Out Of This World (1964) (digitally enhanced)
Campy marketing film about Frigidaire Appliances. A woman visits the New York World’s Fair (1964) to see the General Motors Pavilion’s: Kitchen of Tomorrow. Digitally enhanced by Retro-matic™ LLC., Hollywood, California. Edited to fit YouTube time limit. www.retro-matic.com
Duration : 0:9:23
Surely GM didn’t …
Surely GM didn’t come up with the idea of destroying rain forests for cattle ranches and stealing water from where it’s needed to irrigate lawns in Nevada?
or did they?
campy and racist… …
campy and racist…….also reminds me somehow of the stepford wives lol
LOL talk about …
LOL talk about isolationism and ethnocentrism, love how france is described as a “far flung corner of the world” and what was up with the way the japanese lady was walking
I like how they …
I like how they wanted to turn the Amazon in to a cattle ranch.
Funny how the end …
Funny how the end of the video is all about how fabulous the kitchen of the future will be for the ladies. Thank goodness we’re headed in another direction from that, but I totally dig the feel of this old film. Thanks for posting it.
The 1950s was the …
The 1950s was the first decade America had any culture, I don’t remember exactly when it all slipped away but I think it was a few days after Kennedy was buried.
great promise to …
great promise to the future my hahaha! antarctica is melting and is going to drown us by 2029… so much for antarctica..
Wow, they were …
Wow, they were almost right about the kitchen of tomorrow!
It’s all still …
It’s all still coming, especially the submarine train. Just be patient.
Money is no excuse …
Money is no excuse for things looking as poor as they do today in 2008.
Manufacturing things with cleaner and more sightly designs does not have to cost more money. In fact, it would be cheaper to make more minimal items. It is also very easy to purchase expensive items at a low cost (bargain shopping is easy if you really want something).
People have completely lost what they once had. Young people are hopeless and clueless, and older people have allowed themselves to become washed-up.
She’s hot. Must be …
She’s hot. Must be about 85 now…
here is the freaky …
here is the freaky part of all this narration…this man’s voice is the same one on ALL those films I saw in school as a child..warning us about drug use and telling us to be good citizens. God! I feel so old now. I was at the World’ fair in 1965..NYC
Good thing they …
Good thing they didn’t care so much about environmental impact! They had the right attitude! Those people grew up before conveniences afforded by airplanes, cars, electric oven ranges, refrigerators, tractors, etc.
People have become spoiled by modern conveniences and so they don’t appreciate them nearly as much. Thats part of the reason so many people are willing to become “environmentalists.” Its a)trendy, and b) they take tech for granted.
Yeah, they had the …
Yeah, they had the right attitude back then!
That generation of people knew (Probably unlike you), what life was like before the modern autos, tractors, motors, flight, etc. I think there was a greater appreciation/fascination with what machinery could do to serve mankind. They grew up breaking their backs with the plow.
Now that people have grown bored/spoiled with the modern conveniences, it becomes easier to want to become more “natural”…its trendy. Least for now…
GM certainly didn’t …
GM certainly didn’t care about the evironmental impacts for their vision. This video doesn’t show it but they did show a machine that would rip out a tree from the ground and build a highway behind it. When they were at Expo 74 ten years later, the message was very different.
Lots of good Googie architecture in here as well.
make that ” …
make that “realistic”.
this film sadly …
this film sadly reminds me how much more pessimistic we are about the future now than we were in the 50s.
im tired now. but …
im tired now. but it really is hysterical to find out what they thought the future would be like back then.
It’s not so much …
It’s not so much that people gave up, but they’re were huge walls in technology that were encountered. Living in space or below the ocean was found to not be as easy as once thought. Furthermore, because of constant inflation of our dollar, and America’s massive debt, our money does not go as far today, and things are manufactured to a lower quality. Most family’s have both parents working, and money issues which leads to stress and rising divorce. America is not the America of the 50s/60s.
I want a radar …
I want a radar range, safety shamfty I want 5 minute roasts!
“jungles turned …
“jungles turned into fields for cattle”….yep got that one right. thanks McDonalds for making the future come true!
World of tomorrow? …
World of tomorrow? Are u kidding? It looks more retro than anything else
It’s sort of …
It’s sort of depressing to watch this; a time when people had so much hope for the future. It really is a shame that it’s 2007, yet most American homes do not have modern looking kitchens (or anything else, for that matter) like the ones in this video. And it’s not because this stuff is not available, because it is; it’s just that somewhere between then and now Americans, and maybe the world in general, lost all vision for the future and completely gave up.
I especially like …
I especially like the fact how they didn’t cover food in the fridge.. Saran Wrap anyone? No, just put the salad in there as is and let it absorb all the odors… Yummy!
ha futr rama like …
ha futr rama like that tv show