- Title: V-3530
- Summary: 1939 WORLD'S FAIR: 1939 NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR. TOUR OF ELECTRICAL EXHIBITS, FOOD BUILDINGS & STATE PAVILIONS.
- Description:00:00:11 - CU OFFICIAL FLAG OF 1939 WORLD FAIR WITH ITS TRYLON & PERISPHERE WAVING IN WIND. 00:00:28 - 1939 WORLD'S FAIR ADMINISTRATION BUILDING. CU "NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR" WRITTEN ON ROOF OF BUILDING. FIGURE OF BARE-CHESTED WOMAN WITH ARMS OUTSTRETCHED OVER HEAD HOLDING ROBE ON FACADE OF BUILDING, "MITHRANA" RELIEF BY ALBERT STEWART. 00:00:52 - U.S. FLAG ON FLAGPOLE. TILT DOWN GROVER WHALEN & ANOTHER MAN CHATTING & SHAKES HANDS 00:01:13 - WHALEN (WORLD'S FAIR OFFICAL) WALKS TO OPEN LIMO BEARING FLAGS OF U.S. & WORLD'S FAIR ON FENDERS. 00:01:29 - CU GROVER WHALEN SEATED IN CONVERTIBLE AUTO 00:01:52 - VISITORS WALK ON PROMENADE LINED WITH FLAGS. NEEDLE POINT PYLON IN BKGD. 00:02:11 - CATHOLIC NUN SITS & RESTS ALONG RAILING OF PROMENADE. ELEVATED NYC SUBWAY TRAIN PASSES IN BKGD 00:02:18 - LINE OF VISITORS BUYING TICKETS AT TICKET BOOTH. 00:02:28 - PEOPLE WALKING INTO WORLD'S FAIR ENTRANCE. MONTAGE WALKING FEET AS VISITORS GOING TO VARIOUS EVENTS & SITES. 00:02:39 - VISITORS WALKING ON RAMPS. WOMAN STOPS TO TAKE PHOTO. 00:03:00 - WORLD'S FAIR NEEDLE & SPHERE LANDMARK. VISITORS WALKING ALONG PROMENADE IN FRGD. 00:03:15 - ABOVE VIEW FAIR GROUNDS WITH TRAMS & VISITORS WALKING ABOUT AS SEEN FROM PERISPHERE. PAN VARIOUS PAVILIONS & HUGE SUNDIAL IN CENTER. 00:04:04 - VIEW ALONG CONSTITUTION MALL INCLUDE VARIETY OF STATUES AROUND POOL WITH GOOD VIEW TRYLON & PERISPHERE IN BKGD. VISITORS PASSING IN FRGD. 00:04:17 - VARIOUS VIEWS OF GIANT STATUE OF BARE CHESTED WOMAN WITH TRYLON & SPHERE IN BKGD 00:04:43 - VARIOUS VIEWS GEORGE WASHINGTON STATUE OVERLOOKING POOL, TRYLON & PERISPHERE (HELICLINE) 00:04:56 - MONTAGE GEORGE WASHINGTON STATUE & THE FOUR FREEDOMS STATUES AROUND LAGOON OF NATIONS. FOUNTAINS IN POOL IN FRGD. 00:05:21 - VIEW OF GEORGE WASHINGTON WITH "TIME & FATE OF MAN" SUNDIAL STATUE IN FRGD 00:05:30 - CU VIEWS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON STATUE 00:05:55 - VIEWS OF SUNDIAL & THE FOUR FREEDOMS STATUES IN FOUNTAIN POOL (LAGOON OF NATIONS?). MIST RISES FROM POOL 00:06:25 - VARIOUS VIEWS VISITORS WALKING ON RAMPS TO ENTER HUGE PYLON & CONNECTING RAMP TO PERISPHERE. ASTRONOMER STATUE IN FRGD 00:07:45 - CROWD LINE UP TO BOARD TRAM. 00:07:59 - TWO UNIFORMED MEN SEEN PUSH VISITORS AROUND IN YELLOW PEDESTRIAN CARTS. 