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- Опубліковано 7 січ 2016
- Narrated by Gene Wilder, EXPO - Magic of the White City brings the Chicago World’s Fair to life. Experience the world of 1893 through a cinematic visit to Chicago’s Columbian Exposition.
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Nearly 28 million people visited the Fair. Dubbed the “White City,” it inspired future innovators like Henry Ford and Frank Lloyd Wright, unveiled the Ferris Wheel and Cracker Jack®, and, in many ways, marked the beginning of the 20th century. Many of the era’s greatest achievements in science, technology and culture were unveiled there. The grounds were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, famous for his design of New York City’s Central Park, and constructed under the supervision of Daniel Burnham.
The Fair was an engineering marvel. On opening day, President Grover Cleveland depressed a golden telegraph key which sent the first courses of electricity throughout the Fair powering fountains, machines, electric railways and thousands of lights. It was the first use of electricity on such a massive scale.
In addition, fairgoers enjoyed the Midway Plaisance where a one-mile boulevard of fun offered camel riding and guilty pleasures such as belly dancing, street fighting and beer drinking. Against the backdrop of 1893’s troubles with workers’ rights, prejudice, discrimination and corruption, the World’s Columbian Exposition cast a brief ray of hope for the future of humanity.
Filmed in spectacular High-Definition, EXPO - Magic of the White City immerses viewers in one of the world’s biggest extravaganzas and one of the most unforgettable events in American history. There will never be another event like it… or will there? - Розваги
I live in Chicago and grew up on the south side. When I was a kid Mom would take us to Jackson Park where the great fair was held. I remember touching the golden statue of Columbia (the stone base), visiting the Science and Industry Museum one of the permanent fair buildings, and Wooded Island. H.H.Holmes Murder Hotel is now the site of a post office where I used to buy stamps from. I even own a thick guide book printed in 1893 at the Fair! How I wish I could travel back in time I would visit that fair if I could. Would have been great to have watched one of those old baseball games too.
Fred C. Wilson III did u see the land before they built it? Some say it was all there already, built by another civilization. I wonder how they would hide it prior to the worlds fair...
Colts played at Taylor and Damen
Will you take the time to scan and upload a pdf of the booklet you have? We don't want it burning down in a mysterious fire like everything else from the old world
@@melissapace6794 'Mud Flooders' (the 'some' who say) do not consider truth.
The narrator's voice is so soothing. He is still missed.
Especially when he says "Chicago"
What a marvelous documentary.
It's Gene Wilder
I'm born and raised in Chicago, and thanks to my parents, since I was a kid, I had extreme interest in the 1893 and 1933 Chicago World's Fairs, as I ended up working for 10 years for architects as a draftsman. I thought this documentary was the most detailed so far. A lot of photos included here I have never before seen. A great job by those involved, and a bonus that Gene Wilder narrated it. RIP Gene, epic comedian from Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Stir Crazy, etc., movies I grew up with. One suggestion, I would have liked to see a segment on the thousands of souvenirs that this fair produced. The 1893 Columbian half dollar, the first ever US commemorative coin, and the 1893 Columbian US postage stamp series, the first ever commemorative stamp series, for example, would have been a great starting point, considering souvenir spoons, postcards, tokens, medals, ticket stubs, etched glassware, and more, are in Chicago family collections to this day, including my own family. A fantastic documentary, thanks for sharing.
What about the Moors, they surrender Spain in 1491, the year before Columbus said on his recon mission.
Is it possible this was already here. Same architectural designs.
Just saying.
@Mikejk Smith ua-cam.com/video/d_dHMV6umCs/v-deo.html
It was all belonged to the tartarian empire and some were kept for fedral use and goverment buildings
good info. Thank you.
That is how propaganda work, 😉
Superb documentary that somehow slipped under the radar. Excellent research, fine writing and the mellifluous voice of the wonderful Mr. Wilder, married to first class images and graphics. Congratulations to everyone involved in this impressive production. And for a Chicagoan, that is high praise indeed.
