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[Amateur film: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 4)

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Title: [Amateur film: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 4)
File Number: PA-4160 Beta SP; PA-0638 Digibeta
Color: Color
Type: Home Movie
Year: 1939-40
Subjects: World's Fairs: New York City, futurism, art deco, expositions, agriculture, food, cooking, gardens, plants, flowers, fountains, Mardi Gras, parades, home furnishings, photography, television, RCA, GE, AT&T, Bell, Eastman Kodak, Coca-Cola, automation, farming, WPA, puppetry, religion, jewelry, marching bands, Crosley, Jane Withers, Trylon, Perisphere, sculpture, Agusta Savage
Description: [Amateur film: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 4) 06:00:39:28 - 06:51:56:07 color silent 1939 World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40 Amateur films. Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome. Food, Home Furnishing, Communications, Religious, Jewel and nearby Section. (reel 5) 06:00:39:28 - 06:02:07:10 color silent 1939 Food, Home Furnishing, Communications, Religious, Jewel and nearby Section. EXT: Food North pavilion. Painted mural. Citrus Beech Hut. Motorized figures (people and animals) on parade. Johns Manville building. painting of man in protective suit standing in fire, captioned "Asbestos: The Magic Mineral." 06:02:07:11 - 06:02:47:04 color silent 1939 EXT: Home Furnishings building. Statue of woman and child. Mural in Furnishings entrance - horses, chariots, mythological characters. 06:02:47:05 - 06:03:28:24 color silent 1939 Gas Industries building. VS fuel, energy buildings. 06:03:28:25 - 06:05:22:04 color silent 1939 EXT WPA building TU to mural above entrance. WPA puppeteers. VS Female puppeteer operating marionettes. CU marionette of woman kicking her legs. CU dog marionette standing up & playing. CU Black marionette dancing 06:05:22:05 - 06:07:11:15 color silent 1939 American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (AT&T) entrance. Statue of figure on horseback. Bust and commemorative plaque for inventor Alexander Graham Bell. Bell system building. Artwork of telephone repairman working on telephone poles. 06:07:11:16 - 06:08:34:02 color silent 1939 RCA Television and Marine Divisions. Crowds waiting outside television booth. Young woman talking to female host at microphone in front of early television camera outdoors. WS people boarding yacht on land. Excellent VS Fair visitors speaking to male host in front of General Electric television backdrop as they are filmed by TV cameras. 06:08:34:03 - 06:11:02:04 color silent 1939 EXT YMCA building. Christian Science building. Temple of Religion. Religion building beside Trylon and Perisphere. People walking by temple columns. VS Painted Christian religious scenes from temple gardens. Jewish - Palestine exhibit. American and Israeli flags. Hebrew sign. People walking in courtyard. Cafe Tel Aviv. 06:11:02:05 - 06:13:31:21 color silent 1939 EXT: House of Jewels. VS display booths of elegant jewelry - rubies, diamonds, emeralds, pearls, necklaces, brooches, bracelets, stickpins etc. 06:13:31:22 - 06:13:55:07 color silent 1939 EXT: Crosley automobile co. building. Two women driving yellow Crosley convertible sportscar around track, talking to salesman representative. 06:13:55:08 - 06:15:20:11 color silent 1939 New York building. Art museum. Sign for 'Masterpieces of Art' exhibition of international painting. PAN over art gallery. VS Statues in city hall square, VS decorative figures on building facades. 06:15:20:12 - 06:22:21:16 color silent 1939 Caption: "Gardens on parade." Tent, large ornate gate for gardens. VS pictures of various plants - mountain laurel, apple blossom, California poppy, orange blossom. VS gardens, foliage. Floral designs (butterflies, animals) of tulips, marigolds etc. Gardener watering plants outside of greenhouse. Desert cacti. Reflecting pool with lily pads and flowers floating. VS Tropical water lilies, hyacinths, etc. Caption: "Gardens in Autumn." Marigold beds & heron garden ornaments. Foliage blowing in wind. Cupid-like figure in pond. 06:22:21:17 - 06:22:51:17 color silent 1939 Caption: "Voice of the Tree." Bare tree carved into figure of bearded man with arms outstretched (branches). Inspirational message carved into tree. 06:22:51:18 - 06:23:32:14 color silent 1939 Caption: "Homes of Tomorrow." VS EXT of proto-suburban houses in 'Town of Tomorrow' section. Large homes w garden patios, benches, pedestrian walkways. 