Posted on 11/01/2019 6:43:49 PM PDT by simpson96
Just Imagine is a 1930 science fiction musical-comedy film, directed by David Butler. The film is known for its art direction and special effects in its portrayal of New York City in an imagined 1980. Just Imagine stars El Brendel, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Garrick and Marjorie White.
The film starts with a preamble showing life in 1880, where the people believed themselves the "last word in speed". It switches to 1930, with the streets crowded with automobiles and lined with electric lights and telephone wires. It then switches to 1980, where the tenement houses have morphed into 250-story buildings, connected by suspension bridges and multi-lane elevated roads.
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That imagine with the flying cars must be the inspiration for them in Star Wars.
Of course, there is the modern Eastern European version shot with models in a garage...
Slice of Life - Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcDJCZrwkLw
Don’t believe how they did it? Behind the scenes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9UPUtlZUJ4
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Have never dug into it all but some of HG Wells’ politics have seemed globalist utopian.
Lol. And we were supposed to to have reached Mars in 2001, Space Odyssey.
Look at all that electricity ! And in California ! You know that’s definitely a sci-fi film.
He was a Communist. Even mentioned it a bit in “The Time Machine” of wanting to see what a future Socialist/Marxist society of “equality” would look like (they took all that out in the film adaptations). We know now what it does look like in practice: totalitarianism, no electric power, and human $hit on the sidewalks and streets.
Yes, you got some of that wrong, but it was without question "Things to Come" (based on the book "The Shape of Things to Come," by H.G. Wells), starring Raymond Massey.
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That was H.G Well’s “Things To Come’’. Raymond Masse is the man in the helicopter/balloon flying machine. Ralph Richards plays “The Boss’’, the tribal chief.
Sorry, I meant to say Ralph Richardson plays “The Boss’’.
What is interesting is that the old fashioned Commies wanted tight control of borders so that they could steal stuff from prosperous citizens.
It would never have occurred to them to import starving third world people to bankrupt the system—since they actually wanted their Commie world to work.
Sounds like North Korea.
Well, first they’ve got to destroy the country (Cloward-Piven) and then they remake their dystopian utopia. Something nightmarish like “Harrison Bergeron” or some such, as per their ludicrous obsession with “equality.”
It looks like a red pill... and I guess the movie was made before Pan Am went belly up in 1991.
That’s some fancy flying going on below her
Well... he was a Fabian socialist, albeit briefly, as I recall he thought of them as slackers.
“Equality” is just a talking point.
The lefties want to have the elite rulers and their families living like kings, and everyone else “equal” as their slaves.
Yup.
I was for the great rocket gun before I was against it.
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