'64-65 NY World's Fair FUTURAMA Ride Video

[@jacksparks3983]

I was that boy, not literally, but I was about that age when we attended the 64 World's Fair. It had a lasting, lifelong affect on that young boy, on me.

[@GoodStarfish]

I'm sure as a kid you must have been in awe and full of pride, but are your feelings more nuanced these days? Did you feel like you had been manipulated the more you grew?

[@GoodStarfish]

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[@monakayk]

THANKS for this video ... I soooooo remember this ride when my parents took me to the World's Fair. I was 10 years old. I also had a hat with the feather ....what great memories I have of that extraordinary experience !

[@sgnmath1234]

Yes..the hat.. I had it as well.

[@Emergenttheory]

Me too

[@lachlankhalid4886]

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[@damianisrael3373]

@Lachlan Khalid instablaster ;)

[@lachlankhalid4886]

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[@AnimationArea]

My left ear enjoyed this very much.

[@bertieandfriends1774]

It's not just me then

[@greglivo]

@@bertieandfriends1774 or me in 2020!

[@karenstrycharz1499]

...or me in 2021! lol!🤣

[@supremes1964]

or me in 2022 ;)

[@janeeccleston9196]

I just clicked on it and felt unbalanced 😂😂

[@Thoralmir]

1:15 "Oh Yeah? Well, I'm gonna go build my own theme park! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the park!"

[@freddylubin]

Thoralmir I want robot sex slaves.

[@Thoralmir]

Freddy Lubin Don't we all.

[@mrsuns10]

Ah screw the whole thing

[@termen111]

You Promised Me Mars Colonies. Instead, I Got Facebook

[@planner812]

Don't forget Jet Packs

[@planner812]

Bello I mean everyone having them Like to go to the store and get bread The jet packs your referring to can only fly for about 4 minutes I mean the kind George Jetson had

[@GeographRick]

Also, the flying car, and a robot to cook and clean,

[@scott6504]

Not a fair compromise

[@ericdavid8214]

I think it was less a promise that the previous generation would provide it to us... and more that we the future generations would build it for ourselves. Perhaps they should be upset with us and not the other way around. That said... we're almost to mars.. just a slight delay.

[@williemoreno3010]

I was there in 64 loved every minute of it. ❤❤

[@karenstrycharz1499]

How fantastic this video is taking us on this ride! Best fair & I remember it still with awe & love, these many yrs later !

[@moosefactory133]

I love watching retro future videos like this. It is kind of funny, some of the predictions have come to pass but not exactly as portrayed.

[@GoodStarfish]

It's haunting to me. This was never possible under the the systems of capitalism. Made for investors and grant money dressing up as a proud, superhuman vision of society for kids and using their impressions to advance the private venture's of unaccountable industry. Haunting

[@AlexBeyman-j2h]

@@GoodStarfish How well has communism fared, then?

[@GoodStarfish]

@user-hy9it2lm9k Cuba created 4 vaccines and wanted to distribute them to the world for free. No homeless there. Vietnam and China are ascendant. Africa is shuffling off the cuffs placement them by France and the US. I'd encourage you and others to look deeper. The West is a lecherous dominator full of opportunists and inheritors of vast fortune, who distribute arms and orders against any country willing to offer a better alternative. Read The Ending of Hereditary American Fortunes and get back to me

[@Serenadesong]

@@AlexBeyman-j2h Whataboutism doesn't excuse the glaring problems we have.

[@RobertPlattBell]

I remember going on this ride. I was 5 years old at the time. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

[@freddylubin]

I was on this. Still remember the awe and wonder of being able to look into the FUTURE.

[@Thoralmir]

Freddy Lubin Makes the world of today look like a big disappointment, huh?

[@freddylubin]

Thoralmir Same with Jerry Seinfeld, who, in one episode, complained about not having the flying cars we were promised.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

so kool did u do the magical skyway

[@MerleOberon]

I remember waiting like an hour and a half to go in this exhibit...I wanted to live in those cantilevered apartments, everything was so modern in the 60s, this was probably the peak of technological optimism....

