The Women’s Pavilion and Other Sights at the HemisFair (1968) - Paul Schaefer Collection

This silent news footage for WOAI-TV documents HemisFair ‘68, the World’s Fair held in San Antonio, Texas. The first segment features the Women’s Pavilion, created to “tell the story of the exciting contribution of women to the Americas.” First Lady Lady Bird Johnson gives a speech. The camera then highlights works by women artists and the building’s modernist architecture. At the General Electric Pavilion, an actress performs in “The Wonderful World of Progress,” an industrial musical about electricity in modern life. A young women then studies a number of large outdoor sculptures. The footage concludes with a crowd of fair visitors and employees, some in traditional national dress, strolling through HemisFair Park.