America in Color, '39 - '43

[Marc Chevalier]

CharlieH., you are smokin' today! Great photos!


I especially like these:


http://www.geh.org/fm/muray/m197100560040_ful.html#topofimage

http://www.geh.org/fm/muray/m197100500030_ful.html#topofimage

http://www.geh.org/fm/muray/m197100500029_ful.html#topofimage

http://www.geh.org/fm/muray/m197402380002_ful.html#topofimage



And here's Angela Lansbury, l-o-n-g before "Murder, She Wrote":

http://www.geh.org/fm/muray/m197100560035_ful.html#topofimage



And here's, um ... Venus:

http://www.geh.org/fm/muray/m197100560087_ful.html#topofimage

 

[CharlieH.]

And then there's the motion pictures from the '39 world's fair. Lenghty downloads but well worth the wait.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Now THAT is amazing. The World's Fair had a "human aquarium" where women swam around underwater wearing bathing suits designed by Salvador Dali. Here's the catch: Dali designed the flesh-colored plastic cups of the bathing suits to look exactly like BARE *******, complete with erect pink *****es. So much for propriety, circa 1939.

 

[CharlieH.]

Now THAT is amazing. The World's Fair had a "human aquarium" where women swam around underwater wearing bathing suits designed by Salvador Dali. Here's the catch: Dali designed the flesh-colored plastic cups of the bathing suits to look exactly like BARE *******, complete with erect pink *****es. So much for propriety, circa 1939.

Too bad the film shot there came out too dark. But at least you get to see the suits. There's a book about the attraction:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/15...103-3211903-3057409?s=books&v=glance&n=283155