text: Cultural influence and media At the fair's 50th anniversary, a writer for amNewYork Metro wrote that the fair had helped influence 21st-century technologies and that it had highlighted Flushing Meadows–Corona Park as an attraction in itself. The fair helped popularize several consumer products such as Belgian waffles and the Ford Mustang. The 1964 World's Fair included several exhibits and technologies that were later included in Disney parks, including Audio-Animatronics. Disney's other exhibits at the World's Fair—It's a Small World, the Progressland carousel, and the Magic Skyway—were also incorporated into Disney parks.
  The fair has been the subject of documentary films such as The 1964 World's Fair (1996), After the Fair (2014), and Peace Through Understanding: The 1964–65 New York World's Fair. The fair and its structures have also been depicted in works of popular media; for example, the New York State Pavilion and Unisphere were shown in the films  Men in Black and Iron Man 2. Historians have created websites and written books about the fair. The fair has also been the subject of several exhibitions, including at the Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, the Queens Museum, Flushing Town Hall, and the Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages. The fair's 50th anniversary in 2014 was celebrated with six months of parties, exhibits, and other events across Queens.
  Hobbyists have collected memorabilia from the fair, and several collectors have created the World's Fair Collectors Society. Collectors have preserved objects such as bracelets, medallions, ponchos, purses, and pocketknives. The Smithsonian Institution and Queens Museum also own objects from the World's Fair, and there have been efforts over the years to develop a world's fair museum.