Middleton Family New York World's Fair(1939)

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  • Опубликовано: 5 авг 2018
  • Sponsored film where a family visits the wondrous marvels of the World's Fair.
    We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V Geeks 16mm Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.

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  • @mandychapin9411
    @mandychapin9411 Год назад +83

    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.

    • @blossom1643
      @blossom1643 Год назад +3

      Ain’t it the Truth! 🥲Thank Goodness for the movies!

    • @95blahblahhaha
      @95blahblahhaha 11 месяцев назад +13

      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.

    • @avan5140
      @avan5140 10 месяцев назад +6

      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.

    • @newfic2290
      @newfic2290 10 месяцев назад +2

      Привет из России, из Сибири! Я тоже смотрю эти видео, они очень интересные! В старые времена люди больше старались быть представительными, чем сейчас.

    • @jmc8076
      @jmc8076 10 месяцев назад

      “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.

  • @jdeveraux1027
    @jdeveraux1027 2 года назад +162

    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.

    • @1goofymommy
      @1goofymommy 2 года назад +11

      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.

    • @shirley1413
      @shirley1413 2 года назад +12

      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.

    • @jonathanpikecoleman8838
      @jonathanpikecoleman8838 Год назад +7

      Love Jimmy Lydon as Henry Aldrich. Passed this year @ 98 RIP .

    • @createa.googleaccount713
      @createa.googleaccount713 Год назад +3

      That's Hollywood for you!

    • @HGCUPCAKES
      @HGCUPCAKES Год назад +5

      I’m an 80s kid and even in the 80s that bad behaviour would of been disciplined too!

  • @blockygamer6684
    @blockygamer6684 Год назад +13

    RIP Jimmy Lydon, the boy who played Bud - Died at age 98 (March 9, 2022)

  • @bridgetmcallister5829
    @bridgetmcallister5829 2 года назад +28

    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

    • @1goofymommy
      @1goofymommy 2 года назад +2

      That one part I chalked up to joking. The other parts, tho…rude!

    • @gutzycowardbme
      @gutzycowardbme 8 месяцев назад +1

      They were seeding the youth to start rebelling with Bud. Kids back then were way more respectful to their parents.

  • @GregoryLindsey1979
    @GregoryLindsey1979 3 года назад +106

    Kid's supposedly from Indiana yet has a ridiculously strong New York accent. I love it.

    • @madmikemackas
      @madmikemackas 3 года назад +5

      He moved apparently I guess?

    • @patefutch6168
      @patefutch6168 3 года назад +3

      Uhhhhhh ITS CLARK GABLE

    • @berenicemarchese1593
      @berenicemarchese1593 2 года назад +1

      They moved to NY for him, he wasn't probably a baby.

    • @dianagruver5767
      @dianagruver5767 2 года назад +1

      And nobody else in the family speaks like that.

    • @KenDanieli2
      @KenDanieli2 11 месяцев назад +6

      They all have theatrical accents, not common NY accents.

  • @RobCartwright
    @RobCartwright 9 месяцев назад +9

    Falling through the rabbit hole of this channel, and those like it, makes me nostalgic for a time I was not a part of.

    • @randydelaney7053
      @randydelaney7053 8 месяцев назад +2

      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.

    • @richard1849
      @richard1849 4 месяца назад

      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

  • @AiMR
    @AiMR 4 года назад +220

    1939 when kids wore three piece suits.

    • @Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu
      @Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu 4 года назад +4

      Hail Bob!

    • @dumbbo1
      @dumbbo1 3 года назад +33

      Only the kids whose fathers owned successful depression-proof businesses and could afford to keep Grandma in her own big home with a maid.

    • @mayamanign
      @mayamanign 3 года назад +15

      I grew up in the 70s and I wore a suit as a kid lol

    • @mariekatherine5238
      @mariekatherine5238 3 года назад +10

      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.

    • @mariekatherine5238
      @mariekatherine5238 3 года назад +6

      @@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.

