"webmonkees" (kayoteq-of-the-forest)
09/28/2013 at 08:14 • Filed to: Saturday matinee
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"webmonkees" (kayoteq-of-the-forest)
09/28/2013 at 08:14 • Filed to: Saturday matinee | 1
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This is a story of transition.
From the old to the new..From minds and brains..
OF GIANTS!
1946. Something something happened a couple of years ago.
Car companies rushed to get new designs on the market. 3 years is the timeline for this model. Because they have been making non-autos for a couple of years for some reason. Moving on..
Looking forward to The Future of Ford '49..
Where design templates all have hats.
See a crop of wild Ford , Mercury and Truck designs that never got outside of the Hot Wheels lineup. The blandest of the batch is chosen for fame, the others, one-off show cars like the Futura that will briefly shine to never bee seen again.
This is also a great tutorial on how to build your own car out of frame and clay.
Then more work by hundreds of engineers and fabric designers and model makers. All working together worldwide, taking iron ore from Masabe by the ton!
Note lack of safety testing other than brim of hat clearance.
Everybody wore hats.
rabbitman
> webmonkees
09/28/2013 at 11:25 |
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so I watched the vidoe and you know you posted this on another discusion, Seems Ford is not giving credit where it is do, a simple skecth and not this?
Ford officials were impressed. They handed out the basic package criteria and ordered competing designs, one from Walker and another from in-house stylist Bob Gregorie. Walker decided to submit three proposals. Created on a shoestring, it is true that one of the three quarter-scale clay models was cured in the kitchen oven of Walker’s associate, Richard Caleal. Reportedly, the drying clay stank up the house. The four completed models were shown to the top brass on August 1, 1946, Ford executives chose Walker’s design and signed a deal.
you know where to find the rest of the info this video seem a little propaganda and not one mention of there hiring of walker or their lack of a in house design firm... and after diggin and digging the source of this article is a published in a magazine...
here listen to this about my source... I don't trust this video one bit
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webmonkees
> rabbitman
09/28/2013 at 13:40 |
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I have no idea about that particular design origin..
I just noticed, after the comment on the other thread, that every description of the design in the film seemed to be distancing itself from its origins. Seemed like a boilerplate New For This Year films that were common.
I mostly look at old films for background details, interesting sights,and over-the-top dry narratives. But it does show that even an educational film was twisted to fit the facts at hand.