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This beautiful reproduction poster
has been re-mastered from a 1955 Trans World Airlines (TWA) advertisement for
their service to Los Angeles and Disneyland, California, featuring TWA’s
futuristic Moonliner ride.
The vibrant colors and detail of
this classic image have been painstakingly brought back to life to preserve a
great piece of history.
The high-resolution image is printed
on heavy archival photo paper, on a large-format, professional giclée process
printer. The poster is shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, and is ready for
framing.
The 13"x19"
format is an excellent image size that looks great as a stand-alone piece of
art, or as a grouped visual statement. These posters require no
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retailer, and online.
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HISTORY - TWA MOONLINER
From 1955
through 1962, the TWA Moonliner was part of the first futuristic exhibit located
in Disneyland's Tomorrowland. It was also an early example of modern product
placement advertising by TWA's Howard Hughes teaming up with Walt Disney as the
Moonliner's sponsor.
At 76 feet
(23 m) tall, it was the tallest structure in the theme park, 8 feet (2.4 m)
taller than the Sleeping Beauty Castle. Adjoining the rocket was the
"Flight to the Moon" attraction, which later became "Mission To
Mars" in 1975.
The
Moonliner was designed by John Hench, one of the original Disney Imagineers,
with the help of German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. It resembled von
Braun's V-2 rocket design but depicted what a commercial spaceliner might look
like for traveling to the Moon in the faraway year of 1986.
The
Moonliner's retracting landing leg covers were said to resemble the fuselage
shape on TWA's elegant Lockheed Constellation airliner; the rocket also
featured portholes, a raised cockpit area, and a boarding ramp. A real
Moonliner was envisioned to be powered by a nuclear reactor and actually be
more than 200 feet (61 m) tall; the theme park's Moonliner was roughly a
one-third scale model.
After
Hughes sold his interest in TWA, the airline dropped their corporate
sponsorship; the rocket then became the Douglas Moonliner when the Douglas
Aircraft Company became its sponsor. This new Moonliner looked the same as the
original, but the famous all-red TWA logo and stripes on the nose and landing
legs were gone, replaced by a brand new paint scheme of overall white with blue
stripes and a red, vertically stacked Douglas logo running down the rocket's
fuselage.
The
Douglas Moonliner stayed at the theme park for five more years, until 1967,
when it was removed for a redesigned, New Tomorrowland, making way for the
Carousel of Progress and other attractions. Its fuselage was moved to a storage
"boneyard" area at the northwest corner of the property and was seen
there as late as 1981.