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Amateur film: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair Part I (1939)

1939 · Film · 20 min

Synopsis

The 1939 New York World's Fair, the World of Tomorrow, documented in Kodachrome home movies from the Medicus collection; part one.

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20 minutes

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★★★★★ · The mustery of the tall building with the even taller statue.. · Spuzz · 2005-11-20

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 rather larger statue.. What could that be? We dont find out (yet). We then go to another non descripit building. No Idea what…

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