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Film, Video General Motors around the world

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About this Item

Title

  • General Motors around the world

Summary

  • Depicts the progress of General Motor Corporation's automotive development in 104 overseas markets, where American-made cars are being sold at the rate of 500,000 a year. In addition to showing an increasing use of American cars abroad, the film shows the development of highways throughout the world.

Names

  • Jam Handy Organization, production company
  • General Motors Corporation. Export Division, presenter, sponsor

Created / Published

  • 1928.

Headings

  • -  General Motors Corporation
  • -  Automobile industry and trade

Genre

  • Industrial films
  • Sponsored films
  • Silent films
  • Short films
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  Intertitles in English.
  • -  Summary adapted from New York Times.
  • -  Sources used: New York times, January 24, 1928, p. 12, viewed online via ProQuest Historical Newspapers, March 13, 2024; Prelinger, R. The field guide to sponsored films, 2006, p. 38.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (approximately 38 min.) : si., b&w.

Source Collection

  • Prelinger Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024601054

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

General Motors Corporation. Export Division, Presenter, Sponsor. General Motors around the world. produceds by Jam Handy Organizationuction Company 1928. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024601054/.

APA citation style:

General Motors Corporation. Export Division, P. (1928) General Motors around the world. Jam Handy Organizationuction Company, prod [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024601054/.

MLA citation style:

General Motors Corporation. Export Division, Presenter, Sponsor. General Motors around the world. prod by Jam Handy Organizationuction Company 1928. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024601054/>.