Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Retro-future Fleischer cartoon about 1939 World's Fair
Max Fleischer's 1938 cartoon "All's Fair at the Fair" is a retro-futuristic look at the marvels coming to the 1939 New York World's Fair (home of the Futurama, an enormous ride-through diorama of a futuristic city with armchair ride-vehicles). The Fleischer toon shows us the fair through the eyes of a hayseed couple -- one is literally chewing on a stalk of the stuff -- and it has moments of genuine physical mixed in with the funny-strange look at the future past.
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(via Paleofuture)
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