World of Tomorrow

By Direct Cinema Limited

Was there ever truly an Emerald City? Could it have been found on a map of Queens in 1930? This beguiling and poignant feature documentary looks at the great New York World's Fair of 1939, a technological showcase that drew more than forty million people to witness the bright and beckoning world of the future. A combination of hardware and jazz bands, architectural marvels and nightly fireworks, the fair was the greatest peacetimne project ever. A celebration of idealism and industry brought to an untimely end by the outbreak of war in Europe. Using home movies, newsreels, cartoons, photographs and vintage graphics to evoke that fragile moment when the world stood poised between black and white and color, between the Great Depression and the Second World War.

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