I Have Seen The Future: A Tour of the 1939 New York World's Fair
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- I Have Seen The Future: A Tour of the 1939 New York World's Fair is a musical documentary that guides you through one of the most remarkable and visually stunning international events in American history. Running for two seasons from April 1939 to October 1940, the fair was delicately counterpoised between the easing of the Great Depression and on the eve of World War II, an optimistic, yet fragile peak in American history.
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The film is comprised entirely of footage shot in 1939 on 16mm Kodachrome color film by amateur Philip Medicus, with just a handheld Magazine Cine-Kodak camera.
The tour is set to an original score composed and performed by musician and filmmaker Darby Cicci (The Antlers, School of Night). He restored a 1937 Zenith tube radio, and re-recorded the entire score through the 80-year-old paper speaker to closely capture the original sound of the era.
The film is edited in chronological and geographic order, and give the audience a rare opportunity to step back in time and journey through the Fair just as a visitor would have experienced the architecture, exhibits, art, and culture in 1939. It is a collaboration across 80 years, from a distant point in it's own future.
Original intertitles by artist Tracy Maurice www.tracymauric...
Also endless love for the Art Deco Society of New York for premiering the film in NYC artdeco.org/
The film is dedicated to the memory of my grandma Catherine Smith, from Brooklyn, who performed at the Court of Flame cafe on the fairgrounds when she was 16 years old. She loved the film, and I hope you do too. xo
Original score written, performed, produced, and recorded by Darby Cicci at Minus Green Lab, Brooklyn, NY
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The optimism of this World's Fair is breathtaking.
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That's a marvelous description!!
Never has such high optimism crashed so far down only a few months after the fair opened.
@@billwatkins8227 Truth!
Thank you for bringing my grandfather's beautiful films to life. I was never able to meet Philip Medicus as he died 3 years before I was born. I do have a son named after him.
I've been wondering, perhaps you can tell us who the other people are who frequently appear in the films? One woman who seems to be very fond of fancy hats, and one adolescent...
Wow the nostalgia...I'm only 17 but feel like I was not only there, but lived it...
The future looked better in the past.
Thanks for your time and effort for posting.
Well said
@@georgebethos7890well said if you were a straight white male. The future is much better now for the rest of us.
He must have used a lot of film.....And 16 mm colour film must have cost a fortune in those days. A fantastic achivement.
Probably the best film I've ever seen concerning what it actually felt like to experience the world's fair. Thanks so much for all your hard work putting it together! What shocked me was all the nudity. I had no idea that was ok in that era in time.
I love it: The logo on the Johns-Manville Exhibition reads “Asbestos - The Magic Mineral”!
I am Joanne Medicus Squires.. Thank you Darby Cicci.
Absolutely wonderful!! I would have LOVED to have seen this event!!
Beautiful footage taken by a true artist
Wow! What a collection! Way more than I have ever seen of the 1939 Worlds Fair (the best fair ever IMO!)
This film is so superb it rivals "Man With a Movie Camera." I was most impressed with the huge sculptures of people that were part of the Art Deco aesthetic. I loved the music.
I love these ‘39 World Fair films! I always look for the brass bald eagle, as it was then displayed at the Fair, but I haven’t found it yet. That brass bald eagle, life-sized, once sat on a large Nazi swastica. But Hitler had it removed from the swastica and he donated it to the World Fair of ‘39. That brass bald Eagle then ended up on the top of the flagpole at my school. I used to look up at it and marvel at its history.
Although I've seen most of this footage before what an incredible film. I used to collect World's Fair memorabilia, and still have a modest collection. I've also visited the former site in Flushing Meadows and seen the buildings that remain along with the incredible museum. As for the film, you feel a certain sadness knowing that the world of tomorrow, the reality, is not the one portrayed at the fair. You look at the visitors and especially the kids knowing how their lives are really going to change within a short three years.
