In a lot of ways we have rose as well too though. You're just not thinking deep enough. The black lady working in the kitchen who can't sit and eat with them or use their bathroom and the gays who were scared to be themselves or women who couldn't think for themselves. TIMES HAVEN'T CHANGED that much in 90 years at all when you think humans have been around 10s of thousands of years.
Uh, the good old days weren’t always good. White middle class straight men had it best of all so I understand why it would seem we have “slipped”, but educated women, people of color, and non-straights would mostly agree they’d never want to go back to those times.
“Sex Discrimination Act passed in 1975, banks - as well as employers and other institutions - were legally required to treat women and men equally. From this point, a woman could open a bank account in her own name and apply for a mortgage without facing discrimination, in theory. ---- Much about the good old days wasn’t good esp for women and the poor, Native Americans (millions here in peace thousands of yrs before Europeans ‘found’ the land), African Americans, Italian, Japanese …hmmm there’s a trend. Edit: girls often discouraged from going to college/university over marriage and kids.
My grandfather is the same age as that boy at the beginning. He watched this with me and said if he'd interrupted his father and was so sarcastic, he would have been smacked into next week.
Yes, same here. If you either interrupted or back talked,,you would be sent to your room and punished. As a teen I still remember back talking my Mom,,,and the smack across my face knocked me off the chair. I was told to go to my room and do not come out until you have learned why you’re their. It’s called respect,,, something many nowadays do not understand.
Everyday clothes for after school and play, corduroy knickers, argyle knee socks, canvas high top shoes, button up shirt with pullover sweater, cap. There are many photos of my uncle and mother from the 1920s and 1930s.
@@dumbbo1 Very true! My Dad had a friend who lived in what is today, still a 3 million dollar home in Jamaica Estates, Queens, NY. Marty’s family had a gardener, a housemaid, and a cook. His father owned a number of office supply stores in NYC and New Jersey. My grandfather worked for one of the stores driving a delivery truck. Normally, the two would never have crossed paths, but Marty sometimes played stickball with some boys on the “other” side of the Grand Central Parkway. He and Dad were introduced by a mutual friend. In talking, they figured out the connection. My Grandpa made a good impression and he eventually got him connected to a business friend. For a time, my father drove one of the trucks. Sadly, Marty got drafted to Korea and was killed on his first day of combat.
Me too. I want so much to go back in time. Yet we are looking at the past with eyes of the present and not seeing it for what it was truly like, if we did go back in time I don't think it would be as we imagine it by watching stuff like this. I wasn't real life after all. If people in 80 or more years came back to our time would understand it any better? I can't help but wonder that. We would say what's so exciting ? Its just real life as boring as anytime. However again I feel like that too.
Well said! But I'm not so sure how great it was, hence the invention of Hollywood CA and such propagandist films. And they were and clearly still are.C'mon.. Dig even the slightest bit deeper into history and you will change you mind about what you have or have been tried to teach.@@randydelaney7053
Omg....I was born in the 1990s, and if I'd yelled at my gran about how "Hey, we're starvin' out here, how's the chow comin?!" without a "please" or offering to help I'd have gotten my ears boxed
My mother graduated from college in 1939.. She often talked about her father taking the family to the Chicago World's Fair in 1934, and the Homes of Tomorrow exhibit.
@@hydrocarbon82 Unreal how moronic people have become in less than 2 years. On Sept. 22, CNN triumphantly announced that 200,000 people had died from COVID-19 in the United States. CNN tried various ways of rubbing in the 200,000 figure. Their best effort was an infographic blaring, "US COVID-19 deaths are equal to having the 9/11 attacks every day for 66 days." Here' s a less biased, but less catchy, comparison: 2020' s attributed COVID-19 deaths were equivalent to having another 2017-2018 flu and pneumonia season boosted by 13 percent.
@@NationandState And the overwhelming majority of Covid deaths came through due to people's comorbidities. Few actual healthy people actually die from it.
It's amazing how everything was done with pride back then. Everything not just manners and appearance. Cars, appliances, prices, jobs, music, movies and tv shows even commercials.
That is becausenofilthyillega*swerepouriginfromdumpcountries back then. htat came here back then were respectable immigrants from Switzerland, Italy, Poland, Ireland, England came here to WORK HARD adn be successful, not freebies and demanding free verything- HTAT Is what is ruining our American Aesthetic- THAT and cheap CHINESE junk- htanks China for our calssic stores and departmet stores closing like Sears, Montgomery Wards, part of my childhood, now lost, it is sick and purposeful.
@jimrockford1283I do get your point, but I'm moved to say that even that was done with pride, unlike our sleazy little wars today We don't even know they're happening.
So good I wish it was 2 hours! Bud's one liners crack me up. The whole script and acting, excellent. The first synthesizer ( though not called that) the wondrous *HAMMOND NOVACHORD* was at this fair.
In our family archives is a handful of black & white snapshots from the 1939 World's Fair when my parents, then newlyweds, visited it from Colorado. They bought a little souvenir, a metal sculpture of the "Trylon & Perisphere," which still sits on my shelf of treasured heirlooms.
My mom was born in 1939 dad 1940. I would have never yelled at my mom “what’s for dinner, I’m hungry” and if I did my dad would have had something to say to me or my sisters. Or even my mom would of had something to say or do.
Charming piece of TV history. Amazing how RUclips allows us to make time traveling - besides serving as an archive for later generations to come. I do like the style of the 3os anyway. 👍
1939...that was the period when actress Hedy lamarr had made such an impact on the females of that era. Notice the daughter and Mother with black hair and a part in the middle, which Miss Lamarr was noted for.
Worth noting she was also an inventor on par with any of the things in this video, doing a lot of integral work on the technology that would later become secure wi fi, bluetooth and GPS. Most people overlook the fact she was a Brilliant mind as well as a pretty face.
Excellent look back to an era gone by. People criticize the culture of that day but in many cases it helped us to learn and correct our mistakes. Reliving the past is one way to insure that we don’t repeat it. On a brighter note we should look at this for what it might have been in its day, a way to look for a brighter future. Think positive people!
Wow. Just wow. Thank you so very much for sharing! I remember hearing about everything shown in this cute movie. Nice to actually be able to see all of it. My mom went to NYWF 1939, on vacation, with her folks, from Maryland, as a girl of 13. I went to NYWF 1964, on vacation, with my folks, from Maryland, as a girl of 13. Mama told me about some of the fascinating things she saw at 'her' Fair, including the closed circuit tv and the Robot man. And, of course, the Trylon and Perisphere. We both thoroughly enjoyed the fascinating things we saw at 'my' Fair, including Mustangs and the Unisphere. One thing we had in common with both of 'our' World's Fairs was the excitement and wonder that was on everybody's faces. Everybody. Young. Old. This state. That state. This country. That country. No fighting. No protesting. No fussing at someone just because they're 'different', regardless of whatever that 'difference' was. All of us. Just happy to be there. Just happy to be. (edit for typo)
This is the first time I've seen this film in its entirety , now I know how it ends with Babs and Jim and that's been bugging for years :) Thanks for posting!
They had optimism...even in 1939. It is probably a good thing they had no idea what was just around the corner (WWII). Hoping we are not living in a similar state of ignorant bliss. I just love these old movies of the future!
Where you living where ignorant bliss is still possible? I'm ready to run away from all this harsh reality. I was born into harsh reality so I'm kinda overdue for some ignorant bliss lol.
@@robinanders3954 So true, no ignorant bliss here...the world is a harsh place, seems like there is no end to the number of bad actors out there. Hopefully humankind can learn lessons from the past, and not repeat the same mistakes that led to wars and other tragedies.
