This is a great example of what is best about KZitem.
@iangodfrey4518
4 жыл бұрын
It's great stuff, but would have been nice if it showed inside of the exhibits, rather than just outside views of people walking around. A bit of context goes a long way.
@robertmartens9787
4 жыл бұрын
@@iangodfrey4518 If only . . . But the Kodachrome film that Grandpa used at the time was designed for outdoor use in full daylight. Any interiors that he filmed, unless they were brilliantly illuminated, would have come looked dark and washed out. I remember the few times he filmed indoors he had to set up several large flood lamps that were very hot and uncomfortable to the eyes.
@MovieVigilante
4 жыл бұрын
@@iangodfrey4518 I'm gonna choose to look at the glass as half full.
@iangodfrey4518
4 жыл бұрын
@@robertmartens9787 fair call that. still great film.
@MovieVigilante
4 жыл бұрын
@@robertmartens9787 I agree about the flood lamps. When my dad used to film us indoors with his 8mm home movie camera, the flood lights he used would blind us. The film footage your grandpa captured is vivid and astonishing. The fact that it's in colour is also rare for the time and it's refreshing to see. I wonder what your grandpa would think, knowing that his archived film footage would be viewed by thousands of people, who appreciate it very much.
@mumkeysdebates8724
3 жыл бұрын
It's sad to know that most of the people in this video are dead may God bless there souls.
@davidcarlin3850
3 жыл бұрын
Superb transfer. I’ve never seen the 1939 worlds fair in such glorious color and quality. Thank you !!!!!
@georgebethos7890
Жыл бұрын
Dear Mr Martens THANK YOU 🙏 for posting this. It was really well put together and actually made me feel like I was at the 1939 fair. My parents were at that fair and took me to the 1964 fair which remain some of my happiest moments.
@ronelkins455
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing. Good to view things through the eyes of what my granddad's generation was seeing right before the war.
@larrydee8859
4 жыл бұрын
Just Beautiful, in sharp color!
@Dave.S.TT600
4 жыл бұрын
That Kodachrome palette is wonderful. Thanks for the video. PS- What a great Nation the USA once was.
@ScoutCrafter
5 жыл бұрын
That was spectacular! Thanks so much for sharing!
@derekgarnier6110
4 жыл бұрын
Robert, this is truly amazing. Thank you for sharing.
@stevie68a
4 жыл бұрын
I went to the '64 fair as a kid. Some bits of the '39 fair were there. ( a statue or two). I was surprised to find the the Queens Botanical Garden was originally part of the '39 fair. It's more of a park than a botanical garden, but very nice. In this video, notice how people dressed back then, not at all like today. Thanks for this film.
@robertbrawley5048
4 жыл бұрын
I was just going to ask someone about present day landmarks from the 39 faire and you know just showed up and answered for me
@flashchrome
4 жыл бұрын
That's so cool to be able to watch. Thanks for sharing.
@dorothyd.6506
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for creating this wonderful video from your familie's home movie footage and sharing it with the world. I thouroghly enjoyed it!
@neilthomas9244
4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant. Thanks for sharing this priceless family treasure with the rest of us.
@bruceglover7971
3 жыл бұрын
" The Future Ain't What it Used to Be " Yogi Berra
@ryanlowry9483
4 жыл бұрын
This is so amazing your grandpa is a legend for preserving these beautiful shots
@VitricArt
5 жыл бұрын
What a delightful addition to your family's legacy! I've previously enjoyed the footage you have posted, but this is truly spectacular in footage and quality. You have good reason to be very proud of your dapper (and forward thinking) kinfolk :)
@mselbit
4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful overview of the fair. Wish I could have visited it.
@Jenura01
4 жыл бұрын
This is just wonderful! Thanks for showing us real history.
@MzuMzu-nx1em
4 жыл бұрын
In the 1939 the world wasn't in black and white?
@captnmike597
4 жыл бұрын
It was until the house landed on the wicked witch in OZ. Then it was in color.