Joseph Malham u
you actually believe this? Think again... ua-cam.com/video/d_dHMV6umCs/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/mpBhbfoVNGI/v-deo.html
This one is good and exposes the lies. So so so many lies we've been told.
@@johnpeel6088 Exactly!!!! Just like Salt Lake City and San Francisco.....2 years to make all this??? What a joke.
Moron you believe this nonsense rubbish was a temporary city 🤣
If I could go back in time, this would be the first place I would go!
Laura Ashley Thomson You might want to avoid staying at the Murder Castle, ran by "H.H. Holmes". You can check out but you can never leave.
Me too :)
I agree 100 percent, however I have another plan to get there....
@@rimshot2952 It's official name was The World's Fair Hotel. So avoid. Bad reviews on Trip Advisor. Of the ones who managed to leave.
Why would they take this all down? Seems like big waste of talent and time.{as well as resources.}
Watching this makes me realize mankind is devolving.
Ripcord ai will be the end of it all. ive seem babies trying to minimize something on a book as if it were a phone....
Maybe if you buy the bullshit story they are trying to sell. They couldn't build all that in 2 years now. And it was a cardboard building why would anyone build that beautiful city just to tear it down. Even the shit fair grounds in Sacramento still stands Nd its shit.
Labor standards changed. You can build this when you have basically slaves working round the clock with no breaks, no insurance, no retirement, etc
#Derpvolving... :'(
No doubt. The band Devo knew it in the 80s.
Read the book "Exposing the Expositions."
This is one of the best films I ever found on the Chicago World's Fair. And Gene does a great job as the narrator I really enjoy seeing this one again and the book Devil in the White City thank you so much for posting this one.
That book also brought me here.
The book brought me here too.
@@Ozymandias1 Me too!
The book is an absolute must when leaning about that great exposition, from beginning to the tragic end.
Complete bullshit
Thank you for posting this. Annually I watch this as a remembrance of ingenuity. No longer shall I have to set up prime accounts!
You really get a sense for how far we have fallen watching this.
read Devil in the White City, they were living in litteral shit in 1893 and this was achieved by many many many underpaid laborers with zero health regulations. Don't forget that child labor was legal then too. The 1890s was litteral hell on earth where any street barber could call themself a doctor of medicine.
@@juliannehannes11 that child labor sure did create some amazing stuff
Would be a good thing to do in a bust depression of an economy. Are you a Communist or something? @@juliannehannes11
@@juliannehannes11 You're mistaking 1833 with 1893 pal
This is Unbelievable! The segment on the Mechanical Building and the Electrical Production of The Fair, starting at around 57:00, was mindbogglingly.....All accomplished on a temporary basis in an age before The Automobile.
Haha "temporary" you need to look at the thousand other "expos and worlds fairs" across the realm that all, somehow, temporarily built the same style mega-mega-ubermega grand grande palaces. Yet they couldn't even figure out how to build a friggin road into these "expos". Literal dirt roads with horse and cart showed up to marvel at these mythical temporary structures. The mega mega fountains alone would take a 3 city block power station to generate enough energy to operate. Don't be fooled by the shine, think of the logistics of raw materials alone, let alone there were film and cameras available world wide by 1870s, yet no "builders" wished to document such a grand scale construction project?
@@hawaiiguykailua6928 Not sure what you are contending....That this Never happened? That no Expos have occured? Is the Eiffel Tower a Hoax? Built by Aliens? The Ferris Wheel is an illusion?
As for this Columbian Exposition, it had a myriad of wonderful ways to arrive and enter the Fair. You could arrive by boat Via Lake Michigan. Trains and the "EL" could also bring you right to the Entrance. Or you could take the Greatest Mile long stroll through The Midway Plaisance and enter in Awe of the many cultures, foods, and entertainment Before you even entered The Fair Grounds.
@@hawaiiguykailua6928 you said it. The scale is incredible. Whomever truly built this and all the others all over the world designed & built them as a celebration of life.
Now it seems we despise life.
@@hawaiiguykailua6928 Founded or Found it?
Before the age of automobile ? 😂 Car races were already a thing by 1893
who else is here from Jon Levi's channel.
