Tomorrowland Destination D Presentation
The final of all the presentations at Destination D today was a presentation on the upcoming film Tomorrowland. This movie begins in the 1964-1965 New York Worlds fair. Some footage of this opening of the upcoming movie was shown today. The above concept art shows two characters which were seen in the advanced clip. Young Frank is the boy in the middle with the large bag and the Girl in Blue is the little girl to the left. The clip, shown first went as follows.
The scene opens with a young Frank (the older of which is played by George Clooney) who is seen getting off of a yellow greyhound bus with a rather large canvas duffel bag. The bag was almost comparable to the size of the boy. Frank struggled to throw the heavy bag over his shoulder and wide eyed continued past the unisphere to explore the rest of the fair. The first stop on his journey is the Carousel of Progress, then it was known as Progressland. The young boy then continues on to what can be assumed to be the IBM pavillion because he watches a newly designed "Probability Machine" demonstrating the curve that the small metal balls will fall through seemingly random patterns down pegboards to do. The rising platform theatre which was a popular attraction at the real expo can be seen at the background of this shot. Young Frank then sits down to rest and look at the fountains and garden in front of the Hall of Invention pavillion, setting his large duffel bag down on the floor. While sitting there the girl in blue comes and sits on the opposite side and instructs him to "count to twenty seconds and follow us" while placing a small tomorrowland pin in his hand. Frank does just that, he follows and chases after the girl in blue and ends up cutting the queue for It's A Small World, runs down the grass and jumps right into an empty boat. While on the ride Frank can see the girl in blue one boat in front of him and he places the pin on his lapel. Once the girl's boat has turned the corner into asia from europe a laser comes from the top of the eiffel tower and scans the pin on Frank. A secret flume then opens and franks boat shoots down underneath Small World in a Pirates of the Caribbean style attraction drop into a dark and mysterious area. Only the sound of water remains, the room is completely dark and Frank calls out to see if anyone is there. His boat then hits a long platform with a strange looking elevator at the end and the platform illuminates in a Tron like fashion. Frank picks up his bag and stumbles out of the boat onto the platform and enters the elevator. The elevator appears to be half elevator, half subway with signs labeling the worlds fair and year. Once he steps inside an automated voice says "Good afternoon, please step in front of the transport. The site is active." All the windows slam shut with metal grates slamming down from all sides. Panicked, Frank grabs a metal pole for standing and holds tight. He is transported through space or maybe even time, there are quick shots of his face blurred and repeated to show fast movement. Items begin to be discolored. Then everything stops. He lets go of the pole, the window coverings go up and the elevator beeps and opens. Frank wanders into an ethereal white light and disappears. He's in tomorrowland.
After showing this clip Ramsey Avery, the manager of the art department spoke of the history and cities for filming tomorrowland. But that my friends is a story and a post for another time.
What do you guys think about Tomorrowland? Do you love it or hate it?
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