Reel America “The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair” – 1939

This dramatized film in vivid technicolor follows a mid-Western family as they visit the Westinghouse exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair. Made by Westinghouse during the Great Depression, the film strives to show the positive contributions of free enterprise, technology, and new Westinghouse products to American society. Part of the National Film Preservation’s Online Screening Room, the film has been preserved by the Library of Congress. close