  • @CountrySteve2
    @CountrySteve2 2 года назад +53

    Who knew the REAL time capsule is us being able to watch these and other "educational" videos 50 to 80 years later!!! 🐢🐢🐢cara

  • @waynejohnson1304
    @waynejohnson1304 3 года назад +63

    Jimmy Lydon, who played Bud Middleton, is still alive as of 2021. He is 97 years old.

    • @hydrocarbon8272
      @hydrocarbon8272 3 года назад +7

      And to think covid killed more Americans in 1 year than all the wars he lived thru combined.

    • @NationandState
      @NationandState 3 года назад +7

      @@hydrocarbon8272 Um no. Get a grip.

    • @NationandState
      @NationandState 3 года назад +2

      @@hydrocarbon8272 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.

    • @jrr6947
      @jrr6947 2 года назад +2

      @@NationandState And the overwhelming majority of Covid deaths came through due to people's comorbidities. Few actual healthy people actually die from it.

    • @NationandState
      @NationandState 2 года назад +2

      @@jrr6947 Totally!

  • @BlackBox863
    @BlackBox863 3 года назад +99

    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

    • @sclogse1
      @sclogse1 3 года назад +1

      You gotta watch Steady Crafting.

    • @PacificNorthwest360
      @PacificNorthwest360 3 года назад +7

      You mean Plan-Demic 😉

    • @annbell3864
      @annbell3864 2 года назад +1

      I wish.

    • @nursemarn
      @nursemarn 2 года назад +1

      It’s December 2021 and I’m in the same boat now

  • @mikedrown2721
    @mikedrown2721 2 года назад +24

    Everyone started a sentence with the word SAY, now a sentence starts with the word SO. Times have changed. 😂

  • @raginggaming666
    @raginggaming666 2 года назад +66

    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.

    • @larrywakeman4371
      @larrywakeman4371 Год назад

      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.

    • @dammitbobby283
      @dammitbobby283 10 месяцев назад +4

      Ok, but WW2 started 124 days after this video was made. People built bomb shelters in their backyards and practiced air raid drills in school hallways.

    • @sunnyadams5842
      @sunnyadams5842 9 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@dammitbobby283I 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.

  • @margaretirish705
    @margaretirish705 2 года назад +16

    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.

  • @magpietexas9475
    @magpietexas9475 2 года назад +25

    1939: "no opportunities" 1942: "not what we had in mind!"

  • @saraanderson6615
    @saraanderson6615 Год назад +8

    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.

  • @explorepikespeak
    @explorepikespeak 8 месяцев назад +3

    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.

  • @deefitzgerald2906
    @deefitzgerald2906 2 года назад +10

    It’s so hard to believe how people were so DRESSED UP even that Kid in a Suit…..

    • @cjgem80
      @cjgem80 Год назад +1

      My dad graduated in the early 1950's. Every male in his yearbook was wearing a suit for their pictures. It was so classy.

    • @deefitzgerald2906
      @deefitzgerald2906 Год назад +6

      @@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….

  • @noel888
    @noel888 4 года назад +37

    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.

    • @kiyadenham6515
      @kiyadenham6515 2 года назад +6

      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.

  • @emmarose4234
    @emmarose4234 3 года назад +66

    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.

  • @sailingonasummerbreeze7892
    @sailingonasummerbreeze7892 Год назад +8

    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!

    • @robinanders3954
      @robinanders3954 8 месяцев назад +2

      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.

    • @sailingonasummerbreeze7892
      @sailingonasummerbreeze7892 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@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.

  • @LaptopLarry330
    @LaptopLarry330 2 года назад +7

    Marjorie Lord later became a cast member on "The Danny Thomas Show" during the show's second run on CBS, from 1957 to 1964.

  • @dammitbobby283
    @dammitbobby283 10 месяцев назад +3

    Little known fact, the two time capsulea are actually buried at the highest point on Long Island which is Jayne's Hill, 22 miles east of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.

