“ THE TV ALMANAC ” 1964 FORD PROMO FILM WORLD’S FAIR, SHELBY COBRA, GT RACING, SEBRING XD46544

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1964 Ford sponsored black and white film provides a magazine style look at recent victories for the company on the world stage, including the debut of the Liberty Ford Aurora concept car, the use of Mercury Marauders to launch soaring glider planes at Torrey Pines, the 1964 New York World’s Fair’s “Wonder Rotunda” exhibits, and recent challenges to Ferrari’s racing world dominance by the team of Carroll Shelby, Ken Price, Dan Gurney, and Phil Remington (TRT: 14:05). Opening titles: “The TV Almanac” with reels of 16mm film. Narration promises “news and features from the world of leisure” (0:06). Title card: “Fast and Fabulous Wheels” with the trademark Ford font (0:29). A couple in 1890s period dress drives a simplistic early “quadracycle” motorcar. Alongside them, a concept car; a 1964 Liberty Ford Aurora. The space age station wagon sporting metallic embellis