The Middleton Family At The New York World’s Fair R3 of 6
Sign: Junior Science Hall. Bud, Jim & Mr. Middleton walk up & look at kids doing experiments. “Our welfare is rooted in character, not in panaceas. To me systems don’t seem to count half so much as the right kind o men and women as these kids are going to be some day.” “No system can make up for bad citizenship.”
Sign: See It Here, The Battle of the Centuries The Solution To One Of Woman’s Problems”
09:22:31 Contest w/ Mrs Modern using dishwasher competing w/ Mrs. Drudge doing hand dishwashing. Announcer doing a blow by blow account. Woman talks to her mother about reality of it.
09:24:30 Jim meets Babs & Nick, her art teacher.
09:25:03 “Nothing funny about the tools of Capitalism”. Main hall with Escalator up & stairs down.
09:25:29 Loom making ribbons. Nick says how many jobs would be lost by looms; Jim gives figures that many more employed in mills today.
09:26:52 Electric rollers moving billets. They discuss what is safer; how machine production works. Babs breaks up an argument.
09:28:19 They move on to exhibit where an electric trolley is operated by Bud.
09:29:01 Nick lighting up cigarette; exploding cigarette from Bud which annoys Nick. Babs asks Nick not to argue at lunch with her dad.
Exhibits; Exposition; Corporation; Advertising Image; Oddities; Economics; Marriage; Future; 1939; Arguing; Socialism; Communism; Americana;
NOTE: From very good 35mm Technicolor print.
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The Middleton Family At The New York World’s Fair R3 of 6 Sign: Junior Science Hall. Bud, Jim & Mr. Middleton walk up & look at kids doing experiments. “Our welfare is rooted in character, not in panaceas. To me systems don’t seem to count half so much as the right kind o men and women as these kids are going to be some day.” “No system can make up for bad citizenship.” Sign: See It Here, The Battle of the Centuries The Solution To One Of Woman’s Problems” 09:22:31 Contest w/ Mrs Modern using dishwasher competing w/ Mrs. Drudge doing hand dishwashing. Announcer doing a blow by blow account. Woman talks to her mother about reality of it. 09:24:30 Jim meets Babs & Nick, her art teacher. 09:25:03 “Nothing funny about the tools of Capitalism”. Main hall with Escalator up & stairs down. 09:25:29 Loom making ribbons. Nick says how many jobs would be lost by looms; Jim gives figures that many more employed in mills today. 09:26:52 Electric rollers moving billets. They discuss what is safer; how machine production works. Babs breaks up an argument. 09:28:19 They move on to exhibit where an electric trolley is operated by Bud. 09:29:01 Nick lighting up cigarette; exploding cigarette from Bud which annoys Nick. Babs asks Nick not to argue at lunch with her dad. Exhibits; Exposition; Corporation; Advertising Image; Oddities; Economics; Marriage; Future; 1939; Arguing; Socialism; Communism; Americana; NOTE: From very good 35mm Technicolor print.