Many may know that RCA premiered Television at the 1939/40 Fair. Fewer know that Westinghouse had a Television exhibit at their pavilion. The camera Bud stands in front of is an experimental Westinghouse unit. The microphone and receivers appear to be RCA units. Westinghouse later owned TV stations across the country and produced many local and national shows, one being "The Mike Douglas Show" which started at a Westinghouse outlet in Cleveland before moving to Philadelphia. On the west coast, Westinghouse syndicated " The Steve Allen Show" . Another show from Dallas was " The Beat", episodes of which are posted elsewhere on YT. Westinghouse shows all had the same set design which utilised large graphic elements and pastels which registered well on color TV sets of the 1960's. All of the Westinghouse productions were of high technical quality, equivalent to other network offerings of the time.
But do you know who really invented television?? …it was a young man whom the big companies that you named above refused to pay for his genius, who should have died rich, but who instead died relatively poor! Because they never gave him credit, I actually forgot his name, but he did indeed exist and he did invent television.
@@deboraholsen2504 Philo T Farnsworth was able to prove the viability of all electronic television. After 2 lengthy court cases, he was named the rightful inventor. RCA, which had done everything they could to disallow this was forced to pay Farnsworth a royalty for his work. Unfortunately, by the time Farnsworth could have cashed in, the royalty agreement expired per the terms of the court judgement.
@@cjgem80 I would’ve LOVED to have Lived at that Time….Everything had RESPECT from your Parents to Your Grandparents even talking to other…….Just a BEAUTIFUL time to Live in….
Pretty sharp for 16mm, but looking at the dust, dirt artifacts, it probably is. Nice print. The sound is pretty decent too, typical for the era. Thanks for sharing this!
After impressively quoting stats on employment in the textile industry, it looks like Jim is winning over Bud. Little did they know that within 30 years most of those production jobs would go to the asians whose countries had had their populations decimated by armed conflict in the intervening years. I think that they call it 'cheap labor'.
No the English way was to make all the underpopulated English derivative Commonwealth countries a mixing bowl for 200 years and multiculturalism and be one-world government
Why do you care so much about "One World Govt"? What's it to you? You live on one planet. You worship one god. Maybe one world govt is the next step in our evolution?
@@mollflanders9314 Have fun with an unelected, unrepresented by the people, dictatorial communist one world government. For a possible idea of what it might be like look at North Korea , China or Russia etc. Sadly you've been brainwashed by your education system, your lying treasonous complicit government and the lying complicit media if you think one world government is good.
@@Prieze868 No that was NOT the English way. The English way was to establish infrastructure both judicial and governmental , business/economy, educational and healthcare infrastructures so these colonies could later self govern themselves. The English were against interracial marriage and multicultures as a rule preferring to keep themselves and their own culture intact and undefiled and undiluted. Multiculturalism was FORCED on England and the British Commonwealth and the USA and South Africa and Rhodesia and Australia, Germany, Holland, Denmark and all the Western Protestant Christian nations by their treasonous traitorous government who made secret deals and arrangements behind the people's backs and WITHOUT their consent.
Jimmy Lydon’s voice actually got HIGHER when he got older. He played Henry Aldrich (replacing Jackie Cooper) and then as Clarence Jr in Life With Father (with lovely teenage Liz Taylor!) just a few years later.
I love love this video! ❤ I wish they would have turned this into a miniseries. 😄 I want to see them marry and Bud grow up some. 😊 I really enjoyed it. 💚
Lol! You can't beat these old movies, this one managed to be a Leave it to Beaver comedy, one huge Westinghouse ad, and a pro-capitalist / anti-Communist propaganda piece all in one. Add the most stereotypical caricature of a black maid since Gone with the Wind for bonus points.
Hate to inform you of this but there was virtually no anti-Communist propaganda in the USA until the 1950's when the Cold War really went into high gear and it became "imperative" to tell every average Joe and his second cousin's, dentist's dog who the "enemy" was and McCarthyism reigned supreme. Prior to the Cold War the USA saw itself as wholly self-sustainable and utterly unconcerned with whatever happened in Europe or elsewhere (the Monroe Doctrine still applied) so there was absolutely no need to have any propaganda about anything. The USA was seen as a fantastic oasis surrounded by two huge oceans. Without a large foreign threat there was no need to be worried. Heck very few Americans cared about what happened in Germany in the 1930's and if anybody pointed a warning finger at Hitler most Americans just said:"Well, he's in Germany and we're here in America what could he possibly do to us? So far he has done nothing and if he does it's not our problem or concern." As for the view of the Soviet Union back then. It was seen as some agrarian, poor state which was so poorly industrialized it would struggle to survive on its own much less become a threat to the USA. It might as well have been located on the Moon. While educated politicians and scholars could see an emerging threat the average Joe was much more concerned the the still ongoing Great Depression, whether the next president could keep his big promises or whether his team did well in the World Series. The big shots and bankers feared powerful unions and their "partners" a lot more. Other than that your comment is spot on. Funny too.
@@tiberiusclaudiuscaesar5238 Hate to inform you, but In the United States, anti-communism came to prominence during the First Red Scare of 1919-1920. During the 1920s and 1930s, opposition to communism in Europe was promoted by conservatives, fascists, liberals, and social democrats. Fascist governments rose to prominence as major opponents of communism in the 1930s. Anti-communism was alive and well in all capitalist countries like America prior to WWII. Anti communism was not an invention of the Cold War.
@@wolfshanze5980 Considering how bloody the Russian Civil war was along with the genocide that happened in the Ukraine, it's not hard to imagine why anti-communist sentiment was particular high in the 20s-30s.
Marjorie Lord, who play "Babs" here, is the mother of Anne Archer. Anne is the wife of Michael Douglas in the film, "Fatal Attraction". Marjorie died in 2015 at the age of 97. Jimmy Lydon is alive at 98.
Over 80 years later, and people are still arguing about the same issues of today....The son in the movie (Bud) complains how young people can't find good jobs and the father tells Bud to keep his chin up, because....capitalism. Bud's sister is dating a socialist/communist who's also an art teacher, and he complains about how futuristic technology is ruining American jobs. The engineer (Jim) feels that the future tech markets are the answer to America's industry problems, and companies like Westinghouse will create thousands of jobs and help private industry thrive under capitalism. And they all really want to make the communist look like the cheap greasy asshole.
Pretty Amazing. I'm amazed how relevant this movie is to young people today. I showed it to my teens. They cracked up at the love triangle with the communist.
Oh yeah, and atop the flagpole at my Alma Mater was a brass eagle that came directly from this World Fair. Formerly on a big swastica, it was donated to the Fair by Hitler. I used to look up at it and marvel at the history it has seen.
First off, this was excellent. I just wanna shred light on the way this time period not only references the opposite perspectives of most viewers but straight up puts their arguments into a character to conversate in a respectful and tame manor with the opposing views being calmly explained to not only swoon the characters thinking but also the masses watching at home. today, people are so stubborn and solidified in even the most trivial arguments, most dedicate their time to their pocket of likeminded media constantly fueling their solidarity, this seems fine for the most part but without media like this there's no middle ground to meet, and I'm not talking heavy stuff like region or politics, more tame stuff like openly gay relatives for Christian families or something common to present both perspectives using just this as an example of how a lot of people looked down on certain aspects of the progression of an electric modern society ruling it all off as unworthy of any rebuttal, but with media like this it can help express both views in a neutral setting to show there are some parts they do disagree with but some points they haven't heard might peak their interest
43:59- Ray Perkins did emcee a "LETTERS HOME" (from the New York World's Fair) radio show on NBC's Blue Network- Sunday afternoons at 5:45pm(et)- during the spring and summer of 1939.
The ultimate concept is to have 2 dishwashers installed side by side. You take clean dishes from one, and use the other to hold the dirty dishes. You just alternate back and forth, as you use the dishes. In this way, you never have to unload a dishwasher again, unless you have an excessive amount of dishes to do. In that case, you now have 2 dishwashers to ease that burden as well!
