Schindler' Revisited

The company Henry
Ford founded sponsors
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the world premiere
broadcast of an epic
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JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER

lashback. It is 1931 and Adolf Hitler has be- without commercials, 7:30-11 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23.
gun his quest to rid Germany of Jews. ADetroit
The world premiere broadcast of the movie in the format
News reporter visiting his office notes a large it will be shown will mark one of the first times in history
portrait of Henry Ford on the wall in Hitler's of- that a major television network will show a full-length (3
fice and asks the Nazi party leader to summa- 1/2 hours) motion picture without commercial interruption.
rize his feelings for the wealthy American In fact, during the two scheduled intermissions, the screen
industrialist.
will go black and a sponsorship message
"I regard Henry Ford as my in-
Above: Learning that his accountant will appear while music is played in the
spiration," Hitler said. Flashforward. It
Itzhak Stem has inadvertently been
background.
is 66 years later in America. The man who
picked up during a ghetto roundup,
"It is being done the way it should be
started the Ford Motor Co. is long dead, Oscar Schindler (Liam Neeson, in hat) done," said Jim Bright, a spokesman for
but his legendary anti-Semitism remains searches for him among the masses of Ford Division. 'We won't be selling cars and
Polish Jews about to be deported.
etched in the minds of many Jews, some
trucks."
of whom still refuse to buy Ford products.
"We are taking the high road," he said.
Now, the leaders of the company he started are planning
In addition, the Ford Division of the Ford Motor Co. is
to sponsor the airing of Schindler's List, an epic film about co-sponsoring a study guide to accompany the viewing of
the horrors of the Holocaust and the redemptive difference the movie. It will be distributed to schools across the coun-
one person can make. The Academy Award-winning Steven try. The guide includes lessons on the historical background
Spielberg production will be shown in its entirety on NBC, of the Holocaust as well as the roots of prejudice.

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