The more Kevin talks about how crazy the 20s-30s were ("...she was arrested 4 times in one day") the more i get the feeling that that era was just a real life Looney Tunes short
Pre-1950s Puritanized America was wild. You should hear some music from the '30s. Some of the lyrics are more wild than any Rap artist could come up with today.
Look up the guy who walked naked in Britain who did it as a sort of social commentary, he was arrested multiple times trying to walk from the south to the north of Canada completely naked.
@@fallingpetunias9046 Yeah, at first I'm like "ahhh, okay, all good then...Olympic served a full career so he's in safe hands..." THENNNN he does the whole "the ship identical to the Olympic in every way" and I go "crap..." 😑😣 😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂
...The exhibit he singled out in particular was the demo of television at the Hall of Science, which was pretty much the first time many people ever saw an operating TV (there were experimental broadcasts before World War II, but it wasn't really a mass consumer product until the war was over).
@@MattMcIrvin tvwas at the 1933 expo? I know that it was in new york in 1939 but i never knew it was in chicago. Ps, my grandma, grandpa 2 aunts and my uncle attended the 1964 worlds fair
My grandpa was there too, lived in Chicago his whole life! We have some cool trinkets and later in his life he became friends with sally rand (she was much older than him)
I love how Defunctland went from "Hey, let's build a virtual amusement park filled with old rides from the 80s" to "Hey, let's make an entire comprehensive history of amusement parks in general through the form of a beautifully made docuseries!" For real, huge fan, keep up the excellent research ^_^
@@EricDMMiller I don't think it was dumb.. I'm only 20, but like I grew up with The Jaws ride, and Disney Quest and some of the earlier stuff he covered, it was cool to see them get some attention.
@@Jishere232 I liked the early idea as well but I’m glad for the broad examination of amusement park history too. Also that full length documentary on Halyx was freaking beautiful. I’d love to see some more spotlights on individual “defunctland virtual park attractions too though. That individual Spotlight on rides that are now gone really gives insight on said amusement park and it’s direction at that snapshot in time
The statement that the smoking robot only lacked a heart and a brain implies that it DID have bones, muscles, intestines, lungs, etc. and was, in fact, a disgusting meat puppet encased in a shiny metal shell. In this essay, I will
No, you're reading way too much into it. There's a whole backstory. The clip is from a 1939 film called The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair and may be watched or even downloaded from here archive.org/details/middleton_family_worlds_fair_1939 Running time is under an hour.
There was a weird fascination with humans being replaced by robots in newspaper-article futurism of the 1920s and 30s. The articles always described "mechanical men" as an imminent thing even though there wasn't even really such a thing as an electronic computer in use. The Paleo-Future blog kept coming up with more and more examples of these articles. I'm guessing it was really a response to industrialization and the assembly line.
@@MattMcIrvin people have a way of overestimating technological progress in certain areas. The same thing happened with VR in the 90s. We thought that everyone would be living in a virtual world by now. See: Lawnmower Man, Virtuosity, Johnny Pneumonic, Ghost in the Shell, Thirteenth Floor, eXistenZ etc. etc. etc. And we did it with the internet to a certain degree, when you look back you see people looked at "cyberspace" in an almost mystical way. The internet did take off like a rocket, but it didn't play out like the cyber fantasies of the 90s. Is there anything we look at right now in that way? Something everyone thinks is on the verge of taking over our lives in some crazy way? I can't think of anything off the top of my head. Maybe some people think VR has a second chance to make our cyber dreams come true lol? I have a Vive, it's cool but not quite there. Maybe if they can make it profitable enough to keep making for a few more generations it'll get there though. Hey, we got Half Life: Alyx coming!
I saw a modern version of one in a documentary clip year back, but the difference is that this was built by little people for little people. It was a community for little people who wanted to live somewhere where everything was accessible and they could exist in public without being any kind of an oddity. The world's fair version was obviously nothing like that.
Say, does anyone have a smoke? No? What about that dame over there going to fetch some? I don't see her in the kitchen, so she must be free. (in old timey newsreel voice)
I actually assumed it would be water leaking from the radiator, as it was coming from the front, and those old-timey cars having a cap for the radiator around the nose area easily accesible.
"It is possible that he died from pure grief, but it is possible that he died from either the colidus, the foot infection, diabetes, or the food poisoning, or speculative a combination of any of those four things." More of this type of humor and writing please, it's hilarious.
