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Directed by: Michael Chanan, George Steinmetz
Country:
United Kingdom, United States
Year: 2005
Last Screened:
Wed 18th May 2005
Motor City was built upon the social concept of 'Fordism'.
Through interviews and photographs as well as a remarkable variety of archive footage – Ford plants, mass protests of the Depression years, Diego Rivera painting his famous mural ‘Detroit Industry’, the struggle for trade union rights, the riots of 1943 and 1967 – this film traces the company’s ideological roots and the effect of its ruthless progress on the city.