HUM 3085 Special Topic in Film

Dystopias and Apocalyptic Futures

 

THE THIRTIES

 

neutra - bel geddes - teague

hine - whale - deskey - lucite

technocracy - huxley - johnson - sf radio

chicago wf 1933-34 - streamliners - loewy - van doren

acrylic glass - nylon - call it home

california pacific expo 1935-36 - sf serials

modern times - menzies - korda - dreyfuss

paris wf 1937 - parsons - del rey

new york wf 1939-40 - niemeyer - skidmore, owings & merrill

• List: Thirties Scifi Film (pdf)

• Timeline: 20th Century IV (pdf)

• Richard Neutra (1892-1970) (wiki)
• Richard Neutra (GBO)
• Richard and Dion Neutra (neutra.org)
• 1929 Lovell Health House
• 1935 Von Sternberg House
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• 1946 Kaufman House
• 1952 Moore House

• Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) (wiki)
• 1929 Airliner #4
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• 1939 NYWF: GM Futurama 1960
• 1940 NYWF: To New Horizons
• 1940 NYWF: Leave It to Roll-Oh

• Walter Dorwin Teague (1883-1960) (wiki)
• Teague
• 1930 Brownie camera
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• 1935 CPE: Ford Building
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• 1939 NYWF: Ford "Road of Tomorrow"
• 1939 NYWF: Con Ed "City of Light" diorama
• 1939 NYWF: US Steel Building
• 1939 NYWF: Eastman Kodak Building
• 1939 NYWF: du Pont Tower
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• 1964 NYWF: AMF Monorail
• 1964 NYWF: Festival of Gas Building
• 1964 NYWF: Korea Building
• 1964 NYWF: Schaefer Building

• Lewis Hine (1874-1940) (wiki)
• Hine (NYPL)
• 1930-31 Empire State Building (NYPL)
  • Riveting; Inspecting
  • On Beam, On Board
  • On Beam 2, On Wire
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• 1945 Airplane Disaster
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• 2001 NY Times Photo

• James Whale (1889-1957) (wiki)
• James Whale (imdb)
• James Whale Nexus
• 1931 Frankenstein
• 1933 The Invisible Man
• 1935 Bride of Frankenstein

• Donald Deskey (1894-1989) (wiki)
• 1931-34 Radio City Music Hall
• 1939 NYWF: Maison-Coty Cosmetics
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• 1949 Tide Detergent
• 1950 Joy Detergent
• 1950 Crest Toothpaste
• 1951 Cheer Detergent
• 1954 Gleem Toothpaste
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• 1964 NYWF: Scott Paper
• 1964 NYWF: Traveler's Insurance

• 1931 Lucite

• 1932 Technocracy Movement (wiki)
• Technocracy (sfu.ca)
• 1933 Technocracy Incorporated

• Alduous Huxley (1894-1963) (wiki)
• somaweb.org
• www.huxley.net
• www.hedweb.com
• 1932 Brave New World
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• 1958 Brave New World Revisited

• Philip Johnson (1906-2005) (wiki)
• Johnson (GBO)
• Philip Johnson (american masters)
• Philip Johnson Profile (achievement.org)
• 1932 "The International Style"
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• 1949 Glass House (GBO)
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• 1964 NYWF: NY State Pavilion

• Science Fiction on Radio
• Science Fiction Radio
• 1932-47 Buck Rogers
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• 1935-6 Flash Gordon
• 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast
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• 1950-2 2000 Plus
• 1950-1 Dimension X
• 1953-8 Journey Into Space
• 1955-8 X Minus One

• 1933-34 Century of Progress (wiki)
• "Dissemination of Order"
• 1933 Macy's "Forward House"

• Streamliner (wiki)
• American Experience: Streamliners (PBS)
• American Streamlining

