0166 HM Medicus collection New York Worlds Fair 1939 40 Reel 5 07 00 46 00

0166 HM Medicus collection New York Worlds Fair 1939 40 Reel 5 07 00 46 00

Rejissyor: Medicus, Phillip. 07:00:46:13 - 08:03:11:00 World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40; Amateur films. Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome. Official film of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's 1939 visit. 07:00:46:13 - 07:03:41:19 color silent 1939-40 Car traffic on highway leading to fairgrounds. VS montage car license plates from different states. People walking from subway to Fair entrance. Bus POV passing Kodak building. SLO MO bus window view of people walking on grounds, over promenade. 07:03:41:20 - 07:07:19:04 color silent 1939-40 Parades & marching bands. Parade outside Washington state building. Man in Native American headdress on horseback. Concert at base of monument. Electrical workers' union truck promoting 30 hour work week. Gaudily costumed people on parade. Band performing by Federal Building, Court of States with international flags. Uniformed marching bands with majorettes, drummers, flag bearers. Band playing outside of building. 07:07:19:05 - 07:09:50:17 color silent 1939-40 Title: Cameras on Parade. Good VS visitors taking & posing for pictures at the Fair- families, couples etc. Photographers with tripods, taking light readings. Women posing by Lagoon of Nations. Family posing by Marconi tribute plaque & water fountain. Woman & young girl posing in tour cart. People posing by ponds. Young boy using camera. 07:09:50:18 - 07:11:59:07 color silent 1939-40 Murals at Fair pavilions by artists Eugene Savage, Seymour Fogel, Hugo Gellert, others. Electrical Products Building- mural by Martha Axley. PAN up from field of wild flowers to chemistry mural at Dupont pavilion. 07:11:59:08 - 07:17:14:09 color silent 1939-40 Sculptures & statues at Fair. Walt Whitman poem "Song of The Open Road" on plaque & statue. International pavilions & sculptures. French. South Pacific (Indonesian?) stonework between Trylon & Perisphere. Court of States. Statues outside Aviation building. Russian statues with Communist flag. Lagoon of Nations. VS statues & flow

https://archive.org/details/0166_HM_Medicus_collection_New_York_Worlds_Fair_1939-40_Reel_5_07_00_46_00 · Public domain (Internet Archive)