motor Company Non-Serial Publications Collection
    • box 11 Factory Facts from Ford
    • box 17
      • Ford Motor Company Presents a Series of 12 Sound Motion Pictures, 1949
      • Ford Motor Company Presents a Series of 14 Sound Motion Pictures, 1946
      • Ford Motor Company Presents a Series of 15 Sound Motion Pictures, 1950
    • box 31 Motion Pictures from Ford Motor Company, 1956-1959
    • box 54 The World in Pictures
       
  • Acc. 739 Field Operations Manager Records
    • box 5 Photographic, 1954-1955; 1956-1959
      • Minutes of Motion Picture Conference
      • Motion Pictures and Radio-TV, 1958-1959
      • Motion Pictures, 1955-1957
        • A study of the Public Relations motion picture and still picture programs
           
  • Acc. 1685 Photographic Library (Earle Hager) Records
    • boxes 1-4 Various print booklets, as well as administrative files
       
  • Acc. 1481 C.E. Wagner Papers
    • box 2
      • Ford Factory Facts, Images and Notes, 1915
      • Ford Motor Company, 1920
  • Acc. 1139 Henry Ford Centennial Subseries (SE004)
    • box 4 Libraries and Archives; Photographic department
      • Ford Motion Picture donation to National Archives 
      • Department photographs in 1916 
      • Photographs of department in early 1960s
    • box 12
      • Microfilm; Special archives - historical motion picture inventory, 1916-1930s
      • Motion picture film (16 mm reel) - Ford promotional film in color, 1931 (materials may be restricted due to format, please contact reference staff in advance for access)
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  • Acc. 450 Fairs and Exhibition Records
    • box 1 Bureau of Mines, V-8 Engine Motion Picture, 1931-1941
    • box 5 Motion Pictures; Showing of Pictures, Comments, 1931-1941
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  • Acc. 506 Mills, Edmunds, and Nevins and Hill Series
    • box 40 Motion picture department distribution summary, 1956-1957
       
  • Acc. 446 Dealer Film Subject File Subseries
    • boxes 1-35 Administrative files, scripts, suppliers, distributors, correspondence, 1934-1942
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  • Acc. 1117 David L. Lewis Papers
    • box 1 Ford Motor Company; Film Department 
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  • Acc. 536 Public Relations Research Library Press Releases
    • box 36
      • Film Catalogs
      • Film News, 1954
    • box 75 Motion Pictures
      • General, 1952 (2 folders)
      • American Farmer
      • American Road, The, 1953
        • Background 
        • Dearborn Holiday, 1954 (2 folders) 
        • Men of Gloucester 
        • Nineteen fifty-four
        • One Out of Seven, 1954 (2 folders)
        • Play Ball Son, 1953 
        • Pride of Workmanship, 1951 
        • Pueblo Boy, 1948 
        • Skifully Yours, 1953 
        • Southern Highlanders, 1949 
        • Technique for Tomorrow, 1953 
        • The Town that Came Back, 1955 
        • Ticket to Freedom, 1952-53 (2 folders)
          • Henry Ford II Introduction
        • Tomorrow Meets Today, 1952 (3 folders)
          • Photographs, 1952 (2 folders)
          • Premiere (2 folders)
          • Spanish Version, 1952
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  • Small Accessions 
    • Acc. 1470 Ford Motor Company Motion Picture Department records. Ocean to Ocean Reenactment, 1961
    • Acc. 1094 Story of a V-type Automobile Engine Photographs, 1936 
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  • Acc. 833 General Photographs
    • box 434 Photographic department, 1914-1941 (2 folders)

Periodicals

  • The Ford Man. “Ford Movies,” September 20, 1917
  • Ford Life. “Henry Ford: Movie Producer,” February 1971 

Ford Times

  • News Events in Picture Review, May 1916, v.9, n.10, p.459
  • The Silent Celluloid Salesman, July 1916, v.9, n.12, p.534
  • Following the Ford Movie Man, February 1917, v.10, n.7, p.301
  • The New Ford Motion Films, March 1917, v.10, n.8, p.361

Ford News

  • Schedule for viewing films in Detroit, 1:1:6:2-3
  • Movies, 1:2:2:1:1
  • Feature Notes Told Throughout the Ford World, 1:2:2+:4
  • Chicago Daily News Approves Ford Film, 1:2:5:3
  • Brief Feature Notes of Events in Ford World, 1:5:2+:3
  • Timely Topic Here and There, 1:8:2:4
  • Library Films To Open New Era in Ford Motion Picture Activities, 1:11F:1+:3-4, 2:5L:1+:3-4
  • Surgery Is Film Topic, 1:17F:1:1, 2:11L:1:1
  • Houston Sends Outfit to Rural Localities (Power farming films), 2:3F:5:2-4, 2:21L:5:2-4
  • Many New Film Productions to Be Made, 2:12F:1+:4, 3:6L:1+:4
  • Ford Industries Exemplified at Fair, 3:22L:1+:4
  • Ford Photographic Department Functions in Many Roles, 5:16L:3:1-4
  • Ford Films Are Praised, 6:6L:8:3
  • Film Helps Good Road Bond Issue, 5:13F:5:3, 6:7L:5:3
  • Non-Theatrical Film Shows Valuable: Chance to Reach Youth, 6:8L:4:4
  • Home and Foreign Praise for Films, 6:4F:5:1, 6:22L:5:1
  • "Let There Be Light" (Thomas Edison), 12:12:2:1-2
  • Portrayal by Photograph (Ford Exposition), 14:6:115:1-2
  • Industry in Pictures (Photos for the Ford Rotunda), 16:6:105+:2
  • #25,000.000 Rolls Off the Line (Evolution of the Ford Car), 17:2:23+:1-2
  • Almost Press Time (Highland Park worker), 18:4:73+:1
  • Almost Press Time (Blast furnace tapping at Rouge), 18:10:217+:3
  • Almost Press Time (Photos from Ford Photographic Dept.), 18:12:286:3
  • Briefly Told (Ford Rotunda mural), 19:5:119:3
  • Briefly Told: By An Ingenious process..., 21:2:55:1
  • Portable Power Station (Division of Ford Photographic Dept.), 21:9:235+:1-3
  • See also: Ford Films

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