JON PAUL SANK'S WORLD'S FAIRS PAGE: 1962
- 1962 SEATTLE (BIE World Expo):
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- Websites, Pages:
- Video:
- Television:
- Newsreels:
- British Pathé (at British Pathé):
- Documentaries:
- Home Movies:
- Vintage Roadtrips: 1962 Seattle World's Fair (YouTube, home movie with music, 31m18s)
- Home movie: 098746: A Danish-American family in San Francisco visits the 1962 Seattle World's Fair (video, silent, 16m26s, at Internet Archive)
- Barstow Travel Adventure: Seattle World's Fair, Olympic National Park 1962 (video, silent, 14m13s, at Internet Archive)
- 1962 Seattle World's Fair 8 mm Film (YouTube, home movie, silent, 8m08s)
- Lectures, Interviews:
- Interview with Rick Steves (KCTS-9 World's Fair Minute) (YouTube, 1m23s)
- Interview with Cheryl Chow (1m50s, at Facebook)
- Interview with Overton Berry (YouTube, 1m30s)
- Century 21 Seattle World's Fair (YouTube, on-site interviews, 10m48s)
- When Seattle Invented the Future: Interview with Director John Gordon Hill (YouTube, 7m44s)
- Discussion with John Gordon Hill (KCTS-9) (YouTube, 29m40s)
- 50 Years Ago, Seattle Invented the Future (Fledge Demo Day) (YouTube, lecture, 6m37s)
- Stories from the 1962 World's Fair: Enrique Cerna (KCTS-9) (YouTube, 4m97s)
- Other:
- YouTube Playlists:
- Audio:
- Pictures:
- Guides, Maps, Catalogues:
- Exhibits, Pavilions, Shows:
- Art:
- History in Motion: Seattle World's Fair: World of Tomorrow (KING-TV, June 25, 1962) (TV documentary, 25m53s, at Seattle Channel)
- History in Motion: Seattle World's Fair: Horiuchi Mural (home movies, 14m11s, at Seattle Channel)
- History in Motion: Seattle World's Fair: New Landscape (CBC, 1962) (video, 28m01s, at Seattle Channel)
- Masterpieces of Art (book, 170pp, at Internet Archive)
- Century 21 World's Fair: Northwest Coast Indian Art Exhibit (article, at History Link)
- City's arts history began a new chapter in '62 (article, at Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
- Billy Graham:
- Christian Witness Pavilion:
- Elvis Presley:
- Firebird III
- International Webern Festival:
- "It's the Water" Ski Show:
- Japanese Village:
- Library 21:
- Mobil Oil Co.
- Mold-A-Rama
- Monorail
- NASA Pavilion
- Opening Day:
- Pavilion of Electric Power
- Plywood Home of Living Light:
- Sermons From Science:
- Show Street:
- Show Street (KCTS-9 World's Fair Minute) (YouTube, TV documentary, 2m10s)
- Century 21 Exposition official Ewen Dingwall closes controversial "Girls of the Galaxy" show on May 13, 1962 (article, at HistoryLink)
- Va-Va-Va-Voom! The Ladies of the Seattle World's Fair (article, at KIRO Radio)
- "Peep" Backstage, U.S.A. at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair (article, including souvenir booklet, at Cardboard America)
- Brochure Backstage USA "Peep" � my holy grail find (article and photos, at When the World Was Fair)
- Paris Spectacular Wax Museum (souvenir program, at University of Washington Libraries)
- Space Needle
- United States Science Exhibit:
- The House of Science (YouTube, exhibit film, 12m35s)
- United States Science Exhibit (guide, 3pp, at Seattle Public Library)
- Science on Display: A Study of the United States Science Exhibit, Seattle World's Fair, 1962 (book, 192pp, at Internet Archive)
- Remember the Bubbleator? (KCTS 9 1962 World's Fair Minute) (YouTube, TV documentary, 4m10s)
- Pacific Science Center (then and now pictures, at Wikimedia Commons)
- Music:
- Elvis Presley:
- The World of Century Twenty First: A Musical Panorama (15 clips, at The Sound of Vincent Price)
- Art and Toni Mineo:
- Anton Webern, Im Sommerwind: Idyll for Large Orchestra (1904, first performed at Century 21 on May 26, 1962):
- Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy, 1963 (YouTube, studio recording, 12m28s)
- Chicago Symphony under Bernard Haitink, 2009 (YouTube, with follow-along score, 15m11s)
- WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln under Jukka-Pekka Saraste, 2015 (YouTube, performance video, 12m38s)
- Dresden Staatskapelle under Giuseppe Sinopoli (YouTube, with nature and other pictures, 12m53s)
- Webern: Complete Works (the pieces that have Opus numbers) (YouTube Playlist, 32 videos)
- Hartley Records: The Canadian Tattoo (Seattle World's Fair 1962) (YouTube, audio, recorded live, 47m21s)
- Misty (Errol Garner) (YouTube, audio with follow-along notation, recorded live, 4m49s)
- Malagueña, Played on the Schulmerich "Carillon Americana" in the Space Needle (1962) (YouTube, audio, 4m38s)
- See You in Seattle at the Big World's Fair (The Lancers) (YouTube, audio with pictures, 1m59s)
- Monorail Twist (Jackie Souders Official Seattle World's Fair Band) (YouTube, music with fair footage, 2m55s)
- Invitation to the Fair (Joe Juma) (YouTube, 2m25s)
- Gayway Twist (The Frantics) (YouTube, postcard record playing, 2m43s)
- World's Fair Seattle (Billy Earles) (YouTube, postcard record playing, 2m41s)
- Café in the Sky (Kelly Gates) (YouTube, postcard record playing, 2m38s)
- Come and See Seattle (Frank Sugia Trio and Naomi) (YouTube, postcard record playing, 2m19s)
- Meet Me in Seattle (Joy and the Boys) and Meet Me in Seattle Twist (The Frantics) (YouTube, audio, 3m57s)
- Summer of '62 (Music by Lou Bianchi; Performance by Ronnie Draper and the Fordomatics [sic]) (YouTube, 2m08s)
- Wasn't That a Mighty Day When the Needle Hit the Ground (Maggie Savage, Mike Moloso) (YouTube, audio, live recording, 3m10s)
- Wait 'Til You See What I Saw in Seattle (Mason Mallory) (sheet music, 4pp, at Cardboard America)
- The Frantics: How a Teen Dance Band Became Monsters of Psychedelic Rock (article, at Jive Time Records)
- "I Want to Play on that Gayway ...": Postcard Records from the 1962 Seattle World's Fair (article with pictures, at Music Video Collections)
- Theme Songs and Souvenir Records (article, at Free Encyclopedia of Washington State History)
- Century 21 Exposition (1962): Music at the Fair (article, at HistoryLink)
- Program for the Pacific Northwest Tour of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Seattle World's Fair, August 15-16, 1962 (2pp, at Museum of History and Industry)
- Texts:
- Collections, Archives:
- Other:
Section Last Modified February 25, 2023