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Guide to the Ford film collection in the National Archives (1970)

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Ford Educational Weekly and Library 21 Days celebration at Prescott, includ- ing a chariot race, parade, and rodeo events such as calf roping and tying, bull riding, bulldogging steers, bronc riding, horseracing, and trick riding. Railway station and an adobe building at Seligman; and adjacent countryside, including cattle and horses on open range, and a hotel and swimming pool in desert. Large cathedral in Tucson, and the ruins of Xavier Mission. Miners panning for gold. Indians dancing and posing, and men making adobe brick. Highway construction including scenes of blasting and of horse-drawn equipment. Grand Canyon of the Colorado River 1,192 it., ed. (1916, 1920); 386 it., uned. (1920) Map indicating the Colorado River Plateau, diagram illustrating rock layers and stages of the cutting of the canyon, tourists on horseback de- scending into the canyon, and the canyon and the Colorado River from above and from inside the canyon. ARKANSAS 537 ft., ed. (1919) The town of Eureka Springs and the surrounding Ozark Mountains, including the springs; panoramas of the town and Crescent College for girls; girls on horseback and picnick- ing on a mountain; and recreation facilities at Spring Lake. Blue Springs and the surrounding countryside. Street scenes at Little Rock and the rock from which the city got its name. A resort area with a large hotel and bathhouses. Horseback riders on wooded trails. A valley and farms surrounded by wooded hills, and the countryside taken at different seasons of the year. A road gang made up of Negro prisoners. CALIFORNIA Los Angeles 1,726 ft., ed. (1916, 1917); 113 ft., uned. (1920) Panorama of the city, Hall of Records and Court House, Broadway, Clunes Auditorium, Central Park, re- tail district, Angels Flight Inclined Railway and Third Street Tunnel, University of California, California Hospital, Chinatown, Old Plaza and the original Mexican Pueblo of Los Angeles, Plaza Church, North Hill Street and Double Barrelled Tunnel, Scottish Rite Temple, Seventh and Broadway, Hollenbeck Park, West- lake Park, pipe carrying water sup- ply, residential area, oilfield and derricks, and a roadbuilding opera- tion. Missions 503 it., ed. (1917) Missions along El Camino Real, in- cluding Old Town San Diego, San Luis Rey, San Juan Capistrano, San Gabriel, Santa Barbara, La Purisima Concepcion, and San Antonio de Padua. Mount Lowe, Sierra Madre Range 538 it., ed. (1917) Tourists on trip up Mount Lowe, going the first part of the trip by train and streetcar and hiking the rest of the way; views of the surrounding mountains; and hikers, among whom are women wearing long skirts. Mount Wilson 640 it., ed. (1917) Tourists riding mules up mountain