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Introduction / Guidebook Pavilion Plans Announced The Souvenir Book - Part I The Souvenir Book - Part II The Souvenir Book - Part III Gallery The Brochure The Magic Skyway Scripts Up and Running

Note: This feature contains materials related to a Walt Disney production. nywf64.com is not affiliated in any way with The Walt Disney Company or any of its subsidiaries. All illustrations and most text should be considered © The Walt Disney Company (unless specifically noted otherwise)   Come to the Wonder Rotunda and take a ride on Walt Disney's Magic Skyway at the Ford Motor Company Pavilion. A journey of imagination across time and space, housed in the Fair's largest pavilion that's the size of nearly three football fields! Animated displays and scale models depict man's progress from prehistoric times to the Space Age. Viewers ride past some of the exhibits in new Ford cars. View the Transportation Area Map Locate It: T1 Walt Disney designed many of the displays, which include delicate models of historic settings; huge animated dinosaurs and cavemen; and a gallery of Ford cars, past, present and future. The pavilion contains a glass "Wonder Rotunda," surrounded by 64 towering pylons, with an exhibit hall several blocks long. INTERNATIONAL GARDENS. Scenes from 11 nations -- past and present -- are reproduced in tiny scale models. Among them: Colonial America, Merrie England, Aztec Mexico and medieval Europe. MAGIC SKYWAY. Seated in late-model Fords, visitors are carried along a track on the rotunda's exterior for a sweeping view of the Fair, then on to the spectacular scenes in the main exhibit hall. The dawn of life on earth shows huge dinosaurs battling while primeval birds soar above. Life-sized cavemen appear in a spectacular display of electronic animation. In the Space Age the viewer glides on a superskyway over a City of Tomorrow complete with suggestions of soaring spires and bubble-dome buildings. FIELDS OF SCIENCE. A separate exhibit illustrates some of the advanced research projects now engaging scientists at Ford and its subsidiary, Philco. Included are demonstrations of laser light, the sound of stars as picked up by radio telescope, and displays of new auto materials. The description of this exhibit from the 1965 Official Guide Book