The World of Tomorrow2 reels

Duration: 2500 ft.

Year Published: 1939

Creator: George T. Nierenberg

Complete Record: Documentary chronicles the engineering feats and public response to the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. Good shots of design innovations, art deco, architecture, newsreel headlines, parades, highways, color home movies, statues, future, construction, sphere, workers, scale models of planned exhibits, public relations, radio, fanfare, flag, dignitaries, crowds rush in, eighth wonder of the world, television, Futurama, transportation, Pullman, trains, great depression, streets deserted, farmers in poverty, street kids, aerials of animated city of the future (1960), archival footage, theremin type music, 1930s “Life Magazine” family dinner scene, family members talk about the World’s Fair, Time Capsule, Westinghouse Exhibit, science exhibits, pro industrial development, demonstration of “Electro”, the motorman, a robot prototype, science fiction, pin up girls, cheesecake photography, television is introduced, Mickey Rooney plugs the fair, Fleisher Studios produced an animated film, “All’s Fair At The Fair”, sci-fi,