Every month, we feature a video from Film Source, The Henry Ford’s online collection of historic motion picture films shorts. The films were originally produced by Henry Ford’s motion picture department at Ford Motor Company, which began in 1914. These clips illustrate the impact of the automobile, industrial manufacturing and design, and many other aspects of American culture and everyday life, as well as glimpses of Henry Ford and his family and activities and scenes from Greenfield Village and The Henry Ford Museum. Staff at the Benson Ford Research Center continue to digitize, catalog, and upload more of these clips to our online catalog and to YouTube in order to make them accessible to a wider audience.
On the shortest day of the year, we’ll keep things short and sweet, and celebrate the first day of winter by showing Henry and Clara Ford having some cold-weather fun.
Here’s to a happy winter for everyone!
Henry Ford ice skating (THF_HFS_V.200.FC.X.27)
This is so great! Please put up more videos if you have them.
Erin, so glad you like them! We’ll have a featured video every month on the blog, and you can also check out the playlist on our YouTube channel, where we’re gradually adding more films as we get them digitized and cataloged.
Thank you for making these images viewable on the web.