This World’s Fair Report with Lowell Thomas was created by the New York World’s Fair 1964-65 Corporation. The film opens with Lowell Thomas and an aerial view of the globe at the World’s Fair Fairgrounds – named The Unisphere. Robert Moses, a patron of the fair, is interviewed. Aerial view :650 acres in over 200 exhibits are being built. TV screens 2:45. Under construction is the Port of New York / New Jersey exhibit building 2:54. Heliport on top, 3:05 The General Motors building 3:10. The Ford Building built by Walt Disney. Life-size dinosaurs 3:40. Greyhound, the Post-House Restaurant of the Future, 3:48. Mobil Oil building, 3:54. Transportation and Travel Pavilion simulated moon trip, 4:04. Amphitheater 4:20. Meyer Davis famous orchestra leader 4:30. Wax museum 4:54. Trams are air-conditioned 5:02. The Santa Maria anchored in Meadow Lake 5:15. Ringling Brothers Circus 5:24. The Music Hall will present musical comedy 5:32. The Jones Beach Musical Theater will offer Guy Lombardo 5:39. Around the World in 80 days. Water shows and fireworks will be featured 5:54. Shea Stadium is being built 6:15. Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle playing baseball 6:38. An aerial view of New York City is shown from the South 6:48. Stadiums are built for fencing, judo and tennis 7:00. Girls dance 7:08. IBM’s People Wall 7:51 designed by Charles Eames. General Electric’s Progress Land 8:00. It features Walt Disney’s animated figures. An actual demonstration of atomic fusion will also be displayed. The Bell System Exhibit 8:22. Travelers Insurance building 8:31. Electric Power and Light’s Tower of Light! RCA will feature a full television broadcast 8:57. Festival of natural gas 9:00. Gourmet restaurants 9:07. Coca-Cola’s World of Refreshment 9:14. Johnson Wax building 9:22. Scott’s Paper will have a beautifully landscaped park 9:28. Formica’s hilltop house 9:38. The Schaefer brewing company will have the Schaefer Center featured at the fair 9:42. The largest beer bar in the world 9:47. 7-Up will provide refreshment, sandwiches and entertainment 9:58. Rheingold’s gay little old New York Pavilion 10:07. DuPont will have two theaters. Westinghouse will bury a new time capsule 10:20. The Pavilion of American interiors 10:33. 40,000 scouts will visit the Jamboree at the Boy Scout Exhibit 10:45. The house of good taste exhibit, 11:03. The better living Pavilion 11:11. The exciting new world of industry at the New York world’s fair 11:22. Thomas Lowe speaks 11:30. Asian buildings are shown 11:53. Swiss sky ride 12:00. Balinese dancers from Indonesia 12:06. International buildings are shown 12:15. The Republic of China will have special exhibits 12:35. Sierra Leone will have tents representing its famous mountains 12:45. The whole of free enterprise exhibit 13:00. Japan’s participation is extensive. Ireland showcase 13:20. The international Plaza is featured 13:36. Thomas speaks 13:54. The Protestant Center 14:10. The Mormon Pavilion 14:17. Christian Science Pavilion 14:25. The Billy Graham Pavilion 14:30. Pope John XXIII 14:42. The Pieta 15:26. From the Vatican, Pope John activates a radio signal to the Fair 15:38 which starts a piledriver breaking ground 15:42. Herbert Hoover, Dwight D Eisenhower and Harry S Truman will preside over the fair. The Federal Building is shown 16:19. John F. Kennedy is shown shaking hands 16:35. Robert Moses speaks 16:48. President John F. Kennedy speaks 17:10. Artist renderings 17:30. A model of the New York metropolitan area is shown 17:47. Summer Festival Queen 18:00. Olympic skating champions 18:10. 100-foot-high Citrus Tower for Florida 18:27. New Jersey will celebrate its 300th anniversary 18:40. News reporters 19:15, ribbon-cutting 19:35. Gen. Douglas MacArthur 19:45. Robert Moses 20:05. Traveling to the Fair 20:27. Idlewild Airport 20:46. LaGuardia Airport 20:55. Modernization program is underway. Robert Moses’ highway system is shown 21:23. Raymond Corbett and Robert Moses speak about the highway system with bridge designer, Othmar Ammann. Aerial views of bridges in New York City are shown 22:00. Thomas Lowe speaks 22:15. Modern buildings in New York City are shown 22:35. Frolicking in the pool 22:53. Scenes from the top of the Empire State building 23:00. Rockefeller Center 23:05. The great White Way / Broadway 23:20. Tickets are sold 23:30. Guggenheim Museum, the New York Public Library, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Lincoln Center 24:00 the Harmonic Hall and Lincoln Center 24:14.Pan Am building 24:48. Thomas speaks to Robert Moses 25:00. Construction of the fairgrounds and Flushing Meadow Park are shown 25:52. Film written by John Campbell and directed by Jack Tobin.

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