Bud was killed in the battle of Iwo Jima at the age of 19 in 1945. Jim joined the army right after Pearl Harbor and perished as paratrooper behind the lines of Normandy in D-Day 1944. He was survived by his son (born '42) with Babs whom he married. Makaroff left for Russia and joined the red army in 1941 and was killed in action with German 6th army in Stalingrad the following winter.
The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair" was a film produced by Westinghouse that utilized both motion pictures and television technology. It was one of the first films to blend these mediums, showcasing the capabilities of both during the 1939 New York World's Fair
Modern eyes ruins everything. Back then people didn't think twice about a simple compliment. Today everybody is so paranoid 24/7 everything is over-analyzed and people have become incredibly thin-skinned. No wonder all kinds of personality disorders and autism have become commonplace. That dad in 1939 simply expressed his pride. Today he *must* be an incestuous creep. Like I said: Modern eyes ruins everything. Humor in particular where everybody seems offended over everything. And if your comment was meant as a joke. Like I said: Bad humor today too.
TiberiusClaudius Caesar I agree with you, and yet that was my first reaction as well. I had to remind myself that there really is nothing wrong with a complement like that. It did (and does) bother me, though, that my first reaction was as expressed above: Creepy.
@@tiberiusclaudiuscaesar5238 I'm Autistic and that has nothing to do with it. it's a pervasive Neurodevelopmental disability and Neurotype. We have always existed. Every unborn baby has a 50/50 chance of developing this way. Don't talk about things you clearly don't understand.
@@tiberiusclaudiuscaesar5238 So sexual harassment, rape and social issues didn't exist until modern times in your strange perspective of reality and history? Guess you have no idea how information evolved either.
Second time watching this amazing footage..So many invaluable life lessons!! Please Lord God restore family faith freedom integrity and morality to our society!🙏🦅🇺🇸💕⚖️
Anyone else notice how Westinghouse is bragging about how their dishwasher cleans dishes in under 8 mins? Why did it take 8 mins for a washer to clean dishes back in 1939..but my dishwasher takes well over an hour to do in 2021? I don't know what kind of dishwasher you have right now, but I guarantee it takes WAY longer than 8 mins. Energy Saver rating my ass
Yea i know but its things that we head while grown up.Its always the same i guess when i was age we did this or we didnt that.but for us its to late but i wish i had some of those talks back then.my grandmom brought me up and she did tell me.but i like it
I did a double take when grandma compared working in the kitchen to actual slavery, proclaiming "That's why I like electrical engineers. They signed our emancipation proclamation". Oh how times were supposed to change for the better. Ignorance, bigotry, racism, sexism, chauvinism, hatred, and the like is once again thriving in the open. We almost got to a point where most of this nasty ideology was in decline thanks to individuals and groups maintaining a low profile, thus reducing their influence on young impressionable minds. However that all changed when the great Obama family moved to Washington. Their hard earned ascent and historic victory flipped a switch in a large portion of privileged and insecure whites. In unimaginable form Republicans seized on hatred, using it to widen the divide in America; culminating in Trumps narrow win in 2016. Since then this nation has been further apart and spewing hatred. Both sides of the political aisle retreated to the far extremes on their side in a tit for tat game to cancel out their opposing counterpart. The political establishment in America so effectively utilized our ever widening division political leaders across the globe replicated their success. I hate the trajectory America and the rest of the world is heading. Mankind is heading for moral bankruptcy thanks to the rise in ignorance, racism, hatred, sexism, bigotry, chauvinism, and the like, as well as religious hypocrisy. I never imagined I would once again witness open and blatant hate fueled extremism and violence against others simply for their skin color, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, political affiliation,or simply being born as they are. It's as if mankind has lost all sense of right and wrong. We are witnessing a near total annihilation of morals, compassion, understanding, tolerance, and personal accountability. It's sickening and heart wrenching.
Yeah it was there from the 20's.. Made the Nazi's more attractive to some as they were anti Soviet too. (You don't see even an off hand slap at them.) And not so telling as it was an expected point of tension all through the war of what would happen when the two sides finally met.
@@postal_the_clown Not in the US. It's possible to anticommunist and anti Nazi. They're two sides of the same coin. Like Democrats and "Antifa"(quotes because antifa are fascists in disguise).
@@harsesishoktar9386 Read-up on the German-American Bund. See if some of their catchphrases don't sound familiar in the idol worship of 45. (or did I miss the golden statue of any living Dem?)
Huh? My Dad was Antifa, and so was every guy who crossed the ocean between 1941--1945 to kick Hitler's ass. You don't know what you are talking about. Go Google WWII.
It's true, automation has freed up many people to seek new opportunity in less dangerous professions, like information technology, health & social services, hospitality & food services, entertainment, business services, marketing, the arts, as well as social media influencers!
@@mollflanders9314 What are you, 12? Grow up. You sound so ignorant and adolescent. Your Bill Clinton raped women in the White House as President. Get educated before you make yourself a fool.
I think the "Commie - Artist" character was a lot more like a Luddite (people who were against the Industrial Revolution 200 years ago) than a Communist. An actual Communist would of been interested in the machinery, but scornful of the economic way of life it was holding up. I kind of knew he'd be the bad guy the moment they mentioned he was an "artist". You can actually see the Conservative/Liberal split we are dealing with now, in this film. The artist is presented as an unrealistic snob who abhors (for some kind of strange reasons) progress. The good guys are clean cut, all American men who believe in the Capitalistic way of life. And, you know? As a space-cadet, Socialistic artist myself, I also have a certain amount of nostalgia for that happy and optimistic vibe America used to have about itself. I do understand this about any Conservative I speak to, either in person, or online. You want the magic back, and are tired of hearing about the negative stuff. I do get that, even though I don't agree on much else. Lots of propaganda was going on back then, right before WWII. Interesting they seemed very on guard against the Russians, but no mention of the Nazis. It must of been an amazing fair. Walt Disney seems to of taken many basic ideas from it for his parks, and they are still around today.
Except back then a liberal was a person who believed in free markets, sound money personal liberty and limited government. "Classical liberalism" is the term used to designate the ideology advocating private property, an unhampered market economy, the rule of law, constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion and of the press, and international peace based on free trade. Up until around 1900, this ideology was generally known simply as liberalism. The qualifying "classical" is now usually necessary, in English-speaking countries at least (but not, for instance, in France), because liberalism has come to be associated with wide-ranging interference with private property and the market on behalf of egalitarian goals. This version of liberalism - if such it can still be called - is sometimes designated as "social," or (erroneously) "modern" or the "new," liberalism.
