Fordson Newsreel

Dates

1953 - 1960

Category

Cinemagazine - Industrial

History

Fordson Newsreel was intended as a public relations tool for Fordson tractors. Although called a newsreel by Ford, in terms of content, the series was more like a cinemagazine. Most of the issues contained footage of Fordson tractors, but often as incidental parts of stories about land drainage or construction, in order to encourage viewing by social and educational 16mm users. The series ran for 50 issues, from 1953 until 1960. and was distributed by the Ford Film Library free of charge.

Provenance

Records for this series were constructed from the BNFVC Retrospective File, Film User and the BFI database.

Films in this series can be obtained from:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

For BFI National Archive enquiries: nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk For commercial/footage reuse enquiries: footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web

Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7580 7503

Address

21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN

Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

Series held

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