Fender Factory Tour 1959 1959 8mm Film by Forrest White. Digital Film Restoration by CinePost http://www.posthouse.com Edited by Ross Lenenski. Read the story behind this film in "Fender: The Inside Story," by Forrest White available at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Fender-Inside-Story-Forrest-White/dp/0879303093 Music by Russell Eldridge at http://www.youtube.com/therusselleldridge . 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 at http://www.posthouse.com 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.
Cool bit of history.
Posted by DaveH at March 27, 2012 6:15 PM