00:08:08 - STATUES OF GROTESQUE FIGURES ON EXTERIOR OF MEDICINE & PUBLIC HEALTH BUILDING 00:08:34 - PLAZA OF LIGHT. LARGE CIRCULAR POOL IN PLAZA SURROUNDED BY PAVILION BUILDINGS FRONTED BY SPECTACULAR FOUNTAINS. TOURISTS BEING MOVED FROM PLACE TO PLACE IN COMFORTABLE STROLLERS. 00:08:47 - CON EDISON CITY OF LIGHTS PAVILION WITH FOUNTAINS OF WATER SPRAYING UP 00:09:19 - PEOPLE ENTERING "THE CITY OF LIGHT" ENTRANCE. "PRESENTED BY CONSOLIDATED EDISON" (WRITTEN ABOVE ENTRANCE) 00:09:26 - INSIDE CON EDISON PAVILION, THE WORLD'S LARGEST DIORAMA OF NEW YORK CITY 00:10:06 - PEOPLE LEAVING ELECTRIC UTILITIES BUILDING THROUGH ART DECO COVERED ENTRANCE WITH CASCADING WATERFALL. "FOWARD MARCH OF AMERICA" 00:11:15 - CU FLOWING WATERFALL FROM TOP OF BUILDING 00:11:30 - VIEW THROUGH CIRCULAR PORTAL WINDOWS. WATER FLOWS PAST WINDOWS. 00:11:47 - VIEW FROM INSIDE GENERAL ELECTRIC BUILDING. SPIKEY SCULPTURE IN DISTANCE. 00:11:53 - CU SPIKEY SCULPTURE IN FOUNTAIN IN FRONT OF GENERAL ELECTRIC BUILDING WITH SILVER U.S. STEEL PAVILION VISIBLE 00:11:57 - U.S. STEEL & GE BUILDINGS 00:12:11 - CROWDS OF PEOPLE ENTERING GENERAL ELECTRIC PAVILION 00:12:19 - INSIDE STEINETZ HALL. 10 MILLION VOLT, MULTI-COLORED TESLA COIL 30-FOOT ELECTRIC ARC AT GE MAN-MADE LIGHTENING SHOE 00:13:14 - GIANT POWER SWITCHES ON EXTERIOR WALL OF GENERAL ELECTRIC PAVILLION BUILDING. TILT UP TO "GE" LOGO ON WALL 00:13:30 - DUPONT'S BUILDING PAVILLION. TILT UP TOWERING GIRDER 00:13:48 - "BETTER THINGS FOR BETTER LIVING" WRITTEN ABOVE ENTRANCE OF DUPONT PAVILION 00:13:56 - WESTINGHOUSE PAVILION 00:14:17 - CU "HALL OF ELECTRIC LIVING" AT WESTINGHOUSE AS SEEN FROM OUTSIDE 00:14:26 - INTERIOR "HALL OF ELECTRIC LIVING" WITH HUGE PENDULUM SWINGING BACK & FORTH. WALL MURAL DISPLAY DEPICTS WHAT LIFE-HOUSEWORK WAS LIKE WITHOUT ELECTRICITY AS OPPOSED TO TODAY WITH "ELECTRICAL FREEDOM" 00:14:46 - CU MANNEQUINN WOMAN WITH SPIKEY HEADGEAR & CLEAR HOOPED SKIRT 00:14:50 - TOURISTS PERUSE NEW KITCHEN DISPLAYS. "PLANNED ELECTRIC KITCHEN FOR THE HOME". KITCHEN OF TOMORROW. 00:14:58 - CU VIEW OF "MODERN" KITCHEN 00:15:10 - MAIN HALL OF WESTINGHOUSE. TWO HUGE GEARS IN MOTION, TILT UP TO MODERNISTIC FACTORY & CRANE DISPLAY TO SHOW ELECTRICITY IN INDUSTRY. 00:15:21 - ELECTRIC STAIRS FOR CARRYING 4000 PEOPLE PER HOUR. ESCALATOR DISPLAY 00:15:30 - MAN WITH MICTOPHONE DIRECTS ELECTRO ("MOTO-MAN"), A HUGE METAL ROBOT WHICH WALKS FORWARD. 00:15:43 - ROBOT FACING FOWARD WITH FLASHING LIGHT IN BELLY 00:15:54 - CU ROBOT TURNS HEAD & TALKS. 00:16:05 - PEOPLE LOOKING AT DISPLAY OF OBJECTS TO BE PUT INTO TIME CAPSULE. 