1934 Chicago World's Fair in Technicolor

[The Wiser Hatter]

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[LizzieMaine]

That's absolutely fascinating stuff -- and it's got to be some of the very earliest live action footage shot in three-color Technicolor. Obviously one of the three negatives has shrunken at the beginning -- which is why the color has that wavy effect -- but that can be fixed in the lab.

 

[dhermann1]

Very interesting and fun. I'm wondering how long that car's motor lasted after all the radiator fluid spilled out of it. I'm also wondering what those little white canvas helmets did for the drivers. Keep their ears warm?
My mom went to the Chicago Fair with her aunts when she was 13. She brought back a souvenir silver plate spoon which I still have, That, along with my 1939 World's Fair spoon form my brace of World's Fair spoons.

 

[dhermann1]

Speaking of the Technicolor, Lizzie, what would that camera have looked like? I assume it's 16 millimeter instead of 35, so the basic camera could have been less than a fourth the size of a feature film camera (which was the size of a refrigerator back then).
I suppose that's the same camera that that guy Fitzgerald used for his travelogues, so it couldn't have been too huge.