1939 NY World's Fair - Industrial

[JimmysFinest]

The best generation humanity has had in modern history. It easily puts today to shame.

[ButterflyDragon9]

Was this shot in color or colorized later?

[JDProductions2]

@ButterflyDragon9 This was shot in Kodachrome. Color film was introduced a few years earlier.

[ButterflyDragon9]

@JDProductions2 That is so cool.  Thank you for sharing with us, I love it.

[baconsplace]

just on the cusp of the modern polymer age!

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

Wow.

This is excellent.

I wish I was alive back then.

My father often talked about the fair.

Thank you for sharing this film with us.

George Vreeland Hill

[bryantgyt]

What, no Lifesavers parachute jump?

[JDProductions2]

@bryantgyt Check the one titled "Midway"

[bryantgyt]

@JDProductions2 Great, thanks.

[mrpanu]

this is a great clip

[pol2000]

Very Nice, it felt like I was there!

[AyoSupra321]

wow i was born near this but born in the wrong era...just perfect

[rtvsaltes]

He visto el video 100 veces y sigo sin creermelo, yo soy de las personas que piensan que esto "es un fake" Parece que es una feria de los 70. Ya que las instalaciones "no parecen de la epoca" Seguro que han tardado muchisimo tiempo en construirlo. Una buena epoca, si hubiera maquina de tiempo me iria a esa epoca. De todas formas, pareceria que estuviera en los 70 y no en los 30-40.

[decedent4000]

so everyone in this video include the camera man was dead... i wonder how long after i write this comment i will die?

[banjo9052]

Wonderful. So glad you were able to preserve these memories. I'm too young for the 1939 Fair, but I was at the 1964 Fair in New York. I really enjoyed traveling back in time to see that great event.

[beargio]

how clean and beautiful :-)...ladies with make up,hair;glamour and beautiful dresses and gentlemen with suit,....decent and polite..no the trash that you see around New York with flip flops and screaming obcenities..now is great cause the technology...but people changed too much...beautiful people...well now is the past

[DeeJayMontevideo]

I am Born in the Wrong Time Period :(

[kennyt1230]

Everything was so well made then.

[rickster348]

ah, the good old days!!

[Josh3455]

Wow 2007 sure were carefree times! Unlike those decadent evil 2010 days. 

[bjcpc0337]

Thanks for posting, good quality from this period and in color is a real bonus.

[34airflow]

Love it, love it!

[straymouse]

Great video!!

[theguyof1900]

Oh I so do remember going there i use to go to the worlds fair a lot with Mobster Dutch schultz & friends thanks for posting.

[mikemanners11]

I read that the mechanical man at 0:54 was a fake.....

[rickster348]

@mikemanners11 so what, what did you expect it to do??

[bearcub410]

this is a great clip , i love the new model kitchen , now we have all granite top counters that have all the warmth of a tomb , and no kitchen tables , life was better when families gathered around the kitchen table rather than showing off their new kitchens to the neighbors , kitchen worship i call it !!!! how boring , thanks so much

[JDProductions2]

Glad you liked it!

[Ineedtwopoets]

My uncle Vicente Quintana and his wife, Esther Gaxiola were the sculptors for the pillars at this fair...nice video

[JDProductions2]

It's such a shame the artwork wasn't saved. They did beautiful work!

[Ineedtwopoets]

maybe there's a foto of the art?

[killbill00]

thank u so much for the post, i hv always wanted to watch old films in colours n this is 1 of d best..

[JDProductions2]

"Kodachrome" was introduced only a few years before the fair opened. This footage seems to have held up well.

[lamouchemorte]

Wonderful footage, thanks for uploading it!

[JDProductions2]

Thanks for watching!

[cha5]

I really would have loved to have seen the 1939 Worlds Fair and the Chicago Worlds Fair from 1893.

[JDProductions2]

Me too!

[freemantom]

Hi JDProductions2, You are right about it being one of the best - June Christy did a pretty good one too although not big band style.

Sorry didn't see your earlier comment from a year ago where you had already answered the question.

BTW great clip too. Forgot to mention it.

[freemantom]

Hey Chipdipp. Sounds like Helen Forrest with Benny Goodman. LOVE it. You have excellent taste. :-)

[JDProductions2]

Helen Forrest and Benny Goodman would be correct. One of the best versions of this song around. From "The complete Helen Forrest with Benny Goodman" box set 2001.

[chipdipp]

Who does this version of "How High The Moon" and who is the singer? What album did it come from? Thanks.

[StewedTomato]

Another Great one!!

[JDProductions2]

Thanks much!

[reimansuccessteam]

WOW the good days

[JDProductions2]

They appear to have been...

[davisracquet]

Just amazing that this was two and a half years before the attack on Pearl Harbor!

[JDProductions2]

By the end of the second season, many pavilions Such as occupied Poland, had closed. This was the calm before the storm.

[davisracquet]

This is very interesting, can you explain what caused the Poland Pavilion to leave New York? Thanks, Ken

[JDProductions2]

By 1940, Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany

[loris711]

In between work I've been snatching glimpses at your World's Fair videos. You have a perfect blend of visual and music. A truly first rate professional job. Thank you so much for sharing this!

[JDProductions2]

I found this footage in the public domain. Some of my favorite music is from that period... it was a natural combination.I'm Glad you enjoy them, thanks!

[snowmountain2007]

Superb video of "the future"!!!! Very entertaining!!!!!!!!! :-)

[JDProductions2]

Would have loved to have been there.

[rhoughtonny]

This is excellent footage of the fair and the images of what the future would look like are quaint.

Done very well!

[JDProductions2]

Thanks for watching!

[LanieClosure]

Classy times..the clothes, the hopes for the future and how ironic that we cherish that bygone wonderful era. Great music choice...I love 30's music! Thanks for a great look at the past and future all at once!

[JDProductions2]

Barely out of the Depression and the Great Dust Bowl, America was full of optimism. As this fair ended, nothing would ever be the same. Thanks for watching!

[skot66]

The best time...

[JDProductions2]

Yep, last of the innocent times...

[sadiestar]

aww :3

any idea of what song is that?

x3

[JDProductions2]

"How High the Moon" Benny Goodman, vocals by Helen Forrest between 1940-1941

[fschifano]

How High The Moon

[CamelKing]

Yay you corrected the t in the.

congrats.

[eddiereddie]

Great!