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Introduction / Guidebook "Backstage at the Fair" Press Releases Pavilion Guide Audio Selections from "Wonderful World of Chemistry" "Backstage Toil and Skill" The Red Room "First Year at the Fair" Revised 2.25.07

There's a Wonderful World of Chemistry at the DuPont pavilion. Go "behind the scenes" and see how DuPont staged a live musical review 48 times a day at the Fair in this popular attraction. A lively musical revue, new fashions and some startling demonstrations are devoted to progress in chemistry today. View the Industrial Area Map Locate It: B37 Inside the big circular pavilion, two casts in two theaters perform "The Wonderful World of Chemistry," a show specially written and produced for Du Pont by Broadway composer Michael Brown. CHEMICAL COMEDY. Live action is combined with tricks on film to trace the history of chemistry from ancient Greece to today. Du Pont fibers are displayed in clothes created by top designers. MOLECULAR MAGIC. After the show, to demonstrate the extraordinary properties of man-made materials, a performer holds a piece of red-hot metal wrapped in a thin chemical film, dips a piece of plain cloth into dye and pulls it out striped, and throws paint on a synthetic fabric without staining it. The description of this exhibit from the 1965 Official Guide Book