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11) 0888.0001 Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Boston, 1939--Albert Wheeler--home movies
A compiled reel of 1939 home movies in black-and-white and color, including footage of the 1939 New York World's Fair.;The section depicting the 1939 New York World's Fair begins in black-and-white, with a shot of Mabel and Al outside the Schaefer Center. The color footage begins with scenes of...;Donor notes received 10/96:
1. Horse races.
2. Ella White birthday, East Dixfield, Me.
3. Al and Mabel beneath "Goodrich" sign. Al and Mabel.
4. Car demo...
6) 95-40.0013 New York World's Fair, 1940--Dassler family--home movies. Reel 13
Shot in black-and-white and color, this home movie records a visit by the Dasslers during the final month of the 1940 New York World's Fair, scenes of Times Square at night, and...;In black-and-white, footage shot on a cool, wet day, beginning with crowds entering the main New York World's Fair grounds through the Amusement Zone, near the Home Furnishings ...
497) 1318.0022 New York World's Fair, Harvard-Army Game, 1939--Samuel B. Horovitz--home movies. Reel 22
Compiled home movie reel including footage of the 1939 New York World's Fair and a 1940 Harvard-Army football game.;Written on can: "Dec 1939 Party at Park Central--Evelyn arrives, 1940 Harvard Army game/Adler-Bottome party, Diamond Horseshoe, Fair--NY boats--Maury, Sonje Henie--poor, 1939 Xm...;Title: "Natural Color Photography by Samuel B. Horovitz" Reel opens with a series of brief close-up shots of men and women in attendance at a party, some in formal attire. A sh...
2) 1318.0091 Friends and New York World's Fair, 1939-1940--Samuel B. Horovitz--home movies. Reel 91
Compiled home movie reel includes footage of the 1939 New York World's Fair, the schooner Thomas H. Lawrence in Ipswich, MA, and the aftermath of a snowstorm in Newton, MA.;Written on can: "Black/Sharkey/World's Fair/XX/Cooper/Sunken Boat--SAXE/Snowstorm early 1940" ;From note card received with film: "Reviewed 8/23/64 1940 Friends==Black & White B+ to C Samograms (black) Sharkey (A- face, black & white) his dept girls (in Wash DC) (Signs) U...;Title: "Sam-O-Grams" Reel opens in black-and-white with a short sequence of three people shot in close-up. In color, the top of the Soviet Pavilion is seen above rooftops on ap...
6) 1454.0005 New York World's Fair and Maine, 1940--Unobskey family--home movies. Reel 5
1940 home movie reel from the Unobskey family, including a trip to the New York World's Fair and a girl's birthday party in Maine.;New York World's Fair footage, Theme Center, Transportation Zone, Communications and Business Zone: Man, woman and boy in front of Bowling Green fountain. Walkway with flags and...;1939-1940. Return trip from the World's Fair. Sukie, Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Bill. Birthday party 1940.
2) 1682.0002 Penn/USNA football and 1939 New York World's Fair--Robert Hoadley Whipple--home movies. Reel 2
Compiled black-and-white and color home movies of University of Pennsylvania/United States Naval Academy football games, and tourist scenes in New York, including footage of the...;On can: "Penn Navy Games";In black-and-white, scenes of United States Naval Academy Midshipmen and marching band on football field, followed by University of Pennsylvania marching band. Cut to color: cr...
3) 1682.0007 Western travels in California, Arizona, and Mexico, 1939--Robert Hoadley Whipple--home movies. Reel 7
On can: "Western #2, Grand Canyon 1939”;Color home movies of the Whipple family's travels through the American West and Mexico in 1939, including scenes of San Francisco, Tijuana, and Grand Canyon National Park. ;Reel begins with city views of downtown San Francisco. Mission-style architecture, including a church with an ornate mural on its facade. A passing parade features a marching ...
14) 1690.0020 New York World's Fair, 1939--Walter J. Clark--home movies. Reel 20
Home movie of 1939 Clark family visit to the New York World's Fair and New York City.;New York World's Fair footage: Turnstiles at entrance to the Fair. Visitors on buses, "Greyhound thru the New York [World's Fair]." Footage of the Fair shot from the bus. Look...
27) 2002-013.0008 New York World's Fair, 1939--Julia Crafts Sheridan--home movies. Reel 8
Black-and-white home movies of the New York World's Fair in 1939, including day and night scenes.;Reel includes scenes of the Trylon and Perisphere by day, seen through the Four Freedoms. Opening view has very low contrast. Night views of fair attractions including the Lagoo...
28) 2123.0004 New York World's Fair, 1939--George E. Haskins--home movies. Reel 4
Color home movie footage of a family visit to the 1939 New York World's Fair, edited together with black-and-white scenes from a souvenir print.;The black-and-white footage at the head of the reel, including scenes of the fair on opening day, is excerpted from the Official Home Movies of the New York World's Fair, a comm...
6) 2419.0049 New York World's Fair, 1939--Abraham Katz--home movies. Reel 49
1939 black-and-white home movies taken during two visits to the New York World's Fair, including many shots of the fairgrounds from the roof of the Westinghouse Building. ;The reel opens with shots of the Communications Building, followed by many scenes of the Westinghouse Building and environs. A group of men in dark suits pose along the railing...
13) 2463.0013 New York World's Fair, 1939--Cyrus Pinkham--home movies. Reel 13
A clever, artfully-shot, and carefully-edited amateur film of the 1939 New York World's Fair.;Reel opens on an array of print material, including news clippings, magazines, and brochures, regarding the New York World’s Fair. Cut to a view of the fair in the distance, po...;"World's Fair 1939-1940". Scanned in 2K for an NFPF grant in 2022.
2) 2567.0001 Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe and New York World's Fair, 1939--home movies
Color home movie footage of the 1939 New York World's Fair, including the NTG Congress of Beauty and Sun Worshipers Colony, and of a burlesque performance at Billy Rose's Diamon...;Reel opens with brief shots of swimmers at a large pool, seen through a chain-link fence. Cut to sequence of New York World's Fair attractions, including the Theme Center, the ...
2) 2596.0002 [Fivaz -- home movies]. New York World's Fair, 1940, Reel 2
New York World's Fair Footage
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