Into the Sixties with Ford is a Wilding Production film (from 1959 or 1960) looking at the operations of the Ford Motor Company and the 1960 line of cars. The film opens with an aerial shot of the city of Detroit (00:25), then a shot of the garage where Ford built his first car (00:40). There is footage of the River Rouge Plant (01:06) with its giant furnaces and assembly lines. Nearly finished cars sit on the line (02:07). There are more shots of the industry, before the film gives viewers a glimpse of the new Ford office building and complex (02:26) with an aerial view of Ford’s research and engineering center (with the famed Hurricane Road). A car goes through testing with extremely high winds in the lab (03:17), simulating a hurricane; water is blasted at the car testing its water seals. Other tests include putting the vehicle through extreme heat (04:38) and extreme cold where icing builds up on the car. Men test new metal alloys (05:33). A futuristic Ford car is featured in a showroom (05:58). A man in the styling center sketches new models for future cars (06:30). A prototype of a new car is examined in the shop, then it is tested on the testing track (07:30) against various driving conditions. There is a shot of the exterior of a Ford building on the corner of American Road and another street (07:56). Then the film presents the new 1960 Fords, including: the Fairlane sedan and Fairlane 500 (08:12); the Galaxy and the Town Victoria (08:45); the Sunliner convertible and the Starliner (09:05); several models of Ford’s wagon (09:35); the Thunderbird with its new options and improvements (09:58), including a sunroof (10:30) and an auto-convertible top (11:03); and the Ford Falcon (11:50). The film concludes with six people packing into a Falcon (12:31) and then driving the car down a country road.

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