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[birds singing]

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[mourning dove cooing]

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[door slamming]

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[movie projector starting]

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[scratchy waltz on old Victrola]

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(Henry)
The worst part of it is

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you're lyin’ there
and you can't say a damn thing.

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No, "Oh, hello, Joe, thanks for coming!"

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Or, "Hey, Charlie,
you no good son of a bitch,

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I know you never liked me,

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what the hell are you doing here?"

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There was a line a mile long.

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Coulda  made it much more efficient.

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Maybe get ol'  Harry
and his boys to poke 'em along

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like the speedups
we done at the Rouge.

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Or make 'em all stand in place,

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put my casket on a conveyor.

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Bring that body right to 'em.

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They could pay their respects
for a couple of seconds,

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get right back to work.

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Anyhow ...

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Even after waitin' so long, a lot of 'em
didn't even want to look at me.

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Oh, some of 'em was genuinely sad.

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At least it seemed like it.

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But some of 'em was definitely fakin’ it.

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Now, exactly what it feels like

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as the soul leaves the body,
that's hard to tell ya’.

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The closest I could say is
when I went up with Lindbergh, 1927.

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I could see everything.

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The Museum, the Chapel,

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Fairlane, the Rouge,

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and every single one of my
two-hundred-and-thirty four
previous lives.

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[Theme Music]

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[loud chop]

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[chickadee calling]

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[pencil scribbling]

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[auto assembly line sounds]

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[chopping sounds]

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[newspaper production sounds]

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[birds chirping]

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[distant steam train whistling]

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[carousel music playing]

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[clock tower bells]

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(Henry)
Not many come lookin’
for me these days.

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It's mostly tourists.

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And they really only wanna’
ride the train

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and eat fudge.

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And o' course,

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they can't see me anyhow.

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But what you may have heard
about transparent bodies or ...

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walking through walls ...

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That's bunk!

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Tried it once.

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You couldn't believe the shiner I got.

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[Victrola playing square dance music]

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(Henry)
I generally don't do interviews anymore.

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After a hundred years and three strokes,
my memory's not so good.

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But I could take you around,

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answer some questions, maybe,

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show you a home movie or two.

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I'm pretty sure you can get some good
copy outta’ this.

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We got the whole history of America,

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all the inventions and the great men
who made 'em.

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Edison's lab ...

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Lincoln's courthouse

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The Wright Brothers' home.

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My first school

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The old workshop on Bagley,
where I built my first car.

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The Mack Avenue plant.

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And the old homestead.

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I fixed it up, so it looks just the way it
did when mother died.

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1876.

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Same carpet, same china,

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same Starlight wood stove.

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[grandfather clock ticking]

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Another thing they tell ya':

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"We stick around because
we got unfinished business."

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Hell, I got no business left at all!

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Turned it over to my
grandson, Henry, in 1945.

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And I've been retired ever since.

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Frankly, I'm not sure why I'm still here.

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Thought by now I'd be on Mars

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makin' Model T's ...

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or a sparrow.

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(1940's Radio Announcer)
And now it's indeed a pleasure ...

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to introduce the president of
the Ford Motorcar Company,

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Edsel Ford!

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(Henry)
I keep thinking I seen him,

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but it's only a mirage.

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Some curlicue pattern in the brick.

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Or sunlight sparkling on the Rouge
just the right way.

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Edsel and I didn't
always understand each other,

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but I gotta think
he'd be looking for me too.

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He's around here somewhere.

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Dearborn ...

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... Detroit ...

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...Ypsilanti ...

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maybe up at Haven Hill.

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So I just keep lookin’,

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and listenin’, retracin’ my steps.

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Walking back and forth in Time.

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I figure,

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there's a few things I could
say if I ever do find him.

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Although I still don't know exactly what.

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[film projector starting]

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(Corporate Narrator)
Let's take a look at the family album.

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Here he is at his home, Fairlane.

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Walking with his wife, Clara, through
the garden.

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On the ice-covered pond with
his grandchildren.

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Here he is, back on the land,

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tickering with one of the
old steam engines.

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He was always wondering how
he could take the burden of work

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from the back of the farmer
and put in onto the machine.

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This is the man whose five-dollar day
startled the industrial world.

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This is a family scene, son Edsel
starting out with some friends

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on a transcontinental trip,
getting a big send-off.

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A drive like this was quite
an adventure in those days.

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He liked to dance country dances.

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Showing his grandchild a baby bird,
with Mrs. Edsel Ford watching.

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Still the farmer,
teaching his grandchildren,

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Henry II and Benson Ford
to love the soil.

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He still knew how to swing
an axe.

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Father and son.

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They walk side-by-side,
reviewing the past,

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planning the future together.

