Author Archive: Retro

Henry Ford’s Mirror of America 1962

Compilation of images and sequences from the Ford Film Collection, with excellent footage of United States history, culture, industry and daily life between about 1915 and 1930. Highlights include Coney Island, the increasing pervasiveness of the automobile in American life, and early manufacturing footage.

A history of the Cadillac Motor Car Division of General Motors. The company was formed from the remnants of the Henry Ford Company. After a dispute between Henry Ford and his investors, Ford left the company along with several of his key partners in March 1902. Ford’s financial backer William Murphy and Lemuel Bowen, called in engineer Henry M. Leland of Leland & Faulconer Manufacturing Company to appraise the plant and equipment in preparation for a liquidation of the company’s assets. Instead of offering an appraisal, Leland persuaded Murphy and Bowen to continue manufacturing automobiles using Leland’s proven single-cylinder engine. A new company called the Cadillac Automobile Company was established on 22 August 1902. The company was named after French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, who founded Detroit in 1701. General Motors purchased the company in 1909. Cadillac had laid the foundation for the modern mass production of automobiles by demonstrating [...]

The Studebaker Corporation Ceased Auto Production in 1966, it’s varied assets were sold to Wagner Electric in 1967

The British inventor of newspaper horoscopes with his astrological account of people born in December.

Documents the life and works of Michelangelo.

The United States Army shows the facilities at the Electronic Environmental Test Facility located at Fort Huachuca

DOLLARS AND SENSE – THE ARMY FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT PLAN – Department of Defense 1956 – PIN 22369 – COST OF PERFORMANCE BUDGET; COMSUMER FUNDING; STOCK FUND; INDUSTRIAL FUND; INTEGRATED ACCOUNTING; FINANCIAL PROPERTY ACCOUNTING; INTERNAL AUDIT.

TRAINING FILM: Execution of thrusts, butt strokes, and parries. Pt.1: (R.1) Guard, rest, high point, whirl exercises. (R.2) Short guard,hight point, rest, whirl exercises. (R.3) Long thrust and withdrawaldemonstration. Pt.2: (R.4) Withdrawal from long thrust exercises. Pt.3:(R.5) Short thrust withdrawal exercise. Pt.4: (R.6) Parry right and leftexercises. Pt.5: (R.7) Verticle, slash, horizontal butt strokes. Pt.6: (R.8)Methods of disarming opponent armed with knife or rifle. Pt.7: (R.9)Qualification course and battlefield demonstrations.”

Made during WWII, this silent newsreel shows West Point during the stewardship of Major General Francis