GENERAL MOTORS EXHIBITS 1939 NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR & GOLDEN GATE INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION XD12704
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This is a 1930’s era black and white movie about General Motors exhibits at the San Francisco and New York World’s Fairs of 1939-1940. It opens with an image of the San Francisco World’s Fair, better known as the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939-1940. Science exhibits of General Motors in the Vacationland building :36. Various auto exhibits, :42. Pontiac’s shock absorber display, :48. GM Research display featuring AC Sparkplugs 1:04. Lucite demonstration, 1:12. An egg is cooked on a high frequency stove, 1:21. Exhibit on how GM technology has contributed to the economic well-being of the nation, 1:45. 13,800,000 jobs created, 1:56. New York, 2:06. New York World’s Fair General Motors showcase venue, 2:16. Highways and Horizons exhibit, 2:19. Locomotive powered by GM’s diesel engines, 2:31. Tilting turntable shows underside of a 1939 Oldsmobile, 2:40. GM engine on display, 2:48. Allison aviation engine, 3:02. Murals show how diesel engines are being used, 3:20. Frigidaire. Gigantic microscope shows tiny organisms on a huge screen, 3:50. A clear plastic car shows how the body is constructed, 3:57. Exhibit shows what happens in the combustion chambers of a running motor, 4:16. 2 Chevrolets standing side by side, 4:34. 1913 car versus 1939 model, 4:40. Crowds line up to see the exhibit, 4:57. People walk through a dim chamber on their way to the Futurama exhibition 5:15. Futurama was an exhibit and ride at the 1939 New York World's Fair designed by Norman Bel Geddes, which presented a possible model of the world 20 years into the future (1959-1960). The installation was sponsored by the General Motors Corporation and was characterized by automated highways and vast suburbs. Panorama of the countryside, 5:37. Highways of the future are depicted, 6:24. Bridges between mountains, 6:55. Large dam, 7:13. Four tier suspension bridge, 7:30. Snow clad peaks house a highway and observatory, 8:00. Large city is laid out, 8:17. Aerial view of the city, 8:45. People leave the exhibit, 9:05. General Motors Highways and Horizons is the hit of the NY World’s Fair, 9:32. A Sound Masters Production.
The Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) (1939 and 1940), held at San Francisco's Treasure Island, was a World's Fair celebrating, among other things, the city's two newly built bridges. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened in 1936 and the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937. The exposition opened from February 18, 1939, through October 29, 1939, and from May 25, 1940, through September 29, 1940.
The 1939-40 New York World's Fair was a world's fair held at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York, United States. It was the second most expensive American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. Many countries around the world participated in it, and over 44 million people attended its exhibits in two seasons. It was the first exposition to be based on the future, with an opening slogan of "Dawn of a New Day", and it allowed all visitors to take a look at "the world of tomorrow".
When World War II began six months into the 1939 World's Fair, many exhibits were affected, especially those on display in the pavilions of countries under Axis occupation. After the close of the fair in 1940, many exhibits were demolished or removed, though some buildings were retained for the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair, held at the same site.
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There were two dueling World's Fairs in 1939.
The New York one was officially recognized by the Bureau Of International Expositions. The San Francisco fair wasn't.
An updated version of the GM "Futurama" was featured at the company' exhibit at the 1964 New York World's Fair.
Thank you for the look into the future passed.
1960 is going to be amazing.
1960 sure turned out great.
Yes, and the push for these new roads destroyed old neighborhood (never to be resettled) and even more slums of forgotten people!
The 1960's really pushed for these new highways to be built, and cutting right through many a quite city block.
Well, so much for future planning.
Kinda like Popular Mechanics saying we’d all fly to work.
Traffic jams and parking lots at WalMart are bad enough!
I love this old stuff
1:34 - surprised that never caught on!
Microwave (ovens)
I wonder what’s being promoted at current trade fairs that we’ll look back on and laugh...like most everything from these old World Fairs?
That was Awesome 👍🏻
THEY DIDN'T SHOW BEATLEMANIA OF THE 60'S.
These old futurists always seemed to assume that in the future, societal progress would somehow become more planned and less market-driven. Their visions of smart, efficient, life-enrichening solutions weren't always the most profitable and if not, weren't the path taken.
And the odd thing, this happened in the middle of anti-Communist hysteria.
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104well that is interesting. These good-for-society solutions are more of a Socialist outlook.
And they were being promoted by Capitalist corporations.
Definitely some elements that were left out of the concept of what a “utopian” environment might look like 20 years into the future. I’ll leave it to your imaginations as to what those elements are.
The clothes from the real 1960 were certainly much uglier than those from 1939.
That stove technology we STILL don't have. I was amazed at that, they use that tech with hot rollers but not stoves. Wonder why?? Did the military take it?? Was it a Tesla invention?? Makes you wonder
and just think what happened in just two years later in 1941
Congestion has been eliminated. Nope. Light rail would need to be built to achieve that goal.
Hey guys. You hear that? Congestion doesnt exist in the year 1960 and beyond. Sure glad we got that to look forward to. What?
But nobody has an iPhone.
Interesting idea in the city where cars drive below ground and pedestrians are at ground level.
One can see how the USA became so opposed to involvement in 'overseas' wars given how wonderful their future was as portrayed in this movie. It looks so great, as long as you are white middle class, of course. Thankfully, Roosevelt saw through this propaganda. Then the war became very much 'not overseas' and reality made a 'home coming' big style!
Optimistic futurism. How painful.
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I didn’t realize plastic was in use at that time!
Spider mite 805
It was very very expensive I heard and it was in the titanic hand rails back then
William E Thank you!
Bakelite was invented in 1907.
The miracle of fossil fuels.
Indeed. What could possibly go wrong?
@@jacksons1010 ,
For one, the mass hysteria against the consumption of fossil fuels. Two, ignoring the facts such as the discovery and consumption of fossil fuels prevented the extinction of most of the whales of the oceans, the 90% drop in global poverty and starvation and the doubling of the human lifespan to name just a few.
And, before you go on a irrational rant about atmospheric C02, let me add that, in the past, it has been warmer with lower levels of C02 in the atmosphere.
C02 = LIFE. Plants thrive on C02. C02 is making the Earth greener.
@@libertyforever4270 Nothing irrational about facing the consequences of increased CO2 in the atmosphere. The assertion that there were similar levels of CO2 in the distant past ignores what the Earth was like in those times...better suited to dinosaurs than humans.
CO2 = disruption of the water cycle. You've got your head in the sand, if you think that will make the Earth a better place.
@@jacksons1010 ,
Your little brain is made of a few grains of sand. You completely misread my reply to your reply to my initial comment.
You are drinking the "climate emergency" Koolade pretty early this day, eh, JJ?
Liberty Forever Your rude and ignorant reply confirms that I did not misread you in the slightest. You’re an idiot climate change denier; not worth any more of my time.
Indoctrination situation ... (smh)
America sure was awesome before diversity...
Shut up you old racist