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The man behind the legend,

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Henry Ford.

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He personified the American credo of
Individualism

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and Freedom of Enterprise.

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He will long be remembered.

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[film projector rewinding]

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(Henry)
Not many know him these days.

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They think of that crappy car
little Henry named after him.

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(Commercial Announcer)
This is the Edsel.

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Its classic vertical grill,

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its elegant lines,

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promise superb performance.

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(Henry)
What a piece o’ junk!

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He'd have hated it.

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The truth is,
we had a pretty good car man

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in my son. He knew style.

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How a car ought to look.

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The Lincoln Continental.

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That was his work.

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I hear they even put that car

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in an art museum, New York City.

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So I guess you could say
he was the artist of the family.

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And Art is something I know nothing about.

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I'll admit it. Don't really care to.
That's all.

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But a lot of your artists,

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they tend to be sissies, ya’ know?

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I'm not saying Edsel was a sissy ...

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but he read too many books.

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Readin' was like a dope habit with him.

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He just couldn't stop.

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I don't care for books too much.

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They muss up my mind.

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[goose flies over, honking]

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[Henry whistles a bird call]

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Of course, Edsel, he might notta'
come back as a person at all.

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That'd explain why he's so damn
hard to find now.

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Could be a finch, a robin,

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a crow ...

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Crows are smart!

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[crow calls]

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Or a pretty bluebird.

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Nothing wrong with being pretty...

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...if you're a bird.

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Or a song sparrow.

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[sparrow sings]

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Let's get outta' here.

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[variation on theme music, lyrical violin

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[loud traffic noise]

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[busy modern city sounds]

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[horses trotting]

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(Young Boy's Voice)
Detroit, Michigan, January 18th, 1904.

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Dear Mama and Papa,

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I will write you a few lines tonight.

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I received the telegram today.

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How is the show? How is
Papa's exhibit at the show?

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I will send you a cartoon and a piece
that was in Sunday's paper.

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We are going into Pulford's tomorrow eve.

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Friday night, we are going skating.

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Saturday night we are going to be
all alone to make fudge and eat nuts.

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Well, I guess I will close
because I am in a hurry to get washed.

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Your a loving son,

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Edsel Ford

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[antique car starting up]

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[brass fanfare]

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[clock chimes]

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[Sousa-era march music]

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[factory assembly line sounds]

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(Henry)
People think we was
in the business of makin' cars,

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but the truth is ...

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... we made men.

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We'd take the raw materials, say,
from Poland or Italy, Lithuania,

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and then we melt 'em all down
into one big pot.

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We'd teach 'em how to dress, how
to clean their houses,

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teach 'em English. And when
we was all done ...

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... they come out the other end.

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100% American ...

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... perfectly interchangeable parts.

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But there were some
types you just couldn't melt down.

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No matter what, you couldn't fix 'em.

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You can quote me:

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the fact is ...

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... most men are lazy.

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If they can get out of a
day's work, they will,

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and Welfare is a cancer ...

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... and people ...

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.. eat too much sugar.

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[old fashioned polka music]

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(Announcer)
The dance is one of
the oldest forms

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of human expression.

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From the dance of atoms,

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through the mating dances of certain birds
and animals, up to the tribal dances

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of the various nations, the expression of
emotion and ideas in rhythmic movements

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of the body bears all the marks
of being a deep natural instinct.

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[loud cars driving by]

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There have been imported
into the United States,

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in recent years, dances
that originated on the African Congo,

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dances from the gypsies of the South
American pampas,

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and dances from the hot-blooded races
of southern Europe.

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Wave after wave of foreign importations
and dancing styles

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have swept over the country.

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The result was a reaction against
the excessive attention given to dancing

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and a protest against the character
of the dances themselves.

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With characteristic American judgment,
however, the balance is now shifting

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toward the style of dancing, which best
fits with the American temperament.

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There is a revival of that type
of dancing which has survived longest

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among the Northern Peoples.

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Henry Ford is firmly convinced

00:18:34.029 --> 00:18:37.324
that dancing of a rational
and racially American character

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is capable of being developed
into an invaluable instrument

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for social righteousness.

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The Dearborn Independent,

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June 6th, 1925.

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[military march music]

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(Operatic Singer)

00:20:08.665 --> 00:20:14.588
[theme music]

00:20:17.174 --> 00:20:21.970
[teleprinter sounds]

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(Henry)
Why in the name of heaven
do we have wars?

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Did that question ever occur to you?

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Well, there's a reason.

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There is profit in war,

00:20:48.372 --> 00:20:52.834
and I don't mean moral profit
or increased religious interest

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or spiritual uplift through trial by fire
or any of that kind of bunk.

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No, it is money profit I mean.