[@mitchdakelman4470]

The complete film ran 26 minutes, and my recording of the soundtrack is on a reel to reel tape, so it would have to be downloaded to a digital format. The film basically focused on a 12 year old running around the NY World's Fair -- you see him as a blonde kid on the GM ride. Yes, I did see Futurama II in 1965, the ride itself was about 15 minutes. That was 50 years ago and I was 12, as well. Besides the film from GM there were other films like TO THE FAIR, and one by US Steel called HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR, which was the most informative of all the 1964-1965 NY Fair films made--I have that film --given to me my US Steel back in 1970.

[@michaelkloor9438]

You should post that film you mention at the end of your comment.

[@davidstuckey9289]

There was one good thing about the BP Gulf oil spill though - It stopped the draining of the coastal wetlands along the Gulf shoreline, which were up until then being lost at the rate of 15 acres an hour. This has resumed unfortunately, but in a much more limited rate, given that people believe the pace is now a radioactive, poisoned and toxic wasteland and coastal property is less desirable.

[@mark747100]

This was one of my favorite rides at the fair.

[@RicardoBanffy]

We were so confident...

[@simonsuescun]

WOW. The 50's and 60's. When progress meant highways, concrete, cars and malls. Today, people shop online just to avoid highways, concrete, cars and malls.

[@lukehauser1182]

Check that - they shop online to avoid other people

[@vernateneallen3311]

That is so true. Its like we're going backward.

[@TooCooFoYou]

Vernatene Banks You know the concept of ordering your product to be delivered by your door has been around, since, even the dawn of department stores, right? We even had this nifty concept called "mail delivery" before that.

[@freds7988]

uh! Goods are self generating and coming by their own to your house ???

[@famousbowl9926]

You forgot polio, Vietnam war , homophobia and all the other backwards thinking..

[@jmm1000]

progress and profitability...by paving over the rainforest?? wow.

[@ericdavid8214]

We did it. We won the war against trees.

[@earthwormscrawl]

The South Park episode on the rain forrest nailed the reality fo the place.

[@earthwormscrawl]

@Michael Dunetz The majority of our oxygen actually comes from cyanobacteria in the top few feet of the ocean.

[@bradbarefoot2986]

Reminds me of the "Horizons" ride that used to be at Disney's EPCOT Center. Mission Space now sits where Horizons used to be. Would rather have Horizons back.

[@andrewcantrell139]

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[@scott6504]

That was my favorite ride at Epcot. It was visionary and inspiring unlike the cheap thrills they toss at you these days.

[@PaulAdler11]

Horizons truly was the greatest ride ever built in human history and this video depicts a wonderful precursor. Totally agreed.

[@earthwormscrawl]

I was born in 1960 and grew up during the space race. I was going to live in a city under the ocean (think Sealab 2020) and travel regularly to my job on the moon. Now I'm and electrical engineer and work out of my home office in Pennsylvania. Could be worse. Could be better.

[@williemoreno3010]

All good memories for me. ❤❤

[@Tsubahi]

This must be a great inspiration for Epcot Center almost 20 years later!:)

[@jeffrobodine7054]

I saw this as a kid. My Dad worked for General Motors back then and we went to the NY Worlds Fair. Dad made sure we went to the GM pavilion to see Futurama. Seeing this film brings back memories. Thanks for sharing.

[@kluckitblog]

Anyone else kinda freaked out about the pure ambition of this video? We're getting a glimpse into a grim future: "These forest highways now are bringing to the most depths of the tropic world the goods and materials of progress and prosperity..."

