# 1964 NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR PROMOTIONAL MOVIE "COME TO THE FAIR" PIETA 85564

This black and white film highlights the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York. It opens with The Pieta! by Michelangelo, created in 1499 and on display in the Vatican Pavilion (:09-:18), followed by inside the General Motors’ Futurama 2 ride (:19-:54). The opening credits are shown with the Unisphere, presented by United States Steel (:57), shown again at ( 1:36 ). Crowds solemnly pass by the white marble statue of The Pieta! ( 1:51 - 2:11 ). The Gondola Ride ( 2:17 ) provide views of such things as Malaysia ( 2:29 ), with the Brass Rail Snackbar designed by Victor Lundy in the background. We see scenes inside the pavilions, such as India’s sculptures ( 2:38 - 2:55 ), Japan’s fans and lanterns ( 2:56 - 3:06 ), Africa’s drummers and dancers ( 3:07 - 3:37 ), Hawaii’s Hula dancers ( 3:38 - 4:02 ), and Spain’s dancers ( 4:03 - 4:46 ). More gondola views are shown ( 4:52 - 5:05 ). The IBM Pavilion ( 5:12 ) has people fill out a punch card with their birthdays, which are fed into a computer, and a newspaper headline from that day appears ( 5:18 - 5:35 ). The seats of the People Wall are lifted into the grandstand of the IBM Pavilion where a movie about computers is shown ( 5:37 - 6:02 ). People drive an antique reproduction at the Avis Car Ride ( 6:13 ) while the AMF (American Machine & Foundry Company) monorail ( 6:17 ) passes next to the U.S. Rubber Ferris Wheel featuring a giant tire ( 6:21 ). Sinclair sponsored a pavilion of dinosaurs (…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/85564ComeToTheFair)
- 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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