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Profits in gold.

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And who controls all the gold?

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I'll let you figure that out.

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Lawyer:
You call yourself an educator?

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Now I shall inquire whether you are
a well-informed man,

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competent to educate people.

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“History is more or less bunk.”
Did you say that?

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(Henry)
I never said that.

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It's bunk to me, but I...

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(Lawyer)
It was bunk to you?

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(Henry)
I mean ... I ...

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... it didn't mean much to me.

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I didn't need it very bad.

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(Lawyer)
What do you mean by that? Your honor,

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The Tribune asserts that the plaintiff
is an ignorant idealist.

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(Henry)
Well, I do admit I am ignorant
about some things.

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I don't know anything about Art.

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(Lawyer)
Mr. Ford,

00:22:10.412 --> 00:22:14.458
what are the fundamental principles
of United States Government?

00:22:14.458 --> 00:22:16.209
(Henry)
The Constitution, I guess.

00:22:16.209 --> 00:22:20.881
(Lawyer)
What does “fundamental
principles of government” mean?

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(Henry)
I don't understand.

00:22:22.257 --> 00:22:24.551
(Lawyer)
What is the fundamental
principle of government?

00:22:26.553 --> 00:22:28.055
(Henry)
Just ...

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... you.

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(Lawyer)
Is that the only idea you have on it?

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(Henry)
Well, that's a long subject.

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(Lawyer)
Have there been any
revolutions in this country?

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(Henry)
I understand there were.

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(Lawyer)
When?

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(Henry)
1812.

00:22:41.693 --> 00:22:45.489
(Lawyer)
In 1812? The revolution?
[scoffs]

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(Henry)
Yes.

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(Lawyer)
Any other time?

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(Henry)
I don't know.

00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:54.956
(Lawyer)
You don't know of any other?

00:22:54.956 --> 00:22:55.499
(Henry)
Nope.

00:22:55.499 --> 00:22:58.085
(Lawyer)
Don't you know that this
country was born out of revolution

00:22:58.085 --> 00:22:59.753
in 1776?

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Did you forget that?

00:23:03.840 --> 00:23:06.301
(Henry)
I guess I did.

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[variation on theme music]

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[Automated Conductor]
The next station is ...

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... Joe Louis Arena.

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This is the ... Joe Louis Arena ...

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... station.

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(Henry)
You can't trust the press.

00:23:53.974 --> 00:23:58.520
You can quote me on this,
although I know you won't.

00:23:58.520 --> 00:24:02.691
The bankers own it, body and soul.

00:24:02.691 --> 00:24:04.943
When they tell it to bark ...

00:24:04.943 --> 00:24:07.654
... it barks.

00:24:07.654 --> 00:24:10.740
So, o’ course, they were all against me.

00:24:10.740 --> 00:24:12.242
Twisted around what I said,

00:24:12.242 --> 00:24:15.120
told lies about me.

00:24:15.120 --> 00:24:18.790
That's why we started our own.

00:24:18.790 --> 00:24:21.251
So the people could learn the truth.

00:24:21.251 --> 00:24:25.422
You see, the truth should be simple.

00:24:25.422 --> 00:24:28.717
It oughta carry no extra words,

00:24:28.717 --> 00:24:30.886
and it's got to be affordable too.

00:24:30.886 --> 00:24:35.182
Like we did with the Model T.

00:24:35.182 --> 00:24:36.808
[city noise]

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The fact is, most people are too damn lazy
to think for themselves.

00:24:42.606 --> 00:24:45.859
They need somebody
to tell 'em what's what,

00:24:45.859 --> 00:24:48.111
somebody like them.

00:24:50.363 --> 00:24:52.824
[spring peepers calling]

00:25:12.594 --> 00:25:16.389
(Henry)
I thought I might find him here,

00:25:16.389 --> 00:25:19.142
his favorite place.

00:25:19.142 --> 00:25:22.938
Called it his nerve retreat.

00:25:22.938 --> 00:25:26.233
I don't know what he had to be
so damn nervous about.

00:25:26.233 --> 00:25:28.485
Stomach problems.

00:25:28.485 --> 00:25:31.530
He never ate what I told him to.

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[rain and thunder]

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'Course, Edsel, he never cared
for the paper.

00:25:45.752 --> 00:25:48.046
Said we was losing sales in New York

00:25:48.046 --> 00:25:53.260
and all the other big Jew cities
just 'cause of what we printed.

00:25:53.260 --> 00:25:56.304
And I suppose he had a lot of
Jew friends too ...

00:25:56.304 --> 00:26:00.559
... in that crowd of his.

00:26:00.559 --> 00:26:04.563
Matter of fact, I wouldn't be surprised
if Kanzler was a secret Jew.