[@Thoralmir]

kluckitblog See, it's cynics like you being given a free voice is the reason we don't have jetpacks, and why we haven't gone to the moon since the 70's. Disgusting cynics sucking the joy and wonder out of every dream, browbeating everybody until nobody has the ambition to do anything beyond maintaining the status quo. Nobody has hope for a better tomorrow thanks to the cynicism of people like you. Unless you have a good solution to a problem, you should keep your opinions to yourself. I'm sick of hearing about the plight of the rainforests; at this point I'd rather see them slashed, burned, and paved over rather than listen to whiny, tree-hugging liberals preach about them for the rest of my life.

[@kluckitblog]

Thoralmir Lol you need me sir. You need me and people like me more than you will ever realize. We haven't gone to the moon since the 70s because we now spend 0.5% of our budget on NASA as compared to 4.41% in the 60s. Those spending cuts do not come from "tree-hugging liberals". Private sector is taking over space exploration which is fine for now because the industry is led by people like Elon Musk (SpaceX), who believe in finding more efficient ways of using clean energy (Tesla). You see, while you sit here and scream into your computer about the past, people who question the status quo (like me) end up coming up with better ways to move forward, creating the future rather than talking about it. This video shows fantastic vision for its time, but if you are still stuck on this vision then you have been left far behind my friend.

[@atom-o-tronic3505]

kluckitblog There's nothing wrong with being stuck in the past. The late 50s to mid 60s vision of the future is not as outdated and overemphasized as you may think, people still dream of a future brimming with flying cars, automated service robots and space age cities. In fact, look up The Venus Project, you'll be surprised how much it's designs are directly influenced by things found in this video and it is the only project I know trying to literally build a city of tomorrow. The past is our muse for the future.

[@zimzob]

+The RetroGrade Why were automated service robots so important in this vision? Who was doing most of the service jobs at the time? A walkable city can be accessed without paying money, a city only accessible with cars costs money just to get around in, while eight and twelve lane highways can be used to remove certain neighborhoods, and separate some from others - to a carless person, a superhighway is the same as a wall.

[@greutera]

I remember going to NY Worlds fair, I was 5. It was quite an impression on my young mind.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

so lucky did u do the magical skyway

[@RedOcktober]

i remember this quite well... one of my favorite "rides" at "The Fair"... definitely this was the stuff of what dreams are made of... that why the world we live in today is so pale and hopeless... there's no NY Worlds Fairs anymore... to those who've missed it... to those of you who dismiss it... i really feel sorry for you... you'll never know what it was like... for a brief span of time, there was magic in the city... thx for the memories Larry... --Mike

[@SegaMario]

Sometimes I wonder what it would've been like living in a past era's interpretation of the future. Sci-Fi goodness.

[@RavenswoodProductions]

I was 5 years old, but I remember this ride.

[@Cristinact]

Just great!! Thanks so much for sharing! One of the best things for me was the two generations (the boy and the old man) witnessing this concept of the future. What would they both be thinking? Certainly both look amazed.

[@thomasalton1220]

I made a bad typo on this video; I meant to give it a 5 STAR rating. This film is a vivid reminder of my trip to the NY World's Fair as a young child. I went to GM as a 6 year old and this was one of the great thrills of my visits ( I also visited the Fair in 1965). Thank you for sharing this memory!

[@MrUnidyne]

"The future ain't what it used to be." - Yogi Berra

[@coloradostrong]

I was an attendant at that ride. When they recorded this, the 12 year old shown (Brian McClaine) was given motion sickness pills and a shot of bourbon to keep him calm. He was hyper active and somewhat "slow", but he was the kid of a higher-up at GM. Later on, he stole a car and got in a wreck, but the story was kept quiet.

[@longwindingroad]

You traveled with the world fair or they hired people for the shows in the town they were in ?

[@brianarbenz1329]

@@longwindingroad The NY World's Fair was not a traveling exhibit. It was entirely done in Flushing Meadows in NY City.

[@brianarbenz1329]

@Colorado Strong , are you serious that they gave a 12-year-old a shot of bourbon? If so, they should hardly be surprised he got into crime!

