NEW YORK, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Two U.S. filmmakers hope to see the spectacle of the Beijing Olympics repeated at the Shangai Expo, they told Xinhua recently.
Curtis Cates and Terri Marlowe, who produced a documentary on the New York 1964 World's Fair, said many Americans planned to visit Shanghai for the expo based on China's success in hosting the Olympics in 2008.
"People were blown away by the Beijing Olympics and people want to see that type of spectacle repeated at Shangai Expo," Cates said.
Cates and Marlowe spent 14 years producing a 90-minute documentary -- "Peace Through Understanding: The 1964-65 New York World's Fair." The film interweaves recollections of numerous participants with archival footage, photos and period music for a behind-the-scenes and historical account of the event and its turbulent backdrop.
Through interviews with people who were involved at many levels (pavilion owners, operators and employees; representatives of the 1964-65 World's Fair Corporation; fairgoers; historians; collectors and curators), the film goes beyond nostalgia to allow the viewer to share the world that was the fair with those who experienced it first-hand.
Cates said he believed the Shanghai Expo would become "the greatest fair" since the 1964 New York World's Fair in a country that attracted so much attention from the world.
