(3/6) RARE 1964 NBC COLOR TV SPECIAL - "A World's Fair Diary" with Edwin Newman

[@MisterUptempo]

@evans haller - The voice on that animatronic father @4:55 belongs to Rex Allen, who was an actor and country/western singer who was utilized by Disney to narrate many western and nature-related films.

[@vix4x41]

My grandma had a small souvenir Pieta statue - no doubt this was where she got it! I remember the blue and red strollers I got to ride in...

[@JettRink50]

I want to go back to the Fair.

[@Jen4682]

Love the folk group keeping the people on line entertained. I didn't know Disney was responsible for several pavilions not it's own - love the animatronic dog!

[@Wa3ypx]

Johnny Desmond is sooo dreamy

[@roywally291]

The Puppet Show...the REAL E-Ticket of the 64/65 Worlds Fair.

[@Jen4682]

Love the folk group keeping the p

[@TimBabcock64]

It was probably the first interaction of a computer system for the general public to use.

[@musicom67]

1:48 - You can easily tell who's gonna be an accountant, and who's gonna drive a truck. I especially love the key pounders and those who play them like a piano! Don't you miss those old machines?

[@omstrat]

shame he waste 15 min on Holmes and then shows 5 seconds of the best exhibits Travelers Insurance was AMAZING

[@hebneh]

You mean that computer can actually READ numbers? That is downright unbelievable! What'll they think of next? But seriously - one thing that all the predictions of the future did not get right in those days was how computers were really going to change the world, 50 years later. Instead we were looking forward to jet paks and flying cars, which we did not get. I remember the excitement of sitting in the driver's seat of a new Mustang convertible at the Ford pavilion to see the dinosaurs, among other things, on the ride through time. At age 10, this was the most memorable part of that particular experience.

[@JIMBAYRIDGESCOTT]

people didn't act like animals back then because look at what the crowd was mostly comprised of ,,, need I say more .

[@musicom67]

Blame Harvey Levin (TMZ), Trump, and the Kardashians. And to your 'point', you remember the racist story about why Robert Moses made his public swimming pools water extra cold and the fair attractions expensive? ALL folks are civil and properly behaved - except maybe Edwin.

[@yaelrar.4460]

@@musicom67 Blame the President? Stop it. Such adolescent sour grapes is ridiculous and associating our President with something he is not responsible for makes you unhinged.

[@hebneh]

3:19 - She went to the Hawaii Pavilion and got a plastic lei.

[@brianarbenz1329]

Long lines, not enough water fountains, high prices, disappointing attendance -- now we see why no World's Fair was held for 18 years after this. And the '82 Knoxville fair was a total flop.

[@yaelrar.4460]

The complaint about long lines is at every amusement park or event. It has to be expected. The only way to avoid it is to have few people attend.

[@brianarbenz1329]

Yaelra R, you have to admit, though, this was the swan song for World’s Fairs. By the Mid 1960s, the idea failed to stir people. Young people were into the British rock invasion and older people into color TV. A World’s Fair thrived in a time when people needed some excitement.

[@terigarrison]

listen to the commentator's words at the end - how we need that now in our world: the milk of human kindness. also, notice how americans were thinner and healthier then. great youtube.

[@dagwort]

Is that John Hillerman ('Magnum P.I.', 'Blazing Saddles') doing the manikin-father's voice at 4:55 ?

[@monkkeyboy18]

What’s the song at 6:00 what’s the bands name

[@yaelrar.4460]

PUPPET SHOW AT 8:00 Opening Act: Spinal Tap

[@bradwooldidge6979]

I’m surprised that nobody tried to steal the million dollars.

[@Kane615]

That's one heck of a punch card machine.

[@musicom67]

@MerleOberon ...THAT'S what you're thinking about !!?? But then the macho types would now go to the "Natural Instincts" booth

[@zimzob]

Why did they have a World's Fair, anyway? @1:22

[@musicom67]

+Chris Wood Moses used the 300th anniversary of NYC as an excuse to hold the fair. It was actually not even an "official" World's Fair! BTW what happens at 1:22 that relates to your question? Kids pounding away on NCR cash registers?

[@zimzob]

Pay attention.

[@mattagogo]

did you watchthe whole thing? There were black kids with Goofy and in the first part there were other ethnicities waiting to get into the fair...

[@musicom67]

@MerleOberon ...THAT'S what you're thinking about !!?? But then the macho types would now go to the "Natural Instincts" booth