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13175_6588_new_york_worlds_fair4

1964
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WS large convention building with lots of people walking around in front. WS of large fountain caged in with large sculptural metal barricade around it. WS of eating at tables outside on a plaza. A woman stands in the foreground taking a picture. MS of the trams passing their support tower. WS down the line of trams. There are as many as twenty trams visible in the shot. WS of people walking on a crowded street in front of a hive-like building with the sign “Republic of Guinea” written on its facade. WS of large, gray, futurist cube-like building. MS of the outdoor food area sign reading “Schaefer Center.” People sit at the outdoor tables under yellow and red umbrellas. WS of two Asian women dressed in kimonos walk toward the camera. WS of large fountain show with orange dome in the center. CU of star sculpture on top of the pole connected to the orange dome in the fountain. Pan down to orange dome and across fountain. WS of fountain show in front of hive-like building. MS of multiple large moving signs on three-dimensional geometric shapes. One sign has a picture of a mans face, another reads “to be alive!”, and two are advertisements for Johnson & Johnson.