@a.i.v.dagent8170
4 жыл бұрын
It was until agent dyatlof blowed up mk reactor in chernobyl
@MzuMzu-nx1em
4 жыл бұрын
Lies , Mickey mouse invented the colours
@mxxhxx991
4 жыл бұрын
Technicolor was incorporated in 1916. By 1939, many improvements made filming in color, available to the average consumer, at some additional cost. Colors looked plush back then, due to the use of silver in the process.
@adamantman3200
4 жыл бұрын
@@captnmike597 AUNTIE EM! AUNTIE EM!
@petitelapin60
3 жыл бұрын
This is wonderful! A fantastic glimpse at a by gone time --the World's Fair no less! Thanks for sharing!
@orangebetsy
3 жыл бұрын
That's a really fine piece of work, restoring that and offering it here. I live in Flushing and I'm looking at the site down in Corona right now from my window as the sun comes up in 2021!
@joanparker8152
4 жыл бұрын
Robert, thank you for sharing this. I have 13 original postcards from my father's estate from the 1939 New York World's Fair. Also have a set for the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. I appreciate the footage to see what it was like in person. In color yet!
@jfranklin9549
4 жыл бұрын
Such a treat seeing this in color. Thank you for sharing your family’s experience.
@Bricked4You
4 жыл бұрын
Fantastic ! Thank you for sharing history.
@azspotfree
4 жыл бұрын
Awesome video. The image quality makes this a time machine of sorts. I'm alway amazed in these videos up to the 1960's, how well dressed and groomed Americans used to be when out in public. Even in videos from the great depression the people tended to look sharp. We seem to have lost a little something over time in that regard
@countalma9800
4 жыл бұрын
It's probably the suburban lifestyle, spending more time at home, watching TV, shopping at malls, where no one knows each other, driving everywhere, instead of promenading, that changed the culture of dressing up in the second half of the 20th century. Plus, the "cultural revolution" of the 60's and wave after wave of "teen culture", promoted by the multi-billion dollar pop culture industry. But the problem isn't really in that people stopped wearing suits and ties (outside of a few industries that still require corporate uniform), but that people, in general, look like slobs and don't put any effort into looking neat and presentable.
@thecaveofthedead
4 жыл бұрын
Well done for posting actual high resolution scans. An amazing treasure for your family and for the rest of us.
@robertwmartens
4 жыл бұрын
Wow, 1,054 comments as of today! And many of them are sincere and intelligent too. My grandfather who made this must be smiling up in heaven right now. Of course there have been some crude and silly remarks as well, but you have to expect those from a public forum. Then there are those who basically say "America was so much better back then when everybody was white." I shall not censor such remarks, but I must make it clear that they do not reflect my point of view.
@emmarose4234
3 жыл бұрын
It’s a WORLD’S fair, folks!
@colleenkennedy1934
3 жыл бұрын
You think 2021 is better? Nobody thinks that
@hennochicken
3 жыл бұрын
If you don’t censor such remarks you’re only allowing rampant hate to exist on these videos.
@colleenkennedy1934
3 жыл бұрын
@@hennochicken you are anti-free speech... sad
@hennochicken
3 жыл бұрын
@@colleenkennedy1934 I hate to see a nice video be ruined with political nonsense. This is just a video of the past nothing to do with modern times. Plus this land belonged to the tribes before the invasions.
@gmpny3945
3 жыл бұрын
Wow! One of the nicest videos I've seen about the 1939-40 World's Fair. Thank you so much for sharing.
@RoodeMenon
4 жыл бұрын
Amazing scan! It would be so cool to run it through dirt removal, stabilizing and interpolating (smooth motion) filters.
@InFiD3ViL1
4 жыл бұрын
81 years old yet better quality than most 1990's music videos. I would have been amazing if all WWII footage was shot on this, but I know that wasn't feasible in the field. I am just glad we have the color footage that we do. Colorized footage just isn't the same.