The grief probably didn't make it any easaier for him to *fight* those things, but yeah they way he put it had me laughing too. Still, the poor SOB got hammered!
this reminded me of the line from MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS. IT WASNT THE DYM MAK THAT WAS KILLING LYN, AND IT WASNT THE CANCER, HE WAS DYING OF A BROKEN HEART.... AND MAYBE THE CANCER AS WELL
@@Shenaldrac Yes, but back then, global travel wasn't as easy and cheap as it is now (despite all the modern security procedures that started in the 1970s, as air travel became more widespread and available to those not of the upper-class "jet set".) Cripes, some people were barely out of the middle ages when airports came to their towns - they weren't about to have either the money nor the inclination to go to some exotic, far-off land to see some "county fair" (or whatever the local equivalent might be.) And travel by ship was expensive and slow, more for one-way immigration than for tourism. And I suspect that the concept of car rental wasn't a thing until credit cards were.
@@Shenaldrac If you think the audience was literally every living human on the planet, I don't know what to say. Even if it were to be done today that still wouldn't be true. You'd struggle to claim even a quarter of the people on Earth today could make it to an arbitrary location, let alone almost a century ago in the middle of the worst financial crisis ever.
Yes! I honestly like these better. I still love the previous seasons so much but these feel like a fun documentary, unlike the ones on TV that tend to be a little dry and boring. The Perj is really the man for the job on these
This video was probably really interesting but I got completely clotheslined and sidetracked when you told me Westinghouse built a robot in the 30s whose primary function was to... smoke cigarettes.
A lot of people at that point felt they should have been spending more money on cigarettes, but you can only smoke so many packs a day. With the help of the robot you can double the pace at which you go through packs of cigarettes.
Man you're the best person I've ever seen when it comes to segues. "After all, it was the United States *in 1929.* What could possibly go wrong?" That had me on the edge of my seat even though I knew what happened. Actually it had me on the edge BECAUSE I did know. That transition made me connect everything but it still kept me captivated. Please keep doing what you're doing.
17:06 - I love how both the guy in the car and the commentator are having an amazing time while there's something pouring out of the engine and smoking.
I’m learning so much from this season. This history is both enlightening and eerie, especially as someone who grew up in the shadow of Disney World via family employed there. It puts my own life history into some interesting perspectives.
I'm currently enjoying the theme of the history of theme parks involving the Disney family this season. It was also fun to basically listen to a description/history of Epcot while listening to the different pavilions this World's Fair showcased
YES! I was stunned at how much this sounded like EPCOT Center. I think this fair in particular must have been a huge influence on the imagineers, even if subconsciously so.
There's a whole backstory. The clip is from a 1939 film called The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair and may be watched or even downloaded from here archive.org/details/middleton_family_worlds_fair_1939 Running time is under an hour.
"A real marvel, the world's largest thermometer. Sponsored by Havoline, the oil for all seasons." So less about making actual sense, more about making people go "WTF is that?"...ok. Advertising has barely changed in almost a century. Got it.
Other UA-cam: Drama, controversies, all out war. ThemeparkTube: Doing voice over and script supervising for each other's videos. (I see you in the credits, Rob!)
This channel better not die. This is one of the best documentary channels on UA-cam! (Edit also this should be in Disney plus! If COPPA/FTC takes this channel down) OH MY WAFFLE THANKS FOR THE LIKES!!
@@Maswartz226 what we need to really do is not point the guns at youtube but at nbc,abc,cbs,fox,viacom,turner ect. They found out we ran away from them and they think we owe them back payment for cable and broadcast tv's falling viewership over the past decade so theyre ruining the ACTUAL entertainment the people want.
@@Maswartz226 I can answer you on why that happened. Legislature hit. I'll need to cycle through my media law class documents, but a bill was passed and Tumblr clearly didn't want a lawsuit concerning nudity/sexual content. All in all, blame some parts of the government, mainly FTC, Ajit Pai, and FCC
You know it’s bout to go down when Your notification bell goes off. A future with 2 year old smoking robots and a giant thermometers are a future I want to live in.
Electro (the smoking robot) also had a dog named Sparko and I have seen them in person, as they are both currently displayed at a museum in Mansfield Ohio.
Wow. I didn't even realize most of this technology was available in the 1920s. I thought it was all more recent than that. Thank you for enlightening me :)
1930's: Wow imagine asbestos in buildings! 1990's: Wow the cost of removing asbestos is incredible! 1930's: Innovative plywood Now: "Damn cheap plywood! What happened to quality!"
I swear this video has taught me more Chicago history than I have ever learned in grade school. It’s weird because the world fair is rarely mentioned unless the murders are brought up. Anyways, great video!!
My grandparents spent their honeymoon at the 1939 World's Fair in NYC. My Grandmother had grown up in Chicago and my grandfather not far away, so it was a familiar concept. I never asked, but I'll bet they probably had been to one in Chicago.
The tie in for Disney at the end is so cool to see the impact the event had on him. The Disney now isn’t the same as then. It’s cool to see that even with all of his shortcomings Walt really did make magic. Reminds me of the Japanese storytellers who were inspired by Disney movies to make light boxes and street performances during the recovery period and led to the creation of modern Anime
I love how all these episodes focus on not only very interesting aspects of American history, but also how those aspects inspired Walt Disney into making the Theme Parks we know and love today. I definitely felt heavy EPCOT vibes from this episode.
