Nov. 28, 1964 - A Beatles record, folk songs by Joan Baez, string quartets by Beethoven and electronic music by Otto Luening and Vladimir Vasachevsky — side by side with popular strains from “My Fair Lady” — will be placed in Time Capsule II, the Westinghouse Electric Corporation announced today.
These and other items illustrating the music of today as well as items representative of all the arts of the last quarter century will be buried in the capsule at the New York World’s Fair the day before it closes on Oct. 17, 1965.
They will join a large collection of articles already chosen to represent progress in science and the way of life of man at the start of the third quarter of the 20th century, for the edification of the peoples of the 70th century — when both Time Capsules I and II are intended to be opened.
The first Westinghouse Time Capsule was buried at the World’s Fair in 1940. Books giving the exact locations of the 90‐inch‐long torpedo‐shaped metal capsules to be opened in A.D. 6939 have been sent to 3,000 libraries throughout the world.
More than 80 items, in the form of microfilm, film, photographs, tapes and recordings, were selected by a 14‐man committee headed by Dr. Leonard Carmichael of the National Geographic Society.
The material will represent the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, television, jazz, musical comedy, poetry, folk music, dance, drama, movies, literature, and photography.
Photographs of a painting by Andrew Wyeth entitled “River Cove” and of a sculpture by Henry Moore, “The Family” and microfilms of books by Ernest Hemingway and Lawrence Durell will be included.
There will be selections of poetry by Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, and Boris Pasternak, among others; television shows from Danny Kaye; and the 1960 Kennedy‐Nixon presidential debates.
Already chosen for entombment in the capsule are such modern‐day devices as an electric toothbrush, a plastic heart valve, birth control pills, tranquilizers, and a bikini.
Time Capsule II, which is intended to update Time Capsule I, will contain about twice as much information about the world of today as did the first capsule. This is because, according to Dr. Carmichael, so much more has happened, especially in the field of scientific progress, in the last two decades than in the preceding era.
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