Opening day of the 1939 New York World's Fair
People running from gate as 1939 New York World's Fair opens / newsreel cameras, cameramen / POV large crowd / man holding fair pamphlets / high angle view of people transport vehicles and sculpture / curved wall of columns / VS people walking past the Perisphere / crowd touring / VS giving directions with the "Belgium" exhibit at rear; pointing with "Crosley" building at rear / women perusing map of fair and laughing / man taking movies and woman taking photo / "Lucky Penny" stand / "Guess your Weight" kiosk / Jack Dempsey / "Greyhound" people mover / fair employees push women in art deco wheelchairs as one smokes a cigarette / two women in push cart / fountain at rear as electric cart passes / man with sticks riding twin skateboards / VS couple sits on bench, woman removes shoe and rubs foot; sailor does the same / boy is lifted up to water fountain / VS three people eating
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Editorial #:
533945416
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
April 30, 1939
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released. More information
Clip length:
00:01:21:15
Location:
New York City, New York, United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr001392_01_08.mov
- Electricity,
- Skateboard,
- Wheelchair,
- Belgium,
- 1930-1939,
- Adult,
- Angle,
- Architectural Column,
- Archival,
- Art Deco,
- Bench,
- Black And White,
- Boys,
- Camera Operator,
- Child,
- Cigarette,
- Couple - Relationship,
- Crowd of People,
- Curve,
- Day 1,
- Documentary Footage,
- Drinking,
- Eating,
- Excitement,
- Exhibition,
- Film - Moving Image,
- Flushing Meadows Corona Park,
- Foot,
- Fountain,
- Giving,
- HD Format,
- Journey,
- Kiosk,
- Laughing,
- Map,
- Men,
- Mode of Transport,
- Mover,
- Moving Walkway,
- New York City,
- Newsreel,
- Open,
- Pamphlet,
- People,
- Perisphere,
- Photographing,
- Produced Segment,
- Pushing,
- Real Time Video,
- Removing,
- Repetition,
- Riding,
- Rubbing,
- Running,
- Sailor,
- Science and Technology,
- Sculpture,
- Shoe,
- Sitting,
- Smoke - Physical Structure,
- Transportation,
- USA,
- Video with Sound,
- Walking,
- Water,
- Women,