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  • GM's Motorama exhibit in 1956 featured a film that looked into the far distant future of 1976 which predicted a jet age future with electronic digital displays and an On Star-like central command that would guide us along our uncrowded path to adventures.
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  • @ShaneD3488
    @ShaneD3488 Před 7 lety +631

    Wow, I can't wait until 1976!

    • @KingRoseArchives
      @KingRoseArchives  Před 7 lety +78

      It's going to be great.

    • @tyronewilson1096
      @tyronewilson1096 Před 7 lety +16

      1997 s10 front wheel dr ..replacement driveshaft

    • @kz1000ps
      @kz1000ps Před 6 lety +24

      On that train all graphite and glitter... Undersea by rail.... Ninety minutes from New York to Paris Well, by '76 we'll be A.O.K.... :)

    • @IronPiedmont
      @IronPiedmont Před 5 lety +3

      56

    • @lucasrem
      @lucasrem Před 5 lety +5

      ShaneD3488
      They were able to build this back then, only no way it would make them any money back then!
      If they were able to do V2 rockets in WWII, this was an option too, how to make money on it??????? The only question !

  • @friendofdorothy9376
    @friendofdorothy9376 Před 2 lety +435

    I love how the car in close-ups looks like it’s going maybe 20 miles an hour but it has a sound effect of a jet flying.

    • @chuckkottke
      @chuckkottke Před 2 lety +9

      It's just taxiing for take off.🌞

    • @petrberanek4230
      @petrberanek4230 Před 2 lety +20

      Gas turbine powered car. Make jet engine sound when turbine is started. There is turbine rpm reading when switching to autopilot.

    • @dont.ripfuller6587
      @dont.ripfuller6587 Před 2 lety +1

      My harleys like that

    • @uppi420
      @uppi420 Před 2 lety +4

      They predicted CVT

    • @pmkeith
      @pmkeith Před 2 lety +5

      I am most impressed by the cabin noise suppression that lets you sit inside a jet engine yet have audible conversations with the control tower without any need for a headset.
      But luckily, there were no other cars on the road, so the control tower immediately knew who they were talking to.
      And everybody was some young, fit and handsome. Despite sitting in cars for hours on end doing nothing but pushing buttons and eating ice cream.
      But best of all - multi-generational harmony. What drugs were they all on?

  • @3DPeter
    @3DPeter Před 7 lety +158

    those traffic controllers would go insane when they had to talk to every car on the highway's these day's

    • @KingRoseArchives
      @KingRoseArchives  Před 7 lety +22

      But kind of like Siri, GPS, OnStar, Waz and other services we take for granted. Of course, today you'd get a recording asking you to push various buttons and just when you were getting through to a human it would disconnect.

    • @craigwilson4439
      @craigwilson4439 Před 2 lety +6

      Yeah that's what I thought, it would sure be a friggin busy old place in the control tower on any freeway today.

    • @shadowbanned5164
      @shadowbanned5164 Před 2 lety +13

      They would not only have to be multilingual they would also need to be multi religious lol

    • @3DPeter
      @3DPeter Před 2 lety

      @@shadowbanned5164 all they need is sherrif buffort T justice. "take the next exit sombitch, or else i'm gonna punch your mama in the mouth!"

    • @darkwood777
      @darkwood777 Před 2 lety +3

      In the future there are few cars because of the cost and the nuclear and biological wars. So an auto traffic controller will be similar to an air traffic controller.

  • @valkhorn
    @valkhorn Před 2 lety +26

    I love how they seriously thought everyone would have the patience or the time to have a ten minute verbal conversation every time they wanted to choose which road to drive on.

    • @d.m.3645
      @d.m.3645 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Yeah, anyone who has ever talked to a busy approach controller knows how curt they can be.

  • @mgman6000
    @mgman6000 Před 3 lety +149

    I went to the Motorama exhibit in 1956 when I was 10 and thought it would be like this in the far off 1976.
    Saw the Firebird II there and later saw the Firebird III at the Seattle worlds fair in 62
    I actually did see one of the Chrysler turbines driving into a A and W stand in 64 it came in and every guy there went over to look at it.
    Everything seemed possible back then

    • @madpogue
      @madpogue Před 2 lety +5

      I got to ride in a Chrysler turbine at the Kennedy Space Center in 1976. It wasn't the one with the "concept car" body from the '60s, it just had a stock-looking '74-ish full-size Chrysler body. But it hauled, and was smooth, and made that recognizable turbine sound.

