1964 NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR PROMO FILM ROBERT MOSES JOHN F. KENNEDY XD10294
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- This World’s Fair Report with Lowell Thomas was created by the New York World’s Fair 1964-65 Corporation. The film opens with Lowell Thomas and an aerial view of the globe at the World’s Fair Fairgrounds - named The Unisphere. Robert Moses, a patron of the fair, is interviewed. Aerial view :650 acres in over 200 exhibits are being built. TV screens 2:45. Under construction is the Port of New York / New Jersey exhibit building 2:54. Heliport on top, 3:05 The General Motors building 3:10. The Ford Building built by Walt Disney. Life-size dinosaurs 3:40. Greyhound, the Post-House Restaurant of the Future, 3:48. Mobil Oil building, 3:54. Transportation and Travel Pavilion simulated moon trip, 4:04. Amphitheater 4:20. Meyer Davis famous orchestra leader 4:30. Wax museum 4:54. Trams are air-conditioned 5:02. The Santa Maria anchored in Meadow Lake 5:15. Ringling Brothers Circus 5:24. The Music Hall will present musical comedy 5:32. The Jones Beach Musical Theater will offer Guy Lombardo 5:39. Around the World in 80 days. Water shows and fireworks will be featured 5:54. Shea Stadium is being built 6:15. Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle playing baseball 6:38. An aerial view of New York City is shown from the South 6:48. Stadiums are built for fencing, judo and tennis 7:00. Girls dance 7:08. IBM’s People Wall 7:51 designed by Charles Eames. General Electric’s Progress Land 8:00. It features Walt Disney’s animated figures. An actual demonstration of atomic fusion will also be displayed. The Bell System Exhibit 8:22. Travelers Insurance building 8:31. Electric Power and Light’s Tower of Light! RCA will feature a full television broadcast 8:57. Festival of natural gas 9:00. Gourmet restaurants 9:07. Coca-Cola’s World of Refreshment 9:14. Johnson Wax building 9:22. Scott’s Paper will have a beautifully landscaped park 9:28. Formica’s hilltop house 9:38. The Schaefer brewing company will have the Schaefer Center featured at the fair 9:42. The largest beer bar in the world 9:47. 7-Up will provide refreshment, sandwiches and entertainment 9:58. Rheingold’s gay little old New York Pavilion 10:07. DuPont will have two theaters. Westinghouse will bury a new time capsule 10:20. The Pavilion of American interiors 10:33. 40,000 scouts will visit the Jamboree at the Boy Scout Exhibit 10:45. The house of good taste exhibit, 11:03. The better living Pavilion 11:11. The exciting new world of industry at the New York world’s fair 11:22. Thomas Lowe speaks 11:30. Asian buildings are shown 11:53. Swiss sky ride 12:00. Balinese dancers from Indonesia 12:06. International buildings are shown 12:15. The Republic of China will have special exhibits 12:35. Sierra Leone will have tents representing its famous mountains 12:45. The whole of free enterprise exhibit 13:00. Japan’s participation is extensive. Ireland showcase 13:20. The international Plaza is featured 13:36. Thomas speaks 13:54. The Protestant Center 14:10. The Mormon Pavilion 14:17. Christian Science Pavilion 14:25. The Billy Graham Pavilion 14:30. Pope John XXIII 14:42. The Pieta 15:26. From the Vatican, Pope John activates a radio signal to the Fair 15:38 which starts a piledriver breaking ground 15:42. Herbert Hoover, Dwight D Eisenhower and Harry S Truman will preside over the fair. The Federal Building is shown 16:19. John F. Kennedy is shown shaking hands 16:35. Robert Moses speaks 16:48. President John F. Kennedy speaks 17:10. Artist renderings 17:30. A model of the New York metropolitan area is shown 17:47. Summer Festival Queen 18:00. Olympic skating champions 18:10. 100-foot-high Citrus Tower for Florida 18:27. New Jersey will celebrate its 300th anniversary 18:40. News reporters 19:15, ribbon-cutting 19:35. Gen. Douglas MacArthur 19:45. Robert Moses 20:05. Traveling to the Fair 20:27. Idlewild Airport 20:46. LaGuardia Airport 20:55. Modernization program is underway. Robert Moses’ highway system is shown 21:23. Raymond Corbett and Robert Moses speak about the highway system with bridge designer, Othmar Ammann. Aerial views of bridges in New York City are shown 22:00. Thomas Lowe speaks 22:15. Modern buildings in New York City are shown 22:35. Frolicking in the pool 22:53. Scenes from the top of the Empire State building 23:00. Rockefeller Center 23:05. The great White Way / Broadway 23:20. Tickets are sold 23:30. Guggenheim Museum, the New York Public Library, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Lincoln Center 24:00 the Harmonic Hall and Lincoln Center 24:14.Pan Am building 24:48. Thomas speaks to Robert Moses 25:00. Construction of the fairgrounds and Flushing Meadow Park are shown 25:52. Film written by John Campbell and directed by Jack Tobin.
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More than 55 years since I went to the Fair and I can still say what each of the exhibits is just from the shape and the location. Of course, it doesn't hurt that half my family worked on building it. That guy swinging a hammer at 2:30 is my late uncle Jimmy and the older guy at 2:36 is his dad, my grandpa David. Where the heck does the time go?
Wow, that's cool!
I was a young fella living in Bergen county, NJ when the 64/65 fair was on and visited it many times. My favorite hangout was the Lowenbrau exhibit. Lowenbrau was imported from Munich and served in liter steins by beautiful buxom Fraulein. Life was good!
