View source for Moving Image:General Motors Around the World (Part IV)

{{Filmjr |title=General Motors Around the World (Part IV) |embid=GeneralM1927_4 |embsv=archiveorg  |desc=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.
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