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NEWS:
Current information
for participants. Modelled on Moholy Nagy's designs for 'Everytown',
HG Wells' utopian future city in 'The Shape of Things to Come',
for the film 'Things to Come' directed by Alexander Korda (London
Films, 1936).


Nagy's models
were only visible for several frames in the final print of the
film, however, the models of the city were constructed from various
kinds of plastic, and images of the piece remain. It is clear
from descriptions and Nagy's modus operandi that the piece was
inspired by his Light-Space Modulator and the film which documents
its workings, Lichtspiel: Schwarz-Weiss-Grau (Light Display: Black-White-Grey).

(Reconstruction
of the Light Modulator, Mike Phillips 1983)
His wife,
Sibyl described it as:
"There
were no walls, but a skeleton of steel, screened with glass and
plastic sheets. The accent was on perforation and contour, an
indication of a new reality rather than reality itself."(1)
Nagy describes
some of the processes used to create the effects:
"I had
the opportunity to use the oddity of oil drops squeezed between
glass plates and a great number of other devices as 'special effects'
in the motion picture, 'Things to Come', by H.G. Wells, directed
by A Korda." (2)

And
"This
same set with the revolving cones photographed with multiplying
prism, produced so rich a visual result that the editor did not
dare to use it." (2)
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