Stephanie B yup I am lol 😆
Me
Me too. And Im not byin’ it
Meee!!
Me .....Look at 10:12 into the doc, check out the ivy growing in side...That would have been difficult to do in the 18 months that it took to build the structure and then train ivy...
What a MARVEL this was...Just incredible. And Gene Wilder does a perfect job narrating..being there with us through it all...
Not a "marvel" but a repeated propaganda "expo" done a thousand times over across the realm from about 1885-1915. Somehow, the exact same millions of square ft per building, times 500-1,500 buildings per expo were "temporarily erected" and torn down after six months.
@@hawaiiguykailua6928 So this really bother you, don't it.
So tell me. What and where would would an event like this bee seen as positive, to you ?
@@yourmaninlondoncollecting5749 yes because its complete bullshit! Ugh
The question remains, if these buildings were real buildings on how the 1800s looked like, could there have been a "reset" to wipe out all traces of this time in history? Though what about the people, did they not paint photographs or orally share stories of this time period?
I live in the UK,about 20 houses built in 6 months where I live,and we are told this was all completed in 2 years.
You're havin a laugh as they say!
It is true
You do realized these are not normal buildings right?
Rabbit M. Not true. They were built from stone. The plaster narrative is a lie. And even if it was plaster, there’s no way they could do it in two years. Especially back then. The Chicago industrial museum is from the worlds fair
Exactly & the doubters will cling & fight this FACT. Why are they protecting/defending fake history? Confirmation bias much, for them? 😄
Hence the illustrations.. When photography would have been so important!! The pics that exist, lack people.
The White City is something that has yet to be duplicated today in it’s grandeur and enormity. And one record, set on “Chicago Day” (October 9th 1893) has yet to be surpassed anywhere to this day. 500,000 people commuted to the fair that day on the Illinois Central Railroad.
Gene Wilder’s narration was a compliment to this documentary about the White City.
1:32:17 This is soooo recognizable today. At every event nowadays there are exclusive vendors who offer food and beverages and you have to pay top prices, which are much higher than everywhere else. Nothing really has changed in this respect in over 125 years.
I found this to be the most believable part of the documentary
They didn't build jack. Those buildings were already there.
Thank you
Haha! No kidding!
You are schizophrenic
Correct!
No, they weren't.
You prefer fantasy to fact.
It’s hard to imagine that after 120 years parts of the world still don’t have electricity to run any of the machinery that was on exhibit there.
129, going on 130.
Amish don't want it.
Gene you bloody mad man , i have come to listen to you once more my old friend !
"2 hours? I guess I'll skim through it." (watches entire thing with mouth hanging open)
Right? lol . . . .
lol same
You're shocked that anyone would believe this garbage?
@@bipolatelly9806 I'm curious my friend: Why would you say this, if I may ask.
Scott Zuke 200 buildings built in 2-3 years. Nope.
The ferry tell naration of the narrator give this documentary a life. What a wonderful pice of work. That exhibition was one of the phenomenon of the 19th century. Hats of for the producers.
The "ferry tell" narration - a wonderful demonstration of America's bullshit boosterism!
Yes fairy tale narration I did feel like a child listening to an amazing story an adult was reading to me, Captivating for sure
One thing they got right, all of these influential people got their inspiration from this ancient city.
Not "ancient", built for the 1893 fair.
What an excellent documentary! If only such wonders could be assembled in today's America without serious risk of acts of terrorism, protests of "misplaced patriotism", and, perhaps most detrimental, millions of mindless individuals glued to their smartphones and refusing to take in the wonders surrounding them. Maybe in the future, as the narrator suggests, such a marvel of American grandeur and hope can rise from the ashes of this once mighty, unified nation.
Don't worry. Any "terrorism" will be staged like Boston and 911. Not a true threat
What color is the sky in your world NoPie? People who frequent fake news websites and repeat that spew are one of the reasons that humanity is still stuck in the dark ages. If you go around believing things without evidence all your life, you will never be able to move from your mom's basement.
