The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair
"An average American family", the Middletons, visit the 1939 World's Fair and witnesses the advent of future technology, encountering robots and dishwashers for the first time.
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1939, sound, 55 min, Technicolor, 35mm. Transferred from a 35mm nitrate print. See: Andrew Wood, "The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair," http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/middleton/index1.html. This drama illustrates the contribution of free enterprise, technology, and Westinghouse products to the American way of life. The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair pits an anti-capitalist bohemian artist boyfriend against an all-American electrical engineer who believes in improving society by working through corporations. The Middletons experience Westinghouse's technological marvels at the Fair and win back their daughter from her leftist boyfriend. Memorable moments: the dishwashing contest between Mrs. Modern and Mrs. Drudge; Electro, the smoking robot; and the Westinghouse time capsule. This is a re-encode of this film located here. These movies are encoded as mpeg4 h.264 which is now supported by the current version of flash. Click the following links below to view. Click links to watch the movie. 128K Feed: click here to watch | right+click to download 256k Feed: click here to watch | right+click to download iPod Feed: click here to watch | right+click to download Adobe Flash 9 is required. click here to install.
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- Director
- Robert R. Snody
- Starring
- Marjorie Lord, Jimmy Lydon, Ruth Lee, Harry Shannon, Adora Andrews, Douglas Stark, George J. Lewis, Georgette Harvey
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