Author Archive: Retro

Notorious Bigfoot researcher Ivan Marx journeys from Arizona to the Artic Circle in order to brush up on folklore regarding the elusive woodland creature and perhaps even capture the hirsute recluse on camera.

The record of an expedition deep into the Malayan jungle.

Actor Bela Lugosi discusses his career, his social life, and his feelings about his most famous role, Count Dracula.

Embark on a scenic journey into exotic Bali in this travelogue that follows sisters Tagel and Grio as preparations for Grio’s wedding offer a tantalizing glimpse at the local customs and traditions. Meanwhile, as the nubile local girls shed their tops in order to stay cool under the scorching sun.

Publicity film by the Ford Motor Company that mixes live action and animation to tell the inside story about Ford parts and service. .

Made for hot rod fans; explains how to prepare and enter a car show; also serves as an ethnographic account of the “nomadic tribe of hotrodders”

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