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By the 1920s, Brazil’s rubber trees had caught the eye of car manufacturer Henry Ford who had a bright idea: why pay the exorbitant costs of Asia’s growing rubber markets when he could simply buy a ...
Henry Ford built his what he considered his idealized city in the Amazon Rainforest, Fordlandia, but circumstances left it abandoned shortly afterward.
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Legacy remains Even as Henry Ford’s heirs sell off land in the U.P., the Ford legacy remains strong 75 years after the automaker abandoned the “Fordlandia” of the north.
Henry Ford’s utopian city, nestled in the rainforest, reflects an ongoing legacy of deforestation from agribusiness.
Fordlandia was created by Henry Ford who took his revolutionary car company over to Brazil to help keep business booming almost a century ago.
The series project, titled “Fordlandia,” is among the 10 series pitches to be presented at this week’s Iberseries & Platino Industria’s Co-Production and Financing Forum in Madrid.
Argentina ‘s Pampa Films and Lungo Films are teaming up with U.S.-based Bravura Media to produce a series based on the novel “Fordlandia, a Dark Paradise” by Argentine scribe, Eduardo ...