Film Record: New York World’s Fair

Date produced: 1940

Filmmaker(s):

Ralph W. Smiley

Length:

750 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

Eleventh Annual Little Movie Party, 1940

Description:

"R.W. Smiley who produced New York World's Fair is at the head of the Publicity Department of the Royal-Liverpool Group of Insurance Companies, and made this film to show the visiting agents of those companies what the Fair was like, so that they might have an idea of what they could see, before ever they visited the Fair" ("Program Notes," 1940).

Resources:

"Program Notes," Eleventh Annual International Show of Amateur Motion Pictures (1940), Margaret Herrick Library.

Locations:

• New York, NY (Filming)

Subjects:

•           Fairs
•               New York (N.Y.)

Genre:

• Documentary

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Screenings:

• Eleventh Annual Little Movie Party, 1940: Barbizon-Plaza Theatre, New York, NY

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