The 300 exhibiting companies and 66 nations at the Fair are joined by religious exhibits of many faiths in this kaleidoscopic exposition of man’s material accomplishments. His future aspirations and his spiritual yearnings. The Fair is colorful and chaotic. It has areas of rare beauty in architectural design and an equal portion of garish.

Notable is the repeated use of circular theater designs. Fair exhibitors are learning fast that their guests have come to be entertained or, at least, bemused. They also want action and they get it in the innumerable exhibit “rides” which are Robert Moses’ answer to Coney Island. The president of the Fair corporation has rare courage. His show is doing without fan-dancers and has practically exiled the paid amusement area. Instead, visitors are looking into the Futurama at General Motors, at the dinosaurs in Ford convertibles and at Michelangelo’s Pieta in the Vatican pavilion.

Highlight of the General Motors Exhibit, the Futurama Ride permits visitors to see, hear and feel the world as it may be known in the future, a lunar outpost, a permanent community in once-lifeless Antarctica, a vacation playground amid the strange beauty of the ocean floor.

Contents of this video:

00:00 - Intro (History, the 1939-40 Fair)
00:45 - Robert Moses (audio interview)
01:56 - Groundbreaking Ceremony (with Robert Moses and John F Kennedy)
03:01 - Aerodynamic Tests (The Unisphere)
04:20 - Construction of the Pavilions and the Unisphere
16:38 - The Port of New York New Jersey Exhibit Building First Official Landing
17:07 - Construction of the Pavilions
19:45 - People Arriving Collage
21:52 - Sinclair Gas Station
22:15 - Entrance and Fair Footage
26:11 - World of Chemistry
26:33 - It's a Small World
27:03 - Johnson's Wax
27:18 - General Electric
28:02 - US Pavilion
28:27 - Hall of Science
28:58 - IBM
30:32 - Bell System
32:34 - Kodak
33:32 - New York State
35:00 - New York City Exhibit
35:15 - Jaycopter Ride
35:39 - Monorail
36:21 - Flume Ride
37:14 - Spain
38:06 - Indonesia
39:03 - The Vatican Pavilion
39:55 - Japan
40:48 - Africa
42:04 - Amphicar and Montana
43:22 - Parking of Children
43:53 - Ford
45:05 - General Motors
50:17 - Avis
50:55 - Belgian Village
52:22 - Swiss Sky Ride
53:17 - Fountains Night and Day
1:05:43 Shaefer Center
1:07:25 Mexico
1:08:00 Hats
1:08:30 Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs
1:10:10 Post Cards
1:11:26 Sinclair Dinoland
1:15:39 Space Park
1:16:11 Santa Maria
1:16:34 Swiss Sky Ride
1:18:18 Better Living & Formica's World's Fair House
1:24:44 - Sinclair Gas Station & Service Facilities
1:26:59 - World's Fair Marina