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Fast on the heels of the Seattle World's Fair, New York's bid to hold another fair in 1964 was turned down by the international commission. That didn't stop Mayor Robert Wagner, who stubbornly launche...( read more  read more... )d the symbolic 250-ton "unisphere" stainless steel globe onto its pedestal in Flushing Meadows, Queens, for the two-year fair. While including fond remembrances from visitors who reminisce about sneaking in, indulging in first kisses in the Coca-Cola Pavilion, and the like, much of this 52-minute video is dedicated to examining the fair's failures. Dubbed "an old fair in new time," it was criticized for being the opposite of the city's 1939 fair: rather than predicting the future, it floundered in the postwar boom of the decade prior. Shots of its construction, promotional films, and news footage provide the documentary with its visuals, while historians and fairgoers examine the fair that ran the gamut from Michelangelo's Pietà to General Motor's Futurama exhibit. --Kimberly Heinrichs

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Release Date: January 1, 1996

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DVD Release Date: January 2, 2001

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    March 18, 2008
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    I didn't like this film.
  • InVeRtDrEaMz
    August 25, 2007
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    Aww look! my home town! Flushing New York BABY!!!

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  • This film's climax takes place on the site in Flushing Meadows, New York, where the 1964 World's Fair was held.   Answer »
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