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Get an in-depth tour of Gibson's former Kalamazoo, Michigan factory in this recently unearthed 1967 documentary

The never-before-seen film was discovered, untouched, deep in Gibson's archives in 2020

In the fall of 2020, Gibson employees were searching deep in the company's archives when they came across an unmarked reel of film.

Producers at the company's Gibson TV network got ahold of the film, and had it digitally remastered. What sat on the reel was a 1967 documentary called An Instrument of the People , a fascinating, time capsule-like look at how guitars were crafted in Gibson's former factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Now, 55 years after it was shot, Gibson has finally released the footage to the public via its YouTube channel. You can see it for yourself above.

Over the course of 20 minutes, the film shows viewers just about every step of the guitar build process – from its beginning as a nondescript piece of wood to the final quality checks the finished instrument endured before leaving the factory.

Toward its end, the film also touches on Gibson's guitar amp and pickup divisions, and shows how the company made its acoustic and electric guitar strings at the time.

Interestingly, because it was shot in 1967, Instrument of the People doesn't feature a single Les Paul . It would be another year before the legendary model returned to the Gibson catalog, after its iconic single-cut design was axed in favor of the SG in 1961 and discontinued.

According to Gibson – which replied to a handful of comments and questions from viewers on YouTube – "not much has changed" in the 55 years since the film was made. Gibson also says that, amazingly, the company still uses some of the very same machines featured in the film.

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An Instrument of the People is also quite reminiscent of a slightly older mini-documentary on Fender's Fullerton, California facility from 1959 . Like the Gibson film, it had been mostly forgotten, before receiving a loving digital remaster and upload to YouTube for 21st century eyes. 

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Watch a Recently Rediscovered Documentary on Gibson’s Former Kalamazoo, Michigan Factory from 1967

The footage, which has never seen the light of day until now, was digitally remastered after Gibson employees found it in the company's archives in 2020.

Gibson has released a documentary from 1967, featuring never-before-seen footage and an in-depth tour of the company’s former factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

The footage was unearthed by Gibson employees, who stumbled upon an unmarked reel of film while trawling through the company’s archives in 2020. The footage was digitally remastered by Gibson TV producers, who subsequently found that the mystery reel contained a documentary titled An Instrument of the People.

First produced 55 years ago, An Instrument of the People takes a deep dive into the guitar-building operation of Gibson’s former Kalamazoo factory, and takes viewers through almost every step of the process.

Gibson has released the 20-minute documentary in its entirety on its YouTube channel. You can check out An Instrument of the People below.

The film picks up right at the very start of the production line, and follows factory workers as they take an unfinished slab of wood through the carving, cutting, shaping and binding stages.

The final checks, including truss rod tweaks, intonation, action, fret finishes and more final adjustments are also shown.

As well as exploring the guitar-making process, An Instrument of the People also briefly discusses the brand’s pickups and guitar amp sectors, and demonstrates how it made its acoustic and electric guitar strings in the late ‘60s.

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Despite showcasing a number of SGs, ES models and acoustic guitars , there is one noticeable absentee in the film: the Les Paul. That’s because, since the film was shot in 1967, it would be another 12 months before the single-cut was recalled to the Gibson catalog, after it was discontinued in favor of the SG in 1961.

In response to a handful of those who commented on the documentary, Gibson proposed that “not much has changed” in the way of how they build guitars – a remarkable feat, given the fact the practices shown in the film are over half-a-century old. Still, as the old adage goes, don’t fix what isn’t broken.

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I have to tell you. This feels like an archeological find. The folks at Gibson, formerly of Kalamazoo, were going through some archival finds, and they found this promotional film, made in 1967.

Here's the description from Gibson, which posted this on YouTube on March 17th, 2022:

"In the fall of 2020, Gibson unearthed an unmarked reel while digging through vault archives. Intrigued by the discovery, Gibson TV producers took that reel and had it digitally remastered. The footage you are about to see was shot at Gibson's Factory in 1967. It has never been seen until now."  

Touring 229 Parsons, Then and Now

I've been fortunate to have been given a tour at 229 Parsons Street, during the Heritage Guitar 100th anniversary and big announcement celebration in 2017, and this film will give you an idea of what the factory looked like in its heyday. But imagine being someone who actually worked at Gibson fifty-five years ago and seeing yourself today. Or if had a father, mother, family member who worked there and maybe they've gone to the great guitar factory in the sky, imagine looking at this at seeing them on the screen.