People can go everyday to the Chicago Art Institute and see some of the worlds great art. People can board a plane and a few hours later be wandering the streets of ancient Rome. People can travel up to the north side of Chicago and eat at some incredible ethnic restaurants, head just south of downtown to Chinatown, eat in authentic Mexican restaurants in Pilsen. They can ride the massive new ferris wheel on Navy Pier with one of the best views of the city. Can enjoy a cocktail at the top of the Hancock building while observing the shadows of the nearby high rises stretching out across LSD into the lake. Over a million people gathered in Chicago last year to celebrate the Cubs World Series. Tens of thousands gather every year on the lake front for Lollapalloza. Hundreds of thousands line the lakefront for the Air and Water show every year.
For the people of this time, for most of them this was their one big event of wonder. We today have the ability to do far more than they ever realized, have far more wonder in our everyday world that doesn't need to be brought together for temporary exhibition. Don't let nostalgia for a temporary illusion supplant the wonders of what we have today people of that time would marvel at.
People gather all the time in huge crowds and small to take in the wonders and don't let fear of terrorism deter them. Because reality is that that is a infinitesimally tiny threat compared to the real dangers of everyday life that we don't let keep us from living, such as being more likely to be killed in a car accident than a terrorist event.
Khu NoPie you're fucked in the head!
@@charlesmurphy1510 Ah, the eloquence of the ignorant.
This fair definitely looks like predictive programming in some instances, amazing technologies on the other hand!
Yes, seems to be backing the main stream narratives, adding that walt Disney's father and the father of the guy who made wizard of Oz came to the fair. Also they show the largest lump of coal (pushing "fossil" fuel) and a telescope, pushing space. The fact that the whole thing is to celebrate the "Columbus discovered America" narrative. I also think the Tesla vs. Edison thing is somewhat of a narrative.
@@johningle1 The Columbus Day celebration is just an excuse. America just want to beat Paris world fair and used that day to make the fair.
@@johningle1 People market things. That's business.
Ahhh....you're getting warmer! Check out Jon Levi's UA-cam channel. He and others have a very interesting take on the Chicago world fair and other cities world fair's.
I really enjoyed this thank you. Its a shame they couldn't keep a few more remnants of the Exposition besides the Palace of fine arts
Or check out uap channel
@@wagonswest1 Truth. They had to erase the free energy technology left behind after they invaded so that they could better control their new world.
@@wagonswest1 Ridiculous crap.
@@SymphonyBrahms I bet you think the jab is not ridiculous crap tho 😮😂
How’s that clot shot now?
I was going to just watch a little bit of this but almost 2 hours later here I am.
Gene Wilder and Mark Bussler. What a great combo.
I just cant help but cry my ass off watching this
This kinda world won’t ever be again. 😞😣
& the manner of respect which people were like & lived like At this period could never happen again😢😭
Beautiful footage & so informative! Thanks so much for sharing this video! 👍👍👍👏🏼👌🏼❤️♥️😉✌🏼
This Was not a good time unless you were wealthy white and male
@@cruisepaige
@@cruisepaige Middle class white women didn't have it so bad.
I seen the letters and heard the stories of a female relitve.
Lived on her own, made her own money and moved from Medicine Hat Alberta to Vancouver BC.
Mom went to visit right before she died with my grandparents. ( mom was 12 or 13.) 1950.
You mean a kind of world where a guy like H. H. Holmes was able to construct a building right under everyone's nose that was designed for the purpose killing and disposing of bodies, most of which had traveled to Chicago because of the fair? He was well off and white BTW.
@@TinHatRanch That guy is a programmed slave of the deep state, he will just spout the propaganda he was thought by them
Art Galleries were often crowded with paintings like that in the 19th century. Look at old Parisian gallery photos in particular. They would have the paintings go clear up to the ceiling.
Tremendous documentary. I rarely romanticize the past but the vivid descriptions and Gene Wilder's eloquent narration makes me wish I could have been there to see it all.
That said I'm convinced the makers of this documentary purposely edited this at @1:48:00 to show the dancer "pouring one out" just as WIlder said Dahomeys (which I thought, at first, he said Da'homies). It's pretty funny when you think about it😂
built in two years????? seems impossible to comprehend
Yet it was done.
