The World of Tomorrow
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Uploaded by sloanjr on Dec 24, 2007
Video taken from 2 series of amateur film taken at the historic 1939 World's Fair in New York - Flushing Meadows/Corona Park. Also - there's a smattering from a propaganda film by Westinghouse in there. All are available on archive.org
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look, no one's fat!
2 years ago 29
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2:13 SEE! ELECTRO! The amazing mechanical "robbut!" He walks! He speaks! He inflates and then pops a balloon! Is this electric marvel the answer to America's labor struggles? Or a secret weapon in the great arsenal of democracy to fight with us against Germany and Japan?
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@middletech back then going out somewhere was a big deal.
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@orayole no class, anything goes culture, now in decline, you're prob one of those people that never use a turn signal these days, too busy chatting on a cell... why would anyone use a profanity here?
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@nzflyingmattress Yes, good point! And no one's extrem thin.
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Woah, all in color? The 30's must be ahead of their time
3 months ago 2
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The very things this World's Fair presents as progress are things Obama blames for our current high unemployment rate - machines! Obama is recently on record as blaming ATMs for a lack of bank tellers. Go to archive.org and find the feature film made during and based on the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair. The college professor boyfriend is a socialist just like Obama, and blames machines for turning people out of work.
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@middletech I don't think you've seen prison
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@orayole Thats what they wear in prison. I can see you think alike.
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@middletech Why the fuck would you want everyone to dress up? I think its the most ridiculous thing ever. People still dress up too much. T-shirt and jeans forever
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If it was up to Robert Moses there would be highways through Central Park, rapid transit was never in his plans.
drfate234 1 year ago
Yeah, I read "The Power Broker."
Fascinating biography of Moses. Wiped out entire neighborhoods to make room for cars, but never drove one himself.
sloanjr 1 year ago
Awesome footage.What is the music?
mrbeautiful999 3 years ago 5
The song is called "Perpetuum Mobile" by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
sloanjr 3 years ago 4