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Introduction / Guidebook Press Releases Pavilion Guide & Gallery I Advertising and Press Futurama II - The Script Gallery II Futurama Facts Engineering Design Summary of the Futurama II Ride

What does it take to create the most popular exhibit at the World's Fair? Ride along with the transcript of GM's Futurama II where photos and sketches illustrate the narration! See the statistics that tell the attendance story and re-live the most well known attraction of the New York World's Fair. In the Futurama, fairgoers are taken on visits to the moon, to a year-round commercial harbor in the Antarctic, to an underwater resort and to a city of tomorrow. View the Transportation Area Map Locate It: T14 The eye-catching pavilion is dominated by an enormous slanting canopy. Exhibits show the range of GM's research activities and a vast variety of its products, including three experimental cars. THE NEW FUTURAMA. GM's classic ride, which it pioneered at the 1939/1940 Fair, is presented in an updated version. Sitting in contour seats equipped with speakers, visitors move past animated scenes. In a trip to the moon, visitors see a weird landscape of craters and spaceships. Life under the ice is depicted by an all-weather port cut deep into the Antarctic ice shelf. An underwater scene shows the ocean floor being tapped for oil and vacationers relaxing at a resort beneath the surface. Visiting the jungle, spectators see trees felled by searing laser beams. A monster road-building machine follows, leaving in its path an elevated superhighway. In the desert, crops thrive in soil irrigated by desalted sea water. Machines operated by remote control plant and harvest the crops. Tomorrow's city is shown with midtown airports, high-speed bus-trains, superskyscrapers, moving sidewalks and underground freight conveyor belts. AVENUE OF PROGRESS. Among the displays are a cosmic spark chamber, fuel-cell developments and a turbine engine, as well as innovations in metals, plastics and fabrics, and new techniques in the designing of cars. The description of this exhibit from the 1965 Official Guide Book