    • @alexarvan9501
      @alexarvan9501 Před 2 lety +4

      Wow! Nice story, nowadays we're thinking about electric cars and drones in 20 more years

    • @ronalds.658
      @ronalds.658 Před rokem +1

      It was possible, but there was no money in the car. The public was told the car was unsafe because the exhaust would melt the car behind them. However, in 1968 a turbine powered car competed in the Indianapolis 500. The car was in the lead until a bearing burned out with three laps to go. The exhaust was not too hot to be dangerous to the other drivers either.
      I also saw Motorama, but in Los Angeles. So, here we are old men wondering what happened the future
      we thought was ours.

    • @mgman6000
      @mgman6000 Před rokem +1

      @@ronalds.658
      The future is here with electric cars and I bet within 10years it will be the dominant car I won't be here but my kids will and it will be better

    • @Lucy-oy6ky
      @Lucy-oy6ky Před rokem

      Que ótimo!
      Eu nasci em 1956....
      Você tem 10 anos a mais...
      Gosto de ver esses vídeos antigos!
      Parabéns 👏👏👏

  • @hahman12
    @hahman12 Před 8 lety +274

    This is amazing. Seeing the past's view of the future is trippy as hell

    • @stevenarseneault1972
      @stevenarseneault1972 Před 2 lety +11

      We're seeing the future, in the future from the past

    • @FirstLastOne
      @FirstLastOne Před 2 lety +3

      Actually, it quite sad since electric cars had been killed off by oil barons and today is 40 years behind because of it.

    • @Bebopin-69
      @Bebopin-69 Před 2 lety +6

      It is interesting to see how they imagined their version of connected google maps. One thing they got completely wrong though is the number of cars on the road.

    • @RRfandubs
      @RRfandubs Před 2 lety +1

      @@FirstLastOne NUNCA DEIXAREI OS CARROS ELÉTRICOS EXISTIREM

    • @jjperceval
      @jjperceval Před 2 lety +1

      @@RRfandubs thats working out well

  • @jeffboice1943
    @jeffboice1943 Před 7 lety +330

    I am old enough to being told this was the future-highways with electric strips that allowed for autopilot. In 1956 the Interstate Highway System was still legislation making its way through Congress. I would like to see an alternative version of this where the son turns the radio dial to 1976 and the family finds themselves stuck in a Chevette....

    • @OldsVistaCruiser
      @OldsVistaCruiser Před 5 lety +19

      Or a huge 1976 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser "clamshell" wagon, the last year for the GM behemoths! 455 cubic inches under the hood!

    • @cameronjournal
      @cameronjournal Před 5 lety +29

      or any of the really craptastic cars of the 70s.

    • @kcheylin9957
      @kcheylin9957 Před 4 lety +15

      @@cameronjournal Gremlin

    • @dw3403
      @dw3403 Před 3 lety +13

      O yes, seeing this family waiting in lines at the gas station on their certain day to fill up during the gas crunch.

    • @DTD110865
      @DTD110865 Před 3 lety +8

      @@dw3403 Or getting caught in the traffic jams of the real 1976, because all those fantastic highways they wanted to build were cancelled by the various freeway revolts.

  • @orgami100
    @orgami100 Před 6 lety +383

    Used to be so much simpler driving in 1976... it a shame government fired all those tower control people. .

    • @kenetickups6146
      @kenetickups6146 Před 4 lety +36

      Thanks Raegan

    • @hurricanefury439
      @hurricanefury439 Před 2 lety +11

      @@kenetickups6146 wouldn't it be jimmy carter

    • @kenetickups6146
      @kenetickups6146 Před 2 lety

      Hurricane Furia Could be, was going off reagan because he was in the 80s so after the 70s

    • @walterweddle7644
      @walterweddle7644 Před 2 lety +5

      @@hurricanefury439 No, Reagan!

    • @hurricanefury439
      @hurricanefury439 Před 2 lety +8

      @@walterweddle7644 jimmy carter was president in 1976 and was president until 1980 so if the towers were gone by the 80s then it would be because of jimmy carter.

  • @mr.butterworth4216
    @mr.butterworth4216 Před 2 lety +57

    You had me at pre-digested food cooked by infrared. I love how the future always turns out to be 300% less awesome than we thought it was going to be.

    • @brianarbenz7206
      @brianarbenz7206 Před 2 lety +12

      Frankly, I'm happy to digest my own food!