Profit is a powerful motivator and the Grand Fairs did rather well.
Walt Disney based a lot of Disneyland on his father's stories of The White City and it became one of his dreams to be featured in a world's fair one day, a dream that came true when he built The Carousel Of Progress with GE for the NYC World's Fair
This is bull-twang from beginning to end.
Julianne Hannes you look amazing with blonde hair in that red dress! Marilyn Monroeesque! 😍😍
Redpill Tj
Man, she’s got you hooked with a single look! It’s been over a year since she’s posted tho, so I doubt she’ll see this comment of yours for a hot minute, if ever.
(She also may already be taken mate, so...)
Seaside smiler Tj I
Julianne Hannes wizard of oz was also inspired by worlds fair
If I read the sources right, the Art Hall wasn't the only building to survive. The reproduction of the 'La Rabida' monastery, built as the Spanish entry to the fair was gifted to the city of Chicago after the event and today houses a children's clinic. Great documentary though!
The police horse stables on 63rd still there
@@daniellinehan63 So is the Museum building, the Shedd Aquarium building, and the colunms of Soldier Field.
Bravo! Everyone in this fantastic production of a pivotal chapter in my home town has given it their very best: talent, expertise, sensitivity, and love. And, just when it couldn't get any better, we have Gene Wilder to bless us with his brilliant narration, and most of all, his beloved and resonant voice.
I can tell that I am loving this already since I know someone who was there and that person is my great grandmothers great aunt and from what I know is that she had a good time and she brought home a teacup that she got at the expo and on the teacup the person who gave it to her wrote her name on it and my great grandmothers great aunts name was Maggie Deaner.
wow how did they build all this in 3 years? canals bridges magnificent structures! who actually built it? what type of man power did they need? even if it was made of plaster it was a remarkable achievement especially compared to today's modern cladded cubes and rectangles they call buildings
Watch and learn. There are books.
@@kmaher1424 Indeed.
Like the documentary says: lots of cheap labor. It was a veritable army of laborers who flocked there for 10 cents a day, no unions to maintain working standards or higher level wages. You can make miracles happen with cheap labor, whether it's the Panama Canal, the Great Wall of China or the Chicago's World Fair.
@@therexbellator Also, 1893 was decades into the industrial revolution with steel framed building technology having been pioneered during Chicago's rebirth following the 1871 fire.
Bc it was already there
Oh yes! I have finally found this documentary. Thank you for providing this great documentary.
Are you writing a book on this topic? You look familiar
Would have been so sweet to have been there
They just don't like that anymore.
if you're not white yea… if you're not then it would not be fun
Im just thankful i exist at all
This documentary is a great companion to The Devil In The White City, even though it doesn't even mention The Devil. I thoroughly enjoyed both the amazing pictures and the book.
Joseph Bourque I'm reading that right now lol
I hope you enjoy the book. I did, but many critics complained about the juxtaposition of the two main themes which didn't bother me at all.
The devil is H H Holmes
Yes, I know. I read the book first, the later saw your video which I thought was excellent. Thanks for your feedback.
That is one of my favorite books !
Well written, produced and narrated.
One of the best documentaries I've ever seen!! I thoroughly enjoyed it. Gene Wilder did such a great job narrating. RIP. Thank you uploading this.
Liz are you star struck? Time to wake up. Remember when your boyfriend lied to you. History is kinda like that. Once you realize it was all lies you get over it and move on. The white City and many others were here before the pilgrims got here. This entire continent like all continents have huge ancient cities. We are given the illusion that we are the advanced civilization. Do you really think they built the entire white City in under three years with horses, wagons, Shovels, picks and axes? Then everybody from from all over the Earth came to see it. Remember the old saying if it sounds to good to be true it probably isn't! That applies to this story as well.
@William Henderson You really know what you work for? From the bottom of the heart speaks the mouth
@@shealdedmon7104 I have NO idea what you're talking about!!!!