For sure. That's what kept going through my mind too
Thank you
My father went as a child and he said you could go into the sphere and see the future.
He saw TV and the William Crooks and it must have been grand.
This film answers so many questions. I grew up in the shadow of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fair(s) and it was always a great mystery to me what had occurred there. Grandma talked about going on the Parachute Jump, I didn't believe her until now! My Grandparents and Aunt's and Uncles all talked about it, but all that remained was some of the structures and sculptures.
The parachute jumping tower is now on Coney Island.
Simply incredible. And a fascinating look at the people of the time. I was born in Brooklyn 30 years later and visited Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the Unisphere, Shea Stadium (now gone), CitiField, Terrace on the Park, the Tennis Center many times. But all of this came before those facilities were built. Felt like I was there. Thanks for the time travel experience.
I have watched so many films of this 1939 fair. This gives me so many new glimpses. Surreal and beautiful. Thanks
This is by far the most comprehensive coverage of the 1939 Worlds Fair that I have ever seen!
My father attended this fair when he was 9 years old. He has since passed, but it is clear to see that many of his interests and choice of profession were actually inspired by the 1939 NY World's Fair.
Lovely remembrance - my grandma, now passed, performed at the fair when she was 16. It was a remarkable influence on everyone who had the fortune to attend.
and a great music selection too 😘😘🥰🥰
Freaking FANTASTIC sound track! Good morning trip.
If I had a time machine, this is when and where I would go. I've been fascinated by this World's Fair since I was a kid and saw the documentary "The World of Tomorrow" on PBS. One note - I realize that the correct answer to the question of what to do with a time machine is "to go back and kill young Hitler", but presumably, someone would have already done this before I got a chance to use the time machine.
You have a time machine you're watching this video on it. With the internet we can all time travel through the last 130 years of motion pictures.
Things were very modern considering this was 1939. Thanks for sharing in color. Excellent coverage.
How wonderful to see this all in colour in such a good quality, realy fantastic. its a little bit like magic timetravel.
Stunning work! Congratulations.
This is amazing. I don’t think we moved much from that. Civilization reached its peek in 1975 and from that time everything is moving to the ‘wrong direction’. We can be better than we are now.
Damn right
Ive read & watched everything I could locate about esp the 1939 displays & events
( I believe, in addition to them adding the George Washington aspect for 1940; one of the nations -- either Poland or Czechoslovakia-- exhibit was closed / didnt continue following Hitlers invasion in Europe)....
Im particularly appreciating the camera person's views from a distance of lines of ppl along the ramp at Trylon/ Perisphere....
Very enjoyable as well as informative sequences.
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Thanks so much for providing this marvelous window on a fascinating event from a devastating moment in the US & internationally ( following Grt Depression & at beginning of Hitler's devastation)
Congratulations for that job. Nice soundtrack.
_Back to Antlers, you are a musical genius man_ !
The dawn of color photography will make this Lost World of tomorrow one that never came last forever.
By far the most enjoyable compilation of the Philip A. Medicus' movies. Darby did an outstanding job editing and adding music.
Beautiful film thank you 😊
This is by far the best footage that I have seen of the 1939 NY World's Fair. Bit why are we shown the Cyclone roller coaster. That was, and still is, in Coney Island.
This puzzled me too, but they actually built a smaller version of the Cyclone at the 1939 fairgrounds. After the fair, this version was sold and rebuilt at what is now Six Flags New England, as the Thunderbolt, and is still in operation.
The parachute dropping tower was relocated to Coney Island as well.
Asbestos the Magical Mineral? YIKES!!!!
I met you years ago in SLC and we talked about this project, so glad to see it is finally out in the world. i think it's remarkable, thank you!
Excellent! Thank you!
Eu acho genial esse arranjo.
Um artista desse deveria nos prestigiar com um álbum novo todo ano, um dos melhores, nível Pink Floyd
Thank you so much Darbi♥♥♥ Such a wonderful labor of love.
