Vimeo Staff Pick
The wondrous future was now at the 1939 World Fair
Directed by Amanda Murray · 2013
Archival footage brings back the 1939–40 New York World's Fair and its dazzling vision of a technological 'World of Tomorrow'.
A charming time capsule of how 1939 imagined the future.
The future was now at the 1939 World’s Fair – and it is still awesome.
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