By Laura Medina
When hot air balloon was literally taking off, the sky was the limits. Almost a good hundred years before space exploration and astronauts, there were aeronauts.
Building on Richard Holmes' 2013 "Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air. The book then the movie focused on scientist and pioneering meterologist (the forefather to weather reporters), James Glaisher's first hot air balloon exploration thru earth's sky stratospheres and atmospheric currents and clouds, on September 5, 1862.
For a movie smacked dabbed in the middle of the Victorian Era, it deals with a Victorian scientist focusing on today's current event of climate change and predicting the weather.
His hot air balloon pilot was the equally pioneering hot air balloon woman pilot, Amelia Wren, based on two women balloonists, Margaret Graham and Sophie Blanchard.
Whereas James was methodical and reserved, it was the gutsy and ballsy experienced balloonist, Amelia, who survived the day and his life.
To celebrate the launch of "The Aeronauts' Incredible Journey," starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, Amazon Prime kicked off with a touring Steampunk Victorian Fair with costumed cast, ...
the most advanced Steampunk innovations of the Victorian Era, sipping the latest and trendiest of Victorian trendiness, sipping new concoctions of an exotic drink, roasting, grinding, and sipping coffee (drinking tea now is a throwback) and guzzling this new-found health tonic, thanks to santizied plumping infrastructure, botanical herbs and spices, made edible with carbonized mineral water and sugar-sodas. Fentimans sodas...
For today's kids, small and big, as it was for Victorians, Amazon Prime's Fentimans Victorian Soda Bar with original Victorian flavors of: Rose Lemonade, Ginger Beer (non-alcoholic, ginger ale's stronger forefather), the medicinal Dandelion (yes, that weed) & Burdock (Dandelion is rich in vitamin A and C and iron and zinc, treats anemia, skin problems, and blood disorders), Elderflower, and Mandarin & Seville Orange. Drinking history, isn't that the point of Amazon Prime's Victorian Fair.
The theme of Victorian derring-dos continue with high walker on a tight rope...
Remember, it's about the hot air balloon as advanced flight technology. Guests were lucky enough to ride an hot air balloon lift ride. What a thrill.
Amid...
Warm salt and cinnamon pretzels,...
Victorian Sweets Table Tent, portrait sketching, Victorian wind tunnel experiment and...
Fortune teller...
The highlight of the evening was a screening of
The Aeronauts on the world’s first Fly-In Theatre: a breathtaking 20-foot LED screen wrapped 360 degrees around a second hot air balloon.
It was family night outdoor screening picnic, snacking on Victorian treats, wrapped in Amazon Prime blankets.
For those suffering from FOMO, this is a touring attraction promotion, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-aeronauts-incredible-journeythe-cross-country-ballooning-fair-tickets-81631286375 sign up here for free tickets for a cross-
country tour hitting: San Francisco, Austin, Phoenix, Atlanta, then returning to Los Angeles, at The Grove's holiday time, December 20th to 22nd.
As Eddie Redmayne said, "Today, we're looking inward, down on the ground. We oughta be looking up."
Amazon Prime's "The Aeronauts' Incredible Journey" in theaters December 6th then on Amazon Prime Video on December 20th.
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