Home Movies: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair (1939)
1939 · Ephemeral film · 63 min
Synopsis
Kodachrome home movies of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair: the foreign pavilions, the transportation area, and a pageant on the history of the railroads.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 63 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- 0637_HM_Medicus_collection_New_York_Worlds_Fair_1939-40_Reel_3
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · SPARTANS! Bring me your trains! · Spuzz · 2012-10-06
According to the earlier transfer, this is reel 4. But.. I dunno! Anyways, here's my rundown of the complete reel! It's huge! Were going around the world in this volume, stopping at some rather curious places, and totally ignoring others! So lets GO!! We start off at um, a unknown country. Im not going to look up their flag (green with orange star), Their pavilion looks ok. Then we see another flag.. No Idea what it is.. Germany? Italy? Iraq? Then the camera scrolls down, and its the Belgium pavillion. Oh. Their building looks ugly. Next we look across and see a rather large building with a…