[@da4127]

@@brianarbenz1329I don’t think a shot of bourbon at 12 years old means you’ll be a criminal, and giving kids hard liquor to help them sleep or for sore throats was a common thing back then, so wouldn’t even blame the parents all that much

[@brianarbenz1329]

I was just half serious about the bourbon causing him to get into crime.

[@rod1148]

I was there will my family for a full day in summer of 1964 and again in 65. 16-17 yrs old at the time. Thanks for the memories! Will have to dig out the slides my dad made...

[@garypen]

Lots of highways in the future. Oddly, no high-speed rail in General Motors' vision.

[@dk50b]

Oddly enough, GM's future city at the end does include provision for making "public transportation more convenient" with huge multilevel terminals. Naturally there's also plenty of parking at those terminals. At 6:08, you'll see a futuristic train traveling the expressway median. I was really surprised to even hear public transit mentioned, never mind see that train. Then again, GM profited handsomely by replacing streetcars with its buses, and probably saw the chance to build the transit equipment. Although Chicago pioneered placing rapid transit in expressway medians in the late fifties, the fairs' organizer Robert Moses did all he could to starve NYC's critical subway system and prevent it's expansion. He ignored pleas to include mass transit lines in expressway medians and construct bridges to allow future addition of commuter rail. Public policy has as much, if not a greater role in the sorry state of our rail transit. Together with LaGuardia's shutdown of NYC's extensive streetcar system, Moses did more to doom the NY region to traffic strangulation than only other individual.

[@paulmurphy42]

Great reply, thanks! It makes me wish even more that I had been there...you and this film are making me feel 8 again!

[@autoad]

The narrator of this exhibit was Alexander Scourby who became a familiar voice on the National Geographic specials. But in this exhibit, he got too excited too often. I saw this in-person when I was 9 years old and don't remember him this hyper. Gee whizz Alex...dial it back!!

[@yaelrar.4460]

Scourby did a recording of the entire Bible that was incredibly inspiring.

[@HalOBrien]

Almost certainly there was a Director who told him to read that way.

[@brianarbenz1329]

It sounds like Alexander is about to have an o!

[@autoad]

@@HalOBrien You are likely spot-on correct!

[@jimm3370]

Thank you so much for putting this up. I was six when I took that ride and seeing it again... wow.

[@thisguythatguy8353]

This is more like 100s of years into the future.

[@snarkus63]

So where's Fry and Leela?

[@dk50b]

Wrong Futurama! The show's named for the 1939 version, as noted in the title caption of "The Inhuman Torch" from Season 7.

[@snarkus63]

David Koenig (you mean to tell me you REALLY couldn't tell that was a joke?)

[@dk50b]

Actually I thought your question was hilarious, but couldn't resist the chance to be a know-it-all. Must be the Hermes in me.

[@snarkus63]

David Koenig "Hermes"...now THAT's a good one!

[@robertbernardin8315]

Wow. This is the first time I've seen this since I was 8 years old and I remember every scene and detail like it was yesterday

[@Trainy2]

Where the hell are the Seacopters? I want one now, dammit!

[@zelphx]

The "City of Tomorrow" is right where we left it... in 1964.

[@ericdavid8214]

Internet, advanced robotics, moon landings, constant advances in food science, space exploration, deep sea exploration, industrial improvements, all-in-one agriculture mega-machines, international antarctic exploration labs, near-future-plans of interplanetary manned missions... I can't wait for all of those things to be invented! Don't fear optimism and hope my friend! "Man must chart his own course into tomorrow. A course that frees the mind and spirit as it improves the well-being of mankind"

[@QnOfWshfulThnkng]

WOW! I remember this outstanding exhibit vividly! This is what I recall the most about the '64-'65 World's Fair! Thanks to whomever put this up! I just time-traveled to my youth! I'm still POed that we didn't get these "Jetson's-like" predictions in our lifetime. This country needs new vision, new direction and most of all, optimism.

[@coloradostrong]

You were in Alaska in 1964, counting seals. Knock it off.

