(2/6) RARE 1964 NBC COLOR TV SPECIAL - "A World's Fair Diary" with Edwin Newman

[pucksterz12]

The most cynical review ever given by a narrator.

[CrackerLance]

I'll bet NBC had an ax to grind with Robert Moses like everyone else in those days. He was the reason the Dodgers left Brooklyn & the reason the Worlds Fair flopped. No matter what was said about his genius, he was a stubborn, puritanical & a self-promoter of the highest order. The interests of the community at-large never concerned him. He wielded an enormous amount of power (too much for one man) & like a facist dictator, he destroyed anyone or anything in his way.

[musicom67]

@CrackerLance True, but without his ferocity, you'd be taking Northern Blvd into Manhattan from Long Island instead of the L.I.E., You'd have to take a ferry to get to the Bronx. You'd not have any Parkways (or Parks for that matter) on Long Island. Almost all express highways, parkways, most bridges and tunnels, etc. wouldn't exist (or built as effectively) if it weren't for him...

[musicom67]

@CrackerLance Sure there are the 'horror' stories - The Cross Bronx, the Housing developments, the Clearview Expwy which destroyed neighborhoods, but there are also the crown jewels - Jones Beach State Park.. and that's just in the Tri-State area... And he didn't always win: The Lower Manhattan Expwy, Cross Sound Bridge, Brooklyn Battery Bridge, Cross Brooklyn Expwy....

[MerleOberon]

I remember the Belgian waffles, they were great!

[musicom67]

Isn't it also bizarre that of all things, they chose that Sherlock Holmes puppet show as filler - takes 5 minutes of the program! - There was so much more visual cool stuff to see than THIS, I'd think...

[stevie68a]

One of the best things at the fair, was the shooting fountains at night, lit by colored

lights, in time with music, as fireworks went off overhead. I think it was in front of

the Bell Telephone pavilion. Really exceptional.

[Bogframe]

This is amazing! I vaguely remember watching this on our B&W DuMont when I was a kid

[mercer240]

for those of you wondering....$1 in 1964 = $7 to $7.50 in 2010 (depending on what data used).

[PlaneAndTVtechfan]

I wonder if RCA's exhibit at the 1964 World's Fair was even mentioned...their exhibit featured color television. They had a mobile truck and some TK-41 color tv cameras there.

[wiedep]

love the sarcasm...

[GatewayGhettoProd]

Wow.. NBC really thought the Fair stank...