@@dsvet See, this is why we have a split. Also, thank you for the thoughtful answer. I used to be a Conservative. Grew up as one. My first husband watched Fox and listened to Rush. Thing is, the orgy of "OMG, those Libs are k-razy. They live in this country and yet want to destroy it by doing all these silly, wacky things!" started when Clinton was elected. My ex-husband had one objection to the man I can still see today. Bill did all sorts of shady things in Arkansas. But the rest of it has been a non-stop propaganda machine against what Conservative pundits SAY Liberals believe in. Some Liberals do go to extremes, MOST DON'T. But that's boring, and and does not get ratings. So for each 1000 Liberals who are the "old fashioned" kind, we get the white-hot focus on whoever is at the fringe. Liberals believe in the following. Yes, we do. Every person I know of this persuasion believes these things, hear it out of the horses' mouth for a change, k? We know the infrastructure and police and schools in this country are one reason we are a great nation. YOU CAN'T get those results from private firms building for their self interest alone. I'll be happy to discuss why if you wish. A feeling of national pride where we all kick in to have a regulated, efficient, and well ordered infrastructure is KEY to our way of life. Taxes are not fun, but if we are a nation, we must have things which we do as one unit. Otherwise, why even bother being a country? Our health care system is a horrible mess. We are not #1 in care, but we pay more than any other First World nation for far, far less. ALL of those other countries, including the large country of Australia, have much better government run health care programs than we do. Period. I know the myth is it's a horror show of long lines, but the truth is, all I've ever heard in person is lots of positive, not much negative. Also, health care costs are a major reason for bankruptcy in this nation. That's not true anywhere else, not even close. Insurance companies are ruthless bastards who spew toxic propaganda against any kind of improvement in the system. So Heath Care, that's one thing Liberals would love to change and make Federal, not private. Education is another key issue. Sure, you don't want to pay extra taxes for little Johnny Smith down the block to grow up and get a PhD. Why should you, he's not your kid, right? But little Johnny Smith could be the doctor who saves your life. He could be a genius engineer who helps make the world a better place. He, and all the other straight A students are the people who will make tomorrow a better world. That's been true in the past. The kids who grow up to be cashiers and plumbers and mechanics and dental assistants can get fairly affordable schooling. But, let's face it, the things we have like computers and all our conveniences and modern medicine were not invented by Joe Blow who had 2 years learning HVAC. You are investing in the future when you make it possible to get a higher education without going deeply into debt. The environment. We have much more of a pro-environment, anti build-at-all-costs attitude than Conservatives. My husband is an environmental scientist. He's alarmed and saddened by the recent environmental cutbacks. Trusting greedy big business over people who want clean water, land, and air is not a winning way to go. I know, then we get to the tricky stuff. Guns, abortion, Feminism. Guns: I have a gun. My husband owns several. EVERY Liberal I know personally owns a damn gun. We're not coming for guns. We would like stricter regulation on guns, and close gun sale loopholes. Abortion: We're for it. Feminism: Many people don't know this, but the ERA never passed. It's totally legal to pay a women less. I know several women who are. Yeah, this one is a land mine of opinion. After that, keep in mind. Liberals occupy the same country as you do. They pay taxes. Put their kids though school. Go to football games, and so forth. We aren't out to take down a place we do love and live in. Try to understand that.
@@lisathuban8969 As tempters, yet trustworthy, that wall text i saw once may apply here, not sure though, but the word "propaganda" always seems to have a negative ring to it. .....................o yeah, 5000 years bhrhrhrhrrr.
@@lisathuban8969 Me neither now , thought i wanted to comment on someone saying that this period was a time when there was highly pressing and advertising certain ideals, and it wasn't clear to me if also an opinion about that was ventilated, so that's i guess why i posted this, because often when people try swaying public opinion, it seems to invoke a lot of negativity from people, just for the sake of it being such a mass unpersonal thing, and the intentions behind it could easily be good, but often are met with suspicion from the public (me anyway i know of myself, and not all but many others often i think). Still vague may be, hope i cleared it up a bit. Like i said, can't see comment i thought i was responding to.
Ferde Grofé composed a tone poem in honor of the Trylon and Perisphere, on commission from the 1939 World’s Fair. Where can I listen to it? Someone posted his 1964 World’s Fair Suite, but I’m looking for the tone poem Trylon and Perisphere.
Так нужно одеваться ,вести себя тактично,обоятельные.В той эпохи 39 годах такие красивые элегантные люди были,не смотря на воинов.А у нас плохо одеваются.Сегодня все есть ,для людей настоящее время.Но проходят неухоженные бабаи,молодежь как самарские шпаны.
Oh, Jim, it's so good to see you, you're looking fine, says Mrs. Middleton. In those days she didn't mean what that would mean today. Then it was acknowledging his health and condition, not how attractive he is. Also, interesting the exchange with Bud and Jim about facts.
Slipped into a rabbit hole of old movies. Im hooked! What a different time. I look around me now and cringe at how far we've fallen.
Ain’t it the Truth! 🥲Thank Goodness for the movies!
In a lot of ways we have rose as well too though. You're just not thinking deep enough. The black lady working in the kitchen who can't sit and eat with them or use their bathroom and the gays who were scared to be themselves or women who couldn't think for themselves. TIMES HAVEN'T CHANGED that much in 90 years at all when you think humans have been around 10s of thousands of years.
Uh, the good old days weren’t always good. White middle class straight men had it best of all so I understand why it would seem we have “slipped”, but educated women, people of color, and non-straights would mostly agree they’d never want to go back to those times.
Привет из России, из Сибири! Я тоже смотрю эти видео, они очень интересные! В старые времена люди больше старались быть представительными, чем сейчас.
“Sex Discrimination Act passed in 1975, banks - as well as employers and other institutions - were legally required to treat women and men equally. From this point, a woman could open a bank account in her own name and apply for a mortgage without facing discrimination, in theory.
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Much about the good old days wasn’t good esp for women and the poor, Native Americans (millions here in peace thousands of yrs before Europeans ‘found’ the land), African Americans, Italian, Japanese …hmmm there’s a trend. Edit: girls often discouraged from going to college/university over marriage and kids.
My grandfather is the same age as that boy at the beginning. He watched this with me and said if he'd interrupted his father and was so sarcastic, he would have been smacked into next week.
I woulda smacked him myself! I was raised not to interrupt myself. I raised my son now 18, not to be rude .I’m cringing at that kids rudeness.
Yes, same here. If you either interrupted or back talked,,you would be sent to your room and punished. As a teen I still remember back talking my Mom,,,and the smack across my face knocked me off the chair. I was told to go to my room and do not come out until you have learned why you’re their. It’s called respect,,, something many nowadays do not understand.
Love Jimmy Lydon as Henry Aldrich. Passed this year @ 98 RIP .
That's Hollywood for you!
I’m an 80s kid and even in the 80s that bad behaviour would of been disciplined too!
RIP Jimmy Lydon, the boy who played Bud - Died at age 98 (March 9, 2022)
1939 when kids wore three piece suits.
Hail Bob!
Only the kids whose fathers owned successful depression-proof businesses and could afford to keep Grandma in her own big home with a maid.
I grew up in the 70s and I wore a suit as a kid lol
Everyday clothes for after school and play, corduroy knickers, argyle knee socks, canvas high top shoes, button up shirt with pullover sweater, cap. There are many photos of my uncle and mother from the 1920s and 1930s.
@@dumbbo1 Very true! My Dad had a friend who lived in what is today, still a 3 million dollar home in Jamaica Estates, Queens, NY. Marty’s family had a gardener, a housemaid, and a cook. His father owned a number of office supply stores in NYC and New Jersey. My grandfather worked for one of the stores driving a delivery truck. Normally, the two would never have crossed paths, but Marty sometimes played stickball with some boys on the “other” side of the Grand Central Parkway. He and Dad were introduced by a mutual friend. In talking, they figured out the connection. My Grandpa made a good impression and he eventually got him connected to a business friend. For a time, my father drove one of the trucks. Sadly, Marty got drafted to Korea and was killed on his first day of combat.
Who knew the REAL time capsule is us being able to watch these and other "educational" videos 50 to 80 years later!!! 🐢🐢🐢cara
Kid's supposedly from Indiana yet has a ridiculously strong New York accent. I love it.
He moved apparently I guess?
Uhhhhhh ITS CLARK GABLE
They moved to NY for him, he wasn't probably a baby.
And nobody else in the family speaks like that.
They all have theatrical accents, not common NY accents.
Falling through the rabbit hole of this channel, and those like it, makes me nostalgic for a time I was not a part of.
Me too. I want so much to go back in time. Yet we are looking at the past with eyes of the present and not seeing it for what it was truly like, if we did go back in time I don't think it would be as we imagine it by watching stuff like this. I wasn't real life after all. If people in 80 or more years came back to our time would understand it any better? I can't help but wonder that. We would say what's so exciting ? Its just real life as boring as anytime. However again I feel like that too.
Well said! But I'm not so sure how great it was, hence the invention of Hollywood CA and such propagandist films. And they were and clearly still are.C'mon.. Dig even the slightest bit deeper into history and you will change you mind about what you have or have been tried to teach.@@randydelaney7053
So this is what my Friday nights have come to now in the middle of a pandemic, ive watched everything now i gotta go retro
You gotta watch Steady Crafting.
You mean Plan-Demic 😉
I wish.