My great grandfather was a night watchman for Pullman at the 33-34 worlds fair and I haven’t seen such good coverage of it until now. Thank you very much!
Between the Jim Henson series and this new season, I never thought that a channel I started watching because "Action Park is morbid and hilarious" would be my most anticipated updates. Love what you guys are doing and, if I had to guess, it was probably the grief, not the other four things.
I know it's not much, but I got super excited seeing the sculpture around the 10 minute mark simply because that was my high school mascot. The original sculpture and those plaques all ended up in a school I went to and it makes me happy.
Fun fact for everyone perusing through the comments: There is one exhibit hall still standing from the 1933 World's Fair, the Museum of Science and Industry. It sits in one of the few remaining buildings from the 1893 World's Fair. And it is the only building still standing in its original spot. All other have either been moved to another part of Chicago or to another state entirely!
Kevin, I would love if you would consider giving this same kind of 'treatment' to Expo 67 held in Montreal. There were certainly many unique things about this World's Fair including: Habitat and La Ronde. Thanks
I still thoroughly believe this is the most well researched and entertaining educational channels on UA-cam and each episode usually has me tear up at some point for no particular reason other than the fact that I've been along for the ride this whole time. Kevin, you really don't understand how amazing your videos are and how deeply they touch many of your viewers. Thank you for doing this. I can't express that enough.
I'm actually glad you included Sally Rand. She made a significant contribution in increasing attendance of the fair. The Lady Godiva part of her act actually was only an illusion involving a body stocking. I believe the 4 arrests in one day included, the actually fan dance, the Lady Godiva ride and being body painted by Max Factor Sr. who was demonstrating his new makeup. She also invented the Bubble dance which allowed her to perform outdoors were wind was a difficultly. In the mid-2000s there was a museum located in the Barnard Tour Home in St. Joseph, MO dedicated to Rand.
I think I appreciated that Defunctland took his time and effort on researching and providing something that we weren't taught in school. He deserved a metal for putting out a video like this.
Several fairs going back to 1878 used a plaster-based building material called staff that was essentially stucco that was applied over a wooden frame. It looked like stone, but was meant to be temporary. At one of the fairs (I can't remember which) it was so temporary that some of the buildings had holes in them even before the fair closed.
LazyComicGamer231 - All I could think of... Electro: "What is my purpose?" Electro's Inventor: "You smoke cigarettes for people's amusement." Electro: "... ... ... Oh no..." Electro's Inventor: "Welcome to the club."
This is great stuff! I have 24x36 reproduction posters from the 1933 and 1939 world's fairs posters in my living room. Some of the actual souvenirs from the fairs are very cheap to acquire on ebay and I have a large souvenir 'key' from the 1933 fair hanging on a wall too.
The more Kevin talks about how crazy the 20s-30s were ("...she was arrested 4 times in one day") the more i get the feeling that that era was just a real life Looney Tunes short
Pre-1950s Puritanized America was wild. You should hear some music from the '30s. Some of the lyrics are more wild than any Rap artist could come up with today.
Lugubriously It‘s a song from the Boondocks
Wrong way around. Looney Tunes was the 20s and 30s distilled into animated form.
Look up the guy who walked naked in Britain who did it as a sort of social commentary, he was arrested multiple times trying to walk from the south to the north of Canada completely naked.
@Lugubriously He isn't...but I am, NIGGA!
"Cutting edge materials such as plywood and asbestos" god I love this dry humor
He had me at the "ocean liner nearly identical" back and forth. Always love Kevin's writing
its asbestos can be!
@@fallingpetunias9046 Yeah, at first I'm like "ahhh, okay, all good then...Olympic served a full career so he's in safe hands..." THENNNN he does the whole "the ship identical to the Olympic in every way" and I go "crap..." 😑😣
😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂
@@christopheralthouse6378 "in 1929" oh boy
think they forgot bakelite
My grandfather visited this fair and wrote later that it was the only good thing about living in Chicago in the 1930s.
...The exhibit he singled out in particular was the demo of television at the Hall of Science, which was pretty much the first time many people ever saw an operating TV (there were experimental broadcasts before World War II, but it wasn't really a mass consumer product until the war was over).
@@MattMcIrvin tvwas at the 1933 expo? I know that it was in new york in 1939 but i never knew it was in chicago. Ps, my grandma, grandpa 2 aunts and my uncle attended the 1964 worlds fair
@@sominboy2757 Yes, the Century of Progress exhibition, 1933-34.