    • @gormauslander
      @gormauslander Před 2 lety +4

      We have infrared cookers, but microwave cookers are more efficient

    • @striderflys
      @striderflys Před 2 lety +1

      Kindly disagree. This seems like hell.

    • @mnk199245
      @mnk199245 Před rokem +1

      considering how we have microwaved frozen tv dinners, its basically pre-digested with how processed it is

    • @mg4361
      @mg4361 Před rokem

      Pre-digested food is basically vomit

  • @dwindle
    @dwindle Před 8 lety +137

    The cigar really made it futuristic.

    • @SaltyViper
      @SaltyViper Před 8 lety +3

      +John K 1/10 no mouth fedora

    • @randomrealistictone2231
      @randomrealistictone2231 Před 8 lety

      Who was that woman singing at the end?

    • @hypnotised-clover
      @hypnotised-clover Před 7 lety +7

      John K cigar, in a closed in car, THE FUTURE AWAITS!

    • @jameshay7247
      @jameshay7247 Před 6 lety +3

      Actually, people did still smoke cigars in 1976...

    • @lucasrem
      @lucasrem Před 5 lety

      John K
      The Space age, Nazi freakness, they needed that in the US back then, why?
      Good that we went back to electric now! fck the future!

  • @Lousybarber
    @Lousybarber Před 9 lety +64

    The roads do not seem very busy in 1976. How would that guy in the tower handle 10,000 cars competing for his attention.

    • @DTD110865
      @DTD110865 Před 3 lety +9

      I'd love to splice this movie with the REAL traffic of 1976.

  • @brianarbenz7206
    @brianarbenz7206 Před 2 lety +10

    2:19 The controller is thinking, "I could be doing this in Twilight Zone or Outer Limits to guide a space crew to Mars, but instead I'm guiding a family to a motel in Arizona."

  • @DrNemmo
    @DrNemmo Před 10 lety +309

    I'll force my wife and daughters to sing along in every road trip, whether they like them or not.
    I want my future.

    • @trance_trousers
      @trance_trousers Před 2 lety +13

      and make them sit in the back too!

    • @notsecure
      @notsecure Před 2 lety +10

      @@trance_trousers and smoke cigar in the car. wait weeds are now legal.

    • @sharksport01
      @sharksport01 Před 2 lety +6

      Only if youre twice your wife's age.

    • @xr6lad
      @xr6lad Před 2 lety +1

      @@sharksport01 I thought
      they looked like the children (adults really) grandparents.

    • @HardRockMaster7577
      @HardRockMaster7577 Před 2 lety +1

      The family that sings together stays together.

  • @DavidGregoire_
    @DavidGregoire_ Před 7 lety +108

    Would love to be in 1976 meeting the guys at GM who made this film in 1956 and asking them when it's coming!

    • @grahamariss2111
      @grahamariss2111 Před 2 lety +7

      Yes, and explain why reality is a Vauxhall Viva!

    • @clivegetliff1293
      @clivegetliff1293 Před 2 lety +2

      @@grahamariss2111 Or a Hillman Imp !!!

    • @grahamariss2111
      @grahamariss2111 Před 2 lety

      @@clivegetliff1293 True, but the Imp was not a GM product.

    • @clivegetliff1293
      @clivegetliff1293 Před 2 lety

      @@grahamariss2111 I know, it was Chrysler....but have you ever driven one??

    • @grahamariss2111
      @grahamariss2111 Před 2 lety

      @@clivegetliff1293 I drove the Singer Chamois which was interesting, but of course it was by 1976 a 13 year old design that was running out before the Sunbeam. The Viva was still a mainstream Vauxhall offer running on till 1979 and drove very much like a 1960s car feeling noticeably more old fashioned than the Kadet based Chevette.

  • @dogbsas
    @dogbsas Před 2 lety +35

    For that time....they hit two interesting points. Being able to communicate with someone else out of the car and the semi autonomous driving. But all of this took like 50 years or more. I would love to know what they expect for the next 50 years.

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 Před 2 lety +2

      To be fair, autonomous driving couldv litterally come in the 1980s. Wouldv even worked in the 1970s. It wouldv only worked in the highways though.
      Its good that nowadays, we have fully autonomous cars though. They work pretty well in the highways, and in the regular roads.

    • @stained6202
      @stained6202 Před 5 měsíci

      Hopefully reduce private transportation and get more people in trains, buses, and trams.