It's sad that there are only one or two of the original buildings remaining from the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. Fortunately, we have wonderful films like these as reminders of how beautiful everything was.
I wish! Most buildings were temporary construction, which would have fallen apart over time. The buildings weren't built to withstand NY snow weight. So unfortunately, we're left with only memories.
In their future, I've seen the world of yesterday!
19:36 Small portion of the Independent Subway (IND) World's Fair Station.
thanks
My mom went to the 1939 World's Fair with her graduating class (of 1940) from Liberty High School, Bethlehem, PA. Wasnt that the year Hitler invaded Poland & started WWII?
This is really "Back to the future"!
Really nice work...
Wow!
Where's my flying car and robot butler :(
amazing!
A lot of unexpected t and a in the amusement area.
There’s a lot of risqué things that went on at the 39’ Fair that probably wouldn’t be allowed today haha 😅
And you posted this on the "internet"? I think we have a lot in common as the folks back then.
@@dcicci we hope to be better than that, but the bad constantly drives out the good.
my goodness, the ladies are so scantily clad, you'd have thought that in 1939 the mood of the day was much more conservative, owell, it's all for The Show, some 'titillating' distractions in the attrations.
A lot of brands are still around today....Swifts,Kodak,Johs Manville, Wonder, Shaeffer beer, Kraft, ATT.........
never duplicated
1:55 What are all those flags from?
this is so strange to me idk why it just is. watch it at .75x speed itll look normal, and idk it jus is sort of depressing and odd to me
Does anyone know if little Jacqueline Bouvier (and/or her little sister Caroline, also known as Lee) went to the 1939 New York World’s Fair? They came from a wealthy Long Island family (their dad was a member of the NYSE!), so I would not be surprised in the least if they did.
I know they both took their kids to the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
I'd be surprised if they didn't go multiple times both summers. Most wealthy folks did.
Anybody older than 15 years of age in this film is most certainly dead now. Sobering thought.
Not necessarily true. They'd only be 95 now. Plenty of those around.
Nash provided free cars for the town of tomorrow. One in each driveway!
Amazing! Didn't know this.
I have seen the future? more like they saw the future! 😊
ANYONE KNOW WHATEVER BECAME OF ELECKTRO MAN?
@Waxel Punkt. I heard he was at a museum.
@Waxel Punkt. It's at the Mansfield Memorial Museum in Mansfield, Ohio. I found it on Google.
@Waxel Punkt. Your welcome.
Accidentally electrocuted!
@@susanbrogan2517 thanks
Its a shame they tore down the Trylon and parasphere.
They were beautiful, but unfortunately weren't built to last anyway!
Why did this Worlds Fair went good.but the one in 1965 didn't?what was done different.
Neither were financially successful, but their success was in their contributions to technology, art, and culture. I think they both went well.
the "entertainment" seemed rather low-brow and vulgarian, with bare-breasted women (or the illusion) being commonplace and the shows rather burlesque-like, typical of New York City . Kind of a let-down for a so-called World of Tomorrow.
Or was it sadly prophetic?
29:16
This soundtrack is horrible. It doesn't match the optmistic and vibrant atmosphere of this fair. Watch a 1939 Technicolor movie with sound of the 1934 Chicago Century of Progress World's Fair and you'll understand what I mean.
Time travel is lonely.
People were definitely much better dressed in 1939. And nobody is obese...
Who cares if people were obese . just watch and enjoy
I think you have a good point!
remember, it was still during the Depression. People were not being fed that well during that time, unless they were part of the rich 1%. Jobs were still scarce and times were tough. Hitler was poised to start WWII in September 1939. The US people were blissfully unaware of the horrors soon to come, which would delay their World of Tomorrow; in a way, we now are repeating their tragic reality.
Incredible soundtrack for a wonderful film. Reminds me of the Disco Elysium soundtrack 🥰