These 4 attractions (which all used Audio-Animatronics) were among the most popular and most visited at the fair. Robert Moses, the president of the New York World's Fair, asked Walt Disney to takeover the fairgrounds after 1965 and turn it into some sort of East coast Disneyland. Walt passed on the idea of a park in New York, but he did take these World's Fair attractions to his Anaheim, California park. Disney's It's a Small World was transferred to Disneyland, as was the Carousel of Progress. A second Abraham Lincoln animatronics figure became the centerpiece of the Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln show. Scenes from the Ford Magic Skyway were used in Disneyland Railroad's Primeval World Diorama and the ride system was improved upon and used for the PeopleMover.
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"This is Walt Disney speaking. Our Space City is a distant dream. But all such dreams must begin in the minds of men. Men like the scientists, engineers and automotive designers of Ford Motor Company. I hope you enjoyed our show and your ride on The Magic Skyway in a new Ford product as much as I've enjoyed the Fords I have driven through the years. Now step out and see a world where tomorrow is being created today."
The fair at the Flushing Meadows Park                                     in Queens, New York was held for two                                      6-month seasons. It ran from April 22                                       to October 18, 1964 and then again                                           from April 21 to October 17, 1965 - for                                     
a total of 360 days. (This World's Fair                                        took place without sanctioning from the Bureau of International Expositions, the only one to do so.) The largest World's Fair to be held in the United States, gates opened at 9 a.m. everyday - including Sundays  and holidays.
The fair, which stood on the grounds of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, featured 140 pavilions on 646 acres (occupying nearly a square mile of land). Among the many attractions and pavilions  were 4 designed by The Walt Disney Company:
The Ford Rotunda, a building several blocks long featured a
number of exhibits which emphasized automobiles.
Fairgoers, seated in 1964 Ford convertibles and riding the
"Magic Skyway", were first taken for a ride through plastic
tunnels around the outside of the rotunda for a sweeping
view of the grounds, then onto the exhibit building and the
fantasy-land within. Guests toured the earth's past from the
dawn of time, through the age of dinosaurs (munching on
vegetation), to the world of the caveman. The dinosaur
portion of the "Magic Skyway" would later be moved to
Disneyland. (Enough steel went into the construction of the
Ford Rotunda to erect a 22 storie high skyscraper!)
General Electric's Pavilion, under a huge flattened dome suspended from spiral pipes, presented "Progressland" depicting the history of electricity from its beginnings to the mighty bang of nuclear fusion. Its multi-part show used a unique theater. Separate auditoriums, each holding 250 people, circled the various stages set  in the middle, and stopped to watch life-sized 3-D audio-animatronic people act out the story of electricity in the home from the 1890's to the present. (After the fair, the attraction was moved to Disneyland and named The Carousel of Progress.) Upon completion of the show, guests went upstairs to view Progress City - Walt Disney's 160-foot scale model for EPCOT. Admission was free and each show lasted 45 minutes.
Pepsi's Pavilion brought a small scale Disneyland
to the fair in a salute to the  children of the
world. The nine minute boat ride called "It's a
Small World - A Salute to UNICEF" carried
spectators past familiar miniature scenes as
France's Eiffel Tower, a Dutch windmill and
India's Taj Mahal. The animated children,
animals and birds sang and danced to the theme song called "It's a Small World." The ride cost 95
  cents for adults and 60 cents for children.
The highlight of the Illinois Pavilion in a 500-seat theater was a life-sized audio-animatronic figure of Abraham Lincoln. "Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln" (which officially opened on May 2, 1964) included excerpts from Lincoln's speeches on liberty, civil rights and freedom. The figure was capable of more than 250,000 combinations of action, including smiles, frowns, and gestures.
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“When we completed 'it’s a small world' for presentation at the New York World’s Fair, we felt that we had accomplished what we’d set out to do. We wanted to foster a better understanding among the nations of the world by showing the dress, the customs, the language, the music, and a little of the culture of our neighbors around the world - - and we wanted to show it to be a very happy one. And I think it’s safe to say that having fun has universal appeal.” -Walt Disney
DID YOU KNOW ...
To mark the fair's closing in October 1965, Westinghouse Corporation assembled a time capsule and buried it below Flushing Meadows. It is to be opened in the 70th century!
DID YOU KNOW ...
The Unisphere, the symbol of the 1964/1965 World's Fair, still stands today. It is a 12 story high stainless steel model of the earth designed and fabricated by the U.S. Steel Corporation.