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 BREASTS, complete with erect pink nipples. 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 BREASTS, complete with erect pink nipples. 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