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The whole Gibson story is a bit difficult for many who lived through the time when Gibson, founded in Kalamazoo, pulled out of town and moved to Tennessee in 1984. And while we wait for word on what will happen with all the promises made a few years ago to the 229 Parsons site, this timepiece from the past is amazing, right through the end where it says it was filmed in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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Take A Look At The Recently Discovered 1967 Gibson Factory Tour Video

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Recently some employees at Gibson Guitars were looking through the company’s archives and stumbled upon a canister of film. Much to their surprise it was a tour of the Gibson factory dating back to 1967 that’s been unseen until now.

Watching the film I was struck by how much has remained the same in the guitar building. While it’s true I haven’t been to a Gibson factory (or Fender for that matter) in quite some time, there’s still so much that’s done by hand much like back in 1967. Sure, modern CNC machines make routing more precise, but there’s still plenty that’s still expertly handled manually exactly the same as you’ll see in the video below.

One big change is the materials used, as some of the common spruce, ash and rosewood tonewoods that were plentiful back in 1967 are either not available or protected today (here’s a good article outlining the challenges and alternatives). That will only make older instruments from this period more valuable over time (I wish I kept all the instruments I had from back then!)

Whether you’re a hard-core pro guitar player or just dabble in the instrument, this is a good watch if for nothing else than the historical perspective that it brings.

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A blast from the past about building guitars. A rediscovered documentary shot in the Gibson factory has been digitized and now is up on YouTube :

In the fall of 2020, Gibson unearthed an unmarked reel while digging through vault archives. Intrigued by the discovery, Gibson TV producers took that reel and had it digitally remastered. The footage you are about to see was shot at Gibson's Factory in 1967. It has never been seen until now.

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A Tour of the Former Gibson Factory in a Newly Discovered 1967 Documentary

A never-publicly screened documentary from 1967 depicting the production of instruments at Gibson's former factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was found in the company's archives by Gibson employees nearly two years ago. The unlabeled film reel was subsequently picked up by the Gibson TV team, who had the footage digitally remastered and recently posted it on YouTube.

The 20-minute documentary, originally titled An Instrument of the People , demonstrates the working procedures involved in the manufacture of acoustic, semi-hollow body and standard solid-body electric guitars, including neck construction, pickguard or rosette decoration, fingerboard treatment and fretting, hand-sanding, lacquering, final polishing, electronics installation, tuning and final inspection. Part of the recording is also devoted to the manufacture of strings, amplifiers and pickups.

By the way, the documentary does not include any close-ups of the Les Paul Standard or Custom models, which is due to the time the film was made—Gibson did not return to producing the traditional Les Paul series of instruments until a year later (1968). The company made this move in response to pressure from players demanding the same types of guitars that were being used by Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and others in the British guitar scene that was booming in the US at the second half of the 1960s.

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Retrotechtacular: Gibson Factory Tour, 1967-Style

If nothing else good came out of 2020, we can say that we at least have “ Instrument of the People ” — some 1967-era footage of Gibson Guitars’ “craftory”, which was discovered sometime in the fall of 2020. It appears a bit boring at first — a suit slowly approaches the camera on a dimly-lit factory floor and you half-expect an ‘oh, I didn’t see you there’ type of introduction, but no. When he reaches the foreground, he finds a candy apple-red Gibson semi-hollow body guitar waiting for him. After giving the thing a quick once over, he assesses the straightness of the neck and then begins shredding on it, fingerpicking style.

If you like this or any type of guitar music, then hang on to your headstock, because it lilts nonstop throughout this 20-minute tour as we see a parade of nameless, and often headless, players showing their stuff on various styles of Gibson both electric and acoustic.

It is around this time we learn that Gibson brought the f-hole to the guitar in the 1930s. Later, we learn even more casually that a Gibson employee invented the truss rod — a steel rod running through the neck that can be tweaked to adjust the string action.

Speaking of necks, most of them are carved on a special machine, but for some models, only a hand-shaved neck will do. On top of those necks go the finely-inlaid fingerboards, which is all done handily by skilled people. No guitar type is left unplucked throughout this tour, though there is little attention paid to the classicals, mandolins and banjos the company produces.

Sixty to ninety craftory-operating days later, a Gibson guitar is considered complete and ready for sale. On each axe, the final coat of lacquer is buffed to a carefully-researched 7/1000ths of an inch, which is supposed to provide the optimal combination of tone quality, long-lasting wear, and permanent luster. Well, they certainly seem to hold their value.