@@sominboy2757 ...the system exhibited in 1939 was much more advanced, an electronic system from RCA: www.earlytelevision.org/worlds_fair.html
My grandpa was there too, lived in Chicago his whole life! We have some cool trinkets and later in his life he became friends with sally rand (she was much older than him)
I love how Defunctland went from "Hey, let's build a virtual amusement park filled with old rides from the 80s" to "Hey, let's make an entire comprehensive history of amusement parks in general through the form of a beautifully made docuseries!"
For real, huge fan, keep up the excellent research ^_^
The Spinach Inquisition
Hopefully one day the VR Park is made, with rides from across time.
That was unexpected.
@@Ken15643 No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
@@EricDMMiller I don't think it was dumb.. I'm only 20, but like I grew up with The Jaws ride, and Disney Quest and some of the earlier stuff he covered, it was cool to see them get some attention.
@@Jishere232 I liked the early idea as well but I’m glad for the broad examination of amusement park history too. Also that full length documentary on Halyx was freaking beautiful.
I’d love to see some more spotlights on individual “defunctland virtual park attractions too though. That individual
Spotlight on rides that are now gone really gives insight on said amusement park and it’s direction at that snapshot in time
The statement that the smoking robot only lacked a heart and a brain implies that it DID have bones, muscles, intestines, lungs, etc. and was, in fact, a disgusting meat puppet encased in a shiny metal shell.
In this essay, I will
Sounds like an IB essay.
No, you're reading way too much into it. There's a whole backstory. The clip is from a 1939 film called The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair and may be watched or even downloaded from here archive.org/details/middleton_family_worlds_fair_1939
Running time is under an hour.
Bite his shiny metal ass....
@@FIREBRAND38 that's a video of a meatboy with metal skin
Reminds me of a certain antagonist from a certain 3rd instalment of a certain indie horror game series
I feel like robots that can smoke cigarettes is about as roaring 20s as you can get
It could only be more 20s if it had a Tommy gun and went "Nyeah ,see?"
There was a weird fascination with humans being replaced by robots in newspaper-article futurism of the 1920s and 30s. The articles always described "mechanical men" as an imminent thing even though there wasn't even really such a thing as an electronic computer in use. The Paleo-Future blog kept coming up with more and more examples of these articles. I'm guessing it was really a response to industrialization and the assembly line.
But they’ll get it iron lung!
I never trusted them Androids......
@@MattMcIrvin people have a way of overestimating technological progress in certain areas. The same thing happened with VR in the 90s. We thought that everyone would be living in a virtual world by now. See: Lawnmower Man, Virtuosity, Johnny Pneumonic, Ghost in the Shell, Thirteenth Floor, eXistenZ etc. etc. etc. And we did it with the internet to a certain degree, when you look back you see people looked at "cyberspace" in an almost mystical way. The internet did take off like a rocket, but it didn't play out like the cyber fantasies of the 90s.
Is there anything we look at right now in that way? Something everyone thinks is on the verge of taking over our lives in some crazy way? I can't think of anything off the top of my head. Maybe some people think VR has a second chance to make our cyber dreams come true lol? I have a Vive, it's cool but not quite there. Maybe if they can make it profitable enough to keep making for a few more generations it'll get there though. Hey, we got Half Life: Alyx coming!
“Over 350,000 visitors showed up for the fair’s closing”
*Well that’s nice..*
“..and then proceeded to ransack it.”
*oh.*
Hey, I mean, it was meant to be temporary anyways...
Shouldn't have let in a certain demographic
Bender showing up about 1,070 years earlier than expected
Actually it was his ancestor Jebediah Ulysses Bender the Third.
There's an episode where bender is able to travel back in time.
Bite my roaring 20 s stock investing ass
Damn Professor built another time machine!
You got it, Meatbag!!
Sally Rand: gets arrested for public indecency 3 times in one day
Sally Rand: watch me do it again
not only that, but im fairly certain her first performance was supposed to be her as lady godiva lmao
I wonder if it was the same cop each time. If so, I might tend to suspect that he was just lonely.
Her fans: shut up and take my money!
Legend
BWHAHAHA 🤣🤣
"We built this robot to smoke cigarettes!"
Gotta love the time period.
ye
Isn’t that just bender?
a *voice controlled* robot no less...
"Science finds, industry complies, man conforms." Well, so much for making science sound less dystopian.
"Hey we need an attraction"
"you know thermometers"
"yeah"
"lets do a real big one"
"dope"
"also, a robot that smokes"
“we also need a sky ride”
“thing that files right?”
“yes”
How many lives could have been saved if that robot also demonstrated the effects of smoking?
@@jenniferstine8567 that robot looked cool as hell so it definitely demonstrated the effects of smoking.
@@coolethan2772 but in the 1920s smoking was good for you
“You know those goblin creatures?”
“Smidgens, right?”
“Somethin’ like that. Anyways let’s make a “to-scale” village full of em’”
“Brilliant”
I love how the description of the "midget village" has no hint of judgement in the script, but clear condemnation in your voice.
