35mm print of Frank Capra's NY world's Fair Film on Ebay
Bill Brent
It was made to be shown at the Hall of Science Pavillion at the
1964-65 World's Fair. This is that print. Kubrick was inspired by it
and credits it with having influenced 2001. The film stars Danny
Thomas and features Sigorney Weaver's uncle (Doodles), Sid
Melton and Charles Lane. The animated sequence has the voices of
Jim Bacus and (as a carrot) Mel Blanc. The film is in 35mm and Cinema
Scope. as to condition; this is the print that was run daily at the
fair. it was rescued from the Ash dump when the Hall was remodeled
several years ago. It has seen a lot of use, and has two splices
that I can detect. It is a 1964 Eastman print, and thus it is
quite red. But only two other copies of this are known
(one at the Library of Congress and one at NY University in the
Everson Collection). now the good news: when I
first got this it still had some color left and I had it
transferred to video. I will include that video with the film.
its at
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=32201898
also
16mm Creation of the Humanoids is at
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=32204418
16mm Burn Witch Burn is at
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=32205050
please check out my 16mm films for sale at
http://bobshannon.com/brent/bbsecrets.html
and http://bobshannon.com/brent/halloween.htm
Feuillade
bbr...@pipeline.com writes:
> Framk [sic] Capra's Last film was a two reeler
> called "Rendezvous in Space". It was made to be
> shown at the Hall of Science Pavillion at the
>1964-65 World's Fair.
And showed there for quite a few years after that. I saw it there a couple of
times.
> This is that print. Kubrick was inspired by it
> and credits it with having influenced 2001.
I had not heard that before. And the source for this would be...?
If it's true (and I'm not saying it's not), it probably would have been from
the live-action portion of the program, which is not in the film.
At one point, the film stops, and models of spacecraft docked over your heads.
It was very cool -- especially if you were ten at the time.
Trivia question for anyone else who remembers seeing this film as a kid: when
the fat woman is asked whether she would go into space and she replies "Beat it
buddy, I've got my *own* space problem!", what is the movie playing in the
theater behind her (as I recall, the marquee was clearly visible behind her)?
E-mail me if you think you know the answer. :)
Tom Moran
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Wide Gauge
>> This is that print. Kubrick was inspired by it
>> and credits it with having influenced 2001.
>
>I had not heard that before. And the source for this would be...?
The book "Special Effects" clearly explains that Kubrick was inspired to make
2001 by a completely different exhibit at the 64/65 NY Worlds Fair: the
Cinerama 360 film "To The Moon and Beyond," made by Graphic Films, with special
effects by Douglas Trumbull, who was hired away by Kubrick to do 2001.
2001, BTW, was originally to be a 3-panel Cinerama film according to the
contract uncovered by the producers of "The Cinerama Adventure."
Scott Marshall
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William A. Brent
>
>>> This is that print. Kubrick was inspired by it
>>> and credits it with having influenced 2001.
It was my understanding is that it was the animated sequence in this
film. Here an ancient Chinese magician is showing off gunpowder,
covers a pile of it with his cone shaped hat, and when the gun powder
ignites, the hat is propelled into space, while in space there is a
sharp cut to a modern day rocket. Accorning to fair historian David
Oats, it was that image Kubric borrowed (when the ape tossed a bone
into the air etc)
I recall there are other similarities, the use of classic German music
and so on, but that one quick cut was the most striking.