[Home Movies: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 2)

4:00:47:29 - 04:02:39:24 color silent 1939-40 Can marked: "Electrical, Industrial, Food and State Buildings; night scenes" Electrical section, Industrial & Food Buildings intro. World's Fair flag raised & waving in wind- Trylon & Perisphere symbols. VS EXT: Administration building of Fair. TD from American flag to two men talking outdoors. (President of World's Fair Grover Whalen & unident. man) Whalen enters car. Good CU of him in car talking. 04:02:39:25 - 04:03:26:25 color silent 1939-40 Crowds walking past international flags. Nun in habit sitting outdoors, elevated train traveling in BG. People waiting, buying tickets at ticket booth. HA CU feet of people walking on pavement. 04:03:26:26 - 04:06:42:17 color silent 1939-40 Crowds standing on footbridge- "Bridge of Tomorrow" walking down ramp. Good WS Trylon & Perisphere on horizon with fair promenades in FG. HA "View from Perisphere"- looking North of Lagoon of Nations & Federal Building on horizon. East view: Avenue of Pioneers lined by flags. VS Constitution Mall views- female statue. George Washington statue over pool. 04:06:42:18 - 04:08:32:13 color silent 1939-40 VS Trylon & Perisphere- people moving across elevated walkway. People walking through atrium of Trylon, etc. 04:08:32:15 - 04:08:56:03 color silent 1939-40 People boarding canopied trolley on fairgrounds. Man pushing touring chair around. EXT: Medicine & Public Health Building 04:09:15:21 - 04:10:05:29 color silent 1939-40 Plaza of Light- People walking around fountain. Person taking tour in wheeled chair. VS "Water Ballet" water fountain display designed by Alexander Calder. 04:10:05:29 - 04:10:48:05 color silent 1939-40 People entering Consolidated Edison City of Lights pavilion. Inside: VS City of Lights diorama of New York City (dark). 04:10:48:06 - 04:12:17:23 color silent 1939-40 Title: "Forward March of America." VS People walking in tube through cascading waterfall. MS top of waterfall (replica of Victoria Falls) flowing. 04:12:17:24 - 04:14:12:10 color silent 1939-40 PAN over floodlights. EXT: US Steel Building dome & sculptures. People entering Steinmetz Hall - General Electric demonstration area with "man-made lightning" sign. VS colorful electrical "artificial lightning" display against black BG. TU from two giant transformers on exterior wall of General Electric building to GE logo at top. 04:14:12:11 - 04:14:43:20 color silent 1939-40 WS people walking outside Dupont Building. WS Man looking up at tall chemistry-themed tower, buying ticket for pavilion at window. 04:14:43:21 - 04:16:17:09 color silent 1939-40 WS Westinghouse Building - EXT windows- pendulum swinging inside. INT: Hall of Electrical Living. Pendulum swinging. Wall displays illustrating "progress" of housewives through history leading up to modern "electrical freedom." People looking at future kitchen electrical appliances display. "Electric Stairway" or escalator display. 04:16:17:10 - 04:16:52:20 color silent 1939-40 VS Announcer speaking on stage with Elektro, the Westinghouse talking robot. Robot walks across stage to microphone, answers questions. 04:16:52:21 - 04:17:27:19 color silent 1939-40 VS Westinghouse time capsule outside pavilion. People looking at newspaper headlines, other objects in time capsule window. People moving in line to look in top window of capsule (to be buried at close of Fair for 5,000 yrs.) 04:17:27:20 - 04:20:01:26 color silent 1939-40 Elgin Watches building. Trolley passes in front. LCD time display on outside wall. Chemicals & plastics exhibit- Bakelite plastics display. Wall murals on Avenue of Labor. People outside "Man- His Clothes, His Sports" pavilion. 04:20:01:27 - 04:21:10:16 color silent 1939-40 Eastman Kodak building. Turning display of family photo advertisements. People posing for photos in front of World's Fair souvenir backdrop with replicas of Perisphere, Trylon icons. Man stands atop perisphere. Man pacing on stage with Kodak display. 04:21:10:17 - 04:22:11:00 color silent 1939-40 People walking down flag-lined path in Court of Peace. WS Schaefer (beer) Center Pavilion. Bartenders standing behind long bar. Schaefer Pavement of Fame - foot + hand prints of celebrities- Babe Ruth, Eddie Rickenbacker, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, NYC parks commissioner Robert Moses. 04:22:11:01 - 04:24:28:03 color silent 1939-40 Swift's Premium Bacon industrial food demonstration stand. VS Two women in uniform standing in window, wrapping wieners. Good HA assembly line of women in lab coats sitting at machines, packaging bacon "scientifically." People leaning & watching in window above. EXT of pavilion. Borden Dairy building. Country music trio in Western wear playing outdoors. 04:24:28:04 - 04:25:32:24 color silent 1939-40 Wonder Bread bakery building with moving cartoon figures in windows. Sign for wheat field (first planted in NYC since 1875). Hay bales in field. Sign for "Penelope Shoo- Scarecrow of Tomorrow"- scantily clad female mannequin w/straw hat & straw arms. 04:25:32:25 - 04:30:54:27 color silent 1939-40 Glass exhibit building. Funhouse mirror with distorted reflection of cameraman, then normal reflection. Blown glass sculptures with human figures inside. Glass blowing demonstration- men in black ties blow in tubes, handle molten glowing glass. Audience watching demonstration. Audience crowding onto escalator platforms. Good- two men rolling & shaping glass vase, with glowing molten glass on iron rods. 04:30:54:28 - 04:33:06:25 color silent 1939-40 WS Trylon & Perisphere. "Sweden Speaks" arts & crafts exhibit. Coat of Arms. Three Crowns restaurant. Outdoor fountain. VS glasses & bottles on display in Swedish Arts & Crafts exhibit. People walking through courtyard. 04:33:06:26 - 04:35:54:18 color silent 1939-40 Borden's Dairy World of Tomorrow building. INT: line of cows standing in stable (milking facility). Heads of cows eating. Bulls & calves outdoors. Sign announcing hours bulls receive exercise. Two men leading bull with rope around horns and nose rings. Heinz building. Bus passing Kraft building. Logo for distilling building. People shopping in gift shop. 04:35:54:19 - 04:37:57:27 color silent 1939-40 Chase & Sanborn marionette show. Group of Black children in audience looking at camera. Marionette dancers performing in front of curtain. VS audience watching show (chorus girls, ventriloquist act, gymnast, lion tamer) 04:37:57:28 - 04:43:01:27 color silent 1939-40 EXT: Court of States buildings. Large columned entrance. Pennsylvania, Arizona buildings, with globe. Lagoon of States. Replica of old army barracks in Trenton, New Jersey. Missouri, Washington buildings. New England- clipper ship on display. People touring deck of ship. Small boats by dock. Maine lobster dock- wooden replica. Tower of Florida building. Fountain outside building. Fruit trees on display. Man & woman eating ice cream cones. 04:43:01:28 - 04:45:02:00 color silent 1939-40 US military presence at World's Fair. US Army, Navy recruitment stands. Soldiers playing volleyball outdoors. Military barracks. Navy cadets in uniform marching in review. Navy marching band- drum & bugle corps. 04:45:02:03 - 04:54:48:14 color silent 1939-40 Electrical displays at night. Firestone Singing Color Fountain (Water changes color with tone of music.) Purple, blue, violet against black BG. People viewing City of Light diorama of NYC- Con Edison. General Electric sign. Water fountains. United States Steel, Fountain in front of US Steel building. Westinghouse building at night. Neon signs. Water fountain display- Alexander Calder's Water Ballet- bathed in orange light at night.