I should not have laughed as hard as I did at "to scale"
I saw a modern version of one in a documentary clip year back, but the difference is that this was built by little people for little people. It was a community for little people who wanted to live somewhere where everything was accessible and they could exist in public without being any kind of an oddity. The world's fair version was obviously nothing like that.
@@AbsolXGuardian So basically The Shire
But condemning is still a judgment of sorts
@@SqualidsargeStudios Yes. In his voice but not in the script. I liked the way he did that.
17:20. Ah yes, just fuel leaking out of the car. Everyone gather round, haha so silly.
Say, does anyone have a smoke? No? What about that dame over there going to fetch some? I don't see her in the kitchen, so she must be free. (in old timey newsreel voice)
I actually assumed it would be water leaking from the radiator, as it was coming from the front, and those old-timey cars having a cap for the radiator around the nose area easily accesible.
Water coming from the radiator
Now that’s a thumbnail if I’ve ever seen one
"It is possible that he died from pure grief, but it is possible that he died from either the colidus, the foot infection, diabetes, or the food poisoning, or speculative a combination of any of those four things."
More of this type of humor and writing please, it's hilarious.
put your bets down below
Kevin seems to use this humor p frequently
This was so unexpected and funny I loved it
*colitis
In the early 60's and mid forever
Two minutes in and already laughing! "It was either all these reasons or the grief. But probably all those reasons"
The grief probably didn't make it any easaier for him to *fight* those things, but yeah they way he put it had me laughing too. Still, the poor SOB got hammered!
this reminded me of the line from MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS. IT WASNT THE DYM MAK THAT WAS KILLING LYN, AND IT WASNT THE CANCER, HE WAS DYING OF A BROKEN HEART.... AND MAYBE THE CANCER AS WELL
When your event fails after only 7 million people attend
*sad businessman nosies*
When your audience is ~ 2 BILLION people (world fair, remember), yes only managing to attract seven million is a failure.
Business...business never changes
@@Shenaldrac Yes, but back then, global travel wasn't as easy and cheap as it is now (despite all the modern security procedures that started in the 1970s, as air travel became more widespread and available to those not of the upper-class "jet set".) Cripes, some people were barely out of the middle ages when airports came to their towns - they weren't about to have either the money nor the inclination to go to some exotic, far-off land to see some "county fair" (or whatever the local equivalent might be.) And travel by ship was expensive and slow, more for one-way immigration than for tourism. And I suspect that the concept of car rental wasn't a thing until credit cards were.
@@Shenaldrac If you think the audience was literally every living human on the planet, I don't know what to say. Even if it were to be done today that still wouldn't be true. You'd struggle to claim even a quarter of the people on Earth today could make it to an arbitrary location, let alone almost a century ago in the middle of the worst financial crisis ever.
I like the bold direction towards very historic attractions this season, and not just sticking with gaudy 90's relics
Agreed!!!!
Yes! I love these very early ones. Really telling of their era's cultures!
A true look at Americana
Same. These are MUCH more interesting if you ask me.
Yes! I honestly like these better. I still love the previous seasons so much but these feel like a fun documentary, unlike the ones on TV that tend to be a little dry and boring. The Perj is really the man for the job on these
"Science finds the way, industry applies, and man conforms."
Actually having this as a slogan is piping-hot insanity,
This video was probably really interesting but I got completely clotheslined and sidetracked when you told me Westinghouse built a robot in the 30s whose primary function was to... smoke cigarettes.
A lot of people at that point felt they should have been spending more money on cigarettes, but you can only smoke so many packs a day. With the help of the robot you can double the pace at which you go through packs of cigarettes.
500 Cigarettes
The longest and most in depth Disney backstory ever.
Noy Telinú Disney plus should ask him for help on one of their specials 🥰🤩🥳
@barnacledreams747 A look at Season 2's Disney offerings would quickly be against the image Disney would want out of it.
I see what they're up to.
I really love this. You really should get Bob Iger for an interview about Walt Disney and if the rumors of corruption is true.
Just wait, man
The RMS Titanic... *emotional Titanic flute intensifies*
Kim Jong-un you should’ve been a passenger. You’d be famous!
Dosware Pictures r/rareinsults
Alcoon Slambag you failed at getting jokes. Did you think I would not know that UA-cam is banned in North Korea?
Kim Jong-un your grandfather was born the day the ship sank!
Alcoon Slambag yep. I’m sold. You’re the iceberg.
Kevin expects me to hear him say "Charles" and not hear "Charles entertainment cheese"
Don’t get me started
"Built with cutting edge materials, such as plywood. And asbestos." Note to self. Don't try to eat or drink while watching an episode of Defunctland.
Not me, already eating!
