THE BALLOON MAN

'I Have Seen the Future' film revisits 1939-40 NYC World's Fair

Joe Meyers, Staff Writer Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Many baby boomers recall their childhood visits to the New York World's Fair in 1964-65 with great affection, but that was just the sequel to an even bigger and better international gathering on the same site in Flushing Meadow, Queens, 25 years earlier.
The New York World's Fair of 1939-40 was a flashier and racier event -- with "girlie" shows and a popular aquacade water ballet that bared more female and male flesh than was common at the time -- but it also served as a cultural bridge between the Great Depression and the boom times that would follow World War II.
The fair is the subject of a new documentary, "I Have Seen the Future," by Westport filmmaker Lisa Seidenberg, who will be screening it at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 18, at the Bridgeport Library downtown.
"What got me started was showing my film on the Merritt Parkway for most of 2009," Seidenberg said of her earlier documentary on the historic Connecticut highway. "People kept telling me they took the Merritt to the 1939 World's Fair."read more at:http://www.ctpost.com/entertainment/article/I-Have-Seen-the-Future-film-revisits-1939-40-885366.php

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