[DIRIGIBLE ADVERTISING FORD CARS]
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Ford V-8’s driven around on field, up to huge tent - crowd, mostly men, walking into tent - dirigible [a leased Goodyear blimp] in entrance to tent, mobile mooring mast moving blimp with sign on side, ‘There’s a Ford in Your Future!’ - blimp moving onto field, sign on other side of dirigible, ‘Ford’s Out Front’ - pilots of dirigible posing beside cabin, holding seal with eagle on it on side of cabin - pilots looking out of control cabin - motors of dirigible running - dirigible moving away from mooring tower - tower moving off field - dirigible taking off, in flight. Caption: “Keep your Television set tuned to Future Ford Sports Specials. All the best events as they happen. Over this and other Stations. " [1937]
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