*Eating Hägen Daas ice cream*
Never woulda thought I’d hear the term “cutting edge” be used to describe fecking PLYWOOD
And especially don't eat plywood and asbestos
That was cutting edge at the time tbh
"Wait where is the Disney shoe-in?"
"Ah there it is"
"The bankrupt, crime-ridden, city was facing racial tension"
It makes me feel safe knowing that Chicago can stay the same for 100 years.
@uNnHkP8mza bruh it’s not tht dam bad😭we don’t get shot at as soon as we walk out the house man 💀
Man you're the best person I've ever seen when it comes to segues. "After all, it was the United States *in 1929.* What could possibly go wrong?" That had me on the edge of my seat even though I knew what happened. Actually it had me on the edge BECAUSE I did know. That transition made me connect everything but it still kept me captivated. Please keep doing what you're doing.
kanaya best troll
17:06 - I love how both the guy in the car and the commentator are having an amazing time while there's something pouring out of the engine and smoking.
Honestly, that might actually be from the water radiator. Not entirely sure, but the gas doesn't normally come from there
I’m learning so much from this season. This history is both enlightening and eerie, especially as someone who grew up in the shadow of Disney World via family employed there. It puts my own life history into some interesting perspectives.
The humor in this show is a very subtle, clever lampoon of historical events. It is the kind made for people like me.
Because you’re SOOoOOoO special
I'm currently enjoying the theme of the history of theme parks involving the Disney family this season. It was also fun to basically listen to a description/history of Epcot while listening to the different pavilions this World's Fair showcased
I knew it was inspired by worlds fairs but it’s insane to see just how much carried over. Too bad the smoking robots never caught on at EPCOT
YES! I was stunned at how much this sounded like EPCOT Center. I think this fair in particular must have been a huge influence on the imagineers, even if subconsciously so.
I kept waiting for Kevin to make the EPCOT references. Absolutely BRILLIANT for him to silently let us make the connections.
“I guess all he lacks is a heart”
“Well he’s not the only one”
Someone call the goddamn hospital! This woman just got 4th degree burns!
There's a whole backstory. The clip is from a 1939 film called The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair and may be watched or even downloaded from here archive.org/details/middleton_family_worlds_fair_1939
Running time is under an hour.
@@FIREBRAND38 thanks for the treasure
Wasn't it the stone cold man who got burned?
Bro was a certifed S Class Hater!
"A real marvel, the world's largest thermometer. Sponsored by Havoline, the oil for all seasons." So less about making actual sense, more about making people go "WTF is that?"...ok.
Advertising has barely changed in almost a century. Got it.
Lapiz Anders - The fact that he never assures us that the gigantic thermometer was NOT filled with mercury... 😰
@@wolphintv The fact that it was red means that it was most-assuredly a variety of alcohol or aldehyde.
Did it work though
A thermometer makes perfect sense for a producer of fossil fuels.
No wonder the fair went over well. They had the world's largest thermometer! I mean, it's no world's largest fork and knife, but y'know.
You’re going to trigger nightmares about being slain by the big thermo
Just a spoonful
“In 1929”
Me: What a twist !!!!
Hi Might Very twisty!
Roaring 20s into Dirty 30s
Pepsi twist!
Other UA-cam: Drama, controversies, all out war.
ThemeparkTube: Doing voice over and script supervising for each other's videos. (I see you in the credits, Rob!)
I don't remember how I found this channel, but once I found it, i couldn't stop watching. This channel is fantastic!
"Science finds the way, industry applies, and man conforms." Wow that motto takes a real Orwellian turn towards the end there, lol.
Science hurts people
*Technocracy Inc intensify*
I'm noticing a theme with this season. We seem to be following around some guy named "Walt". ;)
You must be new....
Ddub1083
You missed the sarcasm??
Josh Green Whitman
Walt Lantz! DUHHHHHHHHHHH!
As opposed to last season where we followed a dude named Mike Eisner and his many failings.
Misread that title as "the fear that changed America" and thought this channel was gonna get super dark for a minute
“The fear that changed America” sounds like a great title for a Cold War documentary.
That's saved for the Eisner chapter
"Dawes sought to combine industry and science--"
Me, a Chicagoan: Science AND Industry you say? Perhaps a whole museum's worth?
Portlanders: (nodding approvingly)
By far my favorite museum in the city.
This channel better not die. This is one of the best documentary channels on UA-cam!
(Edit also this should be in Disney plus! If COPPA/FTC takes this channel down)
OH MY WAFFLE THANKS FOR THE LIKES!!
I swear all the big social sites are doing everything they can to make people hate using them
Maswartz226 probably
@@Maswartz226 what we need to really do is not point the guns at youtube but at nbc,abc,cbs,fox,viacom,turner ect. They found out we ran away from them and they think we owe them back payment for cable and broadcast tv's falling viewership over the past decade so theyre ruining the ACTUAL entertainment the people want.