00:26:05.063 --> 00:26:07.274
The things he said, the banks.

00:26:10.902 --> 00:26:11.945
Edsel would have been alright

00:26:11.945 --> 00:26:17.200
if it hadn't been for the ear
piddlers leading him the wrong way.

00:26:17.200 --> 00:26:20.245
We raised him right.

00:26:20.245 --> 00:26:23.665
But they got to him.

00:26:23.665 --> 00:26:27.460
[horse galloping off]

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[old Victrola playing a waltz]

00:26:44.019 --> 00:26:47.606
(Henry)
Of course, I don't hate 'em.

00:26:47.606 --> 00:26:51.568
I don't hate anybody.

00:26:51.568 --> 00:26:56.072
I hired thousands of 'em,
I got a lifelong friends, many of ’em.

00:26:56.072 --> 00:26:59.951
Albert Kahn designed my factories.

00:26:59.951 --> 00:27:02.954
Rabbi Franklin, he lives
right down the street there.

00:27:02.954 --> 00:27:07.834
Number 26, I give him
a new car every year.

00:27:10.879 --> 00:27:14.674
Then when the paper come out,

00:27:14.674 --> 00:27:19.679
he sent his Model T back
with a long letter full o’ words.

00:27:19.679 --> 00:27:22.390
I don't understand it.

00:27:22.390 --> 00:27:24.976
Here I am, I'm tryin’
to help the good ones

00:27:24.976 --> 00:27:27.729
by pointing out the bad ones,
he's sayin’  ...

00:27:27.729 --> 00:27:30.023
I'm insulting their whole Race!

00:27:30.023 --> 00:27:34.319
That is not what
I intended to do.

00:27:49.084 --> 00:27:51.461
But they do have their ways,

00:27:51.461 --> 00:27:54.255
especially the new ones.

00:27:54.255 --> 00:27:58.551
And they're not like your normal
old American ways.

00:27:58.551 --> 00:28:00.261
You let too many of 'em in ...

00:28:00.261 --> 00:28:04.641
before you know it, we're all going to be
speakin'...

00:28:04.641 --> 00:28:10.355
... Jewish!

00:28:12.190 --> 00:28:18.029
[newspaper machines printing]

00:28:34.295 --> 00:28:37.757
[1920's Jazz Music]

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[Song Sparrow calling]

00:28:47.934 --> 00:28:50.353
(Man’s Voice)
September 25th, 1921

00:28:50.353 --> 00:28:52.564
Henry Ford Esquire
Detroit, Michigan

00:28:52.564 --> 00:28:53.815
Dear Sir,

00:28:57.193 --> 00:29:00.155
Having recently subscribed
to the Dearborn Independent

00:29:00.155 --> 00:29:04.826
and having also purchased the two booklets
dealing with the Jew as a race,

00:29:04.826 --> 00:29:09.956
I feel irresistibly urged to express
my unbounded admiration of your turning

00:29:09.956 --> 00:29:13.918
your hand to what, alas,
has long ago become ...

00:29:13.918 --> 00:29:16.880
“the world’s biggest problem.”

00:29:18.214 --> 00:29:21.593
The articles to which
I refer are astonishing.

00:29:21.593 --> 00:29:24.637
First, in their unassailability,

00:29:24.637 --> 00:29:28.975
for they substantiate every assertion
with documentary evidence.

00:29:28.975 --> 00:29:32.061
Second, in the temperedness
of their diction,

00:29:32.061 --> 00:29:35.398
which attests to your fair-mindedness.

00:29:35.398 --> 00:29:38.610
And finally, the articles
astound the reader

00:29:38.610 --> 00:29:40.862
by revealing a marvelous

00:29:40.862 --> 00:29:44.032
moral courage!

00:29:44.032 --> 00:29:46.785
For all this, I can never
thank you enough.

00:29:46.785 --> 00:29:50.663
And I regret deeply
that we have no international language

00:29:50.663 --> 00:29:54.584
which could make your booklets accessible
to all the world and which could expose

00:29:54.584 --> 00:29:59.881
the Jew as internationally as he works.

00:29:59.881 --> 00:30:02.759
I think that a translation
into German, for instance,

00:30:02.759 --> 00:30:05.929
would be a great help in this cause.

00:30:23.238 --> 00:30:31.579
[barge engine]

00:30:31.579 --> 00:30:37.961
[very loud ship horn]

00:30:46.719 --> 00:30:53.476
[loud auto factory sounds]

00:31:05.572 --> 00:31:08.825
(Henry)
The engineers wanted more coke ovens.

00:31:08.825 --> 00:31:12.537
Said they couldn't make
their numbers without 'em.

