General Motors Around the World (Part II)

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General Motors Around the World (Part II) is a short film from 1927 released on 35mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

PA-3414: This 1927 reel contains shots of (among other cities):

               Osaka, Japan; Stockholm, Sweden; Melbourne, Australia;
               Brussels, Belgium; Alexandria, Egypt; ?Berlin; and Lima,
               Peru.

PA-3415: This 1927 reel contains shots of (among other cities):

               ?Barcelona, Spain; highway construction in Spain; Sao
               Paulo, Brazil; Port Elizabeth; Antwerp; Lima, Peru;
               automobile dealerships worldwide; and gasoline stations.

PA-3416: Duplication of 1927 office workers & office scenes from

               PA-2139 (see above).

PA-3417: Fisher Body Corporation Plant No. 1, at Flint, Michigan

               (EXT shots); General Motors Canada plant, Oshawa, Ontario
               (and automobile assembly line shots); boxed automobiles on
               railroad cars ready for export; General Motors' proving
               ground at Milford, Michigan: road test, slow motion of
               1927 Buick plowing through water; blue tinted shot of GM
               cars driving at night on test track, and driving through
               snow / winter conditions; Canadian city in winter; City
               in Brazil (?Sao Paulo?); boxing cars for export at
               Bloomfield, New Jersey plant; loading boxed automobiles
               onto railroad freight cars; boxed automobiles & trucks
               being loaded onto cargo ships; harbors of faraway cities;
               Sydney, Australia harbor & street scenes; more.

PA-2139: 0:29:01 VS TU New York City skyscraper. 1920s pedestrians on

               city street outside office building; workers enter office
               building. EXCELLENT scenes of 1920s office workers: at
               their desks, typists (men & women), stenographers, men
               talking on telephones, sorting papers; in superb quality.

0:29:59 ls Title card "The Master Controls, with which the New York

               executives can 'feel the pulse' of any export operation,
               at any time". Man inspecting papers or invoices tacked to
               wall.

0:30:31 ls "The General Supply Department's inventory controls": men

               in office, most writing at 2 large desks, 1 man standing
               beside large manually-controlled panel (evidently
               tabulating inventory of General Motors' exports).

0:33:52 vs Animated panels showing the chain of command at General

               Motors Export, from the President, to Vice-President &
               General Managers, on down to Sales Manager, Finance
               Manager, et al.

PA-2151: 0:10:00 vs Consists merely of 4 minutes of outtakes (from PA-2139) of

               ext (office building) shots of the massive granite General
               Motors Building, and int shots of the General Supply  Motors Building, 
Department at GM. Not terribly interesting.

General Motors Around the World (Part II)
Produced byHandy (Jam) Organization
Production
company
Handy (Jam) Organization
Distributed byHandy (Jam) Organization
Release date
1927
Running time
11:31
LanguageEnglish
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