italian television used to have a good taste in stage design

this is tomorrow 1956_ [2011]

"I remember going to the 'This is Tomorrow' exhibition in 1956, a long, long time ago. But if that show were to be mounted now I think it wold be as fresh and as revolutionary in many ways. I think you have to give Pop painters every credit for what they did. They liberated the external environment, perceived it at first glance. But now I think we need to look at the external environment at second glance and look beyond the worlds of consumer goods and mass iconography. [...] To go to the Whitechapel in 1956 and to see my experience of the real world being commented upon, played back to me with all kinds of ironic gestures, that was tremendously exciting. I could really recreate the future, that was the future, not the past."  

J.G.Ballard 

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/this-is-tomorrow