00:31:12.537 --> 00:31:16.916
So they talk to Edsel,
Edsel brings in his experts.

00:31:16.916 --> 00:31:18.209
They think it's a good idea.

00:31:18.209 --> 00:31:20.837
He tells ‘em to go ahead.

00:31:20.837 --> 00:31:25.008
Only thing is, he never asked me about it.

00:31:27.510 --> 00:31:30.597
So me and Harry go over to the Rouge,

00:31:30.597 --> 00:31:34.309
I says, "Harry, we'll let Edsel
build those ovens,

00:31:34.309 --> 00:31:40.023
but as soon as he's finished,
we're gonna' knock 'em right down."

00:31:43.693 --> 00:31:47.655
So that's what we did.

00:31:47.655 --> 00:31:51.200
Now, some people say
I was cruel to do that.

00:31:51.200 --> 00:31:53.995
Say since I made him President,
I ought to just sat back

00:31:53.995 --> 00:31:56.331
and let him take over.

00:31:56.331 --> 00:31:59.334
But I had to teach him a lesson.

00:31:59.334 --> 00:32:03.838
Ya' see, Edsel was too influenced
by other people.

00:32:03.838 --> 00:32:06.549
And he liked to study things
over six ways from Sunday

00:32:06.549 --> 00:32:11.137
before he'd make a decision.

00:32:11.137 --> 00:32:16.142
Now, if I'd-a done that,
I'd-a never made the Model T.

00:32:16.142 --> 00:32:20.688
Hell, I'd-a never left the farm!

00:32:20.688 --> 00:32:23.191
He was too soft.

00:32:23.191 --> 00:32:25.818
That's all there is to it.

00:32:25.818 --> 00:32:29.322
Always listenin' to people,
askin' 'em to say their opinions

00:32:29.322 --> 00:32:34.285
instead of telling 'em what to do
and makin' 'em do it!

00:32:34.285 --> 00:32:36.496
He oughta been more like Harry.

00:32:40.458 --> 00:32:42.335
Then I coulda just sat back, relaxed,

00:32:42.335 --> 00:32:45.588
and let him run things.

00:32:45.588 --> 00:32:48.257
[boat speeding]
[clock ticking]

00:32:48.257 --> 00:32:51.469
[variation on theme music - piano]

00:32:51.469 --> 00:32:54.055
[speedboats racing]

00:32:54.806 --> 00:32:59.185
[speedboat engine starting]

00:33:13.700 --> 00:33:19.372
[expressive violin and piano]

00:33:37.724 --> 00:33:40.893
(Henry)
They wanted to take it all away
from me.

00:33:40.893 --> 00:33:45.898
Everything I built with my own two hands.

00:34:00.413 --> 00:34:03.624
I told Edsel who was behind the unions ...

00:34:03.624 --> 00:34:09.172
... the Bolshevik Jews and the Wall Street
Capitalists, but he didn’t believe me.

00:34:09.172 --> 00:34:12.550
He wanted to make peace with ‘em.

00:34:12.550 --> 00:34:17.597
That's why I had to put Harry on the job.

00:34:17.597 --> 00:34:19.891
Harry knew how to handle ’em.

00:34:19.891 --> 00:34:26.689
[gunshots]
[screaming]

00:34:30.943 --> 00:34:34.447
[loud punching]

00:34:52.298 --> 00:34:56.552
I'd-a just as soon closed down the
factory as give in to those thugs.

00:34:56.552 --> 00:34:58.346
Or Roosevelt.

00:34:58.346 --> 00:35:01.307
Rosenfelt!

00:35:01.307 --> 00:35:03.726
But Edsel wouldn't let it go.

00:35:03.726 --> 00:35:08.606
Said it was the right thing to do,
the modern way to run a company.

00:35:08.606 --> 00:35:11.484
Bunk!

00:35:20.993 --> 00:35:23.788
We coulda’ won!

00:35:23.788 --> 00:35:28.042
If we’d just stuck it
out a little longer.

00:35:55.403 --> 00:35:58.656
Well, he could draw.

00:35:58.656 --> 00:36:04.203
I'll give him that much.

00:36:04.203 --> 00:36:07.123
He got the line pretty accurate.

00:36:07.123 --> 00:36:10.668
And all the machines too.

00:36:14.589 --> 00:36:18.342
But he didn't get me at all!

00:36:18.342 --> 00:36:20.428
Why am I squintin’?

00:36:20.428 --> 00:36:23.014
I never squint.

00:36:23.014 --> 00:36:25.683
I got perfect eyesight.

00:36:25.683 --> 00:36:29.604
I can still spot a bobolink at 100 yards.

00:36:33.232 --> 00:36:36.903
[slow, lonesome saxophone]

00:36:36.903 --> 00:36:39.405
That don't even look like him.