@Paul_425
3 жыл бұрын
The golden year pre-lockdown and pre-pandemic...the future back then looked so bright.
@varnlestoff
4 жыл бұрын
Wow, It's just amazing to think we have this historical footage of when Araham Lincoln was still alive.
@robertwmartens
4 жыл бұрын
Ha Ha, funny!!!! - - unless you meant that sincerely.
@varnlestoff
4 жыл бұрын
@@robertwmartens Yeah I was joking lol. When I saw the guy dressed as Abraham Lincoln I though a lot people might actually think that these days.
@michaela.chmieloski3196
3 жыл бұрын
@@varnlestoff Actually, the film footage we have of President Lincoln is all black-and-white.
@MrSuperbatone
4 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU for this, Robert Martens! From age 10, I always was fascinated by the '39 New York World's Fair, and bitterly regretted that I was born too late to see it. I never did find out: WHAT HAPPENED when you got inside the Perisphere? What was in there? Could you also enter the Trylon? These movies come so tantalizingly close to answering these questions.
@Wa3ypx
2 жыл бұрын
My son & I walked the grounds a few years ago, I can't believe the buildings. How long did it take to tear down everything. Not once, but twice with the '64 fair. I really wish we could do this again in NYC
@williamschlenger1518
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing a great home movie.
@ruskiryan2398
4 жыл бұрын
Awesome and thank you for sharing your family treasure.
@haroldsteinblatt2567
4 жыл бұрын
How totally, utterly cool.
@theprophet20
4 жыл бұрын
Remarkable definition and color for a home movie of that era.
@PaulVes
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so very much for sharing this.
@QBiks
4 жыл бұрын
You can say that for a video of this year its quality is pretty... Fair.
@fnordone
4 жыл бұрын
Hand held camera work is amazing. Great save of glorious footage.
@TheTferrer
4 жыл бұрын
WOW - What a great color transformation. Nicely done - wish to have a time machine to experience this era in person!
@thomastrout9997
4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely fascinating! In this age of instant gratification one must remember that Mr. Martens had no idea what he had actually had in the camera until the film had been processed. Even an ACL member had to wait for the color footage to be developed, though I am guessing there was a system for expediency. But actually seeing your footage for the 1st time had to be so rewarding. Remember, this is 1939 and most commercial films are still in B & W. That year the Wizard of Oz and Gone With The Wind will be the 1st color films some people would ever see.
@mkaiser29
4 жыл бұрын
Too Cool!! I wish I could go back in time to 1939 in New York City!! Of course, I cannot so seeing this AMAZING HD and color film is as close as I will get! Boy does TIME fly!
@jb20092009
4 жыл бұрын
My Dad went to both the 1939 and1940 ones. My Mom went to the latter one as she was only 2 during the first year. I remember my Dad’s Heinz Pickle pin which was one of his top collector’s items.
@irvl
4 жыл бұрын
I loved the opening fanfare. It is the last measures of Ferde Grofe's WORLD FAIR SUITE.
@michaeldelpozzo4179
4 жыл бұрын
thank you for sharing that. a wonderful look into the past. well done :)
@JamJells
4 жыл бұрын
Wonderful work. I hope this inspires others to save and post family and rare films from our great history for future generations.
@03Venture
3 жыл бұрын
Well done, my respect to you and your family, sir!
@filmtorres
4 жыл бұрын
Truly wonderful footage!
@Badmike53
4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful camera work.
@Oligampla
4 жыл бұрын
Amazing quality!
@Nickywhispersasmr
3 жыл бұрын
This is magical!!!! 😃
@robertwmartens
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@joelk4751
4 жыл бұрын
Nicely done! Amazing image quality for an amateur film 80 years ago. Great editing job, too. (Love your grandmama's hat.)
@keaton111
3 жыл бұрын
If you search google images for 1939, it's just pages and pages of black and white images. even the Life magazine spread on the 1939 world's fair is almost entirely black and white images. and yet look at this "home movie". beautiful!
