Chicago World's Fair
Chicago World's Fair
Footage of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair: pavilions, exhibitions, amusement rides, crowds, etc. Century of Progress.
Chicago World's Fair
LS/TLSs historical reenactment pageant, white men & women wearing 18th century aristocratic clothing-- powdered wigs, knickers, hoop skirts, etc-- dancing a minuet outside a colonial mansion. TLS display of two suspended automobiles in exhibit hall. TLSs people walking through peaceful garden. TLS people outside main entrance of Bendix Lama Temple (Golden Pavilion). Nice LS From Wagons to Wings (Century of Progress in Transportation) Travel & Transport pavilion. H/a LSs fairgrounds, pavilions inc States Building, Basic Sciences, Adler Planetarium. TLSs suspended cable cars traveling along Towering Skyride. H/a traveling LSs lakefront fairgrounds, lagoons -- good views of elaborate pavilions, structures including Great Havoline Thermometer, Midway, Soldier Field, Ford Motor Company exhibit, etc. TLS art deco Ford rotunda exhibition hall. MS crowd viewing rotating car metals exhibit. H/a TLSs crowds walking about Ford pavilion.
Chicago World's Fair
LS General Motors pavilion building. Excellent high angle TLSs workers building automobiles on assembly line inside General Motors pavilion. TLSs glass tower exhibition hall. MSs glass products on turntable display. TLS crowd walking outside Horticulture Building. TLS people walking along exhibition hall interior. TLS home canning (pickling) exhibit; MS jars of pickled foods on wall. TLS/MSs woman working on assembly line at Wilson & Co. Bacon Slicing exhibit. Great TLSs Goodyear Tires exhibition hall, Goodyear blimp passing overhead.
Chicago World's Fair
TLSs very art deco Italian Pavilion. MS ornate corner of Bendix Lama Temple (Chinese pagoda); MS Chinese lion statue. TLSs railroad exhibition (old locomotives and railroad cars) outside From Wagons to Wings Century of Progress in Transportation exhibit. LS 17th century reenactors dancing minuet.
Chicago World's Fair
TLSs highwire walkers and trapeze artists performing along Midway. LS two massive ferris wheels. TLS/MSs white male barker standing on platform with three midgets (one of whom wears naval officer's uniform), crowd of men wearing fedoras & suits gathered round; man picks up two midgets, naval dwarf saluting. LSs Midget Village on Midway; TLS/MSs parade of midgets. TLS/MSs dwarves performing Gay 90s dance routine on stage; midgets exit stage gracefully, full-sized barker applauding, crowd in FG.
Chicago World's Fair
LS bustling traffic on Lake Shore Drive, night. LS Nash Motors glass tower, night. LS Travel and Transport exhibit, night. MS Sweden Pavilion, night. Nice LS crowd walking along Avenue of Flags, day. Tilting up TLS suspension cable car tower. LS suspension car traveling along wires high over fairgrounds. LS suspension car traveling over Bendix Lama Temple. TLS crowd walking along lagoon in FG, twin pylons of The Servant that has Transformed the World energy pavilion in BG. LS United States Government (Federal Building) & States pavilion. LSs large crowds walking along midway. TLS The World a Million Years Ago exhibit, animatronic dinosaurs & ape lording over main entrance, crowd milling about. TLS roller coaster traveling up scaffold. LS people driving mini-cars along track. LS Travel & Transport building. LS three mast ship docked in lagoon, crowd passing by. Panning LS exhibitions, crowds, lagoon.