From my personal film archives is a filmed record of one of my visits to the New York World's Fair.
The 1964-65 New York World's Fair was the second World's Fair to be held at Flushing Meadows Park in New York in the 20th century. It opened on April 21, 1964 for two six-month seasons concluding on October 21, 1965.
It was the largest World's Fair ever to be held in the United States occupying nearly a square mile of land. Truly a "Universal and International" class exposition, it was not sanctioned by the Bureau of International Expositions and is often overlooked by historians because it was not an "official" World's Fair. This lack of BIE endorsement meant that many large European nations chose not to participate in the Fair. Most international exhibits were sponsored by tourism and industrial concerns and not officially sanctioned by their governments.
The Fair is now a distant memory for most who were visitors. Those who were children at the time of the Fair are nearing retirement today. After years of neglect, the Fair's legacy structures at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park are being refurbished. New York, in recent years, has begun to realize how important that Fair was to our country's and their city's history and how much it represented an era to millions of Americans. It was a time when the possibilities of the future looked so bright and seemed to be just around the corner.
Filmed: August 1965

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