General Motors Around the World (Part IV)
General Motors Around the World (Part IV) 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 IV) | |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Handy (Jam) Organization |
Production company | Handy (Jam) Organization |
| Distributed by | Handy (Jam) Organization |
Release date | 1927 |
Running time | 12:31 |
| Language | English |
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