@darast.angelo261
4 жыл бұрын
Thank You Robert for bringing this to us . .My mother was 5 years old when she went to this very fair and saw all of these wonderful "new" technological feats to feast their very young eyes on at the time.. WOW very impressive film editing.. I was wondering is this 16mm Kodachrome the first color films available at the time?
@PhreaSpirit
4 жыл бұрын
What a high quality video...phenomenal. Thanks! P.S. The music is so reminiscent of French Marseillaise in the second part! I wonder why..
@MichaelCasey1988
4 жыл бұрын
BTW the colors of the night shots are extraordinarily beautiful. The Cash Register, the fountain and the blue petroleum pavilion stand out
@nathanmoak1515
4 жыл бұрын
well done. i love art deco. if you did this today, everyone would be looking at their phones instead of the senery.
@eriks74342
4 жыл бұрын
This video is a thing of beauty. I've seen the home movies posted to archive.org -- are these the same? -- but the addition of a soundtrack I think makes silent home movies like these come to life. During the Pageant of Railroads scene, it took me a moment to realize I was hearing the original audio -- and suddenly the context of the images became clear, in a way the silent movie alone could not convey. The transfer is magnificent. And seeing this legendary fair in color is a treat for the eyes.
@robertwmartens
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Erik. In response to your question, my grandfather's home movie is only on my KZitem channel. Thank you again for your thoughtful comments.
@ivanj.conway9919
3 жыл бұрын
Imagine, when this was on the go the Concentration Camps in Germany were going full swing. Whenever I think of the 30s and 40s that's always, the first thing to come to mind, sadly. My Best. Out.
@famousbowl9926
3 жыл бұрын
This footage from 1939 is better amd clearer then most footage from the 1964/65 worlds fair! Wow
@Ateismopensante
4 жыл бұрын
great job man, amazing work
@enterocinese
4 жыл бұрын
Lovely movie with a very well fitted music. A window through the past. Could you tell me, please, if the score used is entirely from Weill ? Otherwise, can you precise the moments of Weill music ? Thanks from France
@pnocella
4 жыл бұрын
Bravo to background studio orchestra trumpets at 14:55 - 15:32 - A long "blow" ending on High E above High C (Bb trumpet) - Another case of great playing by "unsung" studio musicians!
@weelgunny
4 жыл бұрын
Some footage of all the cars in the parking lot would've been cool.
@Brainly-Brian
4 жыл бұрын
How I wish I was born around in this time.
@robertkushner156
4 жыл бұрын
Amazing footage - I just discovered this. How were you able to improve on the resolution by using a different lab to transfer the film to video? What was different and better quality? It looks so good! Thank you for posting this!
@robertmartens9787
4 жыл бұрын
I used DuArt Inc. in New York City. They've never failed to please when it comes to digitizing film.
@robertkushner156
4 жыл бұрын
@@robertmartens9787 Thank you so much! When checking out your footage, I was hoping to see my Mom somewhere in there - She was from New Jersey and would have been about 15 years old during this World's Fair. It would be so great if I actually caught a glimpse of her crossing a street or something - wouldn't that be amazing?
@robertmartens9787
4 жыл бұрын
@@robertkushner156 I have received comments on some of Grandpa's other movies where someone spotted their grandmother as a young drum majorette leading a parade, and things like that. So keep looking, you might get lucky!
@robertkushner156
4 жыл бұрын
@@robertmartens9787 I believe it actually did happen once, when I think I spotted Mom crossing the street in Los Angeles in someone's footage of Downtown Los Angeles (where she lived later on in life and when I came along) I think the footage was in the early 1950's. Thank you so much for your replies. Have a wonderful day!
@parnellitube
4 жыл бұрын
Wow, Paul Simon wasn't joking about Kodachrome. Looks amazing!