14 thoughts on “ Retrotechtacular: Gibson Factory Tour, 1967-Style ”

Book-matching. Not matchbooking.

Lol, d’oh. Memory failed me there.

Digitized does not mean digitally remastered. That audio is terrible.

Who else came here for the Gibson from the Hackers movie :p

I was wondering what kind of factory Steve Gibson had in 1967…

I recently pulled apart an old Peavey Mixer that sounded like crap because I wanted to pull the reverb cage out and repurpose. It said and I quote:

“Folded Line Reverberation Device: Manufactured by Beautiful Girls In Milton, Wis(consin)., Under Controlled Atmosphere Conditions.”

Still works, btw. I guess they don’t make them like they used to.

Peter Cetera had a song about not making them like they used to.

Pretty hard to argue with 1967

Someone was always testing guitars during conference calls with Gibson. Usually someone on the call at the time.

That shaper table (6:47) is absolutely terrifying. Two unguarded spindles, both constantly running, within armspan from each other. One wrong movement sliding the jig around between them could easily catch it and fire it into your chest, or swing the backside of your hand or arm into the adjacent cutter.

Great video – Thanks for posting!

Lovely stuff, though it also is a sad and silent commentary about what we knew about occupational safety and health in the late ’60s. Those people inhaled dust and spray paint, no one saw any problem with that stuff before it was proven carcinogenic and personal protection equipment like dust masks became mandatory. I love the electronics department and their custom test gear, all built to purpose of getting things done fast and reliably.

Sure, but back then they probably smoked 20 cigarettes a day too, didn’t wear seatbelts when driving to work and thought it was perfectly acceptable to have a few drinks before driving home. I agree that the workplace should be safe, but there’s no point judging the 1967 factory as if it were somehow transplanted into the 2020s.

Thank you for sharing. I toured the Memphis factory in 2015. Some things have changed and some have remained the same. I’m fortunate to own two LPs and a J45 Std. Through some ups and downs over the years, Gibsons are still iconic and highly sought after guitars.

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Gibson discovers footage of old factory tour from 1967

Gibson has released newly-unearthed footage of a factory tour from 1967. READ MORE: Gibson revives a lost Ted McCarty design from the 1950s with the Theodore The footage, which features performances of some of the classic Gibson acoustic models, as well as the step by step guide to how the brand builds its famous guitars, was uncovered by Gibson TV producers in late 2020, and digitally remastered. “In the fall of 2020, Gibson unearthed an unmarked reel while digging through vault archives. Intrigued by the discovery, Gibson TV producers took that reel and had it digitally remastered. The footage you are about to see was shot at Gibson’s Factory in 1967. It has never been seen until now”, reads the video description. You can watch the full documentary below:

  Details of guitar manufacturing are shown in the video, with workers inspecting the individual circuits, and adjusting the adjacent amplifiers. Additionally, it shows the “revolutionary” pick-up coil, one which will create a sound “as modern as tomorrow”. Interestingly, the video also includes a list of some of their most-used woods for acoustic guitar manufacturing, such Sitka spruce, Michigan maple, mahogany from Central and South America, ebony from Sri Lanka and Rosewood from Brazil, most of which are banned from production today due to laws protecting endangered tree species. Since the infamous Gibson raid in 2009 and 2011 where armed federal marshals confiscated ‘illegal’ woods used in guitar production, the manufacturer has switched to more sustainably sourced options. The post Gibson discovers footage of old factory tour from 1967 appeared first on Guitar.com | All Things Guitar.

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Wow...the sixties!   I enjoy this kind of commentary now as much for the vintage of it as what he says.

There is some great playing footage too;

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I watched it once, and am now going through it in more detail to find Epiphone items.

It is interesting that the video gives almost no attention to solidbody electric guitars, though. They show an SG a few times, but no specific mention of that type.

Thanks JDGM. Interesting looking at old videos.  Yeah, each person does the same job in their station.  Think how bored they would get doing the same job over and over each day? 

Just skimmed through it for now, but filed it in my "favorites" to watch when I have more time.  Like what I saw so far.

14 hours ago, Retired said: Thanks JDGM. Interesting looking at old videos.  Yeah, each person does the same job in their station.  Think how bored they would get doing the same job over and over each day? 

Butch, I worked that way for near 30 years at GM.  And it's not as bad as some imagine.  But it depends on the individual.  With a good imagination and the job becoming more automatic the more you do it you can let your mind go anywhere and not lose a beat.