  • @goldengnome1951
    @goldengnome1951 2 года назад +21

    "mom, dad, I'm dating my teacher".. "that's nice, honey"

  • @gorgeouss79
    @gorgeouss79 10 месяцев назад +4

    My dad was born in 1941, so this was in my grandparents' time. AMAZING 😍

  • @SpaceyZee
    @SpaceyZee 9 месяцев назад +4

    Crazy how far New York has fallen

  • @moniquebrown7778
    @moniquebrown7778 2 года назад +18

    My beautiful late grandmother was nine years old in 1939, I always wondered what kids did back in the day😉👍🏿

  • @pjriverdale8461
    @pjriverdale8461 4 года назад +38

    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.

    • @Wa3ypx
      @Wa3ypx 3 года назад +2

      Serving Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware in AM sterio. This is KYW news radio, a Westinghouse Broadcasting station!

    • @pjriverdale8461
      @pjriverdale8461 3 года назад +1

      @@Wa3ypx KYW, the home of the Mike Douglas show after it's move from Cleveland.

    • @deboraholsen2504
      @deboraholsen2504 2 года назад +2

      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.

    • @pjriverdale8461
      @pjriverdale8461 2 года назад +2

      @@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.

    • @1goofymommy
      @1goofymommy 2 года назад +2

      @@deboraholsen2504 sounds like the Nikola Tesla situation.

  • @piffpaff9674
    @piffpaff9674 Год назад +4

    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. 👍

  • @Elitist20
    @Elitist20 4 года назад +25

    32:13 'The good old days, eh, Grandma?' 'Yes, and anybody who wants them can have my share.'

  • @stevie68a
    @stevie68a 2 года назад +5

    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.

    • @betsyb2256
      @betsyb2256 2 года назад +1

      Thanks for that. Always loved Anne. Very interesting.

  • @paulj0557tonehead
    @paulj0557tonehead 3 года назад +43

    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.

    • @sclogse1
      @sclogse1 3 года назад

      Wish I still had my Jupiter 8.

  • @helenmurphy3143
    @helenmurphy3143 2 года назад +11

    love this style wish we had it back

  • @dumbbo1
    @dumbbo1 3 года назад +24

    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.

    • @auletjohnast03638
      @auletjohnast03638 3 года назад +1

      dumbbo1, Liz Taylor is the most ugly woman ever. Louise Brooks she ain't.

  • @bigcamracing219
    @bigcamracing219 2 года назад +13

    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!

    • @pistoffpussycat5778
      @pistoffpussycat5778 Год назад

      This was before people knew of Nazi atrocities and how low and cruel people could be.

  • @teeniequeenie8369
    @teeniequeenie8369 Год назад +5

    Your “cooking” and then she hands them grapefruits 😂

  • @yermanoffthetelly
    @yermanoffthetelly 3 года назад +47

    54:01 "I wonder if the years ahead will be as bright as this?"....1939...0h...well, er...em 🙈

  • @KaydenVlogs
    @KaydenVlogs 5 лет назад +36

    Just checked and Bud Is still alive! Love that Robot. Wonder if any props are still around

    • @MrLifesavers1
      @MrLifesavers1 5 лет назад +9

      The time capsules are still there

    • @Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu
      @Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu 3 года назад +4

      Electro is in Mansfield Ohio

    • @jumboJetPilot
      @jumboJetPilot 3 года назад +6

      The daughter Barbara “Bebs” died in 2015. She was the mother of Anne Archer.

    • @jumboJetPilot
      @jumboJetPilot 3 года назад +4

      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.

    • @Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu
      @Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu 3 года назад +2

      @@jumboJetPilot Germany didn't participate in the 1939 NYWF. Japan did though.

  • @miguelrosales7150
    @miguelrosales7150 3 месяца назад

    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

  • @TheChampy2012
    @TheChampy2012 Год назад +3

    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. 💚

  • @suestephan3255
    @suestephan3255 2 года назад +5

    Grandparents were common as part of the family nucleus

  • @Garbeaux.
    @Garbeaux. 3 года назад +6

    Jimmy seriously reminds me of Ray Bolger aka the Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz.

  • @SteveMenardDesignDXM
    @SteveMenardDesignDXM 4 года назад +47

    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'.