[@jimspy1001]

"...extracting the vast oil riches of the continental shelves..." Amazing to watch and see how absolutely ignorant we were of the dangers our own technology posed to us. No blame, no finger-pointing...we were all enthralled with the future and technology back then. But when he spoke that line...I felt my heart sink. A moment of silence, please, for the Gulf of Mexico...

[@johnrobinsoniii4028]

I remember that exhibit. The line was super long but the “Futurama Ride” was worth it. And I also remember the commercial on the radio that began with, “When you see The Fair, see The Future first…” and seeing the ad on a billboard, “If you’ve only seen it once, you haven’t seen it all.”

[@heru-deshet359]

I relived my childhood. Thanks!

[@EonityLuna]

I have a "Disney's Wonderful World of Knowledge" encyclopedia that contains photographs of the models shown in that video; remember being awed and inspired by them as a child, and they still do inspire me. It's quite great to be able to see some of those models in motion and from another visual perspective here.

[@gregglevin5612]

I went to this Exhibit at the World's Fair of 64 -65 and remenber it well. I lived a bike ride away from Parson and Northern Blvd. in Flushing, Queens, NY, USA.. I must laugh as my brother rode me to World's Fair on his bike's handle bars. I was seven years old .. times have changed. lol. .

[@hannablue7038]

I was 14 and I had dreams of the future. The future turned out to be a nightmare in the 2024 time

[@michaelandrew4488]

I want one of those fancy feather hats .. so futuristic!!

[@perry1559]

I was 5 then. We lived one subway stop away from this. I had to go through this ride every time I dragged Mom to the Fair, both of them on weekends. I probably went at least 2 dozen times. Likely more.

[@larryboysen5911]

1934-35 "Century of Progress"....1939-40 "World of Tomorrow" [GM Futurama of 1960"]...1964-65 "GM Futurama II " It is Now "Tomorrow" 2020...I don't see yesterday's "Tomorrow"...but a world that in many ways is less futuristic than those fair years!

[@jkryanspark]

The future that was promised was not the future we were given.

[@AlexMcGillvrey]

The world really does need a Underwater hotel.

[@AlexMcGillvrey]

Cindy Fox I like to check out the two underwater hotels that currently exist.

[@masonsykes2240]

And it should be decorated in Art Deco. And be called the "Rapture Hotel".

[@anibalbabilonia1867]

Here we are in the future! And that still looks like the future! We haven’t reach that stage yet!😂

[@heru-deshet359]

I loved that ride so much I rode it ten times in one day.

[@michaelbowie3269]

Oh boy, I can't wait.

[@maryellengilvey1791]

We're in the future now. But the future hasn't come yet.

[@donovandelaney3171]

They need to bring back the Futurama 2 World Fair ride.

[@JamesJLaRue]

Societal and environmental issues aside...I really do miss my childhood assumption, fueled by things like this, about how the structures and vehicles of the future would look. I am watching this on my hand-held, everything-doing computer video phone though, so thats cool. Just wish I lived in an outerspace bubble.

[@pbatommy]

Narrated by the great Alexander Scourby

[@ernieernest42]

Poor ol' grandpa in the video is sorry he's not going to make it to see any of this future world. The kid in the vid is still alive now and knows none of it actually happened!

[@louvarricchio780]

An imaginative future that still's to be. :-)

[@Robert.K]

Cool! I just found a brochure in the basement and had to google it. I found one identical brochure on eBay with an asking price of $99.96. Nice video that shows a, for me unknown, but interresting story.

[@andrewgordon235]

Shades of the original Johnny Quest. Epic!!!!! I bet we could do most of this by now.

[@Markcava]

Narrated by Alexander Scourby. I still remember well the smell and feel of those seats-with the headsets moulded into them.

[@ATINKERER]

I went on that ride, I remember it too.

