ENTERTAINING FILMS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13285, 17 June 1936, Page 2

ENTERTAINING FILMS.

GREAT EDUCATIONAL VALUE. MODERN PRODUCTION METHODS. “The best car I ever built,” says Henry Ford of his Ford V 8 car and in a series of interesting educational and at the same time, really entertaining films, the Ford organisation shows the methods of modern car production in a manner which will Hold the interest of every person The films will be shown in the Maviair Hall at 2.30 p.m. on 22nd June and in the evening of the same day at 8 o'clock. It will be again shown at 2.30 p.m. on the 2ard and everybody is invited to attend Tree of charge. The first film entitled “Safety” shows Ford’s transverse spring design and torque tube drive to produce a car to give the maximum of safety, comfort and economy. This spring design has been used by Ford since 1908 and “this type of springing is used for the same reason as we use round wTieels—because we have found nothing better,” says Henry Ford. Scenes show how' these springs are made and thoroughly tested before use, the special saiety measures used for the workmen in the huge factories. Close-ups of the spring design under all sorts of tests are interestingly shown, in the workshops, over snowbound and rough surface roads, on the corners of smooth highways at fast speeds. Every detail of the safety measures made possible by this springing and torque tube sj'stem is carefully explained Next follows a “Rhapsody in Steel” showbng the immense factories in Canada with the w r onderful machinery of this very remarkable age. To see giant machines stamping out Ford steel parts is really an eye-opener showing the truly amazing advances of the machine age. Here the making of parts from raw material is seen and their assembly to the finished car. A placard shows that 4998 and 4999 cars were produced on two separate days, the expected schedule being 5000 The assembling of the oOOOth car by a gnome who materialises from the V 8 insignia after the workers have gone to their homes, creates a lighter side to the film and gives an idea of the enormous number of parts which are embodied in the complete car. “Ups and Downs’’ is the title of tests carried out with four Ford models in the north of England over a w T ild moor track by stock models. Interesting parts of the English countryside and some terrific hill climbing is shown with cars and loaded five and six-wheeler trucks tackling these tests “unhonoured, untuned, but well sprung.”

To »how why Henry Ford selected the V 8 type as the ideal engine a film entitled “Why a VBP” is the next item on the programme. In this is to be seen Gar Wood’s speed boat, Sir Malcolm Campbell on Daytona Beach, the Schneider Cup winner and tha Graf Zeppelin—all with V type engines. It is shown to be a more powerful, better balanced, more economical engine with a minimum of vibration. All other features of this well-known motor and the reason why it is a, part are explained. Two other films of the series are a trip through the Dagenham factory in England where the 10 h.p. cars are made and interesting particulars of Ford’s 12-cylinder car, the Lincoln-Zephyr.

The films are all sound syonchronised with music and are very well produced. Already the3* have been

shown in other centres where they have been enthusiastically received by exceptionally big attendances.