"AN ADVENTURE IN CRAFTSMANSHIP" 1940s FISHER BODY CRAFTSMAN'S GUILD MODEL CAR COMPETITION XD11304
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This 1940s era promo film seeks to encourage the participation of young men from across America in the annual model-building competition of the Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild. Between 1930 and 1968, the Fisher Body Division of General Motors sponsored this competition, which offered enticing cash prizes as well as university scholarships, as a design aptitude litmus test for young men 12-19 years old who would go on to be automobile designers for GM. In addition to filling its ranks with new talent, the competition acted as a powerful and successful marketing tool.. For the first seven years of the competition, participants were asked to build models of Napoleonic carriages featuring the Fisher Body logo; however, after this period the competition was expanded to include model automobiles, many of which went on to be manufactured by GM.
Model-size Napoleonic style carriage (0:32). Model car prototypes (1:02). Inspection of carriage interior (1:33). Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild membership application (1:50). Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild membership card (2:20). Instructions manual for carriage (2:25). Young man working with carpentry tools (2:51). Teacher helping student work on project (3:10). Young man working on a piece for his model (3:24). Young man looking at final product of model-size carriage (4:09). Interior shot of carriage (4:34). Animated version of carriage interior with window view of animated American landscape (4:53). Details of competition prizes (4:58-6:29). Footage of America’s countryside as viewed from a moving train (6:32). Frontal view of a FT 103 diesel-electric train Santa Fe line (6:34). Detroit Statler Hotel also known as Detroit Hilton Hotel in Downtown Detroit, Michigan (6:38). Instruction manual for model cars (6:50). Close up view of model car (7:10). Animated footage of moving car passing signs with competition prize information. (7:30-9:05). America’s countryside as viewed from the window of a moving train (9:06). Side shot of Santa Fe line FT 103 diesel-electric train (9:14). Young men wearing newsboy caps and shirts with 1940s style convertible collars(9:28). Young man holding ‘Argus A’ model 35mm camera (9:35). Competition participants posing for photo in front of a D.S.R. Ford “Rear Engine” transit bus (9:36). Competition participants getting onto a bus (9:40). Interior shot of bus and boys, men, and women sitting in seats (9:52). Bus crossing United States-Canada land border from Detroit, Michigan via the ‘Tunnel to Canada’ (10:01). Busses driving on the highway heading to Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan (10:20). Reproduction of Independence Hall, replica of the building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where the Declaration of Independence was signed (10:25). Participants walking towards Wright Cycle Co shop where the Wright Brothers built the first airplane (10:32). The original shop was in Dayton, Ohio but was moved to Greenfield Village. Scan of early inventions and machines (10:48). Streamline cruiser leaving dock amidst sailboats sailing across Lake St. Clair (10:59). Footage of young men on the streamline cruiser (11:07-11:17). The boat docks at an island and boys exit the streamline cruiser (11:24). Boys in a semi-circle holding may be a Hanna Manufacturing Company cupped style baseball bat (11:30). Baseball game east against west, from the nine regions of the United States, from Connecticut to California and Texas to Minnesota (11:32). Relay races (11:48). Sack race (12:03). Diving into a pool and swimming freestyle stroke (12:18). Individual doing the breaststroke underwater (12:36). Cargo ship (12:48). GM proving grounds in Milford, Michigan (12:54). Chevrolet 1940s car models being tested on race track (13:12). Car leaving GM factory (13:22). GM Assembly Line (13:33). Judges checking models (13:44). Large banquet for competition winners (14:06). Dr. George J. Fisher announces winners (14:15). American universities (14:37). Winners leaving the banquet (15:07). Model car and carriage on rotating table (15:25).
Dr. George J. Fisher was the National Boy Scout Commissioner (1919-1943) and Honorary President of Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild.
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My grandfather made this coach-the BEST I have ever seen! We literally just got repossession of it yesterday from my Uncle's estate. I will note that my grandfather did NOT win because he forgot the bar that connects the coach to the horsemen. The judges suggested he re-apply the next year. It is the most amazing piece of work I have ever seen.
