Tonight, settle into the American story of World's Columbian Exposition, told slowly through original archival film.
A calm history documentary for sleep, relaxation, or quiet study.

When the white palaces beside the lagoon were built to last only a single season, what became of the White City, and where can a visitor still find it today?

0:00 Cold open
0:46 Chapter 1: A City Rebuilt
3:27 Chapter 2: Congress Chooses Chicago
6:13 Chapter 3: A Plan for Jackson Park
8:47 Chapter 4: Building the White City
11:27 Chapter 5: The Gates Open
13:56 Chapter 6: Along the Midway
16:29 Chapter 7: Summer Visitors
19:03 Chapter 8: What the Fair Left

Facts: Wikipedia, "World's Columbian Exposition". Footage: public-domain films via movingimagearchive.com:
- ABCs of Walking Wisely (1959)
- ANWB-nieuws: stofvrije wegen en weekbladen van de ANWB (1925)
- Alice In Wonderland (1915)
- Alice in Wonderland (1915)
- Belo Horizonte (1949)
- Bottle and the Throttle, The (1961)
- Boy in Court (1940)
- Building a Highway (1948)
- Colaci Home Movies: Family 1952-1956 (Part I) (1952)
- DEMOCRACY IN EDUCATION (1922)
- Delft (1923)
- Een oud-Brabantsche heerlijkheid (1925)
- Electrician, The (1942)
- Facts on Friction (1934)
- Farmer Miller Goes Into High Gear (Part I) (1920)
- Farmer Miller Goes Into High Gear (Part II) (1920)
- Fatty's Magic Pants (1914)
- Felling Forest Giants (1920)
- Friendship Seven (1962)
- Frontiers of the Future (A Screen Editorial With Lowell Thomas) (1937)
- Gifts of the Sun (1946)
- Gouda (1923)
- Herinnering uit het leven van onzen grootsten toneelspeler (1919)
- Indisch allerlei (1920)
- Indië-materiaal van Willy Mullens (1926)
- Look to Lockheed for Leadership (Part I) (1940)
- Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair (1915)
- Nederlandsche Heide Maatschappij en haar werk (1934)
- New York Water Supply (1927)
- Onbekende film legerparade (1920)
- Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1940)
- Ramp sleepboot 'De Schelde' te Hoek van Holland (1925)
- San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath, Part 1 (1906)
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18, 1906 (1906)
- Schoonhoven (1921)
- Stadsuitbreidingen Den Haag (1925)
- Stavoren (1923)
- Story of Jewel City, The (1915)
- Success in Business (1928)
- The Electric House (1922)
- The Great Train Robbery (1903)
- The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
- The Time of Apollo - 1960 to 1975 (1960)
- This Is My Railroad (Part I) (1940)
- Truth About the North Pole, The (1912)
- Valley Town (1940)
- Vision of the Wild (1990)
- Weesp (1928)
- Western Cattle Sequence (1936)
- Wheels of Progress (1927)
- Wording standbeeld van stadhouder Willem III (1921)
- Zuivel Friesche Coop. fabriek (1923)
- Zuurkoolfabricage (1918)
- Zuyderzee works (1930)
- [Amateur film: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 3) (Part III) (1939)
- [Amateur film: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 5) (Part I) (1939)
- [Amateur film: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 6) (Part II) (1939)
- [Amateur film: New York World's Fair] (1939)
- [Amateur film: San Francisco] (1940)
- [Amateur film: Wathen collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Part I) (1939)
- [Amateur film: Wathen collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Part II) (1939)
- [Amateur films: Ivan Besse collection: Britton, South Dakota 1938-39] (Part IV) (1938)
- [California State Fair Highlights] (1913)
- [Completion of Northwestern Pacific Rail Road] (Part I) (1914)
- [Completion of Northwestern Pacific Rail Road] (Part II) (1914)
- [Edison Newsreels: San Francisco Earthquake aftermath] (1906)
- [Panama-Pacific International Exposition color footage] (1915)
- [Panama-Pacific International Exposition] (1915)
- [Redwood Empire Special and Lumber Mills] (1914)
- [San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Groundbreaking] (1932)
- [See America First] (1931)
- [Through the Canal Bottom] (1912)
- [Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire, A] (1906)
- [Twin Peaks Tunnel Construction and Opening] (1917)
Music: "Lightless Dawn" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0.


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