(Norman Bel Geddes’s Futurama exhibit at the World’s Fair, 1939, a piece of “immersion theater” that took six hundred visitors at a time on a simulated airplane ride across America circa 1960). 

The wonderful B. Alexandra Szerlip, who wrote about Norman Bel Geddes’s Futurama for the Believer in May 2012, just published another essay on Bel Geddes in the Paris Review Daily. Check it out here!

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