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humanoidhistory · 3 months

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Visiting the year 2024 in GM's Futurama exhibit at the New York World's Fair, 1964.

#futurama #future #2024 #world's fair #ocean #undersea #gm #architecture

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retropopcult · 1 year

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The Hostess of the Kaleidoscope at Expo 67.

#World's Fair #1967 #Montreal #Canada #vintage #1960s fashion #International and Universal Exposition #Quebec #Worlds Fair

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olemisekunst · 1 month

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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Loki Season 2 (2023) – Sets

#Loki #Tom Hiddleston #lokiedit #marveledit #mcuedit #mcuchallenge #Chicago World's Fair #World's Fair #behind the scenes #movie sets #tvedit #tvgifs #tv shows #gifs #my gifs

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misforgotten2 · 5 months

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And don’t forget the thousands of employees poisoned by their own water well.

American Home December 1964

#1964 #view master #world's fair #new york world's fair #vintage ad #advertising #advertisement #vintage ads #1960s #1960s ad #1960's #1960's ad #funny #humor #humour

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nobrashfestivity · 1 year

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Salvador Dali, Dream of Venus Pavilion, 1939

In June 1939 Salvador Dalí designed a pavilion for the New York World's Fair built by the architect Ian Woodner. The building was named Dream of Venus.

The pavilion featured a spectacular facade full of protuberances, vaguely reminiscent of the Pedrera building by Antoni Gaudí. The main door was flanked by two pillars representing two female legs wearing stockings and high-heeled shoes. Through the openings of the irregular façade, visitors could see reproductions of the Saint John the Baptist by Leonardo da Vinci and The Birth of Venus by Botticelli. The outer part of the building also had crutches, cacti, hedgehogs, etc. Inside, the pavilion offered visitors an aquatic dance show in two large swimming pools, with sirens and other items also designed by Dalí, some of them taking their inspiration from the work of Bracelli. Between the painter's initial ideas and the final result of the project there arose major modifications, which led Dalí to complain about the Fair's requirements in a pamphlet entitled Declaration of the Independence of the Imagination and the Rights of Man to His Own Madness.

side note: My grandfather also designed buildings for the 39 world’s fair

#salvador dali #world's fair #Architecture #surrealism #set

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knifeforsale · 1 year

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1982 WORLD FAIR POCKET KNIFE | LISTING

#gold #1982 #world fair #world's fair #image #pocket knife #text

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victusinveritas · 1 month

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Salvador Dalí’s pavilion for the 1939 New York World’s Fair. It was built by the architect Ian Woodner. The pavilion also featured models wearing costumes designed by Salvador Dali.

#salvador dali #world's fair #1930s #art #surrealism #art history

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gameraboy2 · 2 years

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World's Fair Chicago, 1934, illustration by Weimer Pursell

#Weimer Pursell #world's fair #1934 #1930s #1934 world's fair #vintage #poster #poster art #art #illustration #chicago

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disneyparksattractionstournament · 25 days

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Disney Parks Animatronic Tournament: Bracket B/Tier 2 Round 2

Trolls: Maelstrom - Epcot Disney World (formerly)

Propaganda:

"I just liked Disney having a ride that's less cutey, where the troll threaten you and were kinda grotesque. Feels like a breath of fresh air."

(go to 1:58 for animatronic)

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Abraham Lincoln: Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln - Disneyland

Propganda:

"The fact that Mr. Lincoln rises from sitting to standing and then sits back down again is astounding to me. Think of the number of muscles human beings use to do the same, then figure out how to do that with an animatronic! Not to mention the balance needed! There's got to be a reason that that's something Disney has very few of their animatronics do." "He stands up! He sits down! So few animatronics do that sort of a thing. It's so cool!"

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(go to 3:34 for animatronic)

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pazzesco · 7 months

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Thomas Hart Benton Jesse James, from the Missouri State Capitol Mural Series, 1936 - Lithograph on Rives paper with GCM watermark, signed in pencil, from the edition of 100. - 16 1/4 x 21 7/8in

Thomas Hart Benton’s "A Social History of the State of Missouri". The mural, which is located in the House Lounge, has been open for public viewing since its completion in 1936.

