Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe and New York World's Fair, 1939--home movies

Date1939

AbstractColor 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 Diamond Horseshoe in New York.

Viewing NotesReel 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 General Electric Man-made Lightning exhibit, the Electric Utilities Building, the Trylon and Perisphere, the George Washington statue, the "Frozen Alive" show, the Parachute Jump, a ventriloquist and puppet, and brief shots of the NTG Sun Worshipers Colony. Cut to a burlesque performance at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe at the Paramount Hotel in New York. Cut back to the fair, for a performance of the NTG Congress of Beauty, followed by several scenes of women in the Sun Worshipers Colony.