I watched it a day or two ago.  What stood out most to me is how far we have come in reproducing sound in videos and on film.  The remastered film soundtrack is sort of warbly and makes the guitars sound out of tune sometimes.  Not the greatest advertisement for the Gibson amps they play through.  Having lived through that time as a teenager I didn't find anything unusual about the film, but perhaps much younger people would not be used to the style of documentary.  Pretty subdued by today's standards.

@Farns - I don't play a lot of electric these days, but I'd be happy to cover the rhythm guitar and some backing vocals for the Scientific Slots! 

merciful-evans

Is that really from 1967? Or did Murphy have a go at that film.

Sgt. Pepper

55 minutes ago, Farnsbarns said: I shall now start a band called Scientifically Slotted. Who's in?

Great name, were scientists actually involved in any of the slotting?

1 hour ago, Farnsbarns said: I shall now start a band called Scientifically Slotted. Who's in?

I'll produce the 1st album. We should call it 'Meticulous Adjustments'.

Didn't know the guitar can echo an orchestra's sound.

Pressing a sandwich made thin sheets of closed grain wood under carefully controlled heat and pressure, oh you mean lamination?

How do you weld wood together, well Gibson like the F-hole and the truss rod invented it.

Quote "Modern as the electric guitar sound is, engineers have new ideas continually under development."

I wonder who the earliest victims of downsizing at Gibson were?

2 minutes ago, merciful-evans said: I wonder who the earliest victims of downsizing at Gibson were?

It said 80% is hand made, now probably less. So 20% not hand made. I guess you can claim its hand made it you do one small thing by hand.

5 hours ago, Whitefang said: Just skimmed through it for now, but filed it in my "favorites" to watch when I have more time.  Like what I saw so far. Butch, I worked that way for near 30 years at GM.  And it's not as bad as some imagine.  But it depends on the individual.  With a good imagination and the job becoming more automatic the more you do it you can let your mind go anywhere and not lose a beat. Whitefang

I guess? I worked the rack line at Omaha Standard for 3 years. Only, we were so busy, I had no time to think about boredom. 30 to 40 some racks per day with some 22' long.  The paint line couldn't keep up so I had to stack them 10 high.  Those were the days I lifted one end up over my head and slid it on top from the other end. They were 200 & some pound racks. That place was a madhouse.  What was your part of the job at GM? 

1 hour ago, Farnsbarns said: It's actually surprising to see be that Gibson's marketing has been BS since the 60s.  Scientific slots and precision ply wood. 

When you finally graduate with a Marketing Degree you have to get employed by some company and make up ridiculous overinflated terms that make the masses want your product. Why not do it for a guitar maker. Ok, I'm fresh out of college. Gibson give me some guitar words and I'll make them sound as good a free King Cut Prime Rib Dinner.

18 hours ago, Retired said: I guess? I worked the rack line at Omaha Standard for 3 years. Only, we were so busy, I had no time to think about boredom. 30 to 40 some racks per day with some 22' long.  The paint line couldn't keep up so I had to stack them 10 high.  Those were the days I lifted one end up over my head and slid it on top from the other end. They were 200 & some pound racks. That place was a madhouse.  What was your part of the job at GM? 

12 hours ago, Whitefang said: The job??? Which one.  I've been moved to 10 different jobs at Cadillac between Nov. '71 (seniority date) and the plant's closing in '88.  Went from there to the Livonia, MI engine plant in April '88 and shot pistons, set crank bearings and cranks for a year before becoming team leader in '89 and then going to the new Northstar division that same year and was team leader there until going on sick leave in '97 and medically retiring (official date 1/1/2000) one year before my 30th.   My first job at Cadillac was setting engines on what was called the "chassis line".  My last was applying script in the pinstriping division.  I've done some jobs that were easy going and others that busted my ***.  But all in all I never got bored and retired with my hearing intact.     And a good pension with no out-of-pocket healthcare costs.  I sometimes wonder how all those guys I knew who thought they were too good for factory work are doing now..... Whitefang

Great for you Ken, Yeah, I keep hearing of more & more guys that retired before me at the R.R. that are dead now.  Lye retired about 8 or 9 years before me and is still here. 

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Cool video @jdgm - really liked the music that went along with it most TBH. 

"and rosewood from Brazil are carefully selected". ............... I don't feel so bad anymore  😀

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The Actors Studio was founded in New York by Elia Kazan, Cheryl Crawford and Robert Lewis in 1947. For seven decades it has been devoted to the service and development of theatre artists –actors, directors and playwrights. To our members, who are primarily actors, The Actors Studio offers free lifetime membership, with no fee or tuition required, which entitles them to a unique opportunity to explore and improve their craft in a safe, laboratory environment with colleagues with whom they share the same process of work.