  • @DeepGreenForest
    @DeepGreenForest Před 8 lety +57

    Casting director-"Yes- we need a Bing Crosby who is actually not Bing Crosby".

    • @clemsonbloke
      @clemsonbloke Před 2 lety

      He would have not been seen in something so stupid as this film reel.

    • @DeepGreenForest
      @DeepGreenForest Před 2 lety

      @@clemsonbloke Jesus I don't even remember making this comment.

  • @jpsilvashy
    @jpsilvashy Před 10 lety +38

    I think all the rigamarole with getting the car ready to be "automatic control" is hilarious. It took them forever to talk about the amount of fuel and stuff they had... Not to mention that it was like an airplane taking off.
    Love the part where dad asks if he can smoke his cigar...

    • @FiveBlackFootedFerrets
      @FiveBlackFootedFerrets Před 2 lety +1

      Your description of the PreFlight check out checklist is right on point! I couldn't wait until the guy lights that big turd (El Stinko) of a cigar and then stinks up the inside of the car forever. And spends the next hour coughing up a lung. I was one year old when this was made so I guess I have to accept the fact that no one ever realized that by the 21st century smoking would be generally frowned upon and subject to rigorous federal and state regulations, but it is quite hilarious. He should have told the autopilot to avoid all the ghettos, and the shooting galleries, and the homeless. I'm surprised at the lack of hats. I thought everyone wore a hat anytime they left the house. I guess by the mid 50s that that was passe. This model firebird must not have included the optional rotisserie in the back seat to cook chicken on the fly. Even harder to believe that General Motors would have gone bankrupt except for the help from the government. I don't think anyone saw that one coming. My first car was a 1969 Pontiac Custom S station wagon with a 350 cubic inch motor and a turbo hydramatic 400 transmission. It was a road locomotive. I drove it for 18 years!

    • @FiveBlackFootedFerrets
      @FiveBlackFootedFerrets Před 2 lety +2

      @@jpsilvashy thank you for your post and pointing out the truth that things aren't what they used to be.

  • @davidtosh7200
    @davidtosh7200 Před 7 lety +15

    It's a "Jetsonsmobile", even the Jetsons came on TV in 1962, but this video was taken in late 1955 or early 1956.

  • @tfortin8862
    @tfortin8862 Před 8 lety +27

    Now, don't you wish it was like this today? Going 30-40 mph in your brand new Firebird II on the freeway of tomorrow with little to no traffic! Aah the life.

  • @bripetlewis
    @bripetlewis Před 7 lety +193

    Navigation systems, cars that drive themselves, just pure science fiction.

    • @sam-of6lv
      @sam-of6lv Před 2 lety +8

      @AmateurThespian wrong

    • @rushnerd
      @rushnerd Před 2 lety +7

      @AmateurThespian It's in it's infancy still, but it IS absolutely a real thing now. No sci-fi could have seen where things were going quite as they did back then.

    • @gs98999
      @gs98999 Před 2 lety +6

      Level 5 self driving for the masses is way off still. Some engineers even say decades away.

    • @goosecatcomunication
      @goosecatcomunication Před 2 lety

      be hanno sbagliato previsione Di almeno 50Anni

    • @kenw.1112
      @kenw.1112 Před 2 lety

      SELF DRIVING CARS ARE STILL IN THE CRASH GET KILLED AND LEARN FROM IT MODE!! SCREW THE SELF DRIVING CARS!! NO WAY WILL I TRUST THAT SYSTEM UNTIL IT IS 100% PROVEN SAFE! TOO MANY THINGS THAT CAN GO WRONG. RELIABILITY IS PROVEN TO BE IN SIMPLICITY OF A SYSTEM. HUMANS ARE BETTER AT DRIVING CARS UNLESS YOU ARE IMPAIRED FROM ALCOHOL, DRUGS OR TEXTING AND SURFING THE INTERNET WHILE YOU ARE DRIVING. IN THIS CASE OF IMPAIRMENT THE AUTO-PILOT WOULD BE SAFER.

  • @milosilic23
    @milosilic23 Před 9 lety +59

    To be honest, this is actually a great idea! TO have a lane where cars would drive themselves.

    • @KingRoseArchives
      @KingRoseArchives  Před 9 lety +7

      milosilic23 Then if we could train them to go to the grocery store, work, pick up kids from school and all the other mundane chores we could reserve our own driving to having some adventure on twisty roads instead of being stuck in traffic.

