JON PAUL SANK'S WORLD'S FAIRS PAGE: 1939 New York
- 1939 NEW YORK (BIE World Expo):
- Shortcuts: Websites | Video | Audio | Pics | Guides | Exhibits | Music | Texts | Collections
- Websites, Pages:
- Video:
- New York World's Fair (World of Tomorrow) (YouTube, Official Film, 9m27s)
- World's Fair Fantasy (YouTube, short film, 10m09s)
- Worlds Fair 1939 New York USA (YouTube, silent, 57m11s)
- The World of Tomorrow (video, silent, 36m15s, at Internet Archive)
- Amateur film: Wathen collection: New York World's Fair (silent, at Internet Archive):
- 1939 Amusement and Girls at the NY World's Fair (YouTube, fair footage, silent, including nudity, 12m03s)
- 1939 New York World's Fair Reconstruction Project:
- 1939 San Francisco & New York Fairs (video, fair footage, silent, 19m35s, at Internet Archive)
- Connect3: Meet Me at the Fair! (YouTube, museum podcast episode, 2m34s)
- Newsreels (at British Pathé):
- Home Movies:
- Documentaries:
- All's Fair at the Fair (YouTube, cartoon, 8m26s)
- 1939 New York World's Fair Newsreel "World of Tomorrow" (YouTube Playlist, 39 videos)
- 1939 (YouTube Playlist, 61 videos)
- Twilight Zone: The Odyssey of Flight 33 (YouTube, television segment, 5m03s)
- Audio:
- New York World's Fair (1939-1940) (radio broadcasts, at WNYC)
- Fishko Files: World's Fair 1939 (audio, 7m, at WNYC)
- The Bowery Boys New York City History #288: The World of Tomorrow: Visiting the World�s Fair of 1939-40, the kitschy futurescape of Queens (audio, podcast episode, 1h04m47s)
- 1939, Chapters 1-6 (Robert P. Fitton) (YouTube, audio, novel excerpt read by the author, 1h12m22s)
- Storytellers Campfire Radio: The 1939 New York World's Fair Photo Collection by Paul Van Dort (YouTube, 15m00s)
- Pictures:
- Guides, Maps, Catalogues:
- Lectures:
- Exhibits, Pavilions, Shows, Events:
- Art: Masterpieces of art from the New York and San Francisco world's fairs (book, 72pp, at Internet Archive)
- Billy Rose's Aquacade
- Bombing of 1940:
- Boy Scout Day:
- Cavalcade of Centaurs:
- Chrysler Motors
- New Dimensions (YouTube, exhibit film, 9m14s)
- Motor Rhythm (YouTube, exhibit film, anaglyph version, 8m22s)
- 3-D Space History Bite: Chrysler's "Motor Rhythm" (YouTube, home documentary, 10m49s)
- 60 Minutes of Magic (article, at Iowa Hawk)
- Fame on the World's Fair Stage: The 1939 Plymouth Convertible Coupe (article, at The Daily Driver Project)
- Ponderings: Chrysler (article, at 1939nyworldsfair.com)
- 15 Famous Firsts in Film (article, at Cinelinx)
- Celebrating 3-D on Its 75th Birthday (article at Leonard Maltin)
- Closing Day:
- Coca-Cola Building:
- Con Edison City of Light:
- Dream of Venus (Salvador Dalí):
- DuPont
- Federal Works Agency Building
- Film: The World's Fair Survey of Motion Pictures and Slidefilms at the Fairs (Business Screen Magazine, September 1939) (article at Hagley Digital Archives)
- Ford
- France Pavilion
- General Electric
- General Motors
- Glass Incorporated:
- Grover Whalen, President of the Fair:
- Hall of Inventions:
- Hot Mikado
- 1939 1940 NY World's Fair, Hot Mikado, Bill "BoJangles" Robinson (YouTube, show footage, silent, 3m16s)
- The Hot Mikado 1939 (NY World's Fair) (YouTube, show footage, silent, with added music, 1m58s)
- How a Government Agency Ended Up Responsible for Swing Mikado, Among Others (article, at Playbill)
- Italy
- Kate Smith:
- League of Nations:
- Living Magazine Covers:
- Maison Coty:
- National Biscuit Company:
- Opening Day:
Organs:
Palestine:
Parachute Jump
Poland
Railroads
- 1939 World's Fair: Railroad Exhibits (YouTube, home movie, silent, 12m37s)
- Railroads on Parade (YouTube, home movie with added music, 4m05s)
- Coronation Scot Leaves for the US (British Pathé) (YouTube, newsreel, 0m53s)
- The Pullman Company Exhibit (PDF booklet, 20pp, at Streamliner Memories)