Thomas Hart Benton with his painting Persephone via Kansas City Public Library

Thomas Hart Benton - Persephone

Thomas Hart Benton: 10 Facts About the American Painter

Thomas Hart Benton Was Born In A Small Missouri Town

Benton Attended The Art Institute Of Chicago And Académie Julien In Paris

He Was An Illustrator For The U.S. Navy During WWI - (Photograph Below)

He Was Jackson Pollock’s Teacher

He Was Head Of Kansas City Art Institute’s Painting Department

He Had Some Interesting Run-Ins With Magazines - (Explanation Below)

Benton’s Mural With Ku Klux Klan Members Still Sparks Controversy (Mural & Controversial Panel Below)

He Created A Mural For Missouri’s Capitol Building (Above the Fold)

Benton Was An Avid Harmonica Player

You Can Visit Thomas Hart Benson’s Home In Kansas City

Thomas Hart Benton Service Photo

In 1934, Thomas Hart Benton was the first artist to ever appear on the cover of TIME Magazine.

Thomas Hart Benton - "Hollywood" - 1938

In 1937, Life Magazine commissioned a large painting from Benton on the subject of Hollywood, even paying for him to take a trip there over the summer of that year. His famous painting, Hollywood, was completed in 1938. When Life Magazine first saw the work, they immediately disapproved and wanted nothing to do with it, but the popularity of the work changed their tune and they included it in their spread about Hollywood.

A Social History of Indiana by Thomas Hart Benton, 1933, via The University of Indiana Bloomington

Thomas Hart Benton was commissioned to create a large mural for the state of Indiana in 1932 and it was presented at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. The mural, A Social History of Indiana, is made up of 22 large panels, spanning 250 ft in total, representing the state of Indiana.

The inclusion of the Ku Klux Klan brought heavy criticism when the mural was exhibited at the World’s Fair, but this didn’t stop the mural from being one of the most popular exhibits.

Cultural Panel 10 ("Parks, the Circus, the Klan, the Press") depicts a vivid, startling image of a Ku Klux Klan rally and a burning cross. The Klan had ruled Indiana politics during the 1920s—much to the embarrassment of progressives like Col. Lieber who preferred to bury the state's sins of the past.

Cultural Panel #10 - The controversial panel, it is sad to see many of todays younger generation missing the point and simply looking to be offended by the past. (In 2017, students passed around a petition calling for its removal to which the university declared the lecture hall where it hangs will no longer be used for classes).

In Thomas Hart Benton’s Indiana mural, he attempts to point out the full history of Indiana, the good and the bad. Benton was not celebrating the Klu Klux Klan (KKK) in the mural, yet reminding the people of Indiana to recognize the past evils and how they were overcome.

Born: April 15, 1889 in Neosho, Missouri, son of Maecenus Eason Benton and Elizabeth Wise Benton

Died: January 19, 1975 in Kansas City, Missouri while finishing a large mural for the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee

#art #lithograph #Thomas Hart Benton #paintings #drawings #murals #artists #hollywood #time magazine #life magazine #social history #persephone #indiana #missouri #ku klux klan #jackson pollock #world's fair

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humanoidhistory · 6 months

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GM's Futurama world of tomorrow at the New York World's Fair, 1964.

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#futurama #architecture #gm #cars #future #world's fair #1960s #space age

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mediasaurs · 8 months

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TRM Round 1: The Magic School Bus (T. rex) vs. Sinclair Dinoland 1964 World’s Fair

The Magic School Bus (T. rex) – In The Busasaurus, Ms. Frizzle brings her class back to the Cretaceous to see dinosaurs in person, in keeping with her extremely hands-on teaching style. Arnold is shown a fossilized egg by the Frizz’s paleontologist friend, Dr. Skeledon, but he inadvertently brings it with him on the bus. The egg is restored to its original state, then stolen by an egg-napping Ornithomimus. In the chase, the egg ends up next to a T. rex, which doesn’t take too kindly to having its nap interrupted. In the end, the bus grows Arnold to T. rex size, allowing him to scare off the dinosaur and save the day.

Sinclair Dinoland 1964 World’s Fair – In 1964, the Sinclair Oil Corporation sponsored an exhibit at the New York World’s Fair called Dinoland. The exhibit was centered around 9 life-size dinosaur statues, made by Louis Paul Jonas Studios, including the Sinclair Brontosaurus and, of course, a T. rex. The dinosaurs continued after the fair as a traveling exhibit and today the T. rex can be seen at the Dinosaur Valley State Park in Texas.

#t. rex madness #t. rex #tyrannosaurus #tyrannosaurus rex #dinosaur #dinosaurs #the magic school bus #world's fair

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fromthedust · 2 months

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