in so many ways henry ford was a simple ma'am he liked to go camping with his friends bad storm status and behind him he enjoyed old time country dancing areas with oros the naturalist skating with his grandchildren they plant a garden together and read for the second and benson his first car the color that quadricycle that's his wife clara he began with an idea that most thought wouldn't work but he made it work and the tools he used were common sense ingenuity and perseverance along with a metro instinct for knowing how to put machines together and make them run it was born into a world of limited horizons and though he left the farm that might have been his heritage he never lost his love for the land and the everlasting cycle of seed time and harvests what he  ished outmanned put the burden of work on machines and broke the barriers of space and time of isolation and distance his life was a paradox while his mechanical genius helped to change forever the lives of people everywhere he sought to preserve in some permanent form a record of the world around him and his ever widening interest in he collected buildings the way others collect stamps and put them in a village where time stands  symbols acres of machines and put them under cover in a vast historical museum and early he discovered the astonishing capacity of the motion picture camera to document for all time whatever it saw when the crank was turned in april nine hundred fourteen at his highland park plant he organized a motion picture department which through the years produced films that were shown in theaters and schools throughout the country travelogues news reels and documentaries that touch nearly every facet of american life it's a hard line man and a long day for the farmer's wife too home because there's no place to go and no light to read by a man thinks twice before he goes to market on roads like this and sometimes he never even gets there it's a long walk to school on a muddy road more fun to go by sleigh in the winter during recess there's time for a snowball fight of a climb up the old elm tree get to got the spunk for daring d the one sure way to get some places on a train but you can only go where the tracks but life in the city moves at a slow pace this is pennsylvania avenue in washington no trip to the capitol is complete without a tour of the white house president wilson lives here dow there's more hostile and bustle down at the market faneuil hall in boston or new york city on the lower east side always plenty to do and see in the big town ride the elevated train all the way from the battery far  there's the hippodrome one of the big theater is in new york another way to see the city is a boat ride around manhattan i board watch out some cities that they may try to sell you the brooklyn bridge great ocean liners along the hudson river mighty tall buildings in new york city the fire building shaped like a triangle and the wall where the sixty stories kind of peaceful over riverside drive grants to always one of the favorite sites to see sunday in central park grills and spills a and where do we go on vacation once again you have to land a city of course snow that's not a real elephant it's a hotel at the end of the boardwalk like to dance while others gather around the piano dualists in the winter the adventurous go ice  and there's plenty of speed at an auto race once  the opening of baseball season time to throw out the first  ball snapshots of other people we know john burrows the naturalist ways to admire luther burbank an expert in horticulture in his experiments he's removed the spines from the cactus says it's good to eat too we'll take years word for thomas edison in san francisco in one hundred fifteen he's out for a drive with his wife and mr and mrs harvey firestone and it's not all play there's still work to be done them no one limited seems to our natural resources like cameraman can't resist his little joke you see a lot of women in the factories now these girls are making football at the post office they're teaching the girls to sort the myope one thing they learn in a hurry don't pick up too many at once too bad here's a scene place where women to work and the eight hour workday ends and the men go home mostly by trolley not many can afford to buy a car of their own ye groups at camp custer in michigan are being trained to fight another war how can they know what lies ahead