Magic Skyway - 1965

This film takes a close look at Ford's pavilion at the 1965 New York World's Fair. Visitors are treated to a look at Ford vehicles through the ages, starting with the Quadricycle and ending with experimental futuristic prototypes such as the Aurora, Allegro and Cougar. All the current models are on show including the recently launched Mustang. The highlight however is the Magic Skyway, a Disney creation in which visitors sit in cars being pulled along a track or "turnpike of tomorrow". They slowly move past a variety of dioramas populated by Disney "audio animatronics" depicting such scenes as battling dinosaurs and Stone Age families. The latter also shows the supposed inventor of the wheel triumphantly standing on a cart fitted with his invention, being pulled along by his resentful wife.

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