@njbestvideo5977
4 жыл бұрын
great quality
@jayb8439
4 жыл бұрын
Where did we all go
@marymedina3135
3 жыл бұрын
Gracias por compartirlo
@pallen49
4 жыл бұрын
WOW, Imagine that...1939?....Dad was only 2 years old, mom was only 1...and I wasn't even ' thought of ' for another 20 years. lol
@blester76
4 жыл бұрын
Loved it!
@LucaMoretto88
4 жыл бұрын
Awesome!!
@milo5524
4 жыл бұрын
Bellissimo!
@goclunker
4 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@tn18977
2 жыл бұрын
Have you seen some of these old time videos on KZitem that have been upgraded to 60 frames per second? You should do some of that with these videos, I bet the results would be amazing.
@peterjensen4190
3 жыл бұрын
That was awesome. How did somebody from Omaha ever go back home after experiencing that fair.
@jourwalis-8875
4 жыл бұрын
Very good technical quality of this 1939 colour Home Movie film! Was it a 16 mm camera? I presume the film was Kodacolor.
@nasticanasta
4 жыл бұрын
I was at the 1964 New York Worlds Fair.
@stevencohn39
4 жыл бұрын
looked up gustave Martens on google but other Gustave Martens only showed . no gustave born 1900-1977 is listed.
@edeetb
4 жыл бұрын
there is an obituary of the son Warren who is featured in the film. Here is the link: patch.com/new-york/nyack/rev-warren-martens-dies-at-age-83
@eddielung31
4 жыл бұрын
sadly it was just a year before Pearl Harbour, and Poland already occupied
@adavila78
4 жыл бұрын
two years actually, but as you say, Poland was already occupied =(
@Lordmij
4 жыл бұрын
2
@RotterStudios
2 ай бұрын
Most of everyone, not just in this video, but the entire world, on this day, are GONE.
@issness_god
Ай бұрын
human beings only live for around 4 thousand weeks. the good news is they never existed in the first place as seperate entities according to neuroscientist sam harris
@ortho-g9826
3 жыл бұрын
I wish I had a time machine with a ONE WAY ticket. God bless!
@GarthMurray1
4 жыл бұрын
A great look back in time and excellent photography. But I'm wondering why they called it the "World's" Fair. Where's the rest of the world?
@backfatfairy
4 жыл бұрын
when i was a kid, i was always thought the world was actually black and white back then and then color was invented
@c.a.g.3130
4 жыл бұрын
Remarkable how well the color held up in 16mm; never as good in 8mm; even worse in Super 8.
@dimzay
4 жыл бұрын
Some time back in history America was great.
@anSealgair
4 жыл бұрын
Film was the HD of its time. We had HD and then we lost it. For a long time.
@Tora-Tora-Tora-
2 жыл бұрын
great
@anthonyginther6883
4 жыл бұрын
Kills me when people used those old movie cameras not much differently than taking snap shots.
@davidjames666
4 жыл бұрын
it seems everyone dressed in brown or tan clothing very few people wearing blue, grey, or any other colors - or even wearing anything colorful.
@robertwmartens
4 жыл бұрын
Such overly bright colors were considered garish and low class, OK for clowns but not for dignified folk. If you look closely you'll see brighter colors but only in small doses, such as the blue sweater that my father is wearing, or red neckties, or gold handkerchiefs. The public preference for brighter colors changed with the later introduction of artificial dyes and cheap polyester.
@williamschlenger1518
4 жыл бұрын
So what happened to all those beautiful buildings &landscaping?
@JamesDavidWalley
4 жыл бұрын
They were practically all designed to be temporary, and were demolished at the fair's end in 1940. There may be a building or two left standing.
@robertmartens9787
4 жыл бұрын
@@JamesDavidWalley Yes, the building that today houses The Queens Museum is the lone structure from the 1939-40 fair that was designed to be permanent and survives to this day. It was originally the Pavilion of the City of New York, and after World War 2 it served as the interim headquarters of The United Nations until the UN Buildings were constructed in Manhattan.
@capekurtz
4 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed this but a pity that many of the scenes were so brief.
@mikeos1
4 жыл бұрын
colour movie film was extremely expensive. Convention was that four second clips were the way to shoot.
