Commercial Photographs

Architectural model of the Ford Pavilion SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Photo Lab, Inc. Ford Motor Pavilion - Night SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Photo Lab, Inc. Ford Pavilion Rotunda SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Photo Lab, Inc. Ford Motor Company Pavilion SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Blackhawk Films/United Air Lines Ford Motor Company Pavilion SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Blackhawk Films/United Air Lines The Ford Rotunda SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © ROLOC Color Films presented courtesy Bradd Schiffman Collection Night view of the Ford Pavilion SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Wolfe Worldwide Films Boarding the Magic Skyway Ride SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Wolfe Worldwide Films Magic Skyway Ride - Bouncing baby Triceratops SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Photo Lab, Inc. Magic Skyway Ride - Caveman family warms their bottoms SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Wolfe Worldwide Films Magic Skyway Ride - Capturing the Woolly Mammoth SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Wolfe Worldwide Films Magic Skyway Ride - The inventor of the round wheel SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Wolfe Worldwide Films

Fairgoer Photographs

Ford Motor Company Pavilion SOURCE: © Copyright nywf64.com Collection Ford Motor Company Pavilion SOURCE: Online auction Ford Motor Company Pavilion SOURCE: Online auction Ford "Auto Parts Harmonic" SOURCE: © Copyright nywf64.com Collection Ford "Auto Parts Harmonic" SOURCE: © Copyright nywf64.com Collection Ford "Auto Parts Harmonic" SOURCE: © Copyright nywf64.com Collection International Gardens in the Ford Pavilion SOURCE: © Copyright nywf64.com Collection International Gardens in the Ford Pavilion SOURCE: © Copyright nywf64.com Collection International Gardens in the Ford Pavilion SOURCE: © Copyright nywf64.com Collection International Gardens in the Ford Pavilion SOURCE: © Copyright nywf64.com Collection International Gardens in the Ford Pavilion SOURCE: © Copyright nywf64.com Collection International Gardens in the Ford Pavilion SOURCE: © Copyright nywf64.com Collection International Gardens in the Ford Pavilion SOURCE: © Copyright nywf64.com Collection International Gardens in the Ford Pavilion SOURCE: © Copyright nywf64.com Collection International Gardens in the Ford Pavilion SOURCE: Online auction Ford products on display in the Ford Rotunda SOURCE: Online auction Ford products on display in the Ford Rotunda SOURCE: © Copyright nywf64.com Collection Ford's Quadricycle SOURCE: Online auction Ford display at night SOURCE: © Copyright nywf64.com Collection Ford displays SOURCE: Online auction Ford displays SOURCE: Online auction Ramp to boarding area of The Magic Skyway SOURCE: © Copyright nywf64.com Collection Entering the "Time Tunnel" to The Magic Skyway Ride SOURCE: © Copyright nywf64.com Collection Boarding cars to begin The Magic Skyway Ride SOURCE: © Copyright nywf64.com Collection Riding a new Ford Mustang on The Magic Skyway SOURCE: © Copyright Vesnat Guilllaume Collection Riding a new Ford Mustang on The Magic Skyway SOURCE: © Copyright Vesnat Guillaume Collection Close-up of the Skyway Tube to the Ford Pavilion SOURCE: © Copyright nywf64.com Collection The New York World's Fair will always be remembered as the place where Ford first introduced the Mustang! Mustangs were featured on The Magic Skyway, where everyone wanted to ride one ... ... and rotating displays of Mustangs outside the Wonder Rotunda gave the public something to dream about -- here a shiny red Fastback for '65! (Fastback photos © Copyright Larry Hubble Collection)

Publication Photographs

SOURCE: (top b&w) © Science Digest, Vol. 54 No. 6, December 1963 SOURCE: (bottom) &COP National Geographic, Vol. 12 No. 4, April 1965 Several elaborate models of The Magic Skyway were constructed by WED Enterprises to perfect the show elements and provide a guide to construction of the actual sets. Comparing this model setting of the primeval world at the left with the actual setting below it shows just how detailed the models were that Disney used to create the ride. Note the convertible passing by the dioramas. Some of the dinosaurs were over two stories high!