Raygun Gothic

The Atomium is a landmark modernist building in Brussels, Belgium, originally constructed as the centrepiece of the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. Designed by the engineer André Waterkeyn and the architects André and Jean Polak as a tribute to scientific progress, as well as to symbolise Belgian engineering skills at the time. It is the city's most popular tourist attraction, and serves as a museum, an art centre and a cultural destination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomium

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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlyingSaucer

Full issue:

https://archive.org/details/meccano-magazine-1932-12

Background:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_insignia

I just decided.

Music To Watch Space Girls By

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Nimoy_Presents_Mr._Spock%27s_Music_from_Outer_Space

In keeping with my previous research and developments in Retrofuturism, I have discovered a new genre, Raygun Gothic, and a subgenre, Raypunk. I am instantly enthralled by the mixture of vintage imagery with sci-fi, and as such, I really want to explore this further.

The general style of Raygun Gothic is a fusion of Art Deco and science fiction, resulting in bold lines and patterns, bright colours, and a general “space age” feel.

Good write up.

You can watch the movie via this FullMovies post:

https://piefed.social/post/1105225

Full issue:

https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1955-07

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“The Combat of the Dragons”, by Daniel Carter Beard, for John Jacob Astor’s A Journey in Other Worlds (1894) [Big game hunting on Saturn]

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Article about John Jacob Astor's sci fi novel 'Journey in Other Worlds' describing the future in the year 2000: an Anglophone globe carved up by the US and the UK, flying to Jupiter and Saturn for big game hunting, a straightened axis for the Earth, and free electricity everywhere.

• Public Domain Review - Colonizing the Cosmos

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• Archive.org - A journey in other worlds. A romance of the future by John Jacob Astor

(Yes, that John Jacob Astor.)

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• https://fedv.link/mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/114892236995662831
• https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/leaving-the-opera-in-the-year-2000/

Le Sortie de l'opéra en l'an 2000 is a print from the late-19th century depicting a futuristic view of air travel over Paris as people leave the opera. Many types of aircraft are shown including flying buses, limousines and, what are presumably, police vehicles.

A 40-ft-tall rocket ship glimmers in the sunlight on the rare occasion that the San Francisco fog allows it, and against the backdrop of the waterfront and the majestic Bay Bridge, this retro-futuristic icon is the jewel of Pier 14.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/raygun-gothic-rocket-ship

and

http://www.raygungothicrocket.com/

Via this blog post:

https://www.thedisneyclassics.com/blog/tomorrowland-and-frontierland-restaurants

Related postcard:

Volume 3, number 5. August 1928

The magazine is here:

https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v03n05_1928-08_ATLPM-Urf/page/n1/mode/2up

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The Chevrolet Corvette (C2) is the second-generation Corvette sports car, produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors (GM) for the 1963 through 1967 model years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvette_(C2)

A television screen is inset into an avant-garde cabinet for canned music called the "Kuba Komet" at the Radio and Television Exhibition in Frankfurt, West Germany, Aug. 5, 1957. As well as the television set, the Komet houses a radio, a record player and a tape recorder. The upper part of the assembly swings on a vertical axis to face any direction.

More re: Commando Cody:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_Men_from_the_Moon

Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories. Dare appeared in the Eagle comic series Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future from 1950 to 1967 (and subsequently in reprints), and dramatised seven times a week on Radio Luxembourg (1951–1956).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Dare

From Amazing Stories magazine, 1944 vol 18, no 1.

Found it:

https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v18n01_1944-01_cape1736

Science Fiction magazine volume 1, number 1 - March 1950.

https://archive.org/details/Science_Fiction_Plus_v01n01_1953-03_Gorgon776