00:16:31 - TOURIST GO THROUGH TURNSTILE & LOOK DOWN INTO TIME CAPSULE HOLE. 00:16:40 - PETROLEUM INDUSTRY BUILDING WITH LARGE RADIO TOWER & U.S. STEEL BUILDING IN FRGD 00:16:49 - PAN UP METAL RADIO TOWER 00:17:10 - EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE PAVILION 00:17:20 - DOMED ELGIN WATCH ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY. BUS PASSES 00:17:33 - HUGE NUDE MAN STATUE IN FRONT OF IGLOO-SHAPED CARRIER AIR-CONDITIONING PAVILLION. 00:17:52 - INSIDE CARRIER BUILDING. HUGE REVOLVING GLOBE AMONG LARGE WHITE METAL MACHINES 00:18:05 - VIEW OF U.S. STEEL BUILDING AS SEEM FROM INSIDE CARRIER 00:18:17 - ALONG THE AVENUE OF LABOR: HALL OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE (INDUSTRY & SCIENCE), CHEMICALS & PLASTICS 00:18:31 - BAKELITE PLASTICS DISPLAY 00:18:42 - EXTERIOR OF "MAN" PAVILLION. MEN'S APPAREL 00:18:52 - CU MURALS DEPICT THE MAKING OF MEN'S CLOTHES FROM BLACK MEN CARRYING BAILS OF COTTON TO MEN AT LEISURE AND SPORTS. 00:19:25 - EXTERIOR EASTMAN-KODAK PAVILLION 00:19:37 - ROATING KODAK DISPLAY WITH PICTURES OF PERFECT FAMILIES 00:19:55 - TOURISTS TAKE PICTURES IN PHOTO GARDEN POSING BY BACKDROP WITH MINIATURE TRYLON & PERISPHERE & OTHER NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR THEMES. PHOTO OP 00:20:33 - LS SHOT OF FLAG LINED LANE LEADING TO SCHAEFER CENTER IN FOOD ZONE OF FAIR 00:20:43 - CU "SCHAEFER CENTER" WRITTEN ABOVE ENTRANCE PAVILLION. 00:21:01 - "SCHAEFER'S PAVEMENT OF FAME" SHOWS VARIETY OF FOOT & HAND PRINTS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE ALA GRUMAN'S CHINESE THEATRE 00:21:03 - CU PRINT OF BABE RUTH 5-1-39 00:21:09 - CU PRINT OF EDDIE RICKENBACKER 00:21:14 - CU PRINT OF LOWELL THOMAS & ANOTHER 00:21:22 - CU PRINT OF BILL ROBINSON 00:21:26 - CU PRINT OF LEW LEHR & ANOTHER UNDISTINGUISHIBLE. 00:21:34 - "SWIFT'S PREMIMUM BACON" WRITTEN ON SWIFT PAVILLION. 00:21:37 - FEMALE WORKERS SEEN MAKING FRANKFURTERS & PUTTING HOT DOGS INTO BOXES. 00:22:09 - CROWD OUTSIDE LOOKING IN WATCHING 00:22:18 - GIRLS AT WORK ON ASSEMBLY LINE PACKING BACON. TILT UP TO CROWD WATCHING THROUGH WINDOW. 00:22:44 - EXTERIOR SWIFT BUILDING WITH HELMET-LIKE DOMED ROOF 00:22:53 - MURAL OF ANIMALS PLAYING INSTRUMENTS & "COME ON IN" 00:23:01 - TRIO OF COWBOY SINGERS OUTSIDE SWIFT BUILDING 00:23:51 - CONTINENTAL BAKERY-WONDER BREAD PAVILLION. MOVING DISPLAY OF CARTOON CHARACTER WONDER BAKERS 00:24:13 - CU SIGN FOR WONDER BAKERY WHEAT FIELD, THE FIRST IN NEW YORK CITY SINCE 1875. 