    • @Prieze868
      @Prieze868 3 года назад +5

      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

    • @mollflanders9314
      @mollflanders9314 2 года назад +3

      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?

    • @rosemerrynmcmillan1611
      @rosemerrynmcmillan1611 2 года назад +4

      @@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.

    • @rosemerrynmcmillan1611
      @rosemerrynmcmillan1611 2 года назад +4

      @@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.

  • @TupacMakaveli1996
    @TupacMakaveli1996 3 года назад +8

    “Well we may be waiting but i don’t think it’s noticeable” he got a point there lol

  • @robderham1958
    @robderham1958 3 года назад +11

    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!

  • @taylorcolonna457
    @taylorcolonna457 2 года назад +12

    Pride in Country and Hope for the future are definitely relics of the past.
    September 1939 WWII begins.

  • @echoecho3108
    @echoecho3108 7 месяцев назад

    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)

  • @defhoez449
    @defhoez449 3 года назад +42

    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.

    • @EV-wp1fj
      @EV-wp1fj 3 года назад +12

      I mean, it's an industrial film. It can be expected to be a little tendentious. :-P

    • @pooslinger6839
      @pooslinger6839 2 года назад +5

      The evil communists must be exposed for who and what they are!

    • @mollflanders9314
      @mollflanders9314 2 года назад +1

      😂😂😂😂

    • @serenitypeaceandcomfort3669
      @serenitypeaceandcomfort3669 2 года назад +14

      Because communism is so wonderful, right??🤦‍♀️Good grief.

    • @defhoez449
      @defhoez449 2 года назад +2

      @@serenitypeaceandcomfort3669 it’s red scare propaganda in its early years

  • @SteveMenardDesignDXM
    @SteveMenardDesignDXM 4 года назад +39

    What? 80 years later and we still haven't invented a way to put dishes away (from dishwasher to kitchen cabinet)?

    • @DistantVision85
      @DistantVision85 3 года назад +7

      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!

    • @sclogse1
      @sclogse1 3 года назад +12

      It's called children.

    • @pistoffpussycat5778
      @pistoffpussycat5778 Год назад

      @@DistantVision85 Brilliant!

  • @rizdizla
    @rizdizla 3 года назад +19

    Started for the historical information, continued because I had to know if Jim and Babs ended up together

  • @the_obvious8336
    @the_obvious8336 4 года назад +16

    This is a truly excellent movie.

    • @glyph241
      @glyph241 3 года назад

      This Truly, Truly Exceptional.

  • @stevo728822
    @stevo728822 3 года назад +10

    So the robot had 48 bits of processing power. 6 bytes.

  • @fromthesidelines
    @fromthesidelines 3 года назад +4

    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.

  • @hardyboy1959
    @hardyboy1959 4 года назад +17

    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!

  • @scottmoore1614
    @scottmoore1614 3 года назад +11

    This would be great for the guys at MST3k to get their hands on!

  • @luisagregg4045
    @luisagregg4045 3 года назад +4

    An OLD FASHION WAY. Love

  • @MagnoliaEmporium
    @MagnoliaEmporium 2 года назад +5

    I think I might have "accidentally" tripped the art teacher 3 minutes after meeting him....

  • @Wa3ypx
    @Wa3ypx 3 года назад +5

    Mrs Drudge was quite the dish! No pun intended of course!

  • @Rick-zw7zv
    @Rick-zw7zv 4 года назад +8

    37:30 That one went right over her head. Good old 'second choice' Jimmy, romance of the year.

  • @SHS854EVER
    @SHS854EVER 4 года назад +9

    Totally awesome video and quality I really enjoy this

  • @Dervraka
    @Dervraka 3 года назад +13

    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.

    • @tiberiusclaudiuscaesar5238
      @tiberiusclaudiuscaesar5238 3 года назад +3

      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.

    • @wolfshanze5980
      @wolfshanze5980 2 года назад +1

      @@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.

    • @David-sl6xf
      @David-sl6xf 2 года назад

      @@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.

