[CTyank]

“Spandex jackets - one for everyone...”

[2banana]

Wonder if they imagined California - where people freeze hungry in the dark despite abundance.

[BenLurkin]

That's the American view of the future.

The German view, however….

[Inyo-Mono]

Very interesting, I can’t believe that I was unaware of this film, even though it made was only 20 years before I was born.

[Deaf Smith]

I do not remember flying cars in 1980.

I must have been out of the loop.

[Deaf Smith]

Were these flying cars recalled?

[mrsmith]

Great film!
Love it!
(And not only because of Maureen).

Everyone: watch it!

[11th_VA]

I remember seeing that movie about 50 years ago - I could never remember the name - thanks for posting

[21twelve]

Interesting. I recall watching an old movie from that era (probably at the recommendation of a freeper thread) that was about a country that, iirc, had isolated itself and kept up a fake war to keep it’s people in control. The technology they had was before the engine and electricity iirc.

Then a helicopter / air balloon type thing lands. It is from something like the U.N. where the entire rest of the world has joined together in a utopian world with no fighting.

I probably have some of that wrong, and I can’t recall how it ends - but it is interesting to see how they viewed the future.

[a fool in paradise]

This is the future?! Giv me the good ol’ days!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEP0_8uzdvg

[GOPJ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czr-98yo6RU

[minnesota_bound]

That imagine with the flying cars must be the inspiration for them in Star Wars.

[piasa]

That’s some fancy flying going on below her