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The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair
1939 · Film · 55 min
Directed by Robert R. Snody
"An average American family", the Middletons, visit the 1939 World's Fair and witnesses the advent of future technology, encountering robots and dishwashers for the first time.
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I was interested in the "Elektro" robot mentioned in the last newspaper article and saw that there was footage of it as part of a movie [0].
> Several minutes of color sound footage of Elektro in action can be seen at 33:55 in the movie, "The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair", a fully-produced hour-long movie made by Westinghouse, which showcased the Westinghouse pavilion
The link [1] from Wikipedia was rough quality so here is a better quality link (queued up) [2]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektro
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T35A3g_GvSg
[2] https://youtu.be/Q6TQEoDS-fQ?t=2028