  • @shawnmalone9711
    @shawnmalone9711 3 года назад +3

    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.

  • @perttipsaukko4376
    @perttipsaukko4376 2 года назад +14

    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.

    • @yaelifembotnikova
      @yaelifembotnikova Год назад +2

      this... All of thus.

    • @Dez_The_Wolf
      @Dez_The_Wolf Год назад +2

      Ah yes, Middleton lore.

    • @TraddyGirl62
      @TraddyGirl62 11 месяцев назад

      James Lydon died in 2022. Douglas Stark died in 2009. George Lewis died in 1995.

  • @jumboJetPilot
    @jumboJetPilot 3 года назад +5

    1:15 - Huntington, NY?!? Oh my, I’d say Huntington is just slightly different now!!!

  • @CC-lv3yk
    @CC-lv3yk 3 года назад +5

    Here's a grapefruit with sugar "grandma's cooking" .......

  • @rosrychaplet
    @rosrychaplet 4 года назад +8

    everything old is NEW again.

    • @Wa3ypx
      @Wa3ypx 3 года назад

      Grandma was cool, I tink I would hang out with Bud

  • @suestephan3255
    @suestephan3255 2 года назад +2

    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

  • @dammitbobby283
    @dammitbobby283 10 месяцев назад +2

    WW2 started 124 days after this video was made.

  • @ThomasTalbotMD
    @ThomasTalbotMD 4 года назад +41

    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.

  • @lelanixon3248
    @lelanixon3248 2 года назад +1

    I freaked out when I realized I was watching this on September 23rd, same day as the time capsule. 😳

  • @peace-yv4qd
    @peace-yv4qd 4 года назад +24

    Small town America. We've lost so much.

    • @airmark02
      @airmark02 4 года назад +14

      ... yeah like segregation

    • @peace-yv4qd
      @peace-yv4qd 4 года назад +5

      @@airmark02 Ya know, theres always one.

    • @rexpositor6741
      @rexpositor6741 4 года назад

      Every dumb comment deserves another. 🤣

    • @sidneyburch2457
      @sidneyburch2457 4 года назад

      @@rexpositor6741 And every comment doesn't deserve a comment.

    • @serenitypeaceandcomfort3669
      @serenitypeaceandcomfort3669 2 года назад

      @@airmark02 No. Democrats are back to pushing for segregation today.

  • @jamiconroy7841
    @jamiconroy7841 4 года назад +4

    ....pretty cool movie!!

  • @NHSUKFan909
    @NHSUKFan909 Год назад

    This 1939 ny worlds fair is very interesting, specially with that time capsule, so great video and ty for restoring the Middleton family film.

  • @TheRealestBubby
    @TheRealestBubby 2 года назад +8

    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

  • @rosemarywilliams9969
    @rosemarywilliams9969 6 месяцев назад +1

    Smart grandma.

  • @BeUpOneaQueena
    @BeUpOneaQueena 8 месяцев назад

    Wonderful

  • @rinwesley3092
    @rinwesley3092 4 года назад +45

    Dad: "My, I never realized what a good looking daughter I have."
    Could you say that just a little creepier, Pops?

    • @tiberiusclaudiuscaesar5238
      @tiberiusclaudiuscaesar5238 3 года назад +28

      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.

    • @erictroup5094
      @erictroup5094 3 года назад +6

      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.

    • @randydelaney7804
      @randydelaney7804 3 года назад +6

      @@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.

    • @evolicious
      @evolicious 3 года назад

      @@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.

    • @psychedelicpython
      @psychedelicpython 3 года назад +1

      @@erictroup5094 I’m totally agree and I felt the same way when he said it.

  • @defhoez449
    @defhoez449 2 года назад +4

    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

    • @mollflanders9314
      @mollflanders9314 2 года назад +1

      I don't mind. Listening to mydishwasher cycling is ASMR to my ears.

