Radio City Music Hall Stage Cutaway, 1950

Radio City Music Hall Stage Cutaway
Radio City Music Hall Stage Cutaway
Radio City Music Hall Stage Cutaway
Radio City Music Hall Stage Cutaway

Fantastic cutaway of New York’s Radio City Music Hall stage in 1950, showing the 57 foot pistons that operate the three stage elevators.  This allowed the Rockettes to perform on three different levels.

Source:  Popular Mechanics, April 1950

By Lee Wallender

Deception, influence, fakes, illusions, themed environments, simulations, secret places, secret infrastructure, imagined places, dreamscapes, movie sets and props, evasions, camouflage, studio backlots, miniatures.

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