Ford Motor Company Styling Center (1961)
1961 · Short film · 23 min
Synopsis
This film is an adaptation of a 1961 episode, “The Secret Door,” from Jack Douglas’ series Keyhole for presentation by the Ford Motor Company. Jack Douglas greets the audience from the studio. Viewers see a security man open the door to the Ford Motor Company’s Dearborn, MI Styling Center. William Clay Ford joins Douglas on set for the episode (00:50). Douglas sits and talks with Ford, who is head of product planning and design at the company. The episode shows Greenfield Village (02:19), the first Ford Factory (relocated from Detroit), and the 1903 Ford model as it drives on a road. The episode also shows a 1910 Model T (03:13), a 1929 Model A, and William Clay Ford as he drives a Thunderbird along the Edsel Ford Expressway on his way to work (03:42). He drives through security at the Ford Styling Center. In the Advanced Styling Studio (04:35), men sketch new designs for cars. Ford and a styling executive, Gene Bordinat, look at sketches of new designs. Ford and other members of the Styling Committee review a new design dubbed the Astrion (05:48). A man builds a wooden skeleton for a full-scale clay model of the Astrion (06:10). Men apply warm clay and shape the new design. Inside one of the clay modeler’s homes, viewers see him design clay masks; viewers see inside another designer’s home as he paints. A man makes an interior appliance—a metal door handle—in the metal shop (08:15). Men add lights to the clay model of the Astrion. Mr. Bordinat looks at different fabrics for…
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- Running time
- 23 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
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