Synopsis
Presented in French, Come To The New York World’s Fair is a color, promotional film, promoting New York City and the 1964-65 World’s Fair which was located in New York City. It was probably produced in 1964 by TWA to promote foreign attendance to the fair because the closed caption and narration for this film is in French. It was narrated by Herman Boxer, and produced by Dudley Pictures Corporation in association with United World Films, Inc. Carl Dudley was an American film director and producer of short travelogues. United World Films, Inc. was the non-theatrical division of Universal Pictures. TWA emblem, Trans World Airlines, a major American airline that exited from 1930-2001 ( 0:10 - 0:12 ). Drawings in the storyboard format of the settling and growth of New York ( 0:21 - 1:31 ). The Empire State Building ( 1:32 - 1:36 ). Headquarters of the United Nations ( 1:38 - 1:47 ). Chrysler Building ( 1:48 - 1:49 ). Manhattan skyline from a boat ( 1:50 - 1:58 ). Manhattan from the shore ( 1:59 - 2:11 ). Crowded New York streets ( 2:20 - 3:00 ). New York Taxi Cabs ( 3:10 - 3:19 ). Jackhammers at work ( 3:27 - 3:31 ). Shoe shine boy ( 3:32 - 3:38 ). Circle Line Around Manhattan, a boat tour ( 3:57 - 4:59 ). Liberty Island and the Statue of Liberty from the Circle Line cruise boat and then on land ( 4:14 - 4:40 ). Wall Street ( 5:01 - 5:16 ). Statue of George Washington, Federal Hall New York ( 5:18 - 5:29 ). New York Sky Line ( 5:49 - 6:02 ). Manhattan Bridge ( 6:03 - 6:13 ).…
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- Running time
- 32 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
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- Stock Footage