00:24:25 - PAN WHEAT FIELD WITH PILES OF HAY & FEMALE SCARECROW 00:24:36 - CU SIGN BY SCARECROW: "PENEPOLE SHOO", SCARECROW OF TOMORROW 00:24:44 - PAN TO HALF-NAKED SEXY MANNEQUIN FEMALE SCARECROW 00:24:55 - EXTERIOR OF CORNING GLASS WORKS 00:25:05 - ENTRANCE TO GLASS PAVILLION 00:25:25 - VIEW OF MAN WITH CAMERA REFLECTED IN HUGE DISTORTED FUNHOUSE MIRROR 00:25:44 - GLASS CRAFTSMAN AT WORK ON MACHINE 00:25:52 - VARIOUS ITEMS MADE OF GLASS ON WALL DISPLAY 00:26:05 - VARIOUS VIEWS FIGURES INSIDE LARGE GLASS BUBBLES 00:26:26 - HUGE CROWD OF PEOPLE WATCH GLASS BLOWING DEMONSTRATION 00:28:12 - LOOKING DOWN ON CROWDS OF PEOPLE AS THEY COME & GO THROUGH ENTRANCE WAY OF BUILDING OF GLASS BUILDING 00:28:21 - VIEW OF OUTSIDE AS SEEN THROUGH LARGE GLASS WINDOW 00:28:28 - GLASS BLOWING DEMONSTRATION CONTINUES AS MEN MAKE & COMPLETE GLASS VASE 00:30:17 - CURVED WALL OF RAINBOW COLORS WITH TRYLON & PERISPHERE VISIBLE RIGHT BEHIND 00:30:33 - PAVILLION 00:30:41 - "SWEDEN SPEAKS" WRITTEN ON WALL OF PAVILLION. 00:30:45 - CU COAT OF ARMS 00:30:54 - EXTERIOR OF SWEDEN PAVILLION "THREE CROWNS" RESTAURANT 00:31:18 - WOMEN & CHILDREN WALK THROUGH GARDEN PATIO 00:31:29 - VIEWS OF STATUE & GARDENS OF RESTAURANT 00:31:44 - EXTERIOR "SWEDISH ARTS AND CRAFTS" BUILDING 00:31:55 - CU WINDOW DISPLAY VARIETY GLASS WARE. 00:32:12 - PAVILION 00:32:21 - PEOPLE WALK THROUGH GARDEN RESTAURANT ARCHWAY OF TURKISH PAVILLION 00:32:30 - BORDEN'S "DAIRY WORLD OF TOMORROW" PAVILLION. 00:32:33 - INTERIOR OF TWO ROWS OF COWS IN BARN 00:32:45 - PEOPLE WATCHING THROUGH WINDOW 00:32:52 - FRONT VIEW DAIRY COWS IN STOCKS CHEWING THEIR CUD DURING "ACTUAL OPERATION OF GETTING CLEAN MILK FROM CLEAN COWS" 00:33:23 - COW & CALF IN PEN IN VIEW 00:33:43 - SIGN EXPLAINING EXERCISE OF PRIZE BULLS & SHOWTIMES 00:33:52 - TWO WORKERS WALK BEAUTIFUL LONGHORN BULL AROUND AREA 00:34:23 - HEINZ PAVILLION WITH GIANT "57", PAN UP TO DOME 00:34:34 - EXTERIOR KRAFT FOODS PAVILLION. 00:34:45 - ENTRANCE TO "DISTILLERS" BUILDING WITH LARGE CORN MURAL 00:34:51 - FOUNTAINS INSIDE DISTILLED SPIRITS PAVILLION 00:34:59 - OLD ALCOHOL DISTILLERY MACHINE ON DISPLAY 00:35:06 - OUTSIDE ENTRANCE WAY TO PAVILLION WITH ROTATING SHELVES INSIDE. PEOPLE COMING & GOING 00:35:23 - "CHASE & SANBORN'S" MARIONETTE SHOW. CLOSED CURTAIN 00:35:26 - CROWD OF BLACK WHITE CHILDREN SEATED IN AUDIENCE OF OPEN AIR THEATRE. 00:35:34 - CURTAIN OPENS FOR MARIONETTE SHOW. PUPPETS PERFORM ON STAGE. 00:36:06 - CHORUS LINE OF DANCING MARIONETTES. 