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Written, directed and produced by Marcos Colón, Beyond Fordlândia (2017, 75 min) presents an environmental account of Henry Ford’s Amazon experience decades after its failure. The story addressed by the film begins in 1927, when the Ford Motor Company attempted to establish rubber plantations on the Tapajós River, a primary tributary of ...
The idea was to transplant Dearborn, Michigan, straight to Brazil, including all of the modern technologies and processes of the industrial time. By 1929, work was well-underway with labor being almost exclusively made up of 1,300 local Brazilians.
Aug 2, 2023 · The first to build a swimming pool, a cinema, street lamps – an oasis of civilisation in a remote jungle: Fordlândia. Where Henry Ford tried to defeat the Amazon and was instead defeated. But ...
Oct 28, 2018 · Fordlandia, la utopía industrial que Henry Ford quiso construir en medio de la selva amazónica. Redacción ; BBC News Mundo; 28 octubre 2018. Fuente de la imagen, Getty Images.
Nov 3, 2021 · The decay of Fordlândia after it was handed back to the Brazilian government in the 1940s prefigured the decline of Ford’s own hometown, Detroit. But its demise also carries lessons for the ...
Buried deep into the Brazilian jungle sit the remains of what was once Henry Ford’s utopian city. A place where one of the richest and most influential men o...
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May 6, 2021 · Welcome to Henry Ford’s utopian experiment gone wrong, one of the world’s strangest lost cities. The story began in 1927, when Henry Ford dreamed of a factory town attached to its own rubber ...
