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Post subject: Fullerton Factory Film 1959
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 6:16 pm
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I hadn't seen this film before...it's a fascinating look at the people and place that started the Fender mystique...

...Leo Fender - Freddy Tavares - Abigail Ybarra and many more famous names as they appeared over 55 years ago...

...It's a special film - The Original Fender Guitar Factory 1959

The YouTube description: Uploaded on Nov 19, 2010

1959 8mm Film by Forrest White. Digital Film Restoration by CinePost ...Edited by Ross Lenenski.

Read the story behind this film in "Fender: The Inside Story," by Forrest White available at Amazon...

Music by Russell Eldridge ... . Russell's Stratocaster guitar is from the American Deluxe Series made at the Corona Plant (Fender), USA in the Year 2000.

Leo Fender is in the second shot. No CNC machines back then, everything was done by hand. It is amazing to realize that every guitar made that year is now worth a small fortune.

Archival High Resolution film transfer by CinePost...If you know the names of the employees, please let us know and we will annotate them. For more info please call 678-238-0800.

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Post subject: Re: Fullerton Factory Film 1959
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 10:08 pm
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Thanks for posting! That is great. I grew up in Buena Park which is next to Fullerton. I worked at Fender for a couple of years in the late 70s.


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Post subject: Re: Fullerton Factory Film 1959
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 1:02 am
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A really interesting film, thank you for posting the link.

Amazing how things have changed in manufacturing over the years. The lack of guards on the machines is teeth clenching and being stripped to the waist in a factory with a mixed workforce would probably now raise complaints of sexual harassment.

They did have air conditioning though - a fan by the open door. I have worked in factories like that myself. :-)

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Post subject: Re: Fullerton Factory Film 1959
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:14 am
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This link was in forum few years ago . Good to remember.


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Post subject: Re: Fullerton Factory Film 1959
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 11:06 am
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Some wonderful home movies there...thanks for sharing!

It's kind of interesting if you compare that footage with other vids shot at the current Corona and Baja facilities...how much has changed and in some ways, how much is really still the same.


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Post subject: Re: Fullerton Factory Film 1959
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 12:34 pm
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I worked in the Holsclaw Boat Trailer factory some of the summer of '67, it was not too unlike the conditions in the film...not that the level of Craftmanship...nor anywhere near as much danger...

...personally...I'd hoped a few of our fellow forumites...(hehehe)...would recognize Some of the unrecognized faces... 8)

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Archival High Resolution film transfer by CinePost...If you know the names of the employees, please let us know and we will annotate them. For more info please call 678-238-0800.

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