Rob King requests: > hello all > excluding (a) meet me in st. louis and (b) a number of keystone shorts, could anyone tell me of american films which involve the world's fair, expositions, and the like? i'd be particularly interested in any information about films that involve or refer to the world's columbian exposition in chicago (1893). > yours, rob king LITTLE EGYPT (1951) is about the scandalous belly dancer of the Chicago exposition. SO LONG AT THE FAIR (1950) is set at the 1889 Paris Expo CENTENNENIAL SUMMER (1946) is an Oscar Preminger musical (!) set at the Philadelphia expo of 1876 GOOD MORNING, BABYLON features the 1915 San Francisco expo as inspiration for the sets of INTOLERANCE, among other things MEN IN BLACK uses the old New York State Pavillion of the 1963-64 NY World's Fair for an interesting gag/effect Not a film, but the Chicago Expo is central to Chris Ware's amazing graphic novel, JIMMY CORRIGAN: THE SMARTEST KID ON EARTH. Don Larsson ----------------------------------------------------------- Donald F. Larsson English Department, AH 230 Minnesota State University Mankato, MN 56001 ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html