There are also Washington DC scenes in this film.

This film provided me with interesting historical information about the Fair and certain invaluable details that I was searching for!

A little while ago I saw a amateur film that was taken at the New YorkÂs exposition and I commented about how boring it was, too much attention given to minute details (eg the statues and artwork). In this film, this is much more interesting, why? It gives us a glimpse of the buildings (but only a glimpse!) to make us say, whoa! What was that?? Although this may infuriate some, this was a fun romp for me, like a mini-mini tour of the Chicago WorldÂs Fair. Like what was that building? And that building? No Time1 No Time! Gotta keep moving! This film is not JUST about the fair! NO1 They go to Washington! Then they go to some farm or SOMETHING, because theyÂve got every type of domestic animal imaginable! Cows! Deer! Dogs! Cockateil! Keep moving! Keep moving! This was a fun film! Highly recommended!

Wilford B. Wolf writes: "Towards the end of the reel, we see the wife walking through a strangely deserted Tutor style town that is proclaimed to be the birthplace of Nathaniel Hawthorne." I don't know if it's actually part of the Tudor village or if the two shots were taken at separate times, but the house in particular is The Wadsworth-Longfellow House in Portland, Maine, birthplace of (surprise!) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Learn more at http://www.mainehistory.org/house_restoration.shtml

Amateur films typically have an unusual quality about them. They never seem to linger on a single subject long enough to anything more than to register what it is you are looking at.

This film is made up of four reels, each with a particular subject that illustrate this principle. The first reel covers the Chicago World's Fair. All of the shots are exteriors. Here's a Chinese gate. Here's the Hall Of Science. Here's "The Maestro," Ben Bernie on stage. Here's Byrd's ship to the South Pole. We also occasionally see the makers of this film. They obviously fairly well-off and able to afford these trips during the heighth of the Depression.

The second reel starts out with some brief shots of the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial and Mt. Vernon before moving to New York harbor. The majority of the reel features our filmmakers clowning with relatives or friends.

The third reel moves onto either upstate New York or perhaps New England. Most of the time is spent on a farm. We see all sorts of farm animals and a strange, all too brief shot of several dogs standing on their hind legs. Towards the end of the reel, we see the wife walking through a strangely deserted Tutor style town that is proclaimed to be the birthplace of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

The final reel features a long tracking shot from the back of a train across The Great Salt Lake. The reel ends with the wife standing next to a sign that says "San Francisco Limited" before it fades to black. A fitting end to these disconnected images of trips of unknown people.