Carnival (1940s)

[Music] [Music] Carnival hurry hurry here are the happy mixture of shouting and music of laughing and barkers calling the crowd and there's the giant Wonder Wheel that sweeps you off the Earth it's a mass of iron lace reaching far into the [Music] sky up up you go up into the clouds for a bird's eye view of this noisy Carefree island of Helter Skelter Joy then down down down you ride the circling rim of this gigantic wheel and suspend it in the air up again up up higher higher until the people below shrink to toy size up up and spread out below a maze of fantastic rides that are guaranteed to whirl your breath away here are bombers whizzing round and rides enough to get you dizzy in a dozen different ways [Music] they roll you [Music] over and roll you back then you're snapped around the corner by the cracking of a whip and try to get your bearings in a steel spider's grip you feel a little shaken from all those crack brained rides but that girl really shakes it seems that it's contagious too look they've caught it way off near the [Music] water there's a real south SE action on a cool Atlantic [Music] Beach now for a stroll down the boardwalk kids and ice cream cones are part of any scene make it double vanilla this tiny train takes youngsters to kitty land there's a Smalls siiz Ferris wheel to match the smalls siiz train and another Junior ey watch for the horses in the background there they go those are the horses of the steeple chase racing along a track that circles the entire sprawling Carnival well let the horses go these youngsters much prefer to ride in Autos anyway even if it gets them nowhere [Music] fast shiny fire engines sure can travel speed is a modern invention but art is old as man himself even children are critics at carnivals however they're easily distracted oh movies hey look 1 2 3 four watch the birdie here is one that can tell your fortune want to know what the future holds in store for you this smart bird will climb a ladder into an oriental Temple and let you know the future for every one of us is sure to hold some rocket ships that zip off into space these silver Rockets though we see here are still anchored to the Earth the merrygoround is far from Modern it's been enjoyed since great grandma was a little girl and long before that too it jogs you up and down and whirls you around both at the same time and maybe it's the music that makes the old ride a favorite that's right young lady get your hair out of your eyes a jockey has to see to keep his horse in the [Music] running they're off first slowly then up and down prancing to a hery gery tune grab a ring quick they're all alike excepting one catch that yellow one that's made of brass and you'll ride again for free [Music] okay toss them back that is all except that winning ring who nice [Music] horsey these dads are proud of their young Cowboys merry go rounds and bright balloons no Carnival in any land can do without them but no balloons for this baby he's been bad next time you'll mind your mother how would you like to float in the sky like a toy balloon then try the parachute jump It's the highest in the whole un United States and was built for the World's Fair watch how gently the silk lets you down softly as a balloon they're beautiful to look at too framed against the sky almost dreamlike [Music] say you landed like a ton of bricks guess you're way young lady watch him size her up he's pretty clever at it it isn't often that he misses if he does you get a prize it may look gy later but right now it looks wonderful wrong pick your prize it's late still the ocean breeze refreshes you just one more thrill then home the roller coaster that's the one the last the best of all they say it's mountain climbing on [Music] Wheels it starts off easy up you go slowly nothing to worry about [Music] then down we and around G another dip your heart's right up against your teeth wow Hold On Tight here we go again now back to Earth and goodbye Carnival [Music]