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Narration Script of the City of Opportunity (Helicopter Ride)

Collection: Collection on the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair
Date: 1964 Material: height: 11 x width: 8 1/2 inches, 11 pages
Creator: Lester Associates Inc. Identifier: aql:2246 T2014.3.10 QMOA

Description: Script for recording that played while visitors circled the Panorama of the City of New York at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair in a 9 minute "helicopter ride" around the exhibit. The script summarized the history of the city's five boroughs and was recorded by voice actor Lowell Thomas and accompanied by music and sound effects. Dated February 1964.

Collection : aql:5839; vital:1

Creator : Lester Associates Inc.

Date : 1964

Summary/Description : Script for recording that played while visitors circled the Panorama of the City of New York at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair in a 9 minute "helicopter ride" around the exhibit. The script summarized the history of the city's five boroughs and was recorded by voice actor Lowell Thomas and accompanied by music and sound effects. Dated February 1964.

Subject : Models (Clay, plaster, etc.); Narration (Rhetoric); Amusement rides; Federal and State Area

Rights : This object is part of the collection of the Queens Museum, and was cataloged with the generous support of the Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) as part of a Cataloging Hidden and Special Collections and Archives grant project, in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York and Queens Library. These objects cannot be accessed at the Queens Library. Please contact info@queensmuseum.org in order to learn more about the object or to access it.

Coverage : New York (N.Y.)

Type : scripts (documents)

Format : height: 11 x width: 8 1/2 inches, 11 pages

Identifier : aql:2246 T2014.3.10 QMOA

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Subject:
Models (Clay, plaster, etc.); Narration (Rhetoric); Amusement rides; Federal and State Area
Rights Notice
This object is part of the collection of the Queens Museum, and was cataloged with the generous support of the Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) as part of a Cataloging Hidden and Special Collections and Archives grant project, in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York and Queens Library. These objects cannot be accessed at the Queens Library. Please contact info@queensmuseum.org in order to learn more about the object or to access it.


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