Documentary featuring original materials from the 1939 New York World's Fair.Documentary featuring original materials from the 1939 New York World's Fair.Documentary featuring original materials from the 1939 New York World's Fair.
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Adora Andrews
- Grandma Middleton
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
King George VI
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Fiorello LaGuardia
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Ruth Lee
- Mom MIddleton
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Marjorie Lord
- Babs Middleton
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Jimmy Lydon
- Bud Middleton
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Ray Middleton
- Self - Vocalist
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Harry Shannon
- Pop Middleton
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Douglas Stark
- Jim Treadway
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Grover Whalen
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
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Self - Narrator: In 'Dover Beach,' Matthew Arnold wrote: Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
- ConnectionsFeatures The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair (1939)
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Hauntingly sad documentary about the lost of yesterday's tomorrow
John Crowley's documentary about the 1939-40 New York World's Fair recreates both the majesty and the low comedy of one of the greatest public relations triumphs of the century.
Robard is impeccable in his careful narration of the memories of an old man, trying to recreate the escaped glory and promise of the Fair of his youth.
The optimism of the Fair--with its ubiquitous motto, "I Have Seen the Future"--is undercut at every turn both by the knowledge of the impending failure of Western civilization (in the form of World War II) and the long-term loss of the promise of a better world.
Possibly the finest documentary you will ever see.
Robard is impeccable in his careful narration of the memories of an old man, trying to recreate the escaped glory and promise of the Fair of his youth.
The optimism of the Fair--with its ubiquitous motto, "I Have Seen the Future"--is undercut at every turn both by the knowledge of the impending failure of Western civilization (in the form of World War II) and the long-term loss of the promise of a better world.
Possibly the finest documentary you will ever see.
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