• Raymond Loewy (1893-1986) (wiki)
• Loewy
• 1933 Pencil sharpener
• 1935 Sears Coldspot refrigerator
• 1939 NYWF: Chrysler "Transportation of Tomorrow"
• 1939 NYWF: Locomotive #6100
• 1939 NYWF: Railroads Building
• 1940 Greyhound bus
• 1942 Lucky Strike logo
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• 1946 Greyhound Scenicruiser
• 1949 Coke dispenser
• 1951 Lever House interior
• 1961 Studebaker Avanti
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• 1967 Shell logo

• Harold Van Doren (1895-1957) (idsa.org)
• Alliance of Art and Industry
• 1933 Air King Midget Radio
• 1933 Skippy Racer Scooter
• 1934 Wayne Gas Pump
• 1934 Skippy Sno-Plane Sled
• 1935 Streamline Velocipede
• 1939 Maytag washer Model E
• 1940 Westinghouse Electric Iron
• 1940 Industrial Design

• 1933 Acrylic Glass

• Nylon (wiki)
• History of Dupont's Nylon Fibers
• Nylon
• 1934 First nylon fiber
• 1937 First stockings knit
• 1939 NYWF: Nylon textiles
• 1940 Nylon for sale

• 1934-60 Call It Home

• 1935-36 California Pacific International Exposition (wiki)
• 1935-36 California Pacific Exposition, San Diego

• Science Fiction Serials
• Serial (wiki)
• The Serials
• Serial Robots
• 1935 Phantom Empire
• Phantom Empire
• 1935 Lost City
• 1936 Flash Gordon Space Soldiers
• Flash Gordon
• 1936 Undersea Kingdom
• 1938 Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
• 1939 Buck Rogers Conquers the Universe
• 1939 Phantom Creeps
• 1940 Mysterious Doctor Satan
• Mysterious Doctor Satan
• 1940 Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
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• 1941 Adventures of Captain Marvel
• 1943 Batman
• 1945 Manhunt of Mystery Island

• Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) (wiki)
• Charlie Chaplin (imdb)
• 1936 Modern Times (wiki)

• William Cameron Menzies (1896-1957) (wiki)
• Menzies (imdb)
• 1936 Things to Come
• Film Treatment by Wells
• Moholy-Nagy objects
• Moholy-Nagy SFX
• 1953 Invaders from Mars
• 1953 The Maze

• Vincent Korda (1897-79) (imdb)
• 1936 Things to Come
• 1936 Man Who Could Work Miracles
• 1939 Q Planes

• Henry Dreyfuss (1904-72) (wiki)
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• 1936 Water Cooler & Tray
• 1937 Telephone #302
• 1939 John Deere Model B Tractor
• 1939 Big Ben style 5
• 1939 NYWF: Democracity 2039
• 1939 NYWF: AT & T Call Room
• 1939 NYWF: 20th Century Limited
• 1941 Honeywell round thermostat
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• 1949 Telephone #500
• 1955 Designing for People
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• 1964 NYWF: Bell Picturephone
• 1965 Trimline phone
• 1965 Polaroid Swinger camera

• 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques (wiki)
• Exposition Internationale de Paris 1937
• Le Corbusier: Pavilion des Temps Nouveaux

• Talcott Parsons (1902-79) (wiki)
• Parsons (Bolender)
• 1937 "The Structure of Social Action"
• Functionalism and Parsons

• 1938 Del Rey: "Helen O'Loy" (pdf)

• 1939 New York World's Fair (wiki)
• New York World's Fair (PM Photo)
• New York World's Fair (Virginia)
• Middleton Family at the NYWF
• NYWF Map (pdf)
• Telotte: "I Have Seen the Future: NYWF as SF" (pdf)

• Oscar Niemeyer (b. 1907) (wiki)
• 1939 NYWF: Brazil Pavilion

• Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (wiki)
• Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (GBO)
• 1939 NYWF: Gas Industries Building
• 1939 NYWF: Glass Inc. Building
• 1939 NYWF: Continental Baking Building
• 1939 NYWF: Westinghouse Building: Elektro
• 1939 NYWF: RCA Building: Television
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• 1964 NYWF: Administration Building
• 1964 NYWF: Equitable Life Building
• 1964 NYWF: Illinois Building

rev. 2-09-10