Defunctland: The Fair That Changed America

23 thoughts on “Defunctland: The Fair That Changed America”

1. 12:55 Wow, that's better than the Tesla bot! lol

2. Henry Ford was an American Nazi.

3. I know it's not much, but I got super excited seeing the sculpture around the 10 minute mark simply because that was my high school mascot. The original sculpture and those plaques all ended up in a school I went to and it makes me happy.

4. The corporate bullshit is so painfully real. Womens world fairs being held to celebrate women achievements being organized and run by people who don't believe women should even try.

5. I've seen those houses… Homes of tomorrow. They (I believe 4-6 houses) are on Lake Michigan in Michigan/Indiana border. You can't go inside a check them out BUT they are interesting to actually look at.

6. It would be my purest joy to travel back in time and show the people excited about the Chrysler test track footage of a monster truck rally. They would go apeshit

7. Ub Iwerks is the creator of Mickey, not Walt
   Beautiful video

8. Fun fact for everyone perusing through the comments: There is one exhibit hall still standing from the 1933 World's Fair, the Museum of Science and Industry. It sits in one of the few remaining buildings from the 1893 World's Fair. And it is the only building still standing in its original spot. All other have either been moved to another part of Chicago or to another state entirely!

9. Good vid

10. I kept hoping for it's failure, but it's success was surprisingly wholesome

11. 15:06 Glad to see the US has a long history of making the world’s largest version of random objects

12. 0:57

13. This started out as a documentary on the World of Progress Fair and ended as a documentary on Disney's early successes.

14. Wow dude looked like Theodore Rosevelt.

15. Kevin gets so sassy and I love it

16. thats amazing officials gave a damn about racial discrimination in 1934

17. oh yes! wonderful asbestos! How could we ever live without it?

18. Underneath the optimistic sales pitch, what a depressing story of capitalist class gaslighting

19. History is important but man do I loathe a majority of the people in it.

20. Not too surprising it did well, I guess
    It was well made with care and thought, and enough entertainment to be able to justify spending money to get away from the bleak life

21. we need a worlds fair now, more than ever, use it just like the old ones, have holograms, and hovercrafts, and jetpacks, 3d-organ printers, 3d food printers, superconductor levitation, quantum physics, etc etc……

22. I thought… Another video on the 1964 NY World's Fair? And then was pleasantly surprised when I saw the Chicago skyline.

23. "It's possible that the loss of one of his best friends, and one of his final connections to his fair, had caused him to die from pure grief."
    Huh, that's unusually saccharine for Defunctland.
    "But it was probably either the colitis, the diabetes, the foot infection, or the food poisoning."
    Yeah, that's more like what I'd expect.

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