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Come take your place on the People Wall and begin an unforgettable journey in one of the most imaginative and unique exhibits ever staged! It all happens at the IBM Pavilion. A moving 500-seat "People Wall" lifts visitors into an egg-shaped theater for a captivating multi-screen show. View the Industrial Area Map Locate It: B33 Beneath the theater, fairgoers stroll through a grove of rust-brown steel trees. There they may watch puppet shows and see experimental computers, including one which translates Russian technical data into simple English, and another that can recall headline events of any day during the last 100 years. Architect of the pavilion was the late Eero Saarinen; the display area was designed and the film was produced by Charles and Ray Eames. THE PEOPLE WALL. Visitors sit in a steep grandstand which is drawn up into the theater. An amusing 12-minute show, projected on 15 screens, shows how computers and the human mind solve problems in much the same way. PUPPETS IN THE PARK. In miniature Punch-and-Judy theaters mechanical figures act out lively playlets involving speed, logic and information-handling. Sherlock Holmes is featured in one, solving "The Case of the Elusive Train." SCHOLAR'S WALK. Other animated exhibits demonstrate information retrieval and the probability theory, and there is a quiet area where the lore of computers, the history of mathematical machines and other scientific exhibits are on display. The description of this exhibit from the 1965 Official Guide Book