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©2013
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1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
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The natural-born tinkerer -- Ford Motor Company incorporates -- Institutionalizing efficiency -- Five-dollar day revolutionizes industry -- High wages with strings attached -- Boardroom takeover -- An opinionated folk hero -- The end of the Model T -- River Rouge & Greenfield Village -- Labor battles during the Great Depression -- Edsel's death -- Ford's legacy
Chronicles the rise of Henry Ford from machinist and engineer to powerful industrialist. Examines his development of an automobile affordable to the masses and his institution of the five-dollar-a-day wage. Explores his disapproval of organized labor and his antagonistic relationship with his son
Originally produced as an episode of the television series: American experience in 2013
"The world he created he longed to escape"--Container
Editor, Sabrina Zanella-Foresi ; original music, John Kusiak, P. Andrew Willis ; cinematographer, John Baynard
Narrator, Oliver Platt ; commentators, Steven Watts, Douglas Brinkley, John Staudenmaier, Greg Grandin, Nelson Lichtenstein
DVD, region 1; NTSC; 5.1 surround; widescreen presentation
Optional subtitles in English for the deaf and hard of hearing