    • @Ismalith
      @Ismalith Před 9 lety +9

      milosilic23 Only for the 60s and 70, today our autopilots are much more effective and can take control on every road, not just prepared.

    • @ameren110
      @ameren110 Před 9 lety +1

      King Rose Archives That's exactly what's starting to happen today, with the shift towards genuine driverless cars. Only difference is that the cars are smart enough to function on their own, without the assistance of a remote routing and control system.

    • @ericbraun4652
      @ericbraun4652 Před 8 lety

      Reed Milewicz Welll... sort of. Google actually holds a patent on methods for determining when a driverless car has truly become "stuck" and needs to contact an "assistance" station for direction, especially on judgment issues in breaking its driving laws, like never driving on the shoulder. For example, if a stalled car is blocking its path on a single lane road, what does it do? A human in the assistance station may ultimately have to tell the car that incursion onto the shoulder is OK.

    • @Bobby.Kristensen
      @Bobby.Kristensen Před 8 lety

      +milosilic23 No. There already exist cars that can drive by them self without assistance in traffic with human drivers. Tesla and Google have it, probably others too, don't know.

  • @rustyshackleford1687
    @rustyshackleford1687 Před 2 lety +8

    My old man bought a Firebird I new in 62' or 63' in Martian Red. Looks stunning from the pictures I saw. Though he said it was always in the shop and he could never get that rattle in the turbine while it was cold to go away. Drank jet fuel like a mall Santa on Dec. 26 and handled like one too.
    It was cool to see them run into one in that good of condition. Looks like the owner might not have gotten the high-speed autonomous lane compatibility upgrade. I was conceived in the back seat of one around the time this video takes place.

  • @johnazhderian5734
    @johnazhderian5734 Před 7 lety +28

    This is an accurate portrayal of life in 1976.

  • @HungryTacoBoy
    @HungryTacoBoy Před 9 lety +58

    Wow, 1976 sure had a lot of singing.

  • @cblizz730
    @cblizz730 Před 8 lety +51

    love the "LCD display" inside the future car. They a least got that right ,but not for 1976.

    • @pmkeith
      @pmkeith Před 2 lety +2

      But what was more enlightening was the US car manufacturers total lack of vision when it comes to safety features.
      And as for suggesting almost empty roads - even back then, they knew better. It was in the first verse of the song.
      As for the on board ice-cream - I can only assume this was Nancy Pelosi’s dad.
      And I doubt that the screens were supposed to be LCD ones. They probably envisaged CRTs.

    • @jimmymcjimmyvich9052
      @jimmymcjimmyvich9052 Před 2 lety +1

      I think digital watches existed in 76. Were they not lcd?

    • @marktrain9498
      @marktrain9498 Před 2 lety

      @@jimmymcjimmyvich9052 Yes, I recall digital watches from about then. My parents bank gave us a calculator with an LCD screen as a gift when they set up a new account, I recall (replacing free toasters, I suppose).

  • @SOBIESKI_freedom
    @SOBIESKI_freedom Před 4 lety +29

    This is a retrofuture I could DEFINITELY live in.

  • @patchesdf
    @patchesdf Před 9 lety +43

    Tower Man ," I think I'll drive these people into Lake Michigan just to teach them a lesson."

    • @markdanielczyk944
      @markdanielczyk944 Před 2 lety +2

      The really bad tower man would send them to the Grand Canyon, the 405, or Chicago!

  • @zekeonstormpeak4186
    @zekeonstormpeak4186 Před 2 lety +3

    I remember back in ‘76, we had an ice cream maker in our glove box too!!

    • @michaeltaylor5451
      @michaeltaylor5451 Před 2 lety

      The future turned out to be even stranger... my glovebox is cooled. I mean, what automotive designer thought to cool the junk-drawer?

  • @ABisopht
    @ABisopht Před 8 lety +24

    I had this on VHS somewhere and I've been looking for this video for almost 20 years! Thanks for uploading

    • @rty1955
      @rty1955 Před 2 lety

      It was a very crappy film xfer for sure

  • @YouBazinga
    @YouBazinga Před 8 lety +52

    A Sci-fi Musical Comedy. GM had it all!

    • @tomservo56954
      @tomservo56954 Před 2 lety +1

      Have you checked out DESIGN FOR DREAMING?

    • @brianarbenz7206
      @brianarbenz7206 Před 2 lety

      Directed by the greatest name in cinema, Michael Kidd!