It’s December 2021 and I’m in the same boat now
Omg....I was born in the 1990s, and if I'd yelled at my gran about how "Hey, we're starvin' out here, how's the chow comin?!" without a "please" or offering to help I'd have gotten my ears boxed
That one part I chalked up to joking. The other parts, tho…rude!
They were seeding the youth to start rebelling with Bud. Kids back then were way more respectful to their parents.
My mother graduated from college in 1939.. She often talked about her father taking the family to the Chicago World's Fair in 1934, and the Homes of Tomorrow exhibit.
Jimmy Lydon, who played Bud Middleton, is still alive as of 2021. He is 97 years old.
And to think covid killed more Americans in 1 year than all the wars he lived thru combined.
@@hydrocarbon82 Um no. Get a grip.
@@hydrocarbon82 Unreal how moronic people have become in less than 2 years. On Sept. 22, CNN triumphantly announced that 200,000 people had died from COVID-19 in the United States.
CNN tried various ways of rubbing in the 200,000 figure. Their best effort was an infographic blaring, "US COVID-19 deaths are equal to having the 9/11 attacks every day for 66 days."
Here' s a less biased, but less catchy, comparison:
2020' s attributed COVID-19 deaths were equivalent to having another 2017-2018 flu and pneumonia season boosted by 13 percent.
@@NationandState And the overwhelming majority of Covid deaths came through due to people's comorbidities. Few actual healthy people actually die from it.
@@jrr6947 Totally!
I wish there had been a sequel produced for the 1964 fair, perhaps focusing on the next generation of Middletons. That would have been so cute.
Oh that would have been WAY TOO POLITICALLY INCORRECT BY THEN!
It's amazing how everything was done with pride back then. Everything not just manners and appearance. Cars, appliances, prices, jobs, music, movies and tv shows even commercials.
That is becausenofilthyillega*swerepouriginfromdumpcountries back then. htat came here back then were respectable immigrants from Switzerland, Italy, Poland, Ireland, England came here to WORK HARD adn be successful, not freebies and demanding free verything- HTAT Is what is ruining our American Aesthetic- THAT and cheap CHINESE junk- htanks China for our calssic stores and departmet stores closing like Sears, Montgomery Wards, part of my childhood, now lost, it is sick and purposeful.
@jimrockford1283I do get your point, but I'm moved to say that even that was done with pride, unlike our sleazy little wars today
We don't even know they're happening.
@dammitbobby283 what does that have to do with the original statement? Nothin, I tellyawhut.
So good I wish it was 2 hours! Bud's one liners crack me up. The whole script and acting, excellent. The first synthesizer ( though not called that) the wondrous *HAMMOND NOVACHORD* was at this fair.
Wish I still had my Jupiter 8.
1939: "no opportunities" 1942: "not what we had in mind!"
In our family archives is a handful of black & white snapshots from the 1939 World's Fair when my parents, then newlyweds, visited it from Colorado. They bought a little souvenir, a metal sculpture of the "Trylon & Perisphere," which still sits on my shelf of treasured heirlooms.
My mom was born in 1939 dad 1940. I would have never yelled at my mom “what’s for dinner, I’m hungry” and if I did my dad would have had something to say to me or my sisters. Or even my mom would of had something to say or do.
Everyone started a sentence with the word SAY, now a sentence starts with the word SO. Times have changed. 😂
Truth!
Nope, Now everything begins with 'like'.
Charming piece of TV history. Amazing how RUclips allows us to make time traveling - besides serving as an archive for later generations to come. I do like the style of the 3os anyway. 👍
1939...that was the period when actress Hedy lamarr had made such an impact on the females of that era. Notice the daughter and Mother with black hair and a part in the middle, which Miss Lamarr was noted for.
Worth noting she was also an inventor on par with any of the things in this video, doing a lot of integral work on the technology that would later become secure wi fi, bluetooth and GPS. Most people overlook the fact she was a Brilliant mind as well as a pretty face.
Excellent look back to an era gone by. People criticize the culture of that day but in many cases it helped us to learn and correct our mistakes. Reliving the past is one way to insure that we don’t repeat it. On a brighter note we should look at this for what it might have been in its day, a way to look for a brighter future. Think positive people!
This was before people knew of Nazi atrocities and how low and cruel people could be.
love this style wish we had it back
Wow. Just wow.
Thank you so very much for sharing!
I remember hearing about everything shown in this cute movie. Nice to actually be able to see all of it.
My mom went to NYWF 1939, on vacation, with her folks, from Maryland, as a girl of 13.
I went to NYWF 1964, on vacation, with my folks, from Maryland, as a girl of 13.
Mama told me about some of the fascinating things she saw at 'her' Fair, including the closed circuit tv and the Robot man. And, of course, the Trylon and Perisphere.
We both thoroughly enjoyed the fascinating things we saw at 'my' Fair, including Mustangs and the Unisphere.
One thing we had in common with both of 'our' World's Fairs was the excitement and wonder that was on everybody's faces. Everybody. Young. Old. This state. That state. This country. That country. No fighting. No protesting. No fussing at someone just because they're 'different', regardless of whatever that 'difference' was.
All of us. Just happy to be there.
Just happy to be.
(edit for typo)
My dad was born in 1941, so this was in my grandparents' time. AMAZING 😍
My beautiful late grandmother was nine years old in 1939, I always wondered what kids did back in the day😉👍🏿
This is the first time I've seen this film in its entirety , now I know how it ends with Babs and Jim and that's been bugging for years :) Thanks for posting!
Marjorie Lord later became a cast member on "The Danny Thomas Show" during the show's second run on CBS, from 1957 to 1964.
Crazy how far New York has fallen
32:13 'The good old days, eh, Grandma?' 'Yes, and anybody who wants them can have my share.'
Hey I’ll take em
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They had optimism...even in 1939. It is probably a good thing they had no idea what was just around the corner (WWII). Hoping we are not living in a similar state of ignorant bliss. I just love these old movies of the future!
Where you living where ignorant bliss is still possible? I'm ready to run away from all this harsh reality. I was born into harsh reality so I'm kinda overdue for some ignorant bliss lol.
@@robinanders3954 So true, no ignorant bliss here...the world is a harsh place, seems like there is no end to the number of bad actors out there. Hopefully humankind can learn lessons from the past, and not repeat the same mistakes that led to wars and other tragedies.
Many may know that RCA premiered Television at the 1939/40 Fair.
Fewer know that Westinghouse had a Television exhibit at their pavilion. The camera Bud stands in front of is an experimental Westinghouse unit.
The microphone and receivers appear to be RCA units.
Westinghouse later owned TV stations across the country and produced many local and national shows, one being "The Mike Douglas Show" which started at a Westinghouse outlet in Cleveland before moving to Philadelphia.
On the west coast, Westinghouse syndicated " The Steve Allen Show" .
Another show from Dallas was " The Beat", episodes of which are posted elsewhere on YT.
Westinghouse shows all had the same set design which utilised large graphic elements and pastels which registered well on color TV sets of the 1960's.
All of the Westinghouse productions were of high technical quality, equivalent to other network offerings of the time.
Serving Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware in AM sterio. This is KYW news radio, a Westinghouse Broadcasting station!
@@Wa3ypx KYW, the home of the Mike Douglas show after it's move from Cleveland.
But do you know who really invented television?? …it was a young man whom the big companies that you named above refused to pay for his genius, who should have died rich, but who instead died relatively poor! Because they never gave him credit, I actually forgot his name, but he did indeed exist and he did invent television.
@@deboraholsen2504 Philo T Farnsworth was able to prove the viability of all electronic television.
After 2 lengthy court cases, he was named the rightful inventor.
RCA, which had done everything they could to disallow this was forced to pay Farnsworth a royalty for his work.
Unfortunately, by the time Farnsworth could have cashed in, the royalty agreement expired per the terms of the court judgement.
