New York World's Fair 1964-1965

The 300 exhibiting companies and 66 nations at the Fair are joined by religious exhibits of many faiths in this kaleidoscopic exposition of man’s material accomplishments. His future aspirations and his spiritual yearnings. The Fair is colorful and chaotic. It has areas of rare beauty in architectural design and an equal portion of garish.

Notable is the repeated use of circular theater designs. Fair exhibitors are learning fast that their guests have come to be entertained or, at least, bemused. They also want action and they get it in the innumerable exhibit “rides” which are Robert Moses’ answer to Coney Island. The president of the Fair corporation has rare courage. His show is doing without fan-dancers and has practically exiled the paid amusement area. Instead, visitors are looking into the Futurama at General Motors, at the dinosaurs in Ford convertibles and at Michelangelo’s Pieta in the Vatican pavilion.

Highlight of the General Motors Exhibit, the Futurama Ride permits visitors to see, hear and feel the world as it may be known in the future, a lunar outpost, a permanent community in once-lifeless Antarctica, a vacation playground amid the strange beauty of the ocean floor.

Видео New York World's Fair 1964-1965 канала Lars Johansson