    • @tomservo56954
      @tomservo56954 Před 2 lety

      @@brianarbenz7206 Highly respected and acclaimed...not necessarily in that field.

    • @brianarbenz7206
      @brianarbenz7206 Před 2 lety +1

      @@tomservo56954 I'm sure. The industrial and in-house film industry is an unheralded but quite good genre.

    • @tomservo56954
      @tomservo56954 Před 2 lety +1

      @@brianarbenz7206 There are a couple of books on the subject...BATHTUBS OVER BROADWAY and EVERYTHING'S COMING UP PROFITS.

  • @manamaster6
    @manamaster6 Před 8 lety +36

    It only took 40 years to remove the middleman for us to do most of the things this video predicted, we now have Waze and Google Car, TV screens in our vehicles that are connected to the internet and probably someone out there has an ice cream machine in his/her car. The only missing thing is people singing expository songs while driving.The predigested food is already available. What a nice time to be alive.

    • @elviswjr
      @elviswjr Před 8 lety +1

      +manamaster6 We also have semi-autonomous driving with the Tesla Model S and Autopilot.

    • @michaeljordan9879
      @michaeljordan9879 Před 8 lety +2

      +APPLBL00M Uh, yeah if you can afford an $80,000 car. Of course cheaper cars with the technology will come along in a few years. What will really be difficult is making autonomous and non-autonomous car culture co exist. It's like how the Internet age has left behind people who can't afford computers and internet. It will be rocky at some point.

    • @manamaster6
      @manamaster6 Před 8 lety

      Mike Jordan
      For a moment I thought you were referring to the people who dislike and usually verbally attack those who drive an automatic car.

    • @michaeljordan9879
      @michaeljordan9879 Před 8 lety +1

      manamaster6 I don't give those people a second thought. I'll bet all those people from the early 90s who dislike people who had cell phones have one now. Some people just love to be the contrary voice just to be disagreeable.

    • @elviswjr
      @elviswjr Před 8 lety +1

      Mike Jordan Living in the south-eastern US, I come across backwards minded people all the time, especially older people. My guess is that most of them are either ignorant of how technology advances or they're just used to the way things are and don't like change, even if it makes things easier for them. I'll never understand those kinds of people.

  • @nv1493
    @nv1493 Před 2 lety +8

    This was amazing! Its EXACTLY how 1976 turned out 😑

  • @marcparella
    @marcparella Před 9 lety +7

    Today that stretch of Arizona is covered with cookie cutter suburbs and the traffic on the Superstition Freeway is a parking lot during rush hour. Not much has improved.

  • @olavtorvund
    @olavtorvund Před 10 lety +60

    It is always fun to watch the history of predictions of the future. As has been said: Jules Verne could forsee that some day man will be on the moon. But it was not possible then to forsee that the whole world would be watching on live TV. In this video: Automation of functions known could be forseen. But it is obvious that they could not forsee GPS. It is also funny to note that they seemed to forsee fewer cars on the road in 1976 than it was in 1956.

    • @AmazingArends
      @AmazingArends Před 9 lety +8

      Olav Torvund Maybe only the elites could afford them.

  • @bmoboss
    @bmoboss Před 2 lety +6

    1976 Predicted in 1956: cars will be better than ever before!
    1976 in reality: 7 liter engine pumping out an earth shattering 170 hp

  • @lordme88
    @lordme88 Před 7 lety +11

    Wow, the future of yesterday looks awesome!

  • @mranonymous1547
    @mranonymous1547 Před 8 lety +17

    they were quite accurate about the future like auto drive car,sattelite maps, voice command, digital display but it took quite a long time than expectation. I can say that they were fortune teller but not about the traffic.

    • @KingRoseArchives
      @KingRoseArchives  Před 8 lety +6

      +Md. Rifat They never liked to show rush hour traffic and car commercials and promos still emphasize the wide, open road. If only.

  • @salt_liqueur
    @salt_liqueur Před 7 lety +5

    Wow the 70's sure look great!

  • @SaltyViper
    @SaltyViper Před 8 lety +74

    Is is 1976 yet, or is it still a few more years?

