Robert Hughes - American Visions - 6th episode, part 5 of 5

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"Steamlines and Breadlines" segment on styling, streamline and car design is continued. link below to playlist of all "American Vision" episodes uploaded so far: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6B9CBAB22882A992 "The ideal American form was a tear drop with fins - and it gave you toasters and pencil sharperners that looked as if they were ready to blast off your desk and go out thru the front door at 600 miles an hour. They said 'escape with us to utopia'". design and marketing message in everyday objects a long visit with a Cord 8/10 "Nowhere else did streamlining get such a cosmetic push as in this rolling sculpture" (designer Gordon M. Buehrig's 810 and the Supercharged 812) a visit with Cord owners Joseph and Evelyn Teitelbaum clips of the 1939 New York World's Fair (motto: "Tomorrow, Now") interview, at the dilapidated old site of the World's Fair, with art historian Robert Rosenblum....he speaks of Billy Roses' aquacade, and some color film clips are shown of it...go here to view more color footage from the aquacade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na3z6K1j83w originally aired on US television in 1997

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