1934 Chicago World's Fair in Technicolor (Part One)

Very rare "3-strip" Technicolor footage of the 1934 Chicago World's Fair "Century of Progress". Note: Some footage is in B/W.

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Entertainment

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• World's Fair
• 1934 Fair
• Century of Progress

[SatchmoSings]

Virtually everyone is wearing a hat!!

[paullubliner]

Now this is historically significant footage!

[Nintenkid91]

If only all the structures of this and the 1893 one was still around.

[anzaeria]

The narrator received my full attention when he announced: "Egyptian char-char girls."

[swinglikeachariot]

@FuckngBastard It's not Marxist socialism at work if someone blames machines for replacing workers - it's populism, and usually reactionary populism at that (reactionary meaning 'desiring to go back to earlier times'). Marx himself loved machinery and in particular singled out capitalism for praise in its mechanistic 'subjugation' of the natural world; in other words, for its ability to harness and control nature and demonstrate that human will can conquer the material environment. Read books.

[swinglikeachariot]

@FuckngBastard See above. You're flatly delusional. Machines brought salvation AND damnation in the 20th Century. The machinery of war in particular led to mass suffering (but not for Americans, for the most part, natch) but also peripheral technologies and machines whose functions we now see as completely necessary - as well as completely normal and innocuous.

[swinglikeachariot]

@FuckngBastard ::facepalm:: You're not really getting it. The whole 'reactionary who blames everything on liberalism' schtick is just tired, man. Those amazing leaps in the front half of the century were (1) instrumental in creating the consumer culture wasteland of today, and (2) accompanied by (as well as supported by and supportive OF) a huge amount of human suffering. The great advances in palliative and comfort technology were deeply intertwined with a war machine that slaughtered millions.

[FuckngBastard]

The 41 years of progress spanning 1970 to 2011 do not come close to the 41 years of progress spanning 1929 to 1970.

Not even close.

Think of what occurred between 1929 and 1970. Research it if you have no clue.

Then compare what happened from 1970 to 2011.

The latter period pales in comparison.

What impeded our progress during the latter period? Political pandering to degenerates and losers. It can prove costly, buying votes from the dregs of society.

[FuckngBastard]

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.

[expoboy52]

"Midget Villages" were a staple in the amusement zones at several world's fairs held in the US during the 1930s. I believe, in addition to Chicago, expositions in Dallas, San Diego, Cleveland and San Francisco had similar attractions. Obviously in the days before political correctness.