@@lizinwisconsin6728 It's a full load of claptrap known as 'Mud Flood' theory.
There are an ever increasing number of adult age idiots who actually believe the garbage 'Dedmon' is spouting as they absolutely reject all actual history and fact.
Believe it or not, there are also ever increasing quantities of fools who actually believe the Earth is flat.
Notice what he says about the columns around the 32 minute mark. Search the number of states in 1893. North Dakota wasn't even a state yet.
wow! amazing story truly one of the greatest.....
Just read Devil in the White City and I’m so Impressed on how the fair was ahead of its time
i heard it's gonna be a series!
Then there was the 1904 St Luis Worlds fair that was twice as big as Chicago's
Who? Where?
The civilized world... and some that weren't. **Shows picture of the Dutch.**
One other comment. Chicago Mayor Daley completely failed with the 2016 Olympics bid in 2007. Everyone living in the city knew it would fail right from the start. The infrastructure, like the public trains, the already crowded Kennedy and Eisenhower Expressways leading into the city, and the already crowded O'Hare Airport, failed the Olympics from the start. His legacy could have went on, had he properly designed a new, modern, Chicago World's Fair, in the same tradition as the 1893 and 1933 fairs. There was discussion about this topic in the talk radio and architecture community at this time, but was shot down quickly. Worlds Fairs seem to be a dead technology or idea in modern times, but I really believe it would have been something special here in Chicago.
it's so sad about the Ferris Wheel and Mr. Ferris
3 years to plan and build. I can't imagine how thats even possible.
it's not possible, the narrative surrounding these buildings doesn't add up
It's not possible. All fake history brought to you by the grand controllers to hide our past
Wood and plaster
Classic game room
agreed
So people really take this story at face value? Build an entire small city just to burn it all down? Riggghhhttt
Lol, he says the 48 columns represented the 48 states. I didn't know there were 48 states in 1893
An internet search showed me there were 44 states at that time. North Dakota became a state in 1989...any questions?
@@janetlwood656 nope. i think you covered it all janetl
I worked at MSI for three years. I can only imagine what it was like in all white. It's already so beautiful. It must have been amazing in 1893.
Simply a fantastic documentary.... never a dull moment!
Gene Wilder is perfect for this fantasy story. As honest as his Charlie and the Chocolate story...All fiction.
These buildings sound so academic. Today, we'd have the PlayStation Theater, Pepsi Zone, and the Monster Energy Court
Yeah it sounds just like the movie Idiocracy. It’s very scary.
Tik Tok Town
Wow what a great documentary, one of the most captivating and interesting I have ever watched. Gene Wilder is an amazing narrator and who ever wrote the story he told is one of the best. Bravo and thank you to all.
FRILLIANT! Thanks for this excellent perspective.
Why would anybody build something so magnificent, with architecture & buildings that were so magnificent that they rivaled the world's best, only to be torn down and wasted? A massive waste of money & resources for what? You couldn't even replicate that place with temporary materials, at that speed, with the technology of today. There were buildings that were considered the largest ever built at the time. Why not make all of this permanent for the world to marvel at forever? It makes no sense.
It was the Worlds fair....
This is a very interesting production !
please do a video on Expo 67 in Montreal. it was called Man and His World, represented Canada’s Centennial -1867/1967, and had incredible Googie and Brutalist architecture, in the form of Pavilions from almost every nation on earth. it was constructed on a man made island in the St Laurence river.
it was incredibly amazing and totally worthy of a video
if you would like, i have some of the official maps and photos of the park in its glory. the number of people who attended were many times greater than the entire population of Canada at the time.
I really enjoyed this documentary. It was informative and enlightening. I was sad when it was over. It felt as if I was truly there.❤
Very entertaining. Incredible photos. Fascinating commentary by Gene Wilder. I was totally entranced and charmed by this remarkable time capsule. Thank you for posting!
Looks more like the future than the past.
That was really, really, really good...
I've read Devil in the White City and I've watched this documentary and one other on this fair, and I still haven't heard or seen how in the world they handled all of the waste and sewage? Where were the "port-a-potties" for all of these tens-to-hundreds of thousands of people who attended the fair every day? Bathrooms?? If anyone really knows the answer to this, I'd appreciate knowing it.