06:23:32:15 - 06:24:12:29 color silent 1939 'Electrified Farm.' Male attendant in white uniform milking cow on metal platform with hoses, mechanical apparatus. Caption 'You would never expect this at the Fair.' Laundry hanging on outdoor clotheslines in grassy area. 06:24:13:00 - 06:26:32:12 color silent 1939 VS EXT Fair art galleries. People walking past gold relief sculptures. Men & women walking through galleries, looking at sculpture. Woman painting on canvas beside female nude sculpture. Contemporary Arts building. Outdoor sculpture by Agusta Savage: 'The Harp' Black figures singing in shape of harp. 06:26:32:13 - 06:32:22:11 color silent 1939 VS Fair exhibits at night. Water fountains, Italy pavilion w tower. Water flowing down steps. Neon signs, illuminated building columns. VS orchids encased in glass spheres. USSR, Canada buildings. Painted map of South America. Neon designs, large neon cash register. 06:32:22:12 - 06:35:07:27 color silent 1939 Eastman building at night. Eastman photo garden. Young man & two older women smiling & posing for photo. Electrical displays outdoors. VS company pavilion neon signs: Kraft Foods, Sealtest, General Motors, Heinz 57. Flashing yellow neon object. 06:35:07:28 - 06:35:34:02 color silent 1939 Caption: "Chemically grown tomato plants." Man in white lab coat tending tomato plants indoors. 06:35:34:03 - 06:36:09:02 color silent 1939 Coca-Cola bottling line. Excellent shot of Coca-cola bottles moving on conveyor belts, man watching magnified view of bottles through circular lens. 06:36:09:03 - 06:36:55:02 color silent 1939 Caption: "Ladies see how a man bakes." Women in window watching male chef rolling, flattening & cutting dough - placing on cookie sheet, putting in oven. 06:36:55:03 - 06:37:39:08 color silent 1939 'Ye Olde Barber Shoppe' diorama. Barber standing beside customer lying w towel draped over him. Figures of barbershop quartet singing in shop. Caption: "Use a Ronson lighter and this will happen to you." Mechanical figure of man in white suit rocking back and forth and laughing. 06:37:39:09 - 06:41:17:14 color silent 1939 "The Story of Three Flowers." Water fountain display at night. 06:41:17:15 - 06:44:47:21 color silent 1939 Mardi Gras Week - close of 1939 season of Fair. Cartoon character balloons for parade. VS Uniformed brass band playing on float. Good shot two percussionists smiling while playing drums and clapping cymbals. Woodwind section. Man standing on stilts in drag, holding his hat. VS men in clown makeup driving cars toward camera. Caption "The belly button girls fight September's blasts." Young women in majorette costumes with bare midriffs marching and holding their hats against wind. Good MS of parade passing CAM- horn players, clowns, person in giraffe suit, people in celebrity masks - Oliver Hardy, weird costumes. WS cartoon balloons passing - two-headed cat, penguin, fish. 06:44:47:22 - 06:46:45:19 color silent 1939 Actor Jane Withers, "Hollywood Star," arrives at parade, signs autographs for children with two female nurses in BG. She rides on cart with two other women. Other entertainers: Black musicians performing. People dressed as Three Little Pigs dancing. 06:46:45:20 - 06:50:04:17 color silent 1939 Water fountain, fireworks display at dusk. 06:50:04:18 - 06:51:22:25 color silent 1939 Caption: "At night, a torchlight parade." (very dark). People march carrying torches. Two people in harlequin costumes dancing on float. Chinese woman in traditional Asian clothing. Harlequins posing with three rings for 'purity,' 'body' and 'mind.' 06:51:22:26 - 06:51:56:07 color silent 1939 Caption "Facial for the Perisphere." (very dark) Jack-O-Lantern face on Perisphere for Halloween. End of reel 5.
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