World Fair

2013 25 min

Overview

The future was now at the 1939 World’s Fair – and it is still awesome. From the perspective of the 21st century, it’s hard to imagine what a marvel the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair would have been to its visitors. Still living in the heavy shadow of the stock market crash of 1929, the many people who flocked to the big exhibition found not only bounteous luxuries such as free Coca-Cola, but the unveiling of unthinkable new technologies that promised that a better world lay ahead. Using sparkling, rare, colour film footage – itself a brand-new technology at the time – the US director Amanda Murray mines the memories of several people who attended the New York World’s Fair in 1939.

Genres

Documentary

Production Countries

United States of America

Spoken Languages

English en

Cast

Helene Schlesinger

Stanley Schlesinger

Seymour Sorkowitz

Jim Stevenson

Ephraim Horowitz

Crew

Amanda Murray

Director

Brian M. Kral

Executive Producer

Hays Holladay

Music

Ryan Holladay

Music

Ian Cheney

Cinematography

Amanda Murray

Producer

Posters

External Links

IMDB

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