@@deboraholsen2504 sounds like the Nikola Tesla situation.
It’s so hard to believe how people were so DRESSED UP even that Kid in a Suit…..
My dad graduated in the early 1950's. Every male in his yearbook was wearing a suit for their pictures. It was so classy.
@@cjgem80 I would’ve LOVED to have Lived at that Time….Everything had RESPECT from your Parents to Your Grandparents even talking to other…….Just a BEAUTIFUL time to Live in….
Pretty sharp for 16mm, but looking at the dust, dirt artifacts, it probably is. Nice print. The sound is pretty decent too, typical for the era. Thanks for sharing this!
After impressively quoting stats on employment in the textile industry, it looks like Jim is winning over Bud. Little did they know that within 30 years most of those production jobs would go to the asians whose countries had had their populations decimated by armed conflict in the intervening years. I think that they call it 'cheap labor'.
No the English way was to make all the underpopulated English derivative Commonwealth countries a mixing bowl for 200 years and multiculturalism and be one-world government
Why do you care so much about "One World Govt"? What's it to you? You live on one planet. You worship one god. Maybe one world govt is the next step in our evolution?
@@mollflanders9314 Have fun with an unelected, unrepresented by the people, dictatorial communist one world government. For a possible idea of what it might be like look at North Korea , China or Russia etc. Sadly you've been brainwashed by your education system, your lying treasonous complicit government and the lying complicit media if you think one world government is good.
@@Prieze868 No that was NOT the English way. The English way was to establish infrastructure both judicial and governmental , business/economy, educational and healthcare infrastructures so these colonies could later self govern themselves. The English were against interracial marriage and multicultures as a rule preferring to keep themselves and their own culture intact and undefiled and undiluted. Multiculturalism was FORCED on England and the British Commonwealth and the USA and South Africa and Rhodesia and Australia, Germany, Holland, Denmark and all the Western Protestant Christian nations by their treasonous traitorous government who made secret deals and arrangements behind the people's backs and WITHOUT their consent.
Jimmy Lydon’s voice actually got HIGHER when he got older. He played Henry Aldrich (replacing Jackie Cooper) and then as Clarence Jr in Life With Father (with lovely teenage Liz Taylor!) just a few years later.
dumbbo1, Liz Taylor is the most ugly woman ever. Louise Brooks she ain't.
I love love this video! ❤ I wish they would have turned this into a miniseries. 😄 I want to see them marry and Bud grow up some. 😊 I really enjoyed it. 💚
"mom, dad, I'm dating my teacher".. "that's nice, honey"
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Lol! You can't beat these old movies, this one managed to be a Leave it to Beaver comedy, one huge Westinghouse ad, and a pro-capitalist / anti-Communist propaganda piece all in one. Add the most stereotypical caricature of a black maid since Gone with the Wind for bonus points.
Hate to inform you of this but there was virtually no anti-Communist propaganda in the USA until the 1950's when the Cold War really went into high gear and it became "imperative" to tell every average Joe and his second cousin's, dentist's dog who the "enemy" was and McCarthyism reigned supreme. Prior to the Cold War the USA saw itself as wholly self-sustainable and utterly unconcerned with whatever happened in Europe or elsewhere (the Monroe Doctrine still applied) so there was absolutely no need to have any propaganda about anything. The USA was seen as a fantastic oasis surrounded by two huge oceans. Without a large foreign threat there was no need to be worried. Heck very few Americans cared about what happened in Germany in the 1930's and if anybody pointed a warning finger at Hitler most Americans just said:"Well, he's in Germany and we're here in America what could he possibly do to us? So far he has done nothing and if he does it's not our problem or concern."
As for the view of the Soviet Union back then. It was seen as some agrarian, poor state which was so poorly industrialized it would struggle to survive on its own much less become a threat to the USA. It might as well have been located on the Moon.
While educated politicians and scholars could see an emerging threat the average Joe was much more concerned the the still ongoing Great Depression, whether the next president could keep his big promises or whether his team did well in the World Series.
The big shots and bankers feared powerful unions and their "partners" a lot more.
Other than that your comment is spot on. Funny too.
@@tiberiusclaudiuscaesar5238 Hate to inform you, but In the United States, anti-communism came to prominence during the First Red Scare of 1919-1920. During the 1920s and 1930s, opposition to communism in Europe was promoted by conservatives, fascists, liberals, and social democrats. Fascist governments rose to prominence as major opponents of communism in the 1930s. Anti-communism was alive and well in all capitalist countries like America prior to WWII. Anti communism was not an invention of the Cold War.
@@wolfshanze5980 Considering how bloody the Russian Civil war was along with the genocide that happened in the Ukraine, it's not hard to imagine why anti-communist sentiment was particular high in the 20s-30s.
“Well we may be waiting but i don’t think it’s noticeable” he got a point there lol
Totally awesome video and quality I really enjoy this
54:01 "I wonder if the years ahead will be as bright as this?"....1939...0h...well, er...em 🙈
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yup
Brighter than the sun, at least in Japan.
@@hydrocarbon82 OuT oF PoCkEt
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Marjorie Lord, who play "Babs" here, is the mother of Anne Archer.
Anne is the wife of Michael Douglas in the film, "Fatal Attraction".
Marjorie died in 2015 at the age of 97.
Jimmy Lydon is alive at 98.
Thanks for that. Always loved Anne. Very interesting.
This is a truly excellent movie.
This Truly, Truly Exceptional.
Over 80 years later, and people are still arguing about the same issues of today....The son in the movie (Bud) complains how young people can't find good jobs and the father tells Bud to keep his chin up, because....capitalism.
Bud's sister is dating a socialist/communist who's also an art teacher, and he complains about how futuristic technology is ruining American jobs. The engineer (Jim) feels that the future tech markets are the answer to America's industry problems, and companies like Westinghouse will create thousands of jobs and help private industry thrive under capitalism. And they all really want to make the communist look like the cheap greasy asshole.
I mean, it's an industrial film. It can be expected to be a little tendentious. :-P
The evil communists must be exposed for who and what they are!
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Because communism is so wonderful, right??🤦♀️Good grief.
@@serenitypeaceandcomfort3669 it’s red scare propaganda in its early years
Pretty Amazing. I'm amazed how relevant this movie is to young people today. I showed it to my teens. They cracked up at the love triangle with the communist.
Just checked and Bud Is still alive! Love that Robot. Wonder if any props are still around
The time capsules are still there
Electro is in Mansfield Ohio
The daughter Barbara “Bebs” died in 2015. She was the mother of Anne Archer.
Oh yeah, and atop the flagpole at my Alma Mater was a brass eagle that came directly from this World Fair. Formerly on a big swastica, it was donated to the Fair by Hitler. I used to look up at it and marvel at the history it has seen.
@@jumboJetPilot Germany didn't participate in the 1939 NYWF. Japan did though.
Pride in Country and Hope for the future are definitely relics of the past.
September 1939 WWII begins.
Started for the historical information, continued because I had to know if Jim and Babs ended up together
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First off, this was excellent. I just wanna shred light on the way this time period not only references the opposite perspectives of most viewers but straight up puts their arguments into a character to conversate in a respectful and tame manor with the opposing views being calmly explained to not only swoon the characters thinking but also the masses watching at home. today, people are so stubborn and solidified in even the most trivial arguments, most dedicate their time to their pocket of likeminded media constantly fueling their solidarity, this seems fine for the most part but without media like this there's no middle ground to meet, and I'm not talking heavy stuff like region or politics, more tame stuff like openly gay relatives for Christian families or something common to present both perspectives using just this as an example of how a lot of people looked down on certain aspects of the progression of an electric modern society ruling it all off as unworthy of any rebuttal, but with media like this it can help express both views in a neutral setting to show there are some parts they do disagree with but some points they haven't heard might peak their interest
...not as Black&Smile. And "sentence" and etc etc yuck!
Huh?
