{"id":2975,"date":"2023-01-19T10:28:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T17:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2023-01-19T10:28:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T17:28:13","slug":"to-the-fair-alexander-hammid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=2975","title":{"rendered":"To The Fair! Alexander Hammid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2976\" src=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/AHAmmid.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"889\" srcset=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/AHAmmid.png 1280w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/AHAmmid-300x208.png 300w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/AHAmmid-768x533.png 768w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/AHAmmid-1024x711.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I went to the NY Worlds Fair when I was a little kid. It was great. Bob Downey told me he worked at the fair as a young man from Forest Hills along with his friend Ron Neely, (who later played The Holy Ghost in Greaser&#8217;s Palace). Here is a film the great Alexander Hammind made about the Fair. He also did To Be Alive, both with Francis Thompson. Hammid was a true filmmaker, he could make a film about anything. He was involved with the development of IMax and was Supervising Editor on To Fly. He also made Meshes of The Afternoon with Maya Deren, one of the most influential underground Art Films of all time. They are having a major retrospective of his work at the <a href=\"http:\/\/anthologyfilmarchives.org\">Anthology Film Archives<\/a> in NYC so if you are in the Big Apple go check it out!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"To The Fair!  (1964)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C973oejBsmI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the NY Worlds Fair when I was a little kid. It was great. Bob Downey told me he worked at the fair as a young man from Forest Hills along with his friend Ron Neely, (who later played The Holy Ghost in Greaser&#8217;s Palace). Here is a film the great Alexander Hammind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2977,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}