JPS's World's Fairs Page: 1968-1970

JON PAUL SANK'S WORLD'S FAIRS PAGE: 1968-1970

1968 SAN ANTONIO (BIE Specialized Expo):

Websites, Pages:
- HemisFair '68 (worldsfair68.info)
Video:
- OFFICIAL HemisFair 1968 - super 8mm (color corrected, music added) (Castle Films) (YouTube, 11m14s)
- HemisFair San Antonio (YouTube, documentary):
- HemisFair '68 Remembered (1968-2008) (YouTube, documentary, 15m23s)
- 8mm film footage of 1968 Hemisfair in San Antonio, Texas
Exhibits, Pavilions, Shows:
- Fine Arts:
  - Mural Gracing Facade of The '68 Embraces History of Hemisfair Art (article, at San Antonio Report)
Texts:
- In 1968, San Antonio's World's Fair Changed The City Forever—But It Almost Didn't Happen (article with pictures and video, at Texas Standard)
- Viva HemisFair: Reexamining a World's Fair in a Twenty-first Century Museum Exhibit (PDF, thesis, at U. of Texas at Austin)
Collections:
- A Guide to the San Antonio Fair, Inc., Records (finding aids):
1970 OSAKA (BIE World Expo):
Websites, Pages:
- Expo '70 Commemorative Park (expo70-park.jp, in Japanese)
  - In English
  - Expo '70 page
Video:
- Documentary Film "Japan World Exposition, Osaka 1970" (YouTube, minimally narrated in Japanese, 2h56m37s)
- A Day of Expo '70 (YouTube, documentary, 14m10s)
- Expo '70 Osaka (YouTube, monorail ride video, silent, 8m53s)
- Expo '70 Pavilions Tour (YouTube, in Japanese, 7m47s)
- Expo 1970 Osaka (YouTube, fair footage with added music, 4m22s)
- Newsreels:
  - Movietone:
    - News in Colour: Expo '70 (WMV, 8m15s)
    - Expo '70 (WMV, silent, 8m15s)
    - Expo '70 (WMV, silent, 11m09s)
    - Expo '70 (WMV, silent, 5m21s)
  - British Pathé:
    - Japan: Preparations For Expo '70 Underway (1967) (silent, 2m12s)
    - USA: Apollo 8 Capsule Shipped To Japan For Expo 70 (1969) (silent, 1m07s)
    - Japan: Expo 70 Takes Shape As Site Fills Up (1969) (silent, 2m30s)
    - Japan: Expo 70 Nears Completion (1969) (silent, 2m18s)
    - Japan: Prince Charles Visits Expo 70 World Fair Site (1970) (silent, 1m18s)
    - Japan: Arab Nations Among 77 Countries With Pavilions At Expo '70 In Osaka (1970) (silent, 1m44s)
    - Japan: Expo '70 Site Ready To Open (1970) (silent, 23m01s)
    - Japan: Dress Rehearsal For Opening Of Expo '70 (1970) (1m07s)
    - Japan: Eighty People Rescued From Stranded Gondolas At Expo '70 Opening (1970) (1m16s)
- 1970 Osaka Japan (YouTube Channel)
Guides, Maps, Catalogues:
- Guide Map of Expo '70 (YouTube, map with music, 4m00s)
- Expo 70 Map (PDF, at Expo '70 Commemorative Park)
- Expo '70 Pavilion Guide (PDF brochure, guide to present-day museum, 2pp, at Expo '70 Commemorative Park)
Pictures:
- Photos: Expo '70 (at Pink Tentacle)
- Categories at Wikimedia Commons:
Exhibits, Pavilions, Shows:
- Australia Creature of Circumstance: Australia's Pavilion at Expo '70 and Changing International Relations (PDF academic paper, 16pp, at Swinburne University of Technology)
- Christian Pavilion
  - The Christian Pavilion at Expo '70 (book chapter, at Internet Archive)
  - Expo '70 to Have Religious Pavilions (The Chaplain, March 1969) (article, at Internet Archive)
- Expo '70 Pavilion
  - Collections of the Expo '70 Pavilion (pictures, at Wikimedia Commons)
- Mormon Pavilion:
  - LDS Display Draws Throngs at Expo '70 (Deseret News, March 16, 1970) (article, at Google Newspapers)
  - The Rising Sun of the Gospel (article, at LDS.org)
- Movies:
  - Multi-Image Films at Expo '70: A Trip Report (document, 57pp, at Internet Archive)
  - Gamera vs. Monster X (YouTube, movie trailer, 2m19s)
- Time Capsule:
  - The Official Record of Time Capsule Expo '70 (webpages, at Panasonic)
- Tower of the Sun
  - Tower of the Sun (article at Atlas Obscura)
  - Sun Tower Christmas (2012) (YouTube, live show, 6m57s)
- United States:
  - United States Pavilion, Japan World Exposition (PDF, exhibit booklet, 36pp,at US Department of State)
Music:
- Expo '70 Opening Ceremony March (YouTube, audio, 4m10s)
- Expo '70 Theme Song, Marching Version (YouTube, audio, 3m23s)
- "Expo '70" (Paul Yoder):
  - Banda Sinfónica del CSMA (YouTube, music performance, 3m25s)
  - Expo 70: Paul Yoder (YouTube, audio, 2m56s)
- Expo '70 Song (YouTube, audio, 3m48s)
- Overture from Expo '70 Official Film (YouTube, 3m54s)
- Opening Medley from "Oral Roberts at Expo '70", Osaka, Japan 8/6/70 (YouTube, televised musical performance, 5m15s)
- Southern California Youth Chorale: Japan's Expo 70 (YouTube, film and music, 44m29s)
- Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66: Live at Expo 70 (YouTube, audio, 5m35s)
- Hibiki Hana Ma (Iannis Xenakis) (Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orch.) (YouTube, audio, 17m25s)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen [German Pavilion] (articles and audio):
  - Karlheinz Stockhausen: Spherical Concert Hall (gallery at Medien Kunst Netz)
  - Stockhausen: Sounds in Space (articles):
  - Prozession:
    - Prozession (YouTube, 27m18s)
    - Prozession (recorded live at a symposium) (YouTube, 29m25s)
  - Kurzwellen (YouTube, 53m47s)
  - Spiral (for soloist):
    - Realization A (YouTube, 14m12s)
    - Realization B (YouTube, 20m10s)
    - Realization C (YouTube, 12m24s)
    - Realization D (YouTube, 11m44s)
  - Pole (for two performers):
    - Pole (1/2) (YouTube, 11m02s)
    - Pole (2/2) (YouTube, 11m02s)
  - Expo (for three performers):
    - Karlheinz Stockhausen Expo for 3 (Final Rehearsal) (YouTube, 1m19s)
    - Karlheinz Stockhausen Expo for 3 (World Premiere of the Integral Version, excerpt) (YouTube, 3m42s)
    - Expo for 3: Events 27-35 (SoundCloud, 0m47s)
    - Expo for 3: Events 120-122 (SoundCloud, 0m48s)
Texts:
- Expo '70 Turnout [Is] Light; U.S. Pavilion Is Popular (article, March 16, 1970, at New York Times)
- Expo '70, Osaka, 1970 (article and photos, at Old Tokyo)
- Expo 70 Osaka: A Futuristic Experience (article and photos, at The Culture Trip)

Section Last Modified February 26, 2023