- Railroad-related Pamphlets and Other Railroad Memorabilia from the NYWF (page images, at rgusrail.com)
- IND 1939 World's Fair Line (article with photos and contract drawings, at NYC Subway)
RCA
- Television:
- The Birth of an Industry (YouTube, company film, speech with pictures and footage, 9m10s)
- RCA Review, July 1939, including "Birth of an Industry" transcript (PDF, journal issue, 130pp, at American Radio History)
- A Preview of Television (PDF, brochure, at Early Television Museum)
- Early Electronic Television (article with photos, at Early Television Museum)
- Television in the World of Tomorrow (Echoes, Winter 1997) (article, at Baird Television)
- A Photo History of RCA's Golden Years in Camden: Pioneering the Technology of Music and TV (article with photos, at Historic Camden County)
Schaefer
Science and Education Building:
Temple of Religion
Trylon and Perisphere
USSR
Westinghouse
YMCA
Music:
- Dawn of a New Day (Song of the New York World's Fair) (audio, 2m42s, at Internet Archive)
- Kurt Weill's Music for Railroads on Parade (excerpt) (YouTube, audio, with show footage, 3m54s)
- Trylon Swing (Cab Calloway) (YouTube, 3m24s)
- A Man and His Dream (Jack Teagarden) [Mardi Gras Casino] (YouTube, 3m30s)
- Virgil Thomson, Suite from The River [Federal Works Agency building] (YouTube, 24m18s)
- Billy Rose's Aquacade (audio at Internet Archive):
- The World's Fair Edition of the Cotton Club Parade (YouTube, audio):
- Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-flat (Arthur Bliss) (New York Philharmonic under Adrian Boult; Solomon, piano) (YouTube, world premiere audio, 40m59s)
- Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus (Ralph Vaughan Williams) (Jacques Orchestra) (YouTube, audio with follow-along score, 11m35s)
- Symphony No. 7 (Arnold Bax) (Royal Scottish National Orchestra under David Lloyd-Jones (YouTube, audio, 42m12s)
- Bluebrain performs "Music for the World of Tomorrow" at the National Museum of American History (YouTube, music performance with fair footage, 5m00s)
- Music to a World's Fair Film (George Antheil) [Communications Building] (score, 99pp, at Issuu)
- Relevant Playlists (YouTube):
- 80 Years Later: Music from the 1939 New York World's Fair (article, at Library of Congress)
Texts:
- Books:
- New York World's Fair 1939, edited by L'Illustration (book, 146pp, at Internet Archive)
- New York World's Fair Comics (comic books, at Read Comic Online):
- New York World's Fair Cook Book: The American Kitchen (book, 336pp, at Hathi Trust)
- Prize Poems of the 1939 New York World's Fair (book, page images, 44pp, at 1939nyworldsfair.com)
- Trylongs and Perisites (book, humor, 88pp, at Hathi Trust)
- Articles:
- 10 NYC Remnants of the 1939 World's Fair at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (article, at Untapped Cities)
- The Future Was Here: The 1939 World's Fair (article, at Long Island Weekly)
- Indexing the World of Tomorrow (article, at Places Journal)
- The Original Futurama: The Legacy of the 1939 World's Fair (article, at Popular Mechanics)
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A President for the Future: George Washington's Inauguration and the 1939 New York World's Fair (article with pictures and audio, at Bowery Boys History)
- Science Secrets Revealed at New York World's Fair (Mechanix Illustrated, July 1939) (article, at Internet Archive)
- Sensational Thrill Rides Invented for N.Y. World's Fair (Mechanix Illustrated, April 1939) (article, at Internet Archive)
- World's Fair 1939: Here's to the Future, 70 Years Later (article with photos, at Bowery Boys History)
- The World of Tomorrow in 1939 (article, at Design Observer)
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Section Last Modified February 10, 2023