Magic Skyway - 1965

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  • Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
  • 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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  • @juliennizan3129
    @juliennizan3129 2 роки тому +12

    Man the 60s were a trip imagine watching a robot dinosaur fight in a mustang

  • @stephenhenion8304
    @stephenhenion8304 2 роки тому +13

    I rode those cars in 64 and 65.... it was really exciting to a 10 year old kid.🇺🇸🎩🇺🇸

  • @michaeltaylor1603
    @michaeltaylor1603 4 роки тому +13

    The closest we have to a "time machine" Thank YOU! For the trip back to a pavilion I could NEVER visit. Alas I was born in 1967 (same year Expo 67 opened)

  • @wacobob56dad
    @wacobob56dad 5 місяців тому +3

    My Father worked security at the 1964 Worlds Fair. When he went to pickup his check he took one of us and we got to pick one ride there. I always picked the Ford Pavilion and always picked a convertible Mustang. I still remember the push button radio played the language you wanted to hear the ride in.

  • @heru-deshet359
    @heru-deshet359 Рік тому +7

    I got the biggest kick riding all of these as a kid then. Good memories.

  • @pault5557
    @pault5557 2 місяці тому +1

    LOVE THIS! Just imagine seeing all these moving dinosaurs and cavemen in full color at that time! 🤯 it must have seemed like magic!

  • @marcusaurelius2770
    @marcusaurelius2770 3 місяці тому +3

    You can see the actual Mustang convertible featured in the Magic Skyway. It's on display in the Mustang Owners Museum in Concord North Carolina.

  • @frankgiaquinto1571
    @frankgiaquinto1571 5 років тому +14

    The FoMoCo pavilion,was a fabulous,highly enjoyable,and very informative presentation,as were those presented by all the other companies,and countries that participated in the 1964 - 1965 NY Worlds Fair.One of several noticeable differences from an event of today is the lack of accommodations for the handicapped. All in all,a very memorable event!

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      @maximoandres6528 3 роки тому

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  • @fairfaxcat1312
    @fairfaxcat1312 8 місяців тому +2

    This then is the New York World’s Fair, showplace of the ‘60’s-a city of wondrous and surprising shapes, a city of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Millions upon millions have shared its splendor and sampled its wares. Hundreds of exhibitors have welcomed the opportunity of being host to the fair’s visitors and sharing this showcase of man’s achievements in an expanding universe.

  • @richardg1426
    @richardg1426 2 роки тому +2

    One thing I remember when I was there they did not put in enough RESTROOMS !

  • @sban8377
    @sban8377 5 років тому +5

    This was great. Thoroughly enjoyed watching.

  • @Peter-pv8xx
    @Peter-pv8xx 3 роки тому +22

    As a five year old, the NY worlds fair was surreal, we lived in NJ right across from Staten island and visited the fair numerous times, my father liked taking home movies, we didn't own a decent still camera but we had an Elmo 8mm movie camera which I still have and it still works but I doubt you can find film for it or someone to process it, if we had digucal recording back them my father would have gone crazy recording everything like everyone does these days. I have two 400 ft reels of the fair they he took, in one he was outside filming me and my sisters as we went by the glasses in part of the ride, I loved the fair so much, the fireworks were spectacular with the fountain show.

    • @that70space
      @that70space 2 роки тому +2

      if you see this, there are many services online that can convert or digitize your film. it would be worth it for the purposes of posterity.

    • @Dean.Crockett
      @Dean.Crockett Рік тому

      I would be absolutely thrilled to help you digitize this footage

  • @bebetigre1252
    @bebetigre1252 4 місяці тому

    The only time I recall being truly happy and fascinated.

  • @carydavidhoffson6014
    @carydavidhoffson6014 Рік тому

    This brings back memories of being their at the time I was 6 and 7 years old

  • @djmatteoniify
    @djmatteoniify 4 роки тому +5

    I heard Henry Ford II wanted to bring the ride to Detroit after the fair

    • @Jay-vr9ir
      @Jay-vr9ir 3 роки тому

      That would have been great , but perhaps, way too much , for Ford to maintain .