    • @SuperTf2rocks
      @SuperTf2rocks Před 8 lety +3

      60s

    • @maestroRogi
      @maestroRogi Před 8 lety +4

      +adam kendrick This is 1956

    • @tunclegingercunt9696
      @tunclegingercunt9696 Před 7 lety +1

      +rogifish it is filmed in 1956 but it is in 1976

    • @LucasFernandez-fk8se
      @LucasFernandez-fk8se Před 6 lety +2

      Salty Viper we still have a few more years to go
      Backwards

    • @lucasrem
      @lucasrem Před 5 lety +2

      Salty Viper
      Yes we went back to electric cars, you do linear time only? This 1976 was in the past or is this a future 1976?

  • @kenglavens6455
    @kenglavens6455 Před 2 lety +2

    Can't even imagine how anyone in 1956 would want to go 20 years into the future. Driving stoned in a Pinto with Packard bumpers, getting your bell bottoms caught on the gas pedal and listening to Disco..and just feeling malaise and wanting to watch the Fonz on HAPPY DAYS.

  • @humboldtharry4248
    @humboldtharry4248 Před 4 lety +10

    Wow! 45mph in the fast lane!

    • @jonathankleinow2073
      @jonathankleinow2073 Před 26 dny

      At that rate, they should get from Phoenix to Chicago in, oh, about a week.

  • @kentfreeland8794
    @kentfreeland8794 Před 7 lety +30

    Naw, in 1976 GM gave us the Vega instead.

    • @KingRoseArchives
      @KingRoseArchives  Před 7 lety +9

      With that fabulous aluminum head.

    • @Lovejazz01
      @Lovejazz01 Před 6 lety +5

      Kent Freeland ain't that a damn shame? Greedy lazy ass corporate people in '76 at GM (and Chrysler, Ford and AMC, too!) giving us nothing but crap to drive , no kind of future technology, didn't they see this video lol ?

    • @paulht3251
      @paulht3251 Před 3 lety +1

      And Ford gave us the Pinto 🤔

  • @detroitboy65
    @detroitboy65 Před 7 lety +47

    Oh so close! They predicted the 4 tires and concrete correctly. LOL

    • @grayrabbit2211
      @grayrabbit2211 Před 2 lety +2

      I've had a refrigerator in my cars since 1996. Sometimes it was a factory option, other times we did a custom job.

    • @Aging_Geek
      @Aging_Geek Před 2 lety +1

      and there is lots of space to pull over when you get a flat.... love those one lane guard rails.

  • @ozziesheppard17
    @ozziesheppard17 Před 2 lety +6

    2:00 .... Can we just take a minute and realize that this is pretty much ON-STAR!

  • @Divedown_25
    @Divedown_25 Před 2 lety +3

    “-Do you mind if I smoke a cigar? -Not with this good air conditioning” lol 😂

  • @ArseneGray
    @ArseneGray Před 9 lety +38

    Pre-Digested Food cooked in Infrared? umpf..

  • @billhosko7723
    @billhosko7723 Před 2 lety +1

    Terrific production... Thank you for posting.

  • @jourwalis-8875
    @jourwalis-8875 Před 8 lety +81

    They predicted the GPS Navigator already 60 years ago! Amazing!

    • @KingRoseArchives
      @KingRoseArchives  Před 8 lety +26

      +Jourwalis - And autonomous driving.

    • @Mega-Brick
      @Mega-Brick Před 8 lety +9

      +King Rose Archives And digital screens.

    • @crist67mustang
      @crist67mustang Před 4 lety +11

      Well, when we use technology, normally we think that they invented 3 years ago and later for sale. But many techn. advances come from 50 years of studies and evolution of original idea. Microwave ovens, as example, sold in 1980s, but was created early 40s. Greetings from Stgo., CL

    • @sharksport01
      @sharksport01 Před 2 lety +7

      But they didn't predict cars would be butt-ugly.

    • @loctite222ms
      @loctite222ms Před 2 lety

      Where do you see somthing that really performs like gps?

  • @Kinseydsp
    @Kinseydsp Před 9 lety +13

    Thanks for posting this it was awesome!

  • @katanaburner
    @katanaburner Před 8 lety +11

    Wow haha! This is awesome! I want a Firebird 2!

  • @CHOPSBOWLS1
    @CHOPSBOWLS1 Před 2 lety +2

    OMG I would have loved to hear the “I want to speak with your manager “ ballad….

  • @billiebobbienorton2556
    @billiebobbienorton2556 Před 5 lety +1

    Mom and Judy Jetson are diddling in the back seat! George Jetson and Elroy are peaking at the fun back there! WOW!!!!