An OLD FASHION WAY. Love
This would be great for the guys at MST3k to get their hands on!
Your “cooking” and then she hands them grapefruits 😂
I think it was just the first course.
43:59- Ray Perkins did emcee a "LETTERS HOME" (from the New York World's Fair) radio show on NBC's Blue Network- Sunday afternoons at 5:45pm(et)- during the spring and summer of 1939.
Jimmy seriously reminds me of Ray Bolger aka the Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz.
Grandparents were common as part of the family nucleus
Smart grandma.
What? 80 years later and we still haven't invented a way to put dishes away (from dishwasher to kitchen cabinet)?
The ultimate concept is to have 2 dishwashers installed side by side. You take clean dishes from one, and use the other to hold the dirty dishes. You just alternate back and forth, as you use the dishes. In this way, you never have to unload a dishwasher again, unless you have an excessive amount of dishes to do. In that case, you now have 2 dishwashers to ease that burden as well!
It's called children.
@@DistantVision85 Brilliant!
37:30 That one went right over her head. Good old 'second choice' Jimmy, romance of the year.
This 1939 ny worlds fair is very interesting, specially with that time capsule, so great video and ty for restoring the Middleton family film.
So the robot had 48 bits of processing power. 6 bytes.
and my grandma was born in October 12, 1936.
I think I might have "accidentally" tripped the art teacher 3 minutes after meeting him....
Mrs Drudge was quite the dish! No pun intended of course!
I saw an ad for this short about The 1939 New York World's Fair in a 1939 issue of Life Magazine. The family were portrayed as cartoon characters.
Bud was killed in the battle of Iwo Jima at the age of 19 in 1945. Jim joined the army right after Pearl Harbor and perished as paratrooper behind the lines of Normandy in D-Day 1944. He was survived by his son (born '42) with Babs whom he married. Makaroff left for Russia and joined the red army in 1941 and was killed in action with German 6th army in Stalingrad the following winter.
this... All of thus.
Ah yes, Middleton lore.
James Lydon died in 2022. Douglas Stark died in 2009. George Lewis died in 1995.
The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair" was a film produced by Westinghouse that utilized both motion pictures and television technology. It was one of the first films to blend these mediums, showcasing the capabilities of both during the 1939 New York World's Fair
38:37 - 39:00
1. Tesla
2. Tesla
3. Tesla
everything old is NEW again.
Grandma was cool, I tink I would hang out with Bud
I like the picture wallpaper. Watching clips from the 40’s the hideous wallpaper patterns were hard to look at. Very popular in the 40’s
Loved watching Jim pick that Commie Nick apart. "Funny how a guy with facts can break up an argument." Well said, Bud. Well said.
Exactly! 😂
1:15 - Huntington, NY?!? Oh my, I’d say Huntington is just slightly different now!!!
I freaked out when I realized I was watching this on September 23rd, same day as the time capsule. 😳
....pretty cool movie!!
Dad: "My, I never realized what a good looking daughter I have."
Could you say that just a little creepier, Pops?
Modern eyes ruins everything.
Back then people didn't think twice about a simple compliment. Today everybody is so paranoid 24/7 everything is over-analyzed and people have become incredibly thin-skinned. No wonder all kinds of personality disorders and autism have become commonplace.
That dad in 1939 simply expressed his pride.
Today he *must* be an incestuous creep.
Like I said: Modern eyes ruins everything.
Humor in particular where everybody seems offended over everything.
And if your comment was meant as a joke. Like I said: Bad humor today too.
TiberiusClaudius Caesar I agree with you, and yet that was my first reaction as well. I had to remind myself that there really is nothing wrong with a complement like that. It did (and does) bother me, though, that my first reaction was as expressed above: Creepy.
@@tiberiusclaudiuscaesar5238 I'm Autistic and that has nothing to do with it. it's a pervasive Neurodevelopmental disability and Neurotype. We have always existed. Every unborn baby has a 50/50 chance of developing this way. Don't talk about things you clearly don't understand.
@@tiberiusclaudiuscaesar5238 So sexual harassment, rape and social issues didn't exist until modern times in your strange perspective of reality and history?
Guess you have no idea how information evolved either.
@@erictroup5094 I’m totally agree and I felt the same way when he said it.
Small town America. We've lost so much.
... yeah like segregation
@@airmark02 Ya know, theres always one.
Every dumb comment deserves another. 🤣
@@rexpositor6741 And every comment doesn't deserve a comment.
@@airmark02 No. Democrats are back to pushing for segregation today.
Second time watching this amazing footage..So many invaluable life lessons!! Please Lord God restore family faith freedom integrity and morality to our society!🙏🦅🇺🇸💕⚖️
Anyone else notice how Westinghouse is bragging about how their dishwasher cleans dishes in under 8 mins?
Why did it take 8 mins for a washer to clean dishes back in 1939..but my dishwasher takes well over an hour to do in 2021? I don't know what kind of dishwasher you have right now, but I guarantee it takes WAY longer than 8 mins. Energy Saver rating my ass
I don't mind. Listening to mydishwasher cycling is ASMR to my ears.
Here's a grapefruit with sugar "grandma's cooking" .......
6939?!!! That's pretty ambitious.
So literally as soon as we could shout our rants to strangers, we did.
Yea i know but its things that we head while grown up.Its always the same i guess when i was age we did this or we didnt that.but for us its to late but i wish i had some of those talks back then.my grandmom brought me up and she did tell me.but i like it
I did a double take when grandma compared working in the kitchen to actual slavery, proclaiming "That's why I like electrical engineers. They signed our emancipation proclamation". Oh how times were supposed to change for the better. Ignorance, bigotry, racism, sexism, chauvinism, hatred, and the like is once again thriving in the open. We almost got to a point where most of this nasty ideology was in decline thanks to individuals and groups maintaining a low profile, thus reducing their influence on young impressionable minds. However that all changed when the great Obama family moved to Washington. Their hard earned ascent and historic victory flipped a switch in a large portion of privileged and insecure whites. In unimaginable form Republicans seized on hatred, using it to widen the divide in America; culminating in Trumps narrow win in 2016. Since then this nation has been further apart and spewing hatred. Both sides of the political aisle retreated to the far extremes on their side in a tit for tat game to cancel out their opposing counterpart. The political establishment in America so effectively utilized our ever widening division political leaders across the globe replicated their success. I hate the trajectory America and the rest of the world is heading. Mankind is heading for moral bankruptcy thanks to the rise in ignorance, racism, hatred, sexism, bigotry, chauvinism, and the like, as well as religious hypocrisy. I never imagined I would once again witness open and blatant hate fueled extremism and violence against others simply for their skin color, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, political affiliation,or simply being born as they are. It's as if mankind has lost all sense of right and wrong. We are witnessing a near total annihilation of morals, compassion, understanding, tolerance, and personal accountability. It's sickening and heart wrenching.
P.s. Electro-Man was a fraud.
Pre WW2 and anti communism is thick even then. Very telling.
Yeah it was there from the 20's.. Made the Nazi's more attractive to some as they were anti Soviet too. (You don't see even an off hand slap at them.) And not so telling as it was an expected point of tension all through the war of what would happen when the two sides finally met.
@@postal_the_clown
Not in the US. It's possible to anticommunist and anti Nazi. They're two sides of the same coin. Like Democrats and "Antifa"(quotes because antifa are fascists in disguise).
@@harsesishoktar9386 Read-up on the German-American Bund. See if some of their catchphrases don't sound familiar in the idol worship of 45. (or did I miss the golden statue of any living Dem?)
Huh? My Dad was Antifa, and so was every guy who crossed the ocean between 1941--1945 to kick Hitler's ass. You don't know what you are talking about. Go Google WWII.
@@postal_the_clown It sounds more like the idol worship of Obama and Hillary.
Wonderful
It's true, automation has freed up many people to seek new opportunity in less dangerous professions, like information technology, health & social services, hospitality & food services, entertainment, business services, marketing, the arts, as well as social media influencers!
