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Introduction / Guidebook Introduction to Progressland "An Elegantly Domed Carousel" Gallery Ride "The Carousel of Progress" "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" / Time Tunnel / Corridore of Mirrors "Skydome Spectacular" Nuclear Fusion Demonstation Medallion City Epilogue

Note: This feature contains materials related to a Walt Disney production. nywf64.com is not affiliated in any way with The Walt Disney Company or any of its subsidiaries. All illustrations and most text should be considered © The Walt Disney Company (unless specifically noted otherwise) There's a great big beautiful tomorrow waiting for you at Progressland - Walt Disney's presentation for General Electric at the Fair. Come and see why this show endures as one of the Fair's greatest legacies. In a one-hour show, the changes electricity has brought in American living are dramatized by life-sized, animated figures created by Walt Disney. View the Industrial Area Map Locate It: B12 Visitors also see graphic displays of GE's scientific achievements, climaxed by a demonstration of controlled nuclear fusion. CAROUSEL THEATER. Audiences seated in separate auditoriums are carried past a four-part circular stage on which animated human figures act out the story of electricity from the Gay Nineties to the present. In the opening scene, a family struggles with such "appliances" as gas lamps and a kitchen pump. In the final scene, the electrical wonders of today glitter in a living room at Christmastime, in an electrically heated patio and in a kitchen that all but runs itself SKY-DOME SPECTACULAR. On passing through a photographic display of GE scientists at work, visitors enter the Sky Dome, which is filled with the sights and sounds of the great natural sources of energy: fierce electrical storms, fire, a blazing sun and spinning atoms. A narrator describes man's historic efforts to harness energy. FUSION ON EARTH. In a spectacular demonstration of controlled nuclear fusion, a magnetic field squeezes a plasma of deuterium gas for a few millionths of a second at a temperature of 50 million degrees Fahrenheit. There is a vivid flash and a loud report as atoms fuse and free energy is released. ELECTRIC LIVING. On the first floor, an all-electric community of exhibits displays the latest innovations for the home, public buildings, industry and space exploration. The description of this exhibit from the 1965 Official Guide Book