Devil in the White City: The World’s Fair

The  documentary  of The World’s Fair helped to bring the novel Devil in the White City alive. It helped to visualize the World’s fair as a whole and it helped to give more background as to places where Devil in the White City took place. I feel that watching the documentary helped to father my understanding of the novel, it explained some of the things I wanted to know more about. What i found to be the most interesting was how things for the fair where made. Exp. how the Ferris Wheel and how things would go wrong, I found this part to be the most wroth watching.

The World’s Fair {Marcus C.}

The documentary depicting the development and the story behind the Chicago Exposition was very informative. There were many things that caught my attention about the documentary. The architecture is what caused me to turn my head and glue my eyes to the screen. I was captivated about the work put into these buildings and how the theme was all white. I could only image being placed in that era in Chicago, only to witness true architecture at it’s finest. I could say that at one point, I wanted to be an architect, which is why I was awestruck by the designs in general. There wasn’t one design that I could say I liked specifically, but it was just the whole thing in general. Watching and learning how Chicago was nothing more than a swamp and how it became home to one of the world’s greatest fairs was amazing. The underdog stories are the kind I like to hear.

The World’s Fair

The documentary on the World’s Fair provided a fascinating account of its various sections. The Midway Plaisance was one of the most interesting exhibits. Because of its “low brow” entertainment, it was also the most frequented at the fair. Most of the people who visited that section never made it to the fair itself. The Machine Hall was one of the largest buildings; however due to its high decibel emission, most fair goers could only bear to be inside for a second. Instead they all enjoyed the energy that it produced in the form of thousands of lighted fountains and buildings without a thought to acknowledge how the energy was being produced. Little Egypt was also one of my favorite exhibits to learn about. They had a pyramid as well as a large bazaar. People could get into the exhibit for free however all of the attractions would cost them.

World’s Fair — Zack Long

What I found most interesting in the film was the Manufacturing and Liberal Arts building because of it’s tremendous size and able to hold so many things under one roof. Just imagining what it would be like to see the building with so many shops and objects on display could blow a person away.

World’s Fair

The most interesting things from the World’s Fair video was the Manufacturing and Liberal Arts building and the Ferris Wheel.  The Manufacturing and Liberal Arts building was the largest building every constructed at the time.  It could fit many large structures inside and contained so many shops, stalls, and displays that it could never be properly accounted for.  Trying to imagine the sheer scale of the building and the things you could find inside of it is mind boggling.  The Ferris Wheel was America’s answer to the Eiffel Tower constructed at the Paris World’s Fair and was a spectacular feat of engineering.  It was particularly fascinating just how much steel and effort it took to build the wheel and how many people it could carry at one time, which was roughly 2000 people.

16- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Stevenson novel and the 1932 film “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” have several differences. In the Stevenson novel the story is told as a mystery and through Utterson as he tries to find out who Mr. Hyde is and his influence over Dr. Jekyll. We don’t find out that Dr. jekyll is Mr. Hyde until the end of the novel. In the 1932 film the audience knows that Dr. Jekyll is Mr. Hyde and we watch as Utterson and the remainder of the characters try to find out what is wrong with Dr.Jekyll and they later find out that he is Mr. Hyde. The novel doesn’t have anything about Dr.Jekyll being engaged but the 1932 film has Dr. Jekyll as engaged and supposed to be married in four months. The novel also has Dr. Jekyll get well for awhile after stopping to take the potions, whereas the 1932 film shows that Dr. Jekyll has no control over Mr. Hyde which has come to dominate him even when he stops taking the potion. I don’t like either stories of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I thought both were difficult to get thorugh because they were boring.

17- Jekyll and Hyde Transformation

The transformation of Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde is similar in the Stevenson novel and the 1932 film. In both Dr. Jekyll undergoes strong pains, nausea, and agony throughout his body. Then the agonies subside and the sickness is over, as Dr. jekyll begins to become excited as he realizes he has become Mr. Hyde. He feels younger, reguvenated, and full of energy. His soul feels free and all these images of wickedness and all of the things he wants to do comes to mind. In the transformation scene we saw in class Dr. Jekyll doesn’t seem to undergo any agony or severe sickness, or nausea as he undergoes the transformation. It doesn’t see to be as much of a physical transformation as we see in the 1932 film and Stevenson’s novel, but more of a spirtual transformation.

15- Chicago’s World Fair

From watching the documentary on the Chicago’s World Fair I would like to learn more about the Women’s Building, the African American building, and the Midway Plaisance. I would like to research the Women’s building in order to compare it to the predominantly male architectural buildings and exhibits and see if they showed equal skill in their craft. I would like to research the African American buildings further also to see how they compare to the other architectural buildings and exhibits. I would like to research the Midway Plaisance furthe rto compare entertainment exhibits to purely educational, serious exhibits. Also I would like to look at the Midway Plaisance to see the exhibit where most of the visitors to the Chicago Fair learned about other cultures and countries.

World’s Columbian Exposition-15

The book was very detailed about some of the buildings but not as detailed as the video. For my essay i’m doing prompt too and I had selected my two buildings. While watching the movie I was able to collect a lot of the imformation i wnated to incorporate in my essay. The video is very helpful and detailed. It helped me visualize how the fair was set up and what it consisted of . I found out that the machinery building was one of the least visited buildings due to the noise in there. I fing that building to be ineteresting because it has machines from everywhere in the world. The Court of honor was also abother section that grabbed my attention and was talked about alot. The video has really help me get parts of my paper together.

The World’s Fair :: Traian Dragomir

The video presented in class was pretty interesting. I was amazed at the size of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts building. I did not know so many things from all over the world fit in that construction. What interests me more is how they brought all those things and got them inside. I wish I would’ve been a part of that immense development. Apart from the misery in which people lived in Chicago, for some reason I would’ve liked to be around for that time. I look forward towards another fair of that proportion, but I doubt any could compete.