They used the Tartarian technology to evaporate the shit before it existed. Then they evaporated their empire and our history. 😂
I went to a special presentation at the last standing building and didn’t think to ask. Aaaaaggghh!!!
I don’t even know you and you’ve cursed me!!!!😂
@@Peppersfirst can't erase something that never existed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@gilbertfil I respect your opinion.
Mr Anderson ha ha ha ha!!!!
Never knew about this. Electricity was king.
The Museum of Science and Industry is my creative, aspirational, and spiritual center of gravity. As a boy, the sense of coiled energy in my body as I ran from exhibit to exhibit was among the most formative experiences of my life.
The museum is much different now on the inside. Still fun. Still worth sharing with my family, but it's changed. I've changed.
I have visited more than once now, just to walk the beautiful, mysterious lawns and grounds and ponds around the building, not even going inside.
That's where the wonder still is. These strange statues and inscriptions. Great stone columns and staircases. Eerie inset platforms, like shady empty stages.
Then and now, as child and man I ask, "What inspired these men to make such a sprawling, austere, yet elaborate monument ?"
Indeed, what possessed them, and has it gone ?
I find myself grateful to the 1893 fair, the people who thought to restore the museum in the 1930's, the people who have managed the museum to now, and even the ancient cultures that inspired the building.
What do they all share ? What is common to all four ?
That is what has diminished, but thankfully persists to some degree, even today.
It calls me. I think this, or something like it, calls all of us.
Burnham's words, "Make no small plans,They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized" might a vision into his inspiration.
Fantastic documentary!
Thank you for sharing. Thank
The material of white plaster is known as Agatite. There is a street on the north side of Chicago with the same name. Several houses were built on that street with their exteriors being coded with Agatite. This from an Internet site Chicagology
Interesting.
Thank you for the information.
No mention of Parliament of world religions that was held in "fine arts" building, and Swami Vivekananda made this expo unforgettable in India, surprisingly there is no mention of him!!!!!!! ,
The World's Congress Auxiliary of the Columbian Exposition was held in what is now the Art Institute of Chicago's current facility. And your right it was a pity that he was not mentioned.
spent my childhood in chicago. went to mosi...is the beating heart that u can walk thru still there?
Oh My Days! My favorite Tik-Tok/YT Algo sync of 2024. Founded=Found IT. RIP Gene Wilder.
RIP Gene
lol
Where are any of these buildings today? Or, the ability to build them today? Those buildings were not built of plaster, or anything else-for that matter! Just look at the architecture, the detail work, the beauty, the grandeur, the layout or grid-only to be wiped out or to be destroyed?
The buildings were already there, left over from the old world order of Tartaria, a world wide civilization. The fairy tale of us having built them in two years and then torn them down was cover for actually destroying evidence of a previous developed society. Our history has been stolen, destroyed and covered up, on purpose, to make way for the new world order of surveillance and big brother and no personal freedom.
Sylvie Balzar I have another theory. This happened pretty close to the way historians say it did, and you have no evidence of any previous city, except regurgitating a bunch of garbage thought up by a couple of trolls like the brainwashed zombie you are.
The Field House in Chicago is from the Worlds Fair.
The buildings were built out of plaster, they burned down in a series of fires over the proceeding year or so. They used special plaster called staff which hardens to a smooth rock like texture and painted it white. There was so much painting to be done that someone invented an electric paint sprayer to to get the job done faster
It's plaster. Get over it
A fantastic documentary. So informative & quite emotional.
Brilliant Presentation!
Try to imagine the vast amount of work it would take to create a VR version of Chicago’s World Fair. The game company would be releasing expansion packs till Kingdom Come. I would totally buy that VR experience. // Also, would it not make sense to have a permanent World’s Fair somewhere on planet Earth? B/c when nations get together to drink and party, good things happen and nations forget to wage war. // Fun fact: Mark Bussler was the producer, director, and editor. He can also be seen hosting Classic Game Room on UA-cam!