  • @TrainerCTZ
    @TrainerCTZ 3 года назад +8

    38:37 - 39:00
    1. Tesla
    2. Tesla
    3. Tesla

  • @debieduarte1644
    @debieduarte1644 Год назад +1

    and my grandma was born in October 12, 1936.

  • @guylaurie819
    @guylaurie819 3 года назад +6

    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.

    • @Thehouseoffail
      @Thehouseoffail 3 года назад

      Leggings are a marvel of comfort for the disabled and you can pry them from my cold dead hands.

  • @veloci3twenty607
    @veloci3twenty607 2 года назад +3

    Nick is the Bernie Sanders of the day

    • @mollflanders9314
      @mollflanders9314 2 года назад

      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.

  • @SlaughterDog
    @SlaughterDog 4 года назад +1

    So literally as soon as we could shout our rants to strangers, we did.

  • @useruserson6662
    @useruserson6662 4 года назад +9

    Pre WW2 and anti communism is thick even then. Very telling.

    • @markdraper3469
      @markdraper3469 4 года назад +4

      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.

    • @harsesishoktar9386
      @harsesishoktar9386 2 года назад +2

      @@markdraper3469
      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).

    • @markdraper3469
      @markdraper3469 2 года назад +2

      @@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?)

    • @mollflanders9314
      @mollflanders9314 2 года назад +1

      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.

    • @serenitypeaceandcomfort3669
      @serenitypeaceandcomfort3669 2 года назад +1

      @@markdraper3469 It sounds more like the idol worship of Obama and Hillary.

  • @MrLuckyAndrew
    @MrLuckyAndrew 3 года назад +5

    35:48 oh man, if only he lived long enough to see Boston Dynamic's machines

  • @Calminsky
    @Calminsky 3 года назад +4

    Barbara's boyfriend looks like a young Stalin

  • @AixConanPoeva
    @AixConanPoeva 3 года назад +3

    All passed Away except Bud

  • @Jst12341
    @Jst12341 3 года назад +2

    41:44 the look on his face is priceless

  • @emmarose4234
    @emmarose4234 4 года назад +2

    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.

  • @NoahRobertGraves
    @NoahRobertGraves 23 дня назад

    6939?!!! That's pretty ambitious.

  • @JasonChamberlain
    @JasonChamberlain 2 года назад +2

    I cant believe i skipped those opening credits like it was a netflix episode

  • @georgerodriquez7744
    @georgerodriquez7744 2 года назад +1

    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

  • @baylorsailor
    @baylorsailor 2 года назад +6

    I wouldn't want a boyfriend that idolizes Karl Marx either.

    • @mollflanders9314
      @mollflanders9314 2 года назад

      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.

    • @serenitypeaceandcomfort3669
      @serenitypeaceandcomfort3669 2 года назад +1

      @@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.

    • @pistoffpussycat5778
      @pistoffpussycat5778 Год назад

      They're called Soy boys or betas

  • @paulengstrom432
    @paulengstrom432 2 года назад +2

    Grandma is an assassin!

  • @moniquek8041
    @moniquek8041 2 года назад +3

    That art teacher is a jerk.

  • @Desslar
    @Desslar 2 года назад +2

    Electro's only two years old and already they're trying to give him cancer.

    • @pistoffpussycat5778
      @pistoffpussycat5778 Год назад

      That damn robot is so noisy!

    • @robinguertin574
      @robinguertin574 Год назад +1

      Cigarettes were still good for you at that time!

    • @Desslar
      @Desslar Год назад +1

      @@robinguertin574 Oh, right. Silly me.

  • @SteveMenardDesignDXM
    @SteveMenardDesignDXM 4 года назад +1

    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!

  • @bqqq3617
    @bqqq3617 Год назад +2

    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.

  • @pumpkin03
    @pumpkin03 3 года назад +3

    Bud sure was a jaded & bitter kid 😆

  • @maethomas8422
    @maethomas8422 2 года назад +1

    32:42 this style used to be modern but now just looks like a hotel lobby

  • @TP-om8of
    @TP-om8of Год назад +1

    @22:40. The dishwasher took 7 minutes? Ours takes nearly 3 hours