That subversive art teach was a rascal I say. And how!
Yaaas. What a cad!
Smooth footage
Nick is the Bernie Sanders of the day
Bernie's got good ideas. And he speaks the truth. Even Bill Gates and Andrew Yang said that by 2050, 47% of jobs are gonna be automated.
People sure had more style in those days. Boy, I wonder what they would think of the slovenly way in which we dress today. Torn jeans and all.
Leggings are a marvel of comfort for the disabled and you can pry them from my cold dead hands.
That art teacher is a jerk.
6:23 the toast is toast. How old are you young Bud? You'll have plenty of opportunity for a career with the upcoming WORLD WAR.
Why with radar and missiles and such, there's no limit what a fella could do!
All passed Away except Bud
35:48 oh man, if only he lived long enough to see Boston Dynamic's machines
I wouldn't want a boyfriend that idolizes Karl Marx either.
I wouldn't want a boyfriend that idolizes a moneygrubbing bag of fat in a $600 suit who pays for sex. Psst...talking bout trump.
@@mollflanders9314 What are you, 12? Grow up. You sound so ignorant and adolescent. Your Bill Clinton raped women in the White House as President. Get educated before you make yourself a fool.
They're called Soy boys or betas
I think the "Commie - Artist" character was a lot more like a Luddite (people who were against the Industrial Revolution 200 years ago) than a Communist. An actual Communist would of been interested in the machinery, but scornful of the economic way of life it was holding up. I kind of knew he'd be the bad guy the moment they mentioned he was an "artist".
You can actually see the Conservative/Liberal split we are dealing with now, in this film. The artist is presented as an unrealistic snob who abhors (for some kind of strange reasons) progress. The good guys are clean cut, all American men who believe in the Capitalistic way of life.
And, you know? As a space-cadet, Socialistic artist myself, I also have a certain amount of nostalgia for that happy and optimistic vibe America used to have about itself. I do understand this about any Conservative I speak to, either in person, or online. You want the magic back, and are tired of hearing about the negative stuff. I do get that, even though I don't agree on much else.
Lots of propaganda was going on back then, right before WWII. Interesting they seemed very on guard against the Russians, but no mention of the Nazis.
It must of been an amazing fair. Walt Disney seems to of taken many basic ideas from it for his parks, and they are still around today.
Except back then a liberal was a person who believed in free markets, sound money personal liberty and limited government.
"Classical liberalism" is the term used to designate the ideology advocating private property, an unhampered market economy, the rule of law, constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion and of the press, and international peace based on free trade. Up until around 1900, this ideology was generally known simply as liberalism. The qualifying "classical" is now usually necessary, in English-speaking countries at least (but not, for instance, in France), because liberalism has come to be associated with wide-ranging interference with private property and the market on behalf of egalitarian goals. This version of liberalism - if such it can still be called - is sometimes designated as "social," or (erroneously) "modern" or the "new," liberalism.
@@dsvet See, this is why we have a split. Also, thank you for the thoughtful answer.
I used to be a Conservative. Grew up as one. My first husband watched Fox and listened to Rush.
Thing is, the orgy of "OMG, those Libs are k-razy. They live in this country and yet want to destroy it by doing all these silly, wacky things!" started when Clinton was elected. My ex-husband had one objection to the man I can still see today. Bill did all sorts of shady things in Arkansas.
But the rest of it has been a non-stop propaganda machine against what Conservative pundits SAY Liberals believe in.
Some Liberals do go to extremes, MOST DON'T. But that's boring, and and does not get ratings. So for each 1000 Liberals who are the "old fashioned" kind, we get the white-hot focus on whoever is at the fringe.
Liberals believe in the following. Yes, we do. Every person I know of this persuasion believes these things, hear it out of the horses' mouth for a change, k?
We know the infrastructure and police and schools in this country are one reason we are a great nation. YOU CAN'T get those results from private firms building for their self interest alone. I'll be happy to discuss why if you wish.
A feeling of national pride where we all kick in to have a regulated, efficient, and well ordered infrastructure is KEY to our way of life.
Taxes are not fun, but if we are a nation, we must have things which we do as one unit. Otherwise, why even bother being a country?
Our health care system is a horrible mess. We are not #1 in care, but we pay more than any other First World nation for far, far less. ALL of those other countries, including the large country of Australia, have much better government run health care programs than we do. Period.
I know the myth is it's a horror show of long lines, but the truth is, all I've ever heard in person is lots of positive, not much negative. Also, health care costs are a major reason for bankruptcy in this nation. That's not true anywhere else, not even close.
Insurance companies are ruthless bastards who spew toxic propaganda against any kind of improvement in the system.
So Heath Care, that's one thing Liberals would love to change and make Federal, not private.
Education is another key issue. Sure, you don't want to pay extra taxes for little Johnny Smith down the block to grow up and get a PhD. Why should you, he's not your kid, right?
But little Johnny Smith could be the doctor who saves your life. He could be a genius engineer who helps make the world a better place. He, and all the other straight A students are the people who will make tomorrow a better world. That's been true in the past.
The kids who grow up to be cashiers and plumbers and mechanics and dental assistants can get fairly affordable schooling. But, let's face it, the things we have like computers and all our conveniences and modern medicine were not invented by Joe Blow who had 2 years learning HVAC.
You are investing in the future when you make it possible to get a higher education without going deeply into debt.
The environment. We have much more of a pro-environment, anti build-at-all-costs attitude than Conservatives. My husband is an environmental scientist. He's alarmed and saddened by the recent environmental cutbacks. Trusting greedy big business over people who want clean water, land, and air is not a winning way to go.
I know, then we get to the tricky stuff. Guns, abortion, Feminism.
Guns: I have a gun. My husband owns several. EVERY Liberal I know personally owns a damn gun. We're not coming for guns. We would like stricter regulation on guns, and close gun sale loopholes.
Abortion: We're for it.
Feminism: Many people don't know this, but the ERA never passed. It's totally legal to pay a women less. I know several women who are. Yeah, this one is a land mine of opinion.
After that, keep in mind. Liberals occupy the same country as you do. They pay taxes. Put their kids though school. Go to football games, and so forth. We aren't out to take down a place we do love and live in. Try to understand that.
@@lisathuban8969 As tempters, yet trustworthy, that wall text i saw once may apply here, not sure though, but the word "propaganda" always seems to have a negative ring to it. .....................o yeah, 5000 years bhrhrhrhrrr.
@@Geert365 I have no idea what you're saying.
@@lisathuban8969 Me neither now , thought i wanted to comment on someone saying that this period was a time when there was highly pressing and advertising certain ideals, and it wasn't clear to me if also an opinion about that was ventilated, so that's i guess why i posted this, because often when people try swaying public opinion, it seems to invoke a lot of negativity from people, just for the sake of it being such a mass unpersonal thing, and the intentions behind it could easily be good, but often are met with suspicion from the public (me anyway i know of myself, and not all but many others often i think). Still vague may be, hope i cleared it up a bit. Like i said, can't see comment i thought i was responding to.
Ferde Grofé composed a tone poem in honor of the Trylon and Perisphere, on commission from the 1939 World’s Fair. Where can I listen to it? Someone posted his 1964 World’s Fair Suite, but I’m looking for the tone poem Trylon and Perisphere.
Так нужно одеваться ,вести себя тактично,обоятельные.В той эпохи 39 годах такие красивые элегантные люди были,не смотря на воинов.А у нас плохо одеваются.Сегодня все есть ,для людей настоящее время.Но проходят неухоженные бабаи,молодежь как самарские шпаны.
Oh, Jim, it's so good to see you, you're looking fine, says Mrs. Middleton. In those days she didn't mean what that would mean today. Then it was acknowledging his health and condition, not how attractive he is. Also, interesting the exchange with Bud and Jim about facts.
Barbara's boyfriend looks like a young Stalin
My mother's dream of my future