HOME MOVIES: NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR, MANHATTAN, ATLANTIC CITY 1939 - 1940

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This silent color home movie footage depicts the New York World’s Fair of 1939 in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens (which ran until fall of 1940), as well as surrounding Manhattan and Atlantic City landmarks (TRT 13:17). A Douglas DC-3 propeller-driven airliner taxiing on a runway. It features Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9 engines, and is marked for American Airlines’ “Flagship” fleet. A marshaller directs it (0:08). Two women in stylish coats and hats pose on the passenger plane’s ladder while boarding (0:21). Aerial photography from the jet shows rural landscapes, highways, rivers, factories (0:32). The art deco Chrysler Building. The blimps pass the Empire State Building in silhouette (1:07). An unseen plane’s contrail makes a circular arc behind the Chrysler Building (1:25). The site of the 1939 World’s Fair as seen from an airplane on an airport runway. The Ma