New York World’S Fair Color Home Movie Footage (1939)

Synopsis

This color home movie from 1939-1940 shows scenes from the 1939 New York World’s Fair. (Note: The film was transferred flipped (mirror image) so some words shown on screen are backwards.) Opening: the film begins with a flight on an American Airlines DC-3 to New York. two men in suits stand near one another, a woman walks near (:00). An American Airlines DC-3 lands at an airport and then taxis in with its propellers (:11). A security guard brings over a ramp for the boarding passengers (:32). The men and the woman board the plane (:47). The plane starts to get in position to takeoff (:56). Aerial footage filmed from in the air (1:02). Different flags of many countries are flapping in the breeze - it’s the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City (1:20). People sit at an outdoor cafe (1:35). Italian Pavilion which features a statue with a fountain behind it, it reads ‘Italia’ at the top (2:00). Flowers on display, people walk through them (2:32). Filming over the World’s Fair (3:04). Fountain that people walk past (3:51). Popular radio performer Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, his ventriloquist dummy, people snap pictures of him (4:12). People walk past the Kodak theatre (4:28). People stand and point a camera at the viewer (4:40). Funhouse mirror (4;56). Ducks in a pond (5:02). Women stand near a light in small outfits (5:36). Two people dressed in victorian clothes walk by; stagecoach comes by with people in it as part of the Railroads on Parade show (5:42). Railroads on…

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Running time

14 minutes

Collection

Ephemeral Films

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• Stock Footage