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Entertainment
Entertainment - Parades
'Hermaphro
- Queen of the Night' - the QANTAS Light Fantastic
Night Parade
Designed to rival the famous Disneyland
Parades, World Expo '88 featured two daily parades -
the 'Food!'-themed Expo Day Parade - and the
'Hermaphro - Queen of the Night'-themed QANTAS Light
Fantastic Night Parade.
Each
parade featured over 15 floats - all totally computer
controlled - larger-than-life moving diorama
presentations - reflecting on the inane, mysterious,
whimsy of our day-to-day life, surrounded by
swirling clowns, musicians, performers, on uni-cycles,
roller-skates, and user-made mobiles, in the guise of
each of the Expo's theme weeks - and led by the
66-strong Expo City Marching Band, closely behind a
clown on stilts carrying a banner of the name of
the Expo's changing weekly theme.
Each
parade weaving it's way from the northern part of
the Expo to the south, on-lookers and well-wishers
would gather on each side of the Expo's major
thoroughfares, to watch this half-hour long spectacle
- which never seemed to bore or cease entertaining
upon every day (and night's) presentation.
The
QANTAS Light Fantastic Night Parade had it's own extra
charm - where it's magical illuminations and hi-tech
beat soundtrack would envelope the Expo site every
Expo evening from 6.30 p.m.
Here are some images of the 'Hermaphro -
Queen of the Night' QANTAS Light Fantastic Night Parade
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Photo
of Frillie-necked Lizard Courtesy and Copyright ACP
Publishing and Russell Stokes
Rest of
images are Courtesy and Copyright of the Gabriel
Collection and McGreevy Collection of Foundation Expo
'88
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