@@sominboy2757 I'm not just talking about youtube, I'm also referring to tumblr driving everyone away last year by banning adult content.
@@Maswartz226 I can answer you on why that happened. Legislature hit. I'll need to cycle through my media law class documents, but a bill was passed and Tumblr clearly didn't want a lawsuit concerning nudity/sexual content. All in all, blame some parts of the government, mainly FTC, Ajit Pai, and FCC
You know it’s bout to go down when Your notification bell goes off. A future with 2 year old smoking robots and a giant thermometers are a future I want to live in.
Electro (the smoking robot) also had a dog named Sparko and I have seen them in person, as they are both currently displayed at a museum in Mansfield Ohio.
Does the dog smoke
*THEY GAVE A CIGARETTE TO A TWO YEAR OLD?!*
Diego Mandujano *YOU’VE BEEN GIVING PEPSI TO CHILDREN?!?*
@@DoswarePictures 🤦🏻♀️Things go better with Coca-Cola
In those days many people thought that smoking was good for you.
Bender Rodriguez: Precocious little scamp, wasn't I?
it's fine, it comes already with an iron lung.
Wow. I didn't even realize most of this technology was available in the 1920s. I thought it was all more recent than that. Thank you for enlightening me :)
Plywood? Asbestos?
Those are sure some "Cutting Edge" materials...
Cuts your hands and your lungs!
My gosh, the newsreel opening with Disney Dan was perfect XD
Really loving the narrative of these videos this season!
Good golly, that newsreel is right entertaining! Bang up job, Kevin, ole pal!
1930's: Wow imagine asbestos in buildings!
1990's: Wow the cost of removing asbestos is incredible!
1930's: Innovative plywood
Now: "Damn cheap plywood! What happened to quality!"
The 1933 worlds fair in Chicago trying to be successful:
The Great Depression: I’m about to end this mans whole career
Nobody
Australian Emus: THATS some nice farmland would be a *shame* if something ruins it
The World before 1929, just trying to exist
The Great Depression : Im about to end everybodys whole carrer
They finally had a big comeback with the 1939 World’s Fair. The future was really bright; nothing bad could happen in the next few years… 😂
My Superstar Limo and Rocket Rods changed America
Michael Eisner the only thing from you that would possibly change America would be Glen Marten DDS Season 2.
How was Indiana jones
"Federated women hear talk on uses of clothing" I love old-timey headlines.
Seasons 1 + 2: Eisner saga
Seasons 3: Pre-1953 periodical.
Accurate.
I swear this video has taught me more Chicago history than I have ever learned in grade school. It’s weird because the world fair is rarely mentioned unless the murders are brought up. Anyways, great video!!
Has Ken Burns taped your shoulder about creating a mini series with him? I interned for Ken Burns up in New Hampshire.
Yes! Kevin should definitely intern with Ken! The mannerisms in documentary film making are similar between the two men.
Kevin gets so sassy and I love it
"Pabst Blue Ribbon casino"
To picture what that would look like if it existed today.
My grandparents spent their honeymoon at the 1939 World's Fair in NYC. My Grandmother had grown up in Chicago and my grandfather not far away, so it was a familiar concept. I never asked, but I'll bet they probably had been to one in Chicago.
The tie in for Disney at the end is so cool to see the impact the event had on him.
The Disney now isn’t the same as then. It’s cool to see that even with all of his shortcomings Walt really did make magic.
Reminds me of the Japanese storytellers who were inspired by Disney movies to make light boxes and street performances during the recovery period and led to the creation of modern Anime
I love how all these episodes focus on not only very interesting aspects of American history, but also how those aspects inspired Walt Disney into making the Theme Parks we know and love today. I definitely felt heavy EPCOT vibes from this episode.
"All he lacks is a heart."
"He's not the only one."
WHOA. Can this dude not enjoy the chainsmoking robot for one second tho?
My great grandfather was a night watchman for Pullman at the 33-34 worlds fair and I haven’t seen such good coverage of it until now. Thank you very much!
I'm gonna be real here, this is probably the best channel on this whole site. And this might be the best documentary series ever produced.
You can definitely see the fair's influence on Tomorrow Land!! Clear as day!
the worst thing about worlds fairs is they were so temporary should’ve been longer
Roy Disney in 1982: *hold my beer*
Stoney3K The 1082 World’s Fair sucked serious ass.....
This should be on Disney+. A perfect set of documentaries on Disney rides and beyond😃
nothing should be on disney plus because disney plus should not exist
Just have to edit out anything that says anything negative about the Disney empire. Season 2 would be edited to about 5 minutes long.
Squidbuddy99 mainly because of EISNER
Btw, has anyone checked out The Imagineering Story?
@@benabramowitz18 it's great!
I remember my grandmother showing me some tickets and leaflets she had kept from the Century of Progress. I wonder what ever happened to those relics.