Life was so hopeful and exciting in the 1960s !
I was there as a 10 year old.
The USA still had a vision of the future then.
We have no direction now.
Sad...
57,000 dead GIs in Vietnam killed America's spirit...dead for nothing. Its never recovered.
I went quite often in 64 and 65 as my parents were in a square dance club and put on exhibitions at the federal pavilion. Every time when we drove back east on Long Island, my father got lost, cursed a blue streak and once drove over the median on a parkway and tore the muffler off our 1960 Pontiac wagon. Boy could dad curse!
Shit man , Y'ALL MIGHT be kin folks !
More than fifty years later, many of the pavilions of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair are still modern looking.
The Bell System had an amazing phone at the exibit. You could see the person calling you. Science fiction.😊
NJ ☆ I can do that now.
Why do I need to go back in time?
The future of telecommunication courtesy of Bell Laboratories
paradigm respawn Because at the time I stood in awe as a fair goer, this was a glimpse at the future. A prototype marvel that was as far, far away from the technology of today. Computers still took large rooms.
@@KermitFrazierdotcom Nothing gets past you, does it?
@Brian Salomon He's about as sharp, sharp I say as a bowling ball! That's a joke, son, you missed that!
Those were some cool looking buildings. Expected to see The Jetsons somewhere in there.
I went to the fair 8 times between 1964 and 1965. I was 5 and 6 years old. My earliest memories, and they are so beautiful. I'm sure if I were there as an adult I would not remember it as I did, and would no doubt have political misgivings about a lot of the exhibits. But, to me, through the wonderful fog of early childhood, this was a golden age of entertainment.
I went to the former fairgrounds a couple times. It must have been amazing. The place is huge.
I went to the NY worlds fair, I was under 10 years old, went with my neighbor who was a local cop, still remember that sky ride and seeing the new Corvette
Yes! I was 12 and remember seeing the James Bond Aston Martin.on display. Quite an experience for a kid..
Who is watching more of this stuff lately? Maybe I'll go back there at some point.
Great video. An absolute debacle as it turned out. Very few actual countries participated, hence many corporate pavilions. Nice of Moses to build Shea Stadium for the Mets, since it was he who blocked the Dodgers from staying. Since we all have time, read “The Power Broker”, his life story. A long read, but amazing insight as to New York City and State over the 20th century.
I was there with my family. It was ungodly hot and it wasn't that great. Flushing Meadows, Queens may be in New York City, but it is as nowhere as you can be. By that time technology was really starting to take hold and what the fair had to show didn't have the same impact these events had even twenty or thirty years earlier. And, even for the times in which this film was made, it would appear anachronistic to people watching it, even back then. That was due to the effects of TV.
Don't get me going about RM. I grew up on Long Island and had to live with the decisions he made. I read Caro's book, and ended up hating him even more than I normally did.
Thanks for bringing back the memories! My mother took me and my sister to the World's Fair in summer 1964. We all thoroughly enjoyed it as visiting many pavilions like riding on the lovely strictly cabriolet cars at GM. I vaguely remember all of it as there was so much to see. I remember that the was a bridge laying tank parked right next to a pavilion and there was moulding machine that has made a green dinosaur, it still have it somewhere...
What a wonderful First Birthday Present !! A Worlds' Fair !!! you didn't have to, I was only one year old.
Went there about 3 times as a 10 year old. WOW!
Oh man, I miss these times. And I never lived them! Such a great time in america.
Does anyone remember the "Joey Chitwood Thrill Show"? It was drivers doing stunt driving on two wheels and flying through the air in full size cars.
The king of auto stunt shows.
Went to ‘64 World’s Fair plus Expo ‘67 too ‼️ Great fun, ‼️
Quite incredible.
This sure brings back memories. I was a Guide at the Fair for busloads of people from Connecticut.. The General Electric Exhibit was very popular. The Malaysian Pavilion, which was right across the street, was also a big hit. What with waitress's in Grass Skirts and Rum Punch served in hollowed out Pineapples with little Umbrellas.
I got this film...without time counters..
I visited both years at thirteen and fourteen. It was great fun to me. The monorail was impressive. At a nearby lake a bunch of those amphicars were being used. Sukarno pulled Indonesia out due to some disagreement. Egypt showed a mockup off the Aswan dam. The Vatican had The Pieta on display. You moved past it on a moving sidewalk. Belgian waffles were a big seller at the rip off price of one dollar. I don't see how the fair lost money, everything was expensive. The glimpse of the future was exciting. Expo in 67 and 68 was fine as well.
Agent K, Tommy Lee Jones "Why else would they hold it in Queens?"
how many would come if it opened April 22, 2020?
Wow, I remember my parents giving me mashed caleflower and passing it off as mashed potatoes from one of the food stands, I was pissed. BTW, I still have a book of unused tickets!
I suddenly thought I was about to watch a Vault-Tec "What makes you special" film :P
Back when made In the USA meant something 🥺
Look how far. We have come..just 1964... picture perfect. . Just a matter of time .looking into the multiple windows. Of super connectivity.. world revolutionize..my Jules Verne..moment come through elementary science . Take it or leave it. ..tribes..
Alaska and Tibet are continents?
1939 fair was more interesting .
Oh, do tell, if you remember
@@patcurrie9888 , okay dude, hahahaha.
I was taken here when I was 11 yrs old, I was not impressed. Turned down going the next day. A lot of smoke and mirrors.