[@deplorabledave1048]

I was about the same age in 1964. Blonde, blue eyes. I could have been that kid. I was that kid. I VIVIDLY remember those lunar rovers moving back and forth on this incredible display. I wished the ride had moved slower so I could examine all the details of the exhibit more closely. I vaguely remember the rest of the ride. Just that moon base portion is still imbedded in my memory. I thought it was the coolest thing!!!

[@simonf8902]

Back when we had optimism about the future. Now we have anxiety.

[@marcparella]

"And in the future there will be parking like man has never seen before."

[@johncarter1956]

My left ear enjoyed this, the wonderful world of mono.

[@duggie6717]

This GM film is great, but it doesn't really do justice to the actual Futurama ride, which was 15 minutes long ... the animated dioramas were huge, incredibly designed and detailed, and were basically creative works of art ... some of the buildings in the "city of tomorrow" diorama were almost 20 feet tall ... the "intermodal terminal" that is presented as part of GM's future city is an accepted urban design concept today and would provide safe, efficient access for pedestrians, autos, light rail, buses, containerized freight and VTOL commuter planes right into the center of the city.

[@VitricArt]

Many here asking, "what happened to the future?" Oh, it arrived... but our snaky cynicism killed our glowing optimism. Brutal reality dictated the rest.

[@momzy3]

Thanks for posting this!

[@jkryanspark]

Bell Telephone (or was it AT&T?) had a similar ride. The music that played was Aaron Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man. I went on it more frequently than the other rides because the lines were less long. Everybody wanted to go on the ride at the Ford exhibit because you got to ride in real Ford convertibles.

[@Laura151The]

I remember going to the '64-'65 New York World's Fair when I was a kid.

[@Laura151The]

A lot of what they showed at the GM Futurama exhibit never quite came to pass.

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

Golly! The 80's are gonna be groovy!

[@andrewcripps6266]

The closed captioning of this video is hilarious.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

i just loved old stuff

[@katakisLives]

it was a great vision for the future!

[@TheLeatheryman]

The only way we will truly be able to advance, is if we go back to 1965 and start again.

[@chrisphelan2419]

Interesting is the contrast between the young boy and the older man, a scene which is shown several times in the video. The older man symbolizing the past and the young boy the future. Those that rode the ride as a kid are now looking back as that older man. How time flies.

[@RetroJack]

These days, it would be called "grooming".

[@QnOfWshfulThnkng]

This exhibit might be considered ecologically insensitive in today's world, but I don't care! When I saw this at the age of 12, I was floored! This was supposed to show us 2024... I don't think we're going to get there at this rate and that's a shame. Thanks for the great experience again!

[@Zamboro]

@Zamboro That's not to mention the undersea resorts being built in Fiji and the Phillipines, undersea mining in Papau New Guinea, undersea spa in the Maldives, undersea visitor observatories in Israel and China, the Atlantica civilian undersea colony in the works, Virgin Galactic's consumer space tourism, Space Adventures offering trips around the moon, the two inflatable Bigelow space habitats orbiting Earth (unmanned) as we speak, and the X-Prize 'Race to Inner Space".

[@simonf8902]

So cut down the rainforest. Build lots of freeways. Consume more. Turn the ocean and Antarctica into factories. Yes. That’s pretty true these days. Thanks General Motors.

[@sinz52]

I saw it too, as a young child. I was so small that I had to squat on the chair in order for my head to reach the headphones, which were fixed in one position. The message was that travel would liberate us. Then it showed beautiful gleaming cities. It didn't occur to me (or to most other visitors) that the ability to live anywhere would result in flight from the cities and urban decay. It didn't occur to GM what would happen to Detroit.

[@echodelta9]

I remember seeing this short on TV at the time and being the same age as the kid in the film I was impressed, but when it got to the "jungle highway paver" scene I had my first awareness that all this future is good is not all good. Hoof and mouth disease has has had a say on building the Pan American Highway thru the Darien gap. The first freaks dosed on LSD and went on a road trip to the fair crossing the US and also thought some of the Futurerama stuff was a joke or worse. 1939 was before my time but 1964-5 was not. Needless to say Futurerama is a great animated series.

