Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (2009)
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (2009)
In 1909, looking to shed its rough frontier past, the young city of Seattle decided to host a World’s Fair in the same grand spirit as those that preceded it in Chicago and St. Louis. Seattle welcomed the world to the University of Washington campus where visitors walked among palaces, saw new inventions that would change the world, and mined for mirth on the Paystreak - AYP’s Midway. Featuring thousands of historical images, rare archival footage, and contemporary interviews, the film explores the fair’s historical reverberations.

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Tom Skerritt Tom Skerritt As: Narrator (voice)
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In 1909, looking to shed its rough frontier past, the young city of Seattle decided to host a World’s Fair in the same grand spirit as those that preceded it in Chicago and St. Louis. Seattle welcomed the world to the University of Washington campus where visitors walked among palaces, saw new inventions that would change the world, and mined for mirth on the Paystreak - AYP’s Midway. Featuring thousands of historical images, rare archival footage, and contemporary interviews, the film explores the fair’s historical reverberations.


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Genres: Documentary, History

Language: English

Release Date: 17 October 2009

Country: US

Runtime: 58m

Company Credits

Company: Fidget Films

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Cast

Tom Skerritt

Tom Skerritt

Narrator (voice)

Directed By

John Forsen

John Forsen

Director

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Production Crew

John Forsen

John Forsen

Producer

Gayle Podrabsky

Gayle Podrabsky

Associate Producer

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Sound

Tom McGurk

Tom McGurk

Original Music Composer

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