00:36:40.865 --> 00:36:45.369
Looked more like his mother.

00:36:46.245 --> 00:36:51.083
I don't take it personal
‘cause it's the truth.

00:36:51.083 --> 00:36:54.128
He was a handsome fella’.

00:36:54.128 --> 00:36:57.089
And smart!

00:36:59.425 --> 00:37:02.470
But if I’d-a paid as much
as he did for this paintin’,

00:37:02.470 --> 00:37:04.263
I'd-a want to look better than that.

00:37:04.263 --> 00:37:05.806
Ya’ know?

00:37:05.806 --> 00:37:08.309
For Eternity.

00:37:08.309 --> 00:37:14.148
And what naked ladies with their boobs
hangin’ out has to do with makin’ cars,

00:37:14.148 --> 00:37:18.194
I couldn't tell ya’.

00:37:18.903 --> 00:37:22.365
The truth is, I wouldn't give
50 cents for all the “Art”

00:37:22.365 --> 00:37:24.825
in the world.

00:37:27.745 --> 00:37:31.832
[door slamming]

00:38:10.788 --> 00:38:14.208
(Henry)
I never met Hitler.

00:38:15.584 --> 00:38:20.965
People say I give him money,
but I never met him.

00:38:20.965 --> 00:38:25.177
They say he had a giant picture of me
in his office, is that my fault?

00:38:25.177 --> 00:38:29.557
Lots of people had pictures of me.

00:38:29.557 --> 00:38:31.434
He said my book was his inspiration.

00:38:31.434 --> 00:38:33.978
Same thing, lots of people read my book.

00:38:33.978 --> 00:38:38.232
They didn't all turn out to be Hitler!

00:38:38.232 --> 00:38:41.777
When I got the medal, you should've
heard ‘em squealin’, sayin’ I'm a Nazi.

00:38:41.777 --> 00:38:44.572
“I'm not American if I keep it!”

00:38:44.572 --> 00:38:47.742
People forget we was still
neutral in ’38,

00:38:47.742 --> 00:38:54.623
and I’d be damned if I was gonna give in
to Rosenfelt and the goddamn warmongers!

00:38:54.623 --> 00:38:58.919
So I told ‘em I'd take any award
the German people wanted to gimme.

00:38:58.919 --> 00:39:01.505
And I did.

00:39:01.505 --> 00:39:05.176
Still would!

00:39:15.895 --> 00:39:16.937
[scratchy Victrola playing]

00:39:16.937 --> 00:39:22.151
(Dance Instructor)
Figure One: Address Partners

00:39:24.362 --> 00:39:27.323
[Waltz Music]

00:39:52.056 --> 00:40:00.981
[Waltz music continues]

00:41:29.028 --> 00:41:32.656
[fight sounds]

00:41:35.576 --> 00:41:39.121
[crowd yelling]

00:42:08.359 --> 00:42:13.322
[birds chirping softly]

00:42:13.322 --> 00:42:19.078
(Henry)
It took me 29 years to make that orchard.

00:42:19.078 --> 00:42:23.832
And it took 'em just 29 minutes
to tear it all down.

00:42:23.832 --> 00:42:29.880
10,000 meadowlarks lost
their homes in one day.

00:42:29.880 --> 00:42:34.343
Frankly, I wanted ’em both to lose.

00:42:34.343 --> 00:42:36.887
Fight it out to the last breath.

00:42:36.887 --> 00:42:40.558
And give up on war for good.

00:42:40.558 --> 00:42:43.143
The militarists and the money changers.

00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:49.441
[moving projector starting]

00:42:49.441 --> 00:42:53.237
[triumphant military newsreel music]

00:42:53.237 --> 00:42:58.909
[airplane engines droning]

00:43:01.203 --> 00:43:03.831
(Corporate Narrator)
This is the story of Willow Run,

00:43:03.831 --> 00:43:06.625
one of the Ford farms that
virtually overnight,

00:43:06.625 --> 00:43:10.004
became the largest aircraft plant
that had ever been built.

00:43:10.004 --> 00:43:13.340
A story that now can be told in full.

00:43:13.340 --> 00:43:16.844
Here before our security and freedom
were challenged by war,

00:43:16.844 --> 00:43:22.266
boys were learning a trade of being
productive and responsible Americans.

00:43:22.266 --> 00:43:26.228
They were taught to till the land
and plow a straight furrow.

00:43:26.228 --> 00:43:30.024
Guided by farm experts and
aided by modern machinery,

00:43:30.024 --> 00:43:36.697
the boys at the Willow Run farm planted,
grew, and harvested the finest produce.