The roots of The Actors Studio go back to the Group Theatre (1931-1941) whose work was inspired by the discoveries of the great Russian actor and director Konstantin Stanislavski and his best student Eugene Vakhtangov as revealed in the legendary productions that the Moscow Art Theatre toured in America in 1923. In fact Stanislavski’s dedication to his book, ‘My Life in Art,’ (1924) reads: “I DEDICATE THIS BOOK IN GRATITUDE TO HOSPITABLE AMERICA AS A TOKEN AND A REMEMBRANCE FROM THE MOSCOW ART THEATRE WHICH SHE TOOK SO KINDLY TO HER HEART.”

When the Moscow Art Theatre ended its American tour, several members of the theatre stayed behind and trained artists, including Lee Strasberg, Harold Clurman and Stella Adler, who would go on to form the Group Theatre along with other artists such as Elia Kazan, Sanford Meisner and Robert Lewis. These artists studied, explored, developed and improved the work of the Russian masters with extraordinary results that were unique in the history of the American theatre and a new kind of acting was born.

After the Group Theatre closed, in 1941, many of its members went their separate ways. Elia Kazan has stated that one of the principal reasons he created The Actors Studio, in 1947, was in order to preserve and develop this new American acting. He wanted to create a not-for-profit organization that would provide a laboratory, a private workshop in which the professional actor could work on his or her craft, far away from the commercial pressures of casting, rehearsal and performance. It was to be a place that would offer its member-artists an ongoing training, a continuity of work and the feeling of an artistic home like they had at the Group Theatre.

At the Studio, it was eventually decided that membership should be achieved through an audition process of preliminary and then final auditions where the only requirements are talent and the possibility of improvement.

In 1948, Lee Strasberg was asked by Elia Kazan to join the Studio as one of its teachers and in 1951 he became its Artistic Director, a position he maintained until his death in 1982. Strasberg’s deep understanding of the Stanislavski System and the reformulations of Vakhtangov, together with his own personal discoveries and improvements on the acting process, provided the foundation on which The Actors Studio based its work.

At the same time, the work of Elia Kazan as a theatre and film director demonstrated in the most powerful way the extraordinary results of the deep and personal process of acting espoused by The Actors Studio.

For seven decades, the very existence of The Actors Studio, the principles and values that it represents, the methodology of its work process, its consistency and long life have established the Studio as a unique theatre organization and a guiding light for actors, directors and playwrights around the world. For many it is considered the temple of the acting process.

Today the work that is done at The Actors Studio continues the Stanislavski-Vakhtangov-American approach, and most of the leading members of the Studio today have studied with more than one of these great American teachers: Lee Strasberg, Harold Clurman, Elia Kazan, Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner and Robert Lewis.

Currently, Ellen Burstyn, Alec Baldwin and Al Pacino serve as co-Presidents of the Studio. Beau Gravitte serves as Artistic Director in New York and Salome Jens and Lou Antonio serve as interim co-Associate Artistic Directors in West Hollywood at our Actors Studio West branch, which opened in 1966. The Actors Studio is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of members from both coasts.

After 70 years, The Actors Studio continues to thrive because it is needed. Goethe has said that, “The actor’s career develops in public, but his art develops in private.” The Studio provides its members with this special kind of privacy, along with a group of colleagues who share the same passion for what Studio members refer to as “The Work.”

In spite of the presence of The Actors Studio over many years and its extensive influence in America and worldwide, there still persist many misunderstandings of the Studio, its mentors, its philosophy and its process. These errors most often arise from discussions by some academics, theoreticians, historians and even by some theatre professionals who attempt to analyze and interpret a process of work that they have never learned through serious practice. The work of Stanislavski, Vakhtangov and The Actors Studio was arrived at through deep and lengthy practical experiments that elude rational analysis by non-practitioners.

In 1994 The Actors Studio entered a major new phase with the creation of The Actors Studio Drama School MFA (Master of Fine Arts) Program in acting, directing and playwriting, in order to bring the Studio’s method into a university setting. In September 2006, the Actors Studio Drama School moved to Pace University in downtown New York City, which also is the home of one of the program’s most visible teaching platforms, INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO, hosted by James Lipton.

Andreas Manolikakis is a Board Member of The Actors Studio and Chair of The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City.

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