# 1964 NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR PROMOTIONAL MOVIE "TO THE FAIR" 43524

This 1965 color film highlighting the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair was produced by Francis Thompson and narrated by actor Robert Fields. It provides an incredible variety of mid-1960s clothing, shoes, and hairstyles for men, women, and children as people dressed up to attend the fair held in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York. The crowd streams through the front gates ( 1:57 - 3:15 ). A family boards the Greyhound-sponsored motor train ( 3:15 ). It passes the flags of nations lining the New York State Pavilion ( 3:40 ) with the Unisphere in the center ( 3:43 ) and past dancing fountains ( 3:45 ). We pass the Wonderful World of Chemistry Pavilion ( 4:32 ), the Tower of the Four Winds ( 4:36 ), the Johnson’s Wax Golden Rondelle Theatre ( 4:43 ), colorful places to rest ( 5:13 ), a European town recreation ( 5:21 ), and the Hall of Science ( 5:31 ). The Probability Machine demonstrates the law of averages ( 6:20 ). The seats of the People Wall are lifted into the grandstand in the IBM Pavilion ( 6:48 ). Demonstrations include soap bubbles revealing geometry ( 7:03 ). Boy Scout Troop 295 ( 7:34 ) marches past the Bell System Floating Wing Pavilion with its seats providing individual headphones ( 7:52 - 8:17 ). The troop marches past an Eskimo Pie booth ( 8:42 ). The New York Pavilion’s suspension roof was made of terrazzo tiles ( 9:10 - 9:22 ). An elevator rises on one of its three observation towers or take the stairs ( 9:33 - 10:40 ). Fast glimpses of many rides are…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/43524ToTheFair)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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