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American Farmer Movie 1953

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I found this on YouTube. It was filmed for Ford. Read the description under the video. It is funny that they had to re-film parts of it in Canada because the original wheat harvest was not using Ford equipment. IF you notice Mr. Blazey is wearing a sweater during the later filming. LOL

The majority of the film was made on ""Mr. and Mrs. Everett Blazey" of Rochester Road, Canandaigua, NY. This was a 600 acre farm. HWY 332 is a four lane now and took all the buildings in the movie but one. The farm is now where the Finger Lakes Race Track is.

The film had bits of fiction in it but I enjoyed seeing the 1950s towns and such. I know it romanticized the life style and all but it is interesting to watch. Much better than the "reality TV" shows of today.

American Farmer Movie - 1953, Blazey Family Ford Motor Company

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-h_4zTxH00
American Farmer Movie 1953, Blazey Family Ford Motor Company
 
Let's try this again as the first post did not take. This is very interesting for personal reasons. First, there was a Blazey family over in nearby Palmyra, NY who were International Harvester dealers during the same time. I wonder if they were any relation to the Canandaigua, NY Blazey's. I knew a relative to the Palmyra, NY Blazey's for many years until he passed several years ago. Further, I knew a gentleman who was a salesman for the area NH dealer who worked for the Canandaigua, NY Ford Dealer back in the gray and red Ford tractor days. That dealer Don Howard most likely was the go between for the farmer and Ford for that project. The previously mentioned salesman had plenty of good stories about the 8N days including earning rewards from Ford and taking 8N's to demos including some of the steep ground south of Canandaigua.
 
I was just getting settled in to watching it when we lost our internet. One thing I noticed is the school bus looks like the one I rode when I started school in the fifties. If I remember right it was a 54 Ford. I'm running the tablet off A cell tower now so it would be too slow to stream a video without halting. Will try it later.
 
That Palmyra Blazey family is still in the equipment business. Kubota and Cub Cadet
are the lines handled now along with a fuel distributor. I get my heating oil from them.
111 Holmes street,14522 if you want to see the place. An IH dealer sign is still
mounted to a building used by the business. Don Howard was a Ford dealer,too ?
Guy sold everything !
 
Don Howard did darn near handle everything although not all at the same time. They had two locations in Canandaigua with the Ford shop on 5 & 20 and the at the time MF shop on a side road. We used to have a thermometer from them with the lines they did handle. What is weird is they handled Oliver industrial but not agricultural and did not handle Minneapolis Moline of which there was a dealer going back many years in Canandaigua. Don Howard also had many acres of trade ins on the side road. I could never figure some of that out.
 
The bus that he got off in the start off the film was 48 or older they said 800 acres in the movie they must have wanted you to believe that they farmed all that land with 8ns,Ford did'nt make a big tractor back then
 
There is one out there where Bill is broke down by the road and the farmer rescues him. He stays a few days with the farm family and has to work the chores, but the farmer's daughter and her Ford keep upstaging poor Bill's efforts. He keeps trying to wink at her, but she has none of it. Until the end when he's been humiliated.
 
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