  • @이재혁-h8z
    @이재혁-h8z 2 роки тому +1

    This was really great
    Thoroughly enjoyed watching
    I love Walt Disney ♡♡
    Magic Skyway attraction reminds me of Primeval World attraction at Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland or Universe Of Energy attraction at Walt Disney World's Epcot
    Both Mesozoic Dinosaurs Scene and Cenozoic Animals Scene are very beautiful and fantastic at the same time
    One of my favourite attractions of all time

    • @idavidgraficks123
      @idavidgraficks123 2 роки тому +1

      It was the primeval attraction at Disneyland. I'm pretty sure they just moved all the Dinosaur Diorama part to adjacent Disney's Grand Canyon Diorama for the perimeter train ride.

    • @garypesci746
      @garypesci746 Рік тому +1

      @@idavidgraficks123 That's what happened, along with the Small World ride, Mr. Lincoln and the Carousel of Progress all being moved tp Disneyland after the fair closed. The Carousel of Progress was moved to Disney World in 1973.

  • @parkercowan8648
    @parkercowan8648 Рік тому +1

    7:58 Still to this day, scientists have yet to learn the name of this man.

  • @MsDisneylandlover
    @MsDisneylandlover 4 роки тому +1

    I missed disneyland

  • @RandyJames22
    @RandyJames22 4 роки тому

    "Afford oar," said Anne.

  • @carydavidhoffson6014
    @carydavidhoffson6014 Рік тому +1

    I went in car to make believe that I was driving the car with my late mother

  • @ul7185
    @ul7185 2 роки тому

    9 @ 9 Segment from WGN Morning News (6/23/2022 Version)
    1. Magic Skyway (1965)
    2. Pedal Pumping Scenes from Ratchagan
    3. Popeye and Son Version of Poopdeck Pappy
    4. Underdog Meets King Kong
    5. Victory Ending from LEGO Island
    6. Victory Ending from Cuphead
    7. Brake Failure Scene from Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline
    8. Nancy Sinatra's Boots
    9. The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle Segments from The Bozo Show

  • @lonasimpresasmonterrey7599
    @lonasimpresasmonterrey7599 10 місяців тому

    JURASSIC PARK

  • @kennethschreyer2527
    @kennethschreyer2527 2 роки тому +2

    Hey
    No Woke Killjoys
    To Spoil the Fun 🤠

    • @mikelastname1220
      @mikelastname1220 Рік тому

      Yeah. I don't ever remember seeing any "other genders" there but men and women and boys and girls. Everyone was "normal". Wonder how so many transvestites and other weird people came along ONLY in the past decade?!!!

  • @MsDisneylandlover
    @MsDisneylandlover Рік тому +3

    I saw some black ppl standing in line

    • @mikelastname1220
      @mikelastname1220 Рік тому

      That's when they behaved and participated with us and we all got along. Then, someone came along and said, "It would be SO much better if we started shooting people and rioting and looting and hating everyone!"

  • @guesswhaturit2197
    @guesswhaturit2197 2 роки тому

    a shame how crime and thugs have hurt America. blame 1950’s music for starting the down turn of American culture and society ..

  • @ddespair
    @ddespair 4 роки тому +17

    I’ve looked everywhere but have yet to find any video or good photo documentation of the final drive through the visions of the future. It always cuts to concept art.

    • @sterlinsilver
      @sterlinsilver 2 роки тому +2

      Yeah, it's like everyone saw GM's motorama and we're like "we're good, no neet to document anything else"

  • @MsDisneylandlover
    @MsDisneylandlover 4 роки тому +10

    Wish they put the caveman part in the train ride too at Disneyland

  • @rattyeely
    @rattyeely 3 роки тому +5

    they used baby crocodile sounds for the baby triceratops scene :)

  • @rickw1954
    @rickw1954 Рік тому +4

    If o only they had shot this in 35mm color!!!

  • @jaydenswift9856
    @jaydenswift9856 4 роки тому +4

    bright and promising tomorrow.....little did they know....there was a 2020 out there

  • @MsDisneylandlover
    @MsDisneylandlover 4 роки тому +4

    I would want to go back time to get on the attraction

    • @dashriprock9014
      @dashriprock9014 3 роки тому +2

      Don't have to. Much of this attraction was bought back to Disneyland and is still featured in the final part of the park train ride(scaled down a bit and missing the cavemen).

  • @knightofarkronia9968
    @knightofarkronia9968 4 роки тому +14

    Ok, there’s one place to visit if I ever get a time machine!

    • @larciabella
      @larciabella 3 роки тому +1

      IT WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!Good luck.

