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

★★★★ · ZAR-DOZZZZ!! · Spuzz · 2005-11-27

I enjoyed this batch o buildings this time out.. Lets go! First up we are promised that well visit Food, Home Furnishing, Communication, Religious, Jewel, and nearby section. Nearby to what? The Jewel section? What section is that exactly? We start with the ominous Food North building. It looks huge and imposing! It also has a strange mural up top Is that domed thing the side entrance? (eg Food South?). Its quite smartly designed.. Off then next to Circus Beech Nut which is slightly lame in its puppetry in some aspects. But we see some more advanced forms of this kind of puppetry at the end.…

★★★★ · Shot list · Ukamikanasi · 2003-07-01

"This reel will take us to the Food, Home Furnishing, Communication, Religious, Jewel and nearby Section." Food North building, mural. Beech-Nut Packing Company building. "Circus Beech Nut." Mechanical circus display. Johns-Manville building - asbestos. Home Furnishings building. "Mural in Home Furnishing Entrance." Gas Industries building. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corporation building. Works Progress Administration building. "W.P.A. Puppeteers." American Telephone & Telegraph building and statuary. Alexander Graham Bell memorial. Bell System building and linesman murals. The…

★★★ · Crosley Pavilion · bunkster · 2008-03-08

Crosley made radios, refrigerators and last but not leas Americas first "compact" automobile. They were quite tiny cars. My grandfather had one when I was a kid and enjoyed packing the grandchildren into it and taking us for rides. All I can remember was that it wasn't very comfortable! It would have been nice had the Medicuses edited their many reels into one, and made it more interesting.