# New York World's Fair (Part 4)

Content warning: This film includes footage of Railroads on Parade, a historical pageant on the development of the railroad in the United States, which features segments that celebrate and trivialize westward expansion, settler colonialism, the Civil War, and the exploitation of Chinese railroad workers. Amateur film of the New York World's Fair (1939-40). Reel 4. Including footage of Foreign Pavilions, Transportation Section, Railroads on Parade, General Motors Futurama, Ford, Chrysler, Budd, and Fountains. LEGACY SHOT LOG: "VS International pavilions in daytime. Flags waving outside buildings - The Congo, Belgium. Lagoon of Nations. People walking past fountains. VS fountains and Trylon & Perisphere in BG. International flags along lagoon. British pavilion. Buildings for Iceland, the Netherlands. VS Greece pavilion - murals, Greek writing. Honduras flag. Roman statue of man missing arm. Excellent VS USSR building. VS statue of the Russian worker (called "Big Joe" and "Joe the Worker" by fairgoers) holding star atop red marble pylon base. Good shot of statue of Soviet workers bearing flag w/ Russian flag waving in BG. Visitors walking & posing for photos in courtyard of USSR building. VS Russian mural of happy Soviet citizens w/ sardonic caption - "Everybody smiles in Russia as you can see from the picture." Model of proposed Moscow monument, visitors walking past. Soviet produced automobile on display. Soviet Arctic pavilion. WS airplane mounted outside. Czechoslovakian…

- Kind: Film
- By: Philip Medicus
- Genres: Science, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/200735_New_York_Worlds_Fair_4)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Adult profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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