Invasion of the Historians
2pm Sunday, August 24, 2008 FREE
Dr. Paul George, Miami’s walkingest, talkingest historian, invades the Archives in search of Interama, South Florida’s grandest, gaudiest boondoggle. Among his finds: workers creating detailed clay models of the site, billboards promising Interama's imminent construction, and several directors of the project making promises nobody could keep. It's a long, strange story, documented by local TV news, home movies, amateur films, video art and documentaries, selected from the ever-growing holdings of the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives.
While at the Historical Museum, don't miss "Interama: Miami and the Pan-American Dream," a multi-sensory exhibition that recaptures Miami's 1960s vision of a futuristic fair and crossroads of the Americas. See Interama drawings by such world-renowned figures as architectural renderer Hugh Ferriss and architects Marcel Breuer and Louis Kahn.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida,
101 West Flagler Street, Miami, 33130
