Documentary featuring original materials from the 1939 New York World's Fair.Documentary featuring original materials from the 1939 New York World's Fair.Documentary featuring original materials from the 1939 New York World's Fair.
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Adora Andrews
- Grandma Middleton
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
King George VI
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Fiorello LaGuardia
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Ruth Lee
- Mom MIddleton
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Marjorie Lord
- Babs Middleton
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Jimmy Lydon
- Bud Middleton
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Ray Middleton
- Self - Vocalist
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Harry Shannon
- Pop Middleton
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Douglas Stark
- Jim Treadway
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Grover Whalen
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
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Self - Narrator: In 'Dover Beach,' Matthew Arnold wrote: Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
- ConnectionsFeatures The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair (1939)
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Nostalgic and haunting
I originally watched this documentary on TV probably 15 years ago. I wish I had kept it on VHS because I have been longing to watch it again. It was a look at the 1939 vision of the future. Yes, some was corny and optimistic (the robot, the super highway, planned cities, and airports with spaces for dirigibles)--but no one can really predict the future, right? Who, 40 years ago, could have predicted the world we live in now--cellphones in developing countries, personal computers operated by even the most technologically challenged, DVD, the internet, etc.
I really longed for the world presented in this documentary--a simple, naive world where the future seemed so bright. But right around the corner is WW2.
I really longed for the world presented in this documentary--a simple, naive world where the future seemed so bright. But right around the corner is WW2.
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- nettuno85
- Jun 3, 2010
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