00:43:36.697 --> 00:43:39.950
In the early Spring,
they tapped the sugar maples,

00:43:39.950 --> 00:43:41.744
collected the rising sap,

00:43:41.744 --> 00:43:43.662
and took it to the nearby sugar house

00:43:43.662 --> 00:43:48.125
where it was converted to maple products.

00:43:49.460 --> 00:43:51.879
Then, came the threat of war.

00:43:51.879 --> 00:43:54.715
The sugar house, the maples, and the
farm were sacrificed

00:43:54.715 --> 00:43:56.717
to make room for a plant

00:43:56.717 --> 00:44:01.055
designed to produce one Consolidated
Vultee Liberator every hour.

00:44:01.055 --> 00:44:06.101
Thousands of skilled workers were employed
pouring 100,000 yards of concrete,

00:44:06.101 --> 00:44:09.688
erecting 38,000 tons of structural steel,

00:44:09.688 --> 00:44:11.315
setting 10 million bricks,

00:44:11.315 --> 00:44:13.108
fitting miles of piping,

00:44:13.108 --> 00:44:15.110
and running more miles of electric cable

00:44:15.110 --> 00:44:17.571
to operate the thousands of machines

00:44:17.571 --> 00:44:22.451
that were to be installed in this
truly giant structure.

00:44:22.451 --> 00:44:25.621
This eighty acre plant was built in
record time ...

00:44:25.621 --> 00:44:27.456
[projector shuts off]

00:44:41.387 --> 00:44:45.265
[pigeons roosting]

00:44:45.265 --> 00:44:48.727
[mourning dove cooing]

00:44:57.277 --> 00:45:01.365
[bird wings fluttering]

00:45:01.365 --> 00:45:05.869
[slow theme music]

00:45:25.472 --> 00:45:27.850
(1940’s Radio Announcer)
And now it’s indeed a pleasure ...

00:45:27.850 --> 00:45:32.187
to introduce the president of the
Ford Motorcar Company,

00:45:32.187 --> 00:45:35.524
a man just like you and I.

00:45:35.524 --> 00:45:37.985
A man who’s out to do this job,

00:45:37.985 --> 00:45:40.154
and to do it right, and do it quickly.

00:45:40.154 --> 00:45:43.073
Our friend, Edsel Ford.

00:45:43.073 --> 00:45:47.953
[cheering and applause]

00:46:07.222 --> 00:46:11.226
[slow theme music)

00:47:27.177 --> 00:47:34.142
[B-24 Bomber flying overhead]

00:47:34.142 --> 00:47:37.020
[very loud explosion]

00:47:39.022 --> 00:47:42.317
[bombs falling and exploding]

00:47:55.080 --> 00:47:57.833
[water rushing]

00:48:02.170 --> 00:48:05.966
(Woman’s Voice)
August 31st, 1943.

00:48:05.966 --> 00:48:10.137
Mr. Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan

00:48:10.137 --> 00:48:12.222
Dear Mr. Ford,

00:48:12.222 --> 00:48:16.643
your interest in reincarnation prompts me
to present you with my book,

00:48:16.643 --> 00:48:23.275
which holds a scientific explanation
of vibration and reincarnation.

00:48:23.275 --> 00:48:25.235
I believe that it may give you comfort

00:48:25.235 --> 00:48:28.530
in the passing of your son, Edsel.

00:48:30.574 --> 00:48:33.327
I am a psychologist and have
made these deductions

00:48:33.327 --> 00:48:37.080
after 20 years’ practice.

00:48:38.081 --> 00:48:39.625
I have quoted you in my book

00:48:39.625 --> 00:48:42.961
because your life and work
is a powerful example

00:48:42.961 --> 00:48:47.174
of what the constructive approach
to life can produce.

00:48:47.174 --> 00:48:50.761
I believe that the cooperation
you and Mrs. Ford practice

00:48:50.761 --> 00:48:54.973
is the foundation for all the good
you have done in this world.

00:48:54.973 --> 00:49:00.979
My admiration is unbounded
for both of you.

00:49:15.661 --> 00:49:19.122
(Henry)
I warned you about the cocktails.

00:49:21.500 --> 00:49:23.877
Stayin’ out late ...

00:49:23.877 --> 00:49:26.672
and the cities.

00:49:29.675 --> 00:49:34.471
But ya’ kept running around with that
same old crowd, didn't ya’?

00:49:34.471 --> 00:49:36.598
Kanzler.

00:49:36.598 --> 00:49:38.976
The unions!

00:49:38.976 --> 00:49:40.394
(yelling)
Art!

00:49:40.394 --> 00:49:41.937
And war!

00:49:41.937 --> 00:49:44.147
Roosevelt!

00:49:44.147 --> 00:49:48.944
You never ate what I told you to!
You never ate what I told you to, did ya’?