    • @knightofarkronia9968
      @knightofarkronia9968 3 роки тому +2

      @@larciabella Oh, you were on it? What do you think of the Primeval World diorama that’s part of the Disneyland Railroad?

    • @larciabella
      @larciabella 3 роки тому +1

      @@knightofarkronia9968 I haven't seen it.Is it a new attraction?

    • @knightofarkronia9968
      @knightofarkronia9968 3 роки тому +1

      @@larciabella It’s been around for a while. The reason I brought it up is because the dinosaurs used in the ‘Primeval World’ diorama are the same ones made for the Magic Skyway!

    • @knightofarkronia9968
      @knightofarkronia9968 3 роки тому +2

      @@larciabella Here’s a video of it, and the Grand Canyon diorama that comes before! m.ua-cam.com/video/LBIPtgNs-kk/v-deo.html

  • @billserratore
    @billserratore 5 місяців тому +1

    I have a picture of me there; unfortunately I was only a 1 year old. Whats cool is you can see those Disney concepts lived on at EPCOT in World of Motion & Energy pavilions. So cool!

  • @skunkman9815
    @skunkman9815 4 місяці тому +1

    I wish they brought this ride to Disneyland
    But all we have that’s from the fair is the carousel of progress, Mr Lincoln and it’s a small world

  • @Hendo56
    @Hendo56 5 місяців тому +1

    The ONE ride my family missed because the line was too long, and we had to meet our bus.

  • @garyschweitzer1058
    @garyschweitzer1058 5 років тому +4

    Great video thank you for posting. However, this from the 1964 season of the Fair.

  • @ohhhwolfy2536
    @ohhhwolfy2536 3 роки тому +6

    Awww. I don't wanna see dinosaurs. I wanted to see more old Fords!

  • @garypesci746
    @garypesci746 Рік тому +1

    It's "dioramas" not "diaromas". Need to get Spellcheck.

    • @FordHeritage
      @FordHeritage  Рік тому

      Thank you Gary. We have amended that now.

  • @ForeverJets
    @ForeverJets Рік тому +1

    Robert Moses planned the fair every 25 years. Thanks NY no World's Fair 1989 and 2014. Just think how a NY World's Fair in 2014 would be. Amazon Pavillion

  • @heidifedor
    @heidifedor 11 місяців тому +1

    How Walt envisioned Epcot 20 years before it came to fruition.

  • @sarahostrinsky4595
    @sarahostrinsky4595 Місяць тому

    “On the first day alone, the Ford pavilion had visitors from every state of the union and every country in the world.” You know that’s a lie. The most popular transportation pavilion was GM not Ford.

  • @stevenwolff6866
    @stevenwolff6866 Рік тому +1

    I was 11 when I went to the fair & will never forget the experience. I particularly remember the Ford pavillion. I remember wanting to ride in the Thunderbird or the Lincoln Continental but we ended up in a Fairline instead just my luck lol. Later that week we went to Shea stadium to see the Mets play the Cardinals. Best family vacation ever

    • @FordMan-pe7sm
      @FordMan-pe7sm 4 місяці тому

      It was probably a Falcon as there were no 1964 or 1965 Fairlane convertibles made.

    • @donnfeyche7961
      @donnfeyche7961 3 місяці тому

      @@FordMan-pe7sm Yup, we got stuck in a Falcon......right behind the Continental immediately in front of us.

  • @richarddemuth7077
    @richarddemuth7077 Рік тому

    Interesting, but as far as I know the flamily never owned a Ford. They weren't into expensive, stylish cars..... OR houses, for that matter.

  • @ForbinColossus
    @ForbinColossus Рік тому

    We got a Mustang. I got the drivers seat and pretend drove the Mustang but I remember being disappointed that the steering wheel would not turn.This exhibit was almost the only thing I remember about the World's Fair - that's how good it was

  • @MsDisneylandlover
    @MsDisneylandlover 3 місяці тому

    #DisneyDiva ❤

  • @jimmytweedale2191
    @jimmytweedale2191 3 роки тому

    I was born in the wrong generation.

    • @famousbowl9926
      @famousbowl9926 3 роки тому +4

      You miss Polio racism and all the other backwards thinking? Heheh. I was there. I dont miss it one bit.

  • @dbbernspasvolsky5993
    @dbbernspasvolsky5993 Рік тому

    memba the wafting waffles

  • @dbbernspasvolsky5993
    @dbbernspasvolsky5993 Рік тому

    future promising...