00:36:10 - VENTROLIQUIST AND DUMMY MARIONETTES, PUPPETS OF EDGAR BERGEN & CHARLIE MCCARTHY 00:36:16 - AUDIENCE OF ADULTS SMILING & SHADING THEIR EYES 00:36:40 - PUPPETS INCLUDE CIRCUS WITH TRAPEZE ACT & LION TAMER. GIRL IN MOON & TANDEM BICYCLE 00:37:31 - COURT OF STATES ENTRANCE WAY 00:37:46 - PENNSYLVANIA BUILDING AT NORTH END. EXACT REPLICA OF INDEPENDENCE HALL IN PHILADELPHIA 00:37:55 - CU LARGE GLOBE SCULPTURE AT SOUTH END 00:38:18 - INDEPENDENCE HALL AT END OF THE LAGOON OF STATES. STATE FLAGS LINE FOUNTAIN POOL 00:38:29 - CU SIGN: "REPLICA - OLD BARRACKS. TRENTON, NEW JERSEY" 00:38:36 - PAN NEW JERSEY PAVILLION BARRACKS BUILDING REPLICA 00:38:49 - PAN UP TOWER OF PENNSYLVANIA INDEPENDENCE HALL BUILDING 00:39:21 - UNKNOWN STATE PAVILLION BUILDING (TEXAS?) 00:39:23 - EXTERIOR MISSOURI BUILDING. REPLICA OF ROLL COUNTY COURT HOUSE 00:39:25 - EXTERIOR WASHINGTON STATE BUILDING 00:39:41 - NEW ENGLAND DISPLAY WITH CLIPPER SHIP DOCKED IN WHARF 00:40:04 - CU FIGUREHEAD OF WOMAN ON BOW. 00:40:16 - PAN SHIP FROM BOW TO STERN. TILT UP TO MASTS AND RIGGING. 00:40:39 - TOURISTS TOUR DECK OF CLIPPER SHIP. 00:40:49 - VIEW OF DOCKSIDE AS SEEN FROM SHIP 00:40:57 - OLD ROW BOAT IN WATER. TILT UP TO RECREATIONS OF MAINE LOBSTER DOCK AND BOAT HOUSE. 00:41:22 - TILT DOWN FROM SPANISH BELL TOWER TO ENTRANCE TO FLORIDA STATE BUILDING, 00:41:42 - TILT DOWN FROM TOWER TO FOUNTAIN 00:42:00 - FLORIDA ORANGE TREES 00:42:12 - MAN & WOMAN EATING ICE CREAM CONES IN FLORIDA GARDEN. 00:42:34 - "UNITED STATES ARMY" SIGN ON TOP OF BUILDING 00:42:41 - "UNITED STATES NAVY" SIGN 00:42:48 - NAVY & ARMY SERVICEMEN PLAYING GAME OF VOLLEYBALL. PARACHUTE JUMP (ALA CONEY ISLAND) IN DISTANT BKDG. 00:43:00 - TWO LANES OF TENTED ROOF BARRACKS. 00:43:09 - U.S. PAVILLION FEDERAL BUILDING AT SUNSET. NAVY PARADE IN FRONT WITH MARCHING BAND. 00:44:34 - CU SIGN FOR THE FIRESTONE SINGING COLOR FOUNTAINS 00:44:48 - NIGHTIME SCENE OF COLORFUL FOUNTAINS. LOOK LIKE NORTHERN LIGHTS. 00:45:36 - NEON SIGN: "THE CITY OF LIGHT. PRESENDTED BY CONSOLIDATION EDISON". 00:45:43 - GENERAL ELECTRIC PAVILLION AT NIGHT 00:45:55 - PAVILLION WATERFALL LIT UP IN GREEN COLOR. 00:46:06 - COLORFUL FOUNTAIN IN PLAZA OF LIGHT AT NIGHT. UNITED STATES STEEL & GE BUILDINGS VISIBLE 00:46:52 - SWINGING PENDULUM & OTHER DISPLAYS VISIBLE IN WESTINGHOUSE BUILDING AT NIGHT. 00:47:19 - COLORFUL MODERN TOWER STRUCTURE CHANGES COLOR 00:47:48 - "BETTER LIVING" ON BULDING EXTERIOR AT NIGHT 00:48:00 - GRAND DISPLAY OF COLORFUL FOUNTAINS AT NIGHT. HUGE SPRAY OF WATER SHOOTS UP FROM CENTER OF FOUNTAIN. INDLUDES FIREWORKS DISPLAY.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1939
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: V-3530