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Trung Lê Capecchi-Nguyễn@trungles.bsky.social |
A lot of the aesthetics of The Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum is a convergence of a few things, specifically the milieu that produced the Columbian World Exposition of 1893 and innovations in the use of colored lights on window displays in shops. Baum was a window-dresser before he was an author.
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Sean Kelly
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Piggybacking onto this, one of the folks who raved about the 1893 world's fair a lot was Walt Disney's father, who worked construction on it. In retrospect, Disneyland is basically a perpetual version of a world's fair, complete with futurist exhibits and food from around the world.
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Raina Telgemeier
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Ooooh. Is there a book about this or a documentary or something?
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