The colour wheel is the real critter, but the tree is a repro made of modern plastic tinsel, and those lights are prewired like so many modern "apartment trees". It is electrically safe, though I never leave any tree lit whilst no-one is in the house.
It does have its own safety issue, though. Like tinsel rope and tinsel itself, these need to be kept away from cats. They like to play with it (cats do like shiny things) and chew on it, and ingested tinsel can fatally clog their intestines. The spun metal tinsel of decades past was even worse.
So, this tribute to chrome America stays safely in the workshop.
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