What a great program the Fisher Body Company set up. Apparently it ran from 1930 -- 1968, I am suprised that I have never heard of it before.
@thereissomecoolstuff
2 жыл бұрын
Thinking the same thing. I was to young in 1968
what an amazing and forgotten time....if only companies did things like this today for basic blue collar craftsmen
My father got the model kit sometime in the 1930's. Never completed it. Gave the original body to a girlfriend (who returned it decades later) but kept the directions and made his own much later, finishing it in, I think, the 1980's. A few changes, but definitely from the same directions. It's mine now, and I love it! Brings back some memories!
Was in jr high school when my Ancient amd Medieval history teach, a custom car buff told us about the Fisher Body Guild contest...applied and got the information packet, what a great source of info about car design from scratch. Didn't have the tools nor skills at that time to finish in time. There's a youtube channel that has more detailed presentation in high def and color show casing some really imaginative designs from the sixties contests. IIRC he has about 3 videos. Check them out.
I like these old golden age of documentary type shows. 👍🏻🇺🇲
Thanks for letting us see this great old film. The boys who won clearly earned their prizes.
@PeriscopeFilm
2 жыл бұрын
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Interestingly one of the car models featured resembles both a Tucker and a 1948 Studebaker.
@andyZ3500s
2 жыл бұрын
I was thinking that that model looked like a Tucker also.
What funny hats the boys are wearing!
Interesting they awarded prizes by State. A kid in Wyoming had a much better chance of going home with some money than a kid in California.
@sambone8194
2 жыл бұрын
The country was broken up into nine regions with approximately equal populations. The regional winners went to the national convention.
@cuda426hemi
2 жыл бұрын
@@sambone8194 You still had a better chance of making money AND the regionals if from Wyoming than California - simple math. 🚗
Originally released in 1947.
What year was the film recorded?
What's with those hats?
Boys Only. How times have changed.
Rust by Fisher
It would be nice to know what year this film was made.
@65gtotrips
2 жыл бұрын
It says 1940
@jacksons1010
2 жыл бұрын
Based on the Pontiacs shown around 13:20 it has to be ‘41 to ‘46. Feels pre-war to me, so I’ll guess 1941.
@thecryptofishist9565
2 жыл бұрын
@@65gtotrips Thank you.
@thecryptofishist9565
2 жыл бұрын
@@jacksons1010 Thanks.
My stepfather was a tool-and-dye maker at GM's Fisher Body plant in Mansfield, Ohio for twenty years. It was a wonderful company ruined by the subsidiary relationship it developed with the foully evil General Motors Corporation.
@archenema6792
2 жыл бұрын
@@TugIronChief HAL 9000 is looking for you, Mr. Fake Name.🤣🤣
@archenema6792
2 жыл бұрын
@@TugIronChief Ah, but mine is a specifically crafted warning to mindless fools like yourself to watch your manners, while yours, like every utterance you've ever made, is an empty and self-serving attempt to puff yourself up by offering nothing in reply but an insult. If you had similarly crafted a username, it would certainly have to be Epimetheus.🤣🤣
Would be funny if three girls Pat Terry and Jaime showed up at the finals.
One of the earlier attempts to milk out a viable design from 10's of thousands of people for free.... why pay designers when you can get the public to do it for free... hahahahaha
NO girls need apply!😝
@chapmyers9272
2 жыл бұрын
I’m made uneasy by the whole vibe of th’ thing.
@jacksons1010
2 жыл бұрын
The whole gang were members in good standing of The He-Man Women Hater’s Club. Then one day that girl Darla suddenly seemed different in your eye, and the gang was never the same again.
@mandatethis8024
2 жыл бұрын
@@chapmyers9272 please elaborate, your delicate sensibilities, i figured this would upset the woke something fierce 🤦🏻 grow a pair
@thardyryll
2 жыл бұрын
They would have been way too much competition, causing the old white male judges to have to ignore their superior efforts, demonstrated by the women who built the ships, planes and tanks for the just-ended World War II.
What a load of corporate bs … and suckers still fall for it …