SCENES FROM THE NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR FOR 1940 Part 2
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: View of Manhattan, George Washington Bridge, tug in river - aerial views of New York City - aerial views of fairgrounds - scenes at fair, people, buildings, exhibits, bands, dancing, statutes, flags - view of U.S. Government Building - different state buildings; Maine, Florida - panorama of fairgrounds - woman and two girls on bench eating ice cream cones - view of streamline train on display - AT&T building - U.S. Steel building - Westinghouse, Goodrich, Chrysler, GM, and Ford buildings - entrance to Ford building, statue of Mercury - view inside entrance hall, people and displays - couple looking at Lincoln and Ford cars outside building - couple looking at Henry Ford’s first gasoline powered engine on display - crowd looking at huge mobile mural by Henry Billings - crowds moving through hall looking at exhibits - main exhibit, ‘Ford Cycle of Production’ - various exhibits in hall - people in theater watching fantasy ballet, style show, movie - people on ramps - getting into cars for ‘Road of Tomorrow’ exhibit - cars on ramps above building - views in garden court fountain - the New World Ensemble under direction of Ferde Grofe, playing in amphitheater - views in amusement section; dancers, ice-skaters, ski jump, parachute jump, midway - people walking and being pushed in chair cars - souvenir stand, people eating - fair at night, lighting, fireworks. “The End. Recorded by RCA, the Magic Voice of the Screen.” [1940]
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