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170 siting futurity guish from the original. While the resemblance of Hallstatt See to the original may be “down to the smallest detail,” one visitor has described the Chinese clone in terms that reveal the ele- ments that prevent it from being a perfect clone of the original: There were flowers everywhere, the sound of birds tweeting were [sic] playing throughout the streets from hidden speakers, the streets themselves were paved with bricks laid in semi- circular patterns, the fountain in the town center was an identical match, and the Sound of Music soundtrack playing on an endless loop could be heard everywhere. The Chinese not only cloned the buildings, but they carved out the physi- cal landscape as well. (Shepard 2012b; italics added) It is in the realm of the mechanical reproduction of nature that one recognizes the copying most forcefully. One can indeed hear birds chirping and the strains of “Doe, a deer, a female deer” in the clip of the Hallstatt See marketplace in Raidel’s documen- tary. The latter is particularly jarring for anyone with Austrian local knowledge. That Austrians do not associate the 1965 Hol- lywood film starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer with Hallstatt and that they have great difficulty relating to the enormous success of the Sound of Music tours in Salzburg are points Raidel stresses in the Rotterdam interview (Raidel 2018). It is interesting that she does not show us the “British-style fake phone booth in Hallstatt See” that Wittek mentions in her thesis (Wittek 2015, 24). Rather, Raidel makes do with a “Traffpunkt” (instead of Treffpunkt) typo on a sign to gesture towards the way the Austrian media who initially visited the Chinese knock- off amused themselves by pointing to typos, inaccurate dimen- sions, and inappropriate foliage, not to mention the fact that many of the buildings were unoccupied and some mere facades filled with rubbish. While Mayor Alexander Scheutz declared with pride after his visit that “One recognizes immediately that it’s Hallstatt,” one sees in Double Happiness that it is precisely not Hallstatt, Austria but Hallstatt See, China. It is a typical simu- lacrascape in that it is “a deliberate customization.” As Bianca