[@donovandelaney3171]

We're almost there.

[@mitchdakelman4470]

This is a segment from the 1965 film FAIR TODAY FUTURAMA TOMORROW, made by MPO Productions. We had it from GM in 1965 and showed the entire 26 minute film in a 7th grade assembly. GM archives has made this segment available, now can we get the original 26 minute film?

[@paulmurphy42]

+Mitch Dakelman Did you ever get a reply to this and were you ever able to find the whole 26 minute film? I'd like to see it too...

[@mitchdakelman4470]

+paulmurphy42 No, never looked into it. I do have the soundtrack, which I recorded in 1966 when I had the film from GM. In 1967 they edited the film, and the prints were butchered. Even if I found a complete print, it would be faded -- that's why its necessary to go back to GM if they ever restored the entire film.

[@paulmurphy42]

+Mitch Dakelman Thanks Mitch, that's very interesting. Is there any chance you could upload the whole soundtrack just as a soundtrack? I'll try to contact them and ask if they have anything more. By the way, did you ever go on the actual ride itself? And how long was it, exactly? Thanks again.

[@mitchdakelman4470]

I know this goes back a few years. I never came across the full film, but I still have the soundtrack which I recorded 50 years ago. I moved earlier this year and made sure that audio recording was not lost! I did go on the Futurama ride, but that was in 1965. The audio track you hear is the exact soundtrack.

[@AnthonyBoccaccio]

I saw this in 1964, sitting on that moving seat, and thought that one day I'd go to the jungle to see the road, paved and with a yellow line down the middle. The rest is history.

[@RedOcktober]

yes... where did it go... what happened... i remember the Futurama ride like it was yesterday... my eyes opened as wide as the kid in the film... --Mike

[@FableWolfe]

I feel robbed of this kind of a future. There's just something so saddening about knowing this kind of a world will never be.

[@lukehauser1182]

Pre-Star Wars animation - a reminder how amazing SW visuals were at the time 0:55

[@AdventureJim1969]

I was only 8 years old at the time. But I remeber that even though the lines were long at the Fair, they moved rather fast. There was no extra admission to enter Futurama once we were in the Fairgrounds.

[@superluminal89]

At :18 the brotha walking past in the line looks like Malcolm X

[@Moneygetjealous]

I'm so glad our future ain't like that. All that future talk and they had no clue that computers will change everything. During that time, one computer takes up an entire room and it still can't do shit. I remember back in the early 90s where I was stuck in a car for hours on the way home as a kid, completely bored trying to entertain myself with a plastic car. I would sit there thinking how awesome it would be to watch tv on those long car rides. We came a long way

[@57medve]

My mother was worlking at the Guinean pavillion and I was at the fair everyday, without mummy and daddy, and I am not the little boy. I still have a T-shirt with the Unisphere on, I was 10 !

[@stephencook1063]

I was there, same age as the boy in the film. Too bad we missed the mark on all of that prediction, but it was fun to think about.

[@jasonfaruk1175]

I wonder if that boy has ever seen this now

[@louismarcus]

I took this ride as a kid and remember being in awe at the time. At the time we couldn't see it for what was, like most of the fair offerings, nothing more than extravagant corporate propaganda.

[@zagaroooo]

wow amen---I remember this ride when I was just a wee 7 year old....the franternity of world fair goers from new York...we are family..and with jesus and god and moses and muhammed...together as family --now we have the faith to cure all illness..to make the children smile...with our faith in our ONE GOD..and his gentle flowerlike beauty love and supernova power(quite a paradoxical contrast--yet able to) love rob....lets see where he wants us to go

[@GrayBlood1331]

I couldn't help but hear Mike and the bots while watching this :D

[@alphabeets]

The concept of the smartphone and the internet never occurred to them. They got it completely wrong.

[@Serenadesong]

If you watch other videos about this fair, they had those things there.