I love the newsreel opening
Between the Jim Henson series and this new season, I never thought that a channel I started watching because "Action Park is morbid and hilarious" would be my most anticipated updates. Love what you guys are doing and, if I had to guess, it was probably the grief, not the other four things.
I'm glad to be living the future. I can't imagine being excited over a smoking robot.
I know it's not much, but I got super excited seeing the sculpture around the 10 minute mark simply because that was my high school mascot. The original sculpture and those plaques all ended up in a school I went to and it makes me happy.
Fun fact for everyone perusing through the comments: There is one exhibit hall still standing from the 1933 World's Fair, the Museum of Science and Industry. It sits in one of the few remaining buildings from the 1893 World's Fair. And it is the only building still standing in its original spot. All other have either been moved to another part of Chicago or to another state entirely!
Kevin, I would love if you would consider giving this same kind of 'treatment' to Expo 67 held in Montreal. There were certainly many unique things about this World's Fair including: Habitat and La Ronde. Thanks
Your voice will go down as a legend.
I still thoroughly believe this is the most well researched and entertaining educational channels on UA-cam and each episode usually has me tear up at some point for no particular reason other than the fact that I've been along for the ride this whole time. Kevin, you really don't understand how amazing your videos are and how deeply they touch many of your viewers. Thank you for doing this. I can't express that enough.
“not as a villain nor as a bystander...” “...but as its hero” Oh the irony
"The recreation of a city, quote, 'To Scale'" I am in stitches
"Science finds
Industry applies
Man conforms"
Sounds very Orwellian
Man Revolts.
"A man chooses, a slave obeys."
I guess Bioshock had to get it from somewhere.
The entire fair was an exercise in manufacturing consent so in many respects despite all of the glitz and glamour, it was *very* Orwellian.
This new episode of Walt Disney: The Origins looks awesome as always
THIS SEASON OF DEFUNCTLAND IS SO GOOD, WELL DONE KEVIN!
Love the Episode intro this time round, can't wait to watch the whole thing. Great as always Kevin!
I'm actually glad you included Sally Rand. She made a significant contribution in increasing attendance of the fair. The Lady Godiva part of her act actually was only an illusion involving a body stocking. I believe the 4 arrests in one day included, the actually fan dance, the Lady Godiva ride and being body painted by Max Factor Sr. who was demonstrating his new makeup. She also invented the Bubble dance which allowed her to perform outdoors were wind was a difficultly. In the mid-2000s there was a museum located in the Barnard Tour Home in St. Joseph, MO dedicated to Rand.
I was half expecting you to say that Walt Disney was on the Titanic during that intro
"But the message never reached him...because he was murdered by a man by the name of ...Walt Disney"
The amount of sass in this episode was fantastic!!
I think I appreciated that Defunctland took his time and effort on researching and providing something that we weren't taught in school. He deserved a metal for putting out a video like this.
Keep up such the great production value. Time and time again I am reminded on why this is one of my favorite youtube channels. Bravo
Several fairs going back to 1878 used a plaster-based building material called staff that was essentially stucco that was applied over a wooden frame. It looked like stone, but was meant to be temporary. At one of the fairs (I can't remember which) it was so temporary that some of the buildings had holes in them even before the fair closed.
So I'm in Ypsilanti Michigan at a laundromat. And a guy just walked in with your defunctland hoodie. Fucking awesome!
I love how season 3 of defunct Land in in crongoogicl order and how everything fits together
Just looking at this whole "robot smoking" thing reminds me of those Hamlet Cigars ads...
If you can take look at the "Jimmy Corrigan" graphic novel, it features one of the most beautiful -and sad - renditions of the Chicago World Fair.
ahh yes who can forget those smoking robots who lack a heart and brain! always something interesting on this channel.
LazyComicGamer231 - All I could think of...
Electro: "What is my purpose?"
Electro's Inventor: "You smoke cigarettes for people's amusement."
Electro: "... ... ... Oh no..."
Electro's Inventor: "Welcome to the club."
Of course it doesn't have a brain! It's only goal in creation was smoking. The lack of heart just was a representation of Big Tobacco.
I love this series' ability to tie history and entertainment in such an interesting way.
It's clear how much work goes into these videos, especially this one, and I'm just here to say that it doesn't go unnoticed, and thank you :)
I really enjoy Defunctland, these small documentaries are fun to watch on the way to or from work.
“Boy, was I fooled!”
This is great stuff! I have 24x36 reproduction posters from the 1933 and 1939 world's fairs posters in my living room. Some of the actual souvenirs from the fairs are very cheap to acquire on ebay and I have a large souvenir 'key' from the 1933 fair hanging on a wall too.
"All he lacks is a heart."
"Well, he's not the only one."
Can a man just enjoy his primitive underage smoking robot in peace?