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We've lost a lot of that wonder and promise...😢

Kind of scary how much of the vision of the future here relies on this total view of the world as an extractable resource just waiting to be conquered "lol"

Young boomers must've been like: This is awesome!, let's screw over our future generations with historically unmatched greed instead!

#DisneyDiva ❤

Such optimism of the mid century period always feels so naive.

Bell Telephone (or was it AT&T?) had a similar ride. The music that played was Aaron Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man. I went on it more frequently than the other rides because the lines were less long. Everybody wanted to go on the ride at the Ford exhibit because you got to ride in real Ford convertibles.

The future that was promised was not the future we were given.

Narrated by Alexander Scourby. I still remember well the smell and feel of those seats-with the headsets moulded into them.

I was about the same age in 1964. Blonde, blue eyes. I could have been that kid. I was that kid. I VIVIDLY remember those lunar rovers moving back and forth on this incredible display. I wished the ride had moved slower so I could examine all the details of the exhibit more closely. I vaguely remember the rest of the ride. Just that moon base portion is still imbedded in my memory. I thought it was the coolest thing!!!

It's been 60 years. I was in that pav maybe 13 times. After you saw it a few times I looked for something else. I was the go-to guy. Whenever we had company I was the leader that showed them everything. Everything but the Schaffer pav, I was too young. There was a small pav for women and makeup, I went in there and sat down in a booth and the mirror told me what kind of makeup was for me, THe women looked at me, but it was a big goof to me

Instead of aquacopters we ended up in an alternate future of spam ads and click bait. I'm guessing the concept of communal living is what quashed this vision of the future.

Still waiting! Is the narrator Walt Disney? Seems very Disney-esque.

I was 14 and I had dreams of the future. The future turned out to be a nightmare in the 2024 time

Watching futurama rn so that’s weird

This GM film is great, but it doesn't really do justice to the actual Futurama ride, which was 15 minutes long ... the animated dioramas were huge, incredibly designed and detailed, and were basically creative works of art ... some of the buildings in the "city of tomorrow" diorama were almost 20 feet tall ... the "intermodal terminal" that is presented as part of GM's future city is an accepted urban design concept today and would provide safe, efficient access for pedestrians, autos, light rail, buses, containerized freight and VTOL commuter planes right into the center of the city.

Back when GM was actually imaginative and relevant. This video is like an LSD preamble to Logans Run and Soylent Green.

I was there when I was 7 year old with my sister William laezza

Where's the Planet Express crew?

Yes yes wonderful but then economic social and political reality hit 6yrs later yes the 1970's happily awaken us

Imagine the narrator telling US the REAL FUTURE OUTLOOK as ALL the the PRODUCTS SHOWN by 1978 will be MADE in a country OVERSEAS!!!! And imagine the narrator telling US:: ""OH BY THE WAY EVERY APPLIANCE/AUTOMOBILE/BATTERYS/MEDICAL MEDICINES & SURGICAL ITEMS PLANTED IN YOUR BODY/AIR BAGS/BRAKE DRUMS ON CARS/FOOD PRODUCTS/BABY SEATS IN CARS/ELECTRIC BIKE BATTERYS (this is the newest recall day after day which are STILL BURNING buildings/stores/apartments as we read this comment!!!) = will *ALL* BE ☆RECALLED☆ week after week so FORGET about MOON BASES/UNDER SEAS LIVING/HUMAN ENHANSED LONG GEVITY MIRACLES as 1978 tru 2023 will be known as the ""RECALL ERA/PERIOD on EARTH!!!""*

Futurama walked so Horizons could run

Is Alexander Scourby the narrator ?

I remember that exhibit. The line was super long but the “Futurama Ride” was worth it. And I also remember the commercial on the radio that began with, “When you see The Fair, see The Future first…” and seeing the ad on a billboard, “If you’ve only seen it once, you haven’t seen it all.”

“Vehicles, electronically paced, travel routes remarkably safe, swift, and efficient”. Unlike most of the things in the video, Smart Mobility will likely become a reality.

Interesting is the contrast between the young boy and the older man, a scene which is shown several times in the video. The older man symbolizing the past and the young boy the future. Those that rode the ride as a kid are now looking back as that older man. How time flies.

Hypnotically mesmerizing colorful visuals and elaborate scale models, like better than many of the science fiction films ive seen. No mentioning their immediate future, the looming vietnam war waiting to consume some of the unsuspecting people seen here.

We’ll do this and that and this and that…. we will BLAST THE JUNGLE WITH LASERS

I saw this as a kid. My Dad worked for General Motors back then and we went to the NY Worlds Fair. Dad made sure we went to the GM pavilion to see Futurama. Seeing this film brings back memories. Thanks for sharing.

Matthew Groening named his Science Fiction cartoon after this.

Jaguar XJ220 - Supercar with Teeth

Ironic how all these old visions of the future built by automobile and oil companies are actually using a form of mass-transit to make it work. All the cars are moving on rails.

Today people are confused about what bathroom they should use.

I was an attendant at that ride. When they recorded this, the 12 year old shown (Brian McClaine) was given motion sickness pills and a shot of bourbon to keep him calm. He was hyper active and somewhat "slow", but he was the kid of a higher-up at GM. Later on, he stole a car and got in a wreck, but the story was kept quiet.

alas we screwed up

Here we are in the future! And that still looks like the future! We haven’t reach that stage yet!😂

No stereo in 1965?

1964: "The oceans have enough food to feed seven times our population." 2022: _China has entered the room_

So cut down the rainforest. Build lots of freeways. Consume more. Turn the ocean and Antarctica into factories. Yes. That’s pretty true these days. Thanks General Motors.

Back when we had optimism about the future. Now we have anxiety.

My kind of future.

They need to bring back the Futurama 2 World Fair ride.

I was 5 then. We lived one subway stop away from this. I had to go through this ride every time I dragged Mom to the Fair, both of them on weekends. I probably went at least 2 dozen times. Likely more.

I like the part using the oceans to feed the world ! We have fished them out in many places and polluted our Rivers. So much for the Future.

It's a little disturbing how uncritically modernist this is. I can see how people who thought like this accidentally caused many of the most serious problems we live with today.

We're almost there.

I remember seeing this short on TV at the time and being the same age as the kid in the film I was impressed, but when it got to the "jungle highway paver" scene I had my first awareness that all this future is good is not all good. Hoof and mouth disease has has had a say on building the Pan American Highway thru the Darien gap. The first freaks dosed on LSD and went on a road trip to the fair crossing the US and also thought some of the Futurerama stuff was a joke or worse. 1939 was before my time but 1964-5 was not. Needless to say Futurerama is a great animated series.

A PREVIEW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR PLANET FOR GREED AND SHORT SIGHTED CONSUMPTION.

Just great!! Thanks so much for sharing! One of the best things for me was the two generations (the boy and the old man) witnessing this concept of the future. What would they both be thinking? Certainly both look amazed.

My Right Ear to Left Ear: what are you listening alone?

Anyone else here from “A Generation of Sociopaths”?