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.
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the lessons of nostalgia
Visit the 1939 New York City World's Fair, and see the future as it should have been!
Your guide will be Jason Robards, Jr., who as a carefree ten year old boy can be seen thrilling to the sights and sounds of this greatest of all international expositions, and cheerfully mugging for the camera in his father's home movies!
He'll lead you through a Utopian Never-Never Land of scientific wonders and social achievements, including the popular Futurama Exhibit, featuring a scale model of Democracity, the perfect planned community for the next generation!
Follow the all-American Middletons (Mom, Dad, Babs and Bud) from Main Street, Indiana, a promotional film family touring pavilions representing all the mightiest nations on Earth, with the notable exception of Germany, which at that moment was planning a world event of an altogether different sort!
The ironies of hindsight make this a fascinating documentary, suggesting (not without regret) that optimism is no match for the harsh reality of current events. The film includes plenty of rare color archival footage.
Your guide will be Jason Robards, Jr., who as a carefree ten year old boy can be seen thrilling to the sights and sounds of this greatest of all international expositions, and cheerfully mugging for the camera in his father's home movies!
He'll lead you through a Utopian Never-Never Land of scientific wonders and social achievements, including the popular Futurama Exhibit, featuring a scale model of Democracity, the perfect planned community for the next generation!
Follow the all-American Middletons (Mom, Dad, Babs and Bud) from Main Street, Indiana, a promotional film family touring pavilions representing all the mightiest nations on Earth, with the notable exception of Germany, which at that moment was planning a world event of an altogether different sort!
The ironies of hindsight make this a fascinating documentary, suggesting (not without regret) that optimism is no match for the harsh reality of current events. The film includes plenty of rare color archival footage.
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