ALL WARS ARE BANKERS WARS TO ENTEND THEIR TYRANNY..THAT ONLY THE SHEEPLES DIE FOR IN THEIR FALSE INTENTION FOR PEACE
Stan The United Nations is not the same?
Yeah. And to imagine people at that time supposedly built it. A vr task would be much easier of a task frankly.
watching this thinking evolution is going in reverse
yep!
Willie Wonka is such a great narrator
Rita H., you mean Leo Bloom?
i had never heard a word about the 14 worlds fairs until about a year ago crazy
"The photo ban was strictly enforced " why ?
Because these buildings were built long before we moved in
The architect wanted the city to be viewed in exclusively certain way. That's why they have the official photographer.
That makes no sense lol a certain way meaning they didnt want people figuring out the truth. Thinking is a lost art
@@sagelow3274also there are people who carry their own camera but they have to pay for the permit. I don't doubt there are unofficial photos out there.
@@sagelow3274 And also, on the early opening of the fair the attendance was low. The official picture was used for promotion to boost sale ticket. Think of it like the official pict studio release for upcoming movies.
Make World Fairs Great Again!
They are very expensive. Billions to build.
@@SymphonyBrahms Dubai is, so can America!
Yes !!
Excellent presentation!!! Makes me feel like I'm there!!!)
Wonderful documentary!
I’m just obsessed with expos from the past. I went to the world expo in Milan it was one of the most disappointing experiences of my life. However burning man is definitely a close substitute to expos
In 2015! Hahaha same here. I was stuck in a black block riot. I was 26. I went to the Dubai Expo this year as well. On 3 different occasions to be precise, all in March of this year.
They need to make this in VR.
Not enough data to input.
Everything looks so big!
Thank you Gene.
It's hard to believe that this was all at the Chicago Fair. It was amazing! I wish I could go. Maybe in my dreams!
It's too bad about the Ferris Wheel. That would of been an amazing attraction in Chicago. Much like The Eye is in London.
0.25 meat dinner...0.40 per hour to rent a wheelchair... 0.10 a-day for labor... What am i missing here?
The entire history of the Tartarian Empire. 😂
@@Peppersfirst haha 😂
What is the cost of a full day at Disneyland and related expenses today compared to a full day's wage for a fast food worker?
*sheds tear*
Thank you for a great place to rinse your soul in a world of crazy af....
Why is there no mention of Telsa?
Julianne Hannes Tesla.
Thankfully, Erik Larson mentions Nicola Tesla in his book: "Devil in The White City". Great book! Just finished reading it. You might enjoy it.
Because he was never given the credit he deserved 😔 I think a lot of it comes down to greed. A lot of the things that Tesla invented were more humanitarian. Free electricity for houses, engines that were super efficient. The greedy guys didn't want technology that couldn't be metered and charged money. That's the way I understand it anyway lol
Because this whole thing is a national propaganda piece, contains very little truth.
Willy Wonka himself is reading his lines well and hypnotizing a nation of worker bees programmed to accept the reality that they are presented with.
Wildsyde1 Tesla never invented anything, nothing new under the sun. He just rebirthed old tech.
1:25:27 That was just him quoting the Roman saying Sic Vis Pacem Para Bellum (if you want peace prepare for war).
A very powerful and true quote
Magnífico 👍👍👍👍👍 muy pero que muy interesante
Really enjoyed that
when I was a kid in Chicago, I saw 50 cent pieces from the fair. I have a 50 cent piece :)
Lol. You were NOT a kid in Chicago. You've prob never even been.
@@solsticemeows cut the crap & go eat a Tide Pod. Too many damn basement dwellers who don't know their a$$ from their elbow & need to drop the damn crack pipe in these comments. Good f@cking grief!
No way this was constructed in 3 years. Also, the electricity. Where did it come from? How was it brought in?
Tesla. Well, it was his technology anyway, he sold the patent (AC generators) But he got one ever Edison, that time.
They said there is no way you could have seen everything at this fair I wish I could go back in time and try and see if I could do it
Superb.