Viewing film portion of collection requires special appointment. Reference copies do not exist. See repository for details.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Reproduction permission from Archives Center: fees for commercial use.
Collection Citation:
American Petroleum Institute Photograph and Film Collection, 1860s-1990 (bulk 1955-1990), Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1939, 1964-1965, undated
Scope and Contents:
Comprise of 16mm black and white and color corporate and home movies primarily relating to the two world's fairs that were held in New York in 1939 and 1964. Documentation provides inside into the participant and fairgoer perspective of the events. In addition, there are materials from the San Francisco World's Fair, 1939 and the Bruxelles Exposition Universelle, 1958.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Researchers must handle unprotected photographs with gloves. Researchers must use reference copies of audio-visual materials. When no reference copy exists, the Archives Center staff will produce reference copies on an "as needed" basis, as resources allow. Viewing film portion of collection requires special appointment, please inquire. Do not use when original materials are available on reference video or audio tapes.
Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Edward J. Orth Memorial Archives of the New York World's Fair, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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Extent:
1 Reel (16mm, black & white/color, sound/silent, 1400 feet)
Container:
Reel OF 560.2
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Reels
Date:
1939
Scope and Contents:
"Amateur Cinema League, A Worldwide Organization of Amateur Movie Makers, member of Philadelphia Cinema Club 1939, photographed by Robert R. Henderson,", but reel appears to be a home movie compilation reel. Footage of Billy Rose's Aquacade, figure skating, parachute ride, and "Railroads on Parade"
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Researchers must handle unprotected photographs with gloves. Researchers must use reference copies of audio-visual materials. When no reference copy exists, the Archives Center staff will produce reference copies on an "as needed" basis, as resources allow. Viewing film portion of collection requires special appointment, please inquire. Do not use when original materials are available on reference video or audio tapes.
Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Edward J. Orth Memorial Archives of the New York World's Fair, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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Extent:
1 Reel (16mm, color, silent camera original reversal, 344 feet
)
Container:
Reel OF 560.8
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Reels
Date:
1939
Scope and Contents:
An excellent array of home movies of the 1939 New York World's Fair, including: general fair scenes, flags, the Trylon and Perisphere, Independence Hall replica, the exterior of the Petroleum Hall, a parade, outdoor drama, fountains at night, early footage of Flushing Meadows and construction and groundbreaking, sea plane with aerial views of the fair in construction, construction views, opening day parade and festivities, GREAT footage of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) giving his speech-very close, good footage of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, fire engines, New York World's Fair Fire Department
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Researchers must handle unprotected photographs with gloves. Researchers must use reference copies of audio-visual materials. When no reference copy exists, the Archives Center staff will produce reference copies on an "as needed" basis, as resources allow. Viewing film portion of collection requires special appointment, please inquire. Do not use when original materials are available on reference video or audio tapes.
Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Edward J. Orth Memorial Archives of the New York World's Fair, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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Extent:
1 Reel (16mm, color, silent camera original reversal, 487 feet)
Container:
Reel 560.9
Box xx, Item RV 560.9
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Reels
Date:
1939
Scope and Contents:
An excellent array of home movies of the 1939 New York World's Fair, including: courtyard, totem poles, Petroleum Hall, General Electric building, scenes at the Perisphere, Soviet Union pavilion, Czecho Slovakia pavilion, colonial town, "The Seven Ages of Man" mural at the Bell System building, British pavilion, Billy Rose's Aquacade, (great deal of footage), glass pavilion, US history stage show, (great deal of footage), farm scenes, view of parking lot, lily pond, fountains at night
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Researchers must handle unprotected photographs with gloves. Researchers must use reference copies of audio-visual materials. When no reference copy exists, the Archives Center staff will produce reference copies on an "as needed" basis, as resources allow. Viewing film portion of collection requires special appointment, please inquire. Do not use when original materials are available on reference video or audio tapes.
Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Edward J. Orth Memorial Archives of the New York World's Fair, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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Extent:
1 Reel (16mm, color, silent camera original reversal, 364 feet )
Container:
Reel OF 560.10
Box xx, Item RV 560.10
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Reels
Date:
1939
Scope and Contents:
An excellent array of home movies of the 1939 New York World's Fair, including: fair entrance, fair scenes, elevated view of the fair-large sundial very prominent, flowers and fountains, British pavilion, Italian pavilion, fountains, "The City of Light" presented by Consolidated Edison, Canadian Mountie maneuvers, train display, Ford pavilion, lightning display, fair views, garden display, Polish pavilion, The Netherlands pavilion, parachute ride, Billy Rose's Aquacade, the Trylon and Perisphere
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Researchers must handle unprotected photographs with gloves. Researchers must use reference copies of audio-visual materials. When no reference copy exists, the Archives Center staff will produce reference copies on an "as needed" basis, as resources allow. Viewing film portion of collection requires special appointment, please inquire. Do not use when original materials are available on reference video or audio tapes.
Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Edward J. Orth Memorial Archives of the New York World's Fair, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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Extent:
1 Reel (16mm, color, silent camera original reversal, 284 feet)
Container:
Reel OF 560.11
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Reels
Date:
1939
Scope and Contents:
An excellent home movie of the 1939 New York World's Fair, including: airplane shots with mountains, family shots, Fair scenes: Ford Motor building, outdoor concert with "The New World Ensemble" directed by Ferde Grofe, lightning display, Trylon and Perisphere, parachute ride, fountains, George Washington statue and fountain, elevated view of the fair, more of "The New World Ensemble" directed by Ferde Grofe, Ford Building Mercury statue, Aviation pavilion, Shipping pavilion, US Steel pavilion. Family scenes: drive-in restaurant, car with Texas plates, palmetto trees, and girls in majorette car hop uniforms, family shots, another drive-in with girl in grass skirt car hop outfit.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Researchers must handle unprotected photographs with gloves. Researchers must use reference copies of audio-visual materials. When no reference copy exists, the Archives Center staff will produce reference copies on an "as needed" basis, as resources allow. Viewing film portion of collection requires special appointment, please inquire. Do not use when original materials are available on reference video or audio tapes.
Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Edward J. Orth Memorial Archives of the New York World's Fair, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Exhibition Collectors Historical Organization Search this
Extent:
1 Reel (16mm, color, silent camera original reversal, 284 feet
)
Container:
Reel OF 560.14
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Reels
Date:
1939
Scope and Contents:
An excellent compilation of home movies of the 1939 New York World's Fair, including: elevated view of the fair, Trylon and Perisphere, gardens, waterfall with tunnel, The City of Light, Ford pavilion, Aviation, General Motors, Chrysler, Belgium, Italy, Heinz Dome, General Electric at night, US Steel at night, National Cash Register at night, lots of night footage, Westinghouse robot-Elektro, United States history stage show
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Researchers must handle unprotected photographs with gloves. Researchers must use reference copies of audio-visual materials. When no reference copy exists, the Archives Center staff will produce reference copies on an "as needed" basis, as resources allow. Viewing film portion of collection requires special appointment, please inquire. Do not use when original materials are available on reference video or audio tapes.
Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Edward J. Orth Memorial Archives of the New York World's Fair, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Introduction:
The Festival overall was intended to make Americans aware of the beauty and value of the traditions that form so large a part of our national culture. Within this large structure, the Family Folklore program complemented the other Festival areas by helping visitors discover and recognize their own particular traditions, the home-based folkways that decorate life and make it meaningful. In this area, a group of folklorists interviewed interested festival goers about the customs, sayings, and stories in their own families. On display were samples of the many traditional ways in which Americans preserve and remember their past - family photo albums, baby books, scrapbooks, family history quilts, charm bracelets, and others.
A small theater continuously showed two Smithsonain films: one that treated home movies as an American folk art, another on the ways members of a family relate to each other through folklore. Finally, the program displayed a book in progress, a history of America through family stories, with the hope that Festival goers would contribute their own memories.
The program was coordinated by Steven Zeitlin (Program Coordinator), together with Sandra Gross (Folklore Coordinator), Holly Cutting-Baker (Folklore Specialist), and Amy Kotkin (American Culture Specialist).
Folklore interviewers:
Deborah Autorino, Lynda Burack, Robert Clayton, Susan Davis, Lina Lore Gross, Amy Shuman, Paul Wagner
Collection Restrictions:
Access by appointment only. Where a listening copy or viewing copy has been created, this is indicated in the respective inventory; additional materials may be accessible with sufficient advance notice and, in some cases, payment of a processing fee. Older papers are housed at a remote location and may require a minimum of three weeks' advance notice and payment of a retrieval fee. Certain formats such as multi-track audio recordings and EIAJ-1 videoreels (1/2 inch) may not be accessible. Contact the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections at 202-633-7322 or rinzlerarchives@si.edu for additional information.
Collection Rights:
Copyright and other restrictions may apply. Generally, materials created during a Festival are covered by a release signed by each participant permitting their use for personal and educational purposes; materials created as part of the fieldwork leading to a Festival may be more restricted. We permit and encourage such personal and educational use of those materials provided digitally here, without special permissions. Use of any materials for publication, commercial use, or distribution requires a license from the Archives. Licensing fees may apply in addition to any processing fees.
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1976 Festival of American Folklife, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