@JeffFrmJoisey
5 жыл бұрын
Fantastic!!!! Color movies of the 1939-40 World's Fair are extremely rare. This movie is far superior to any other WF movie - sharper, great color!! The night sequences are truly amazing!!!! Your Grandpa preserved this Fair in a way most people could not, he must have been one amazing hobbyist!!! Hats off to his foresight and to your putting it all together and sharing this priceless home movie!!
@johns.87
4 жыл бұрын
Yes Sir, this is truly Amazing!!
@juanatrujillo9115
3 жыл бұрын
Like the wizard of oz that came out in 1939
@tomjones7089
4 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@sharksport01
4 жыл бұрын
My friend was so inspired by the houses at this fair he went home and enrolled in college to be an architect. In 1959 he designed a house for his best friend, and i live in it now. Thank you for uploading this!
@ibrahimsulaiman9047
4 жыл бұрын
The colour makes a past world seem similar to our own, they were just like us but they're all gone, a sobering reminder of the brevity of life.
@herrbonk3635
4 жыл бұрын
The kids may well be alive though, even some of the teenagers (being around 85-100).
@ibrahimsulaiman9047
4 жыл бұрын
@@herrbonk3635 True, although the transition from youth to old age in itself involves many deaths and rebirths.
@goku9791
4 жыл бұрын
they were like us but like more racist
@herrbonk3635
4 жыл бұрын
@@goku9791 And the world was much more diverse, with each nation having its own culture. Today, most young people instead embrace the shallow consumer culture of the USA.
@ibrahimsulaiman9047
4 жыл бұрын
@@goku9791 Why bring race into it? This is not a political video, it's a window into the past, an opportunity for us to learn.
@wilson6448
4 жыл бұрын
Wow seeing this in color is so different, makes you realize how similar life back then was to life nowdays, unlike the alienation that seeing black and white usually gives
@hxhdfjifzirstc894
4 жыл бұрын
Wilson Agreed. I'm very familiar with films from this era, and this is amazing. The sky was blue in 1939!
@kck9742
4 жыл бұрын
It really does make a huge difference as far as making history "real", doesn't it? Same with the early 1900s autochrome photos from Albert Kahn's "Archive of the Planet"... those color photos look like they could have bene taken today.
@LinG-of8fk
4 жыл бұрын
So so true
@loki6253
4 жыл бұрын
So very true. The black and white does give it a different spooky feeling
@angusseletto1511
4 жыл бұрын
How is life now similar to back then? Because things are still the same color,hardly,there was a rightly so optimistic view then,not so much now
@spartaeus
4 жыл бұрын
I wish there could still be another world's fair. I went to the one in 1964. It was a time when Americans were optimistic about the future of this country, this world. We are far from that today....
@wind2536
4 жыл бұрын
@@adavila78guess it's okay to shit on country people eh? So long as they're white.
@alexanderfo3886
4 жыл бұрын
Not everything was perfect in these days, and neither is everything today. But I think where Spartaeus has a point is that back then, in spite of society's shortcomings, there was much more hope to overcome them aswell as more appreciation for the concepts of civilization, reason and progress, all of which are nowadays almost heinously mocked and spat upon, and may I say both from the right (looking at you, maxismax100) aswell as some peculiar kind of "left" that didn't exist back then.
@scottallen8950
4 жыл бұрын
@maxismax100 Let me remind you that Trump's son in law is a Jewish zionist and his daughter is Jewish.....oooops....hard to hate Jews and love Trump. I'm a Trump supporter....and Jewish also.
@MylesV
4 жыл бұрын
World fairs still happen, except they're commonly called World Expos. The next one is in Dubai in 2020.
@sopaman1234
4 жыл бұрын
@@adavila78 Why are you so mad!!?? Can't stand the truth or the fact about how Minorities ruined everything for the whiteman!!..?? See how nice clean is in this video.. No minorities to destroy or ruin anything..
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