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Disneyland at 60 and the Decline of World’s Fairs, Solar Sun Flowers

Hosted by Frances Anderton May. 26, 2015
Disneyland’s 60th birthday party attracts crowds while a huge world’s fair in Milan gets no love in the US. Why? Plus, filmmaker James Cameron creates solar Sun Flowers to power -- and educate -- a school.

Disneyland’s 60th birthday party attracts crowds while a huge world’s fair in Milan gets no love in the US. Why? Plus, filmmaker James Cameron creates solar Sun Flowers to power -- and educate -- a school.

Photo courtesy of Orange County Archives.

From this Episode:

Disneyland Turns 60, What Happened to World’s Fairs?

This past Friday, Disneyland kicked off its 60th birthday party with a 24-hour celebration that maxed out the amusement park’s capacity. After all of these years, and...

21 min

James Cameron Creates Solar “Sun Flowers”

Filmmaker James Cameron has turned his hand to functional art, creating solar ‘sun flowers’ to power MUSE school in Malibu, co-founded by his wife Suzy Amis Cameron with...

6 min

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Host:

Frances Anderton

Producers:

Frances Anderton, Caroline Chamberlain

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