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Page Tuscarama, Dorer, Ohio Saturday, June 8, 1963GEs ProgresslandCertain To Be HifBy CHUCK KOELBLEDaily Reporter Managing Editorgeneral Electric Wire Plant employes here, or any other area visitors, for that matter, to the New York World's Fair starting next April 22,should be especially proud.According to word passed on to us by CharlesAnderson of the local plant, General Electric Progressland will be one of the spectacular features of the Fair attractions.Created by Walt Disney, the GE exhibit will bepresented in a 3 - story, dome - shaped pavilion which is the first of its kind in the world.Here are some of the highlights planned for thepavilion:An actual demonstration of the thermonuclear fusion process by which the sun generates its energy. It will point up the possibilities of fusion asa source of energy in the future.Life-size talking figures that seem almost realinvented by Disney.A Medallion City showing electrical living oftoday and the future.Theme of the Progressland attraction will bethe ways in which electricity, put to use for human betterment, is changing our world and ourlives.★ ★L) ising 80 feet high, the pavilion is topped by a 200-foot-diameter dome, containing on its inner surface the enormous full- circle projection screen. The screen will be used for projected effects simulating the awesome forces of nature.The second floor will contain the first auditorium ever designed to accommodate 6 audiences at one time, each watching shows on different stages. The stages will be stationary, forming the core of the second floor. Audiences will be moved around them without ever leaving their seats —remaining before each stage 3 to 4 minutes.It is believed the mechanical electrical figures will represent the closest approach ever made by science to the creation of characters that look and talk like living people. The Audio Animatronic figures are being created especially for the Progressland attraction by Disney's WED Enterprises at Glendale, Calif.A time tube equipped with a moving ramp will take visitors from the Carousel of Progress' to the third floor, where they will pass through a corridor of mirrors' illustrating advanced work in General Electric laboratories. They will then enter the huge observation area directly beneath the dome.Completely free of obstructing pillars, the dome is expected to constitute the most unusual planetarium-like facility ever devised. A lightning storm and the flames on the surface of the sun are among the awesome forces to be represented in the sights and sounds projected across the vast interior of the dome.A demonstration of the basic process by which the sun and stars achieve their tremendous energy will climax the pavilion's show, which traces man's quest for new and more powerful sources of energy. Creating temperatures up to 30 million degrees C., this will be the first demonstration of nuclear fusion ever exhibited to the general public.The spectacular visual and sound effects of the fusion demonstration will be witnessed in an 80-foot-deep centerwell, as the visitors descend from the third to the first floor by an open ramp which spirals down the center core of the pavilion.★ it ifyisitors will complete their tour of the pavilionon the first floor with a walk up the main street of the model community. They will be free to step inside such attractions as a model home, school, hospital, town hall, store, factory, newsreel theater, electric utility, and space observatory.The exterior of the dome will be crowned with more than 1,000 lights, providing a special nighttime effect in which the entire roof will seem to turn. The lights will be programmed in a sweep-mg, rotary motion, producing an impressive display of changing colors.The General Electric pavilion was one of the first of the Fair buildings to be started, and on Jan. 31 of this year became the first to be 'topped out. It is expected to be one of the first completed.
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Dover Daily Reporter
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Sat, Jun 08, 1963
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