Here’s a rare treat: A detailed look inside the Ford styling studios in Dearborn in 1961. There’s a lot to discover here—check it out.

This very cool Ford film is actually adapted from a 1961-62 television documentary series, Keyhole, narrated by the popular travelogue producer Jack Douglas. The titles Keyhole and The Secret Door tell us what this is all about: We’re going deep inside the Ford Styling Center to see how yesterday’s cars of tomorrow were created.

Our contact for the tour is none other than William Clay Ford Sr,, youngest brother of Henry Ford II and at the time, the chairman of Ford Motor Company’s Design Committee, overseeing the styling division. We see some other famous Ford faces, too: Eugene Bordinat, Ford’s newly appointed styling chief, and at around 16 minutes, check out famed designer Alex Tremulis demonstrating his gyro-stabilized vehicle chassis.

We also get to follow the creation of a stylish, full-sized coupe from rendering to clay model, including the application of red and chrome Di-Noc wrap. Here this Thunderbird-ish two-door is called the Astrion—a bit confusing as that name was apparently applied to multiple Ford proposals (perhaps the name was merrely a placeholder). There’s extensive footage of the Lincoln Futura, and here’s another rare sight: We get to watch in horror as a full-scale studio model, its duties completed, is destroyed by a forklift truck. Anyway, there’s a lot to take in here, so we’ll let you get to it. Video below.