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American Road, The (Part I)

1953/17 min 38 sec/149 shots

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This 1953 film traces American transportation from horse-drawn travel and early city transit to the rise of the automobile. It highlights Henry Ford’s early vehicles, the Model T, and assembly-line mass production, which lowered car prices and expanded automobile ownership.

Provenance and rights

Collection: Prelinger Archives
Original title: American Road, The (Part I)
Date: 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z
Original link: Open on Internet Archive
Rights: public_domain

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