00:49:48.944 --> 00:49:50.487
(yelling)
Huh?

00:49:50.487 --> 00:49:53.991
Did ya’?

00:49:53.991 --> 00:49:56.743
And you fought with Harry even after ...

00:49:56.743 --> 00:50:01.039
(crying)
I told you not to.

00:50:03.083 --> 00:50:05.419
There is not a Goddamn thing ...

00:50:05.419 --> 00:50:07.045
... wrong with you ...

00:50:07.045 --> 00:50:10.465
that you couldn't have fixed by
yourself if you'd wanted to!

00:50:12.884 --> 00:50:14.553
(yelling)
So don’t you ever,

00:50:14.553 --> 00:50:15.971
ever,

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do that to me again!

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Do you hear me?

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You hear me?!

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You hear me?!!!

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[wheezing]

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[film projector running]

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[projector shuts off]

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We'd heard rumors, o’ course ...

00:51:00.265 --> 00:51:03.852
but you didn't know who
to believe in those days.

00:51:03.852 --> 00:51:06.229
Coulda’ been Roosevelt,

00:51:06.229 --> 00:51:09.483
or the warmongers,
or the immigrant people.

00:51:16.323 --> 00:51:20.035
Harry sat right over there.

00:51:20.035 --> 00:51:23.872
Ray Dahlinger was over there.

00:51:23.872 --> 00:51:29.002
Mrs. Goman sat behind me,
I'm pretty sure.

00:51:29.002 --> 00:51:32.589
I can't remember who else.

00:51:34.674 --> 00:51:38.178
When the pictures come on, we was shocked.

00:51:38.178 --> 00:51:41.473
The shoes,

00:51:41.473 --> 00:51:46.728
the trenches, the bones, the ovens.

00:51:48.688 --> 00:51:52.192
The buildings were

00:51:52.192 --> 00:51:55.445
perfectly intact on account of the ...

00:51:55.445 --> 00:52:01.076
Reds, sneakin’ in there
and surprisin’ the Germans.

00:52:02.619 --> 00:52:06.581
Nobody said anything.

00:52:06.581 --> 00:52:12.671
And then I realized I couldn’t
have said anything if I'd-a wanted.

00:52:12.671 --> 00:52:17.300
One book says I run
out of the room in a panic.

00:52:17.300 --> 00:52:21.221
Another says I was foamin’ at the mouth.

00:52:21.221 --> 00:52:25.016
But Mrs. Goman said
that was the exact moment

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of the last stroke.

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May, 1945.

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I know people are always going to blame me
for what happened.

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But I had no idea.

00:52:56.131 --> 00:53:00.135
I really had no idea.

00:53:01.094 --> 00:53:08.185
[haunting bird call]

00:53:21.781 --> 00:53:26.036
(Henry)
“Whilst he sits on
the cushion of advantages,

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he goes to sleep.

00:53:29.247 --> 00:53:34.127
When he is pushed, tormented, defeated,

00:53:34.127 --> 00:53:37.756
he has a chance to learn somethin’.

00:53:37.756 --> 00:53:39.966
He's been put on his wits,

00:53:39.966 --> 00:53:42.719
on his manhood.

00:53:42.719 --> 00:53:45.764
He has gained facts,

00:53:45.764 --> 00:53:49.684
learns his ignorance.”

00:53:49.684 --> 00:53:54.272
Emerson, from “Compensation.”

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Had a copy in my back pocket

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and I read it about 1000 times.

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That's all I wanted,

00:54:04.366 --> 00:54:06.868
to toughen him up,

00:54:06.868 --> 00:54:10.747
make a man out of him.

00:54:10.747 --> 00:54:13.583
But little Henry and Benson said,

00:54:13.583 --> 00:54:17.379
I killed him.

00:54:17.379 --> 00:54:21.049
Eleanor thought so too.

00:54:21.049 --> 00:54:24.928
(whispering)
Why would I do that?

00:54:24.928 --> 00:54:28.723
Everybody loved Edsel.

00:54:28.723 --> 00:54:34.521
Even goddamn Walter Reuther
sent flowers when he died.

00:54:36.690 --> 00:54:42.821
But maybe I pushed the boy too hard.

00:54:44.322 --> 00:54:48.868
We sold all the cows after he died.

00:54:50.829 --> 00:54:54.749
And we stopped dancin’.

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[train chugging]

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Frankly,

00:55:07.762 --> 00:55:12.392
I'm not sure why I'm still here.

00:55:14.811 --> 00:55:22.736
I thought by now I'd be
makin’ Model Ts on Mars ...

00:55:22.736 --> 00:55:26.656
... or a chickadee.

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[Theme music]

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[birds calling]