  • @robertkees6048
    @robertkees6048 Před rokem +3

    Nothing looks cooler than what people thought the future was going to look like in the 40's and 50's.

  • @MoonjumperReviews
    @MoonjumperReviews Před 2 lety +3

    Wonderful! I had seen a clip or two of this a number of times over the years, but this is the first time I have seen it available in its entirety. (Although I’m fairly certain that, even in the 50s, predigested food would NOT be something people could hardly wait for.)

  • @siulanainad
    @siulanainad Před 2 lety +2

    Miniature city with slot car track is super cool.

  • @livingmaga6299
    @livingmaga6299 Před 2 lety

    Good old days, Lord Please rewind me back to 1956 from 2022 .👍

  • @dccopeland6447
    @dccopeland6447 Před 8 lety +10

    Probably been watching reruns of "The Rifleman" way too long on Saturday mornings but the boy in the video played a couple of characters over the course of the TV series 5-year run. His name is Billy Hughes. Born in 1948, he passed on in 2005. As for the director Michael Kidd, if he is the famous actor-choreographer-director Michael Kidd, according to Wikipedia, "he was the first choreographer to win five Tony Awards, and was awarded an honorary Academy Award in 1996 for advancing dance in film." If they are one and the same, this little 1956 GM promotional film must have been done just after making his screen acting debut, dancing with Gene Kelly and Dan Dailey in It's Always Fair Weather (1955). Finally, the "Tower Man" may actually be Michael Kidd since he looks very much like him.

    • @uucp
      @uucp Před 8 lety +1

      +DC Copeland re: tower man as Michael Kidd, the voice is wrong. Also, though it's hard to tell for certain in the video, I think Tower Man may be a lot taller than Kidd was.

    • @slc2466
      @slc2466 Před 5 lety +2

      I think the boy in the video is Timmy Everett (his biggest screen credit is "The Music Man" in 1962), who was born in 1938 and would've been about 18. I looked up Billy Hughes and they look a lot alike, but Hughes would've only been 7 or 8 in 1956. The Tower Man looks somewhat like Kidd, but I agree with uucp concerning the voice and size of the gentleman.

    • @tomservo56954
      @tomservo56954 Před 2 lety

      Don't forget SMILE
      "And that girl...had a wooden leg"

    • @megamond
      @megamond Před 2 lety

      @@slc2466 Who was the young blonde singer/actress?

    • @slc2466
      @slc2466 Před 2 lety

      @@megamond I'm stumped, sorry. I searched for more info on this short, specifically a cast list, to no avail.

  • @Twiztidguy
    @Twiztidguy Před 8 lety +12

    I feel like the Jetsons theme song should go in here somewhere....

  • @desertbob6835
    @desertbob6835 Před 2 lety +2

    I remember seeing this at the 1958 Autorama in LA...lol!

  • @jimhamlin6551
    @jimhamlin6551 Před 2 lety +1

    Boy I can hardly wait till 1976...! I will be able to sing!

  • @Vesiapina
    @Vesiapina Před 9 lety +12

    Please tell me someone still has that slot car track!

  • @McFly-guitars-n-stuff
    @McFly-guitars-n-stuff Před 8 lety +5

    I cant wait for 1976!

  • @deniseireland6154
    @deniseireland6154 Před rokem

    WOW WHAT A FUN PLACE! I WISH I WENT WHEN I WAS A CHILD! BLESSINGS!

  • @garyfrancis6193
    @garyfrancis6193 Před 2 lety +2

    I remember those cars in 1976.

  • @supremes1964
    @supremes1964 Před 10 lety +7

    1976 NEVER LOOKED like that EVER.....and I was only 12 yrs old!

    • @DTD110865
      @DTD110865 Před 3 lety

      So you're a year older than me.

  • @happytobereligionfree9648
    @happytobereligionfree9648 Před 9 lety +82

    Pre-digested food, and the wimmen folk in the back seat. That's real progress!

    • @happytobereligionfree9648
      @happytobereligionfree9648 Před 8 lety +13

      ghd67ik2887218 Oh, sorry, did my user name offend your delicate beliefs? Too bad.

    • @happytobereligionfree9648
      @happytobereligionfree9648 Před 8 lety +8

      ghd67ik2887218 Apparently, you do. Either that, or you have no sense of humor, take your pick.

    • @TheAGCteam
      @TheAGCteam Před 8 lety +13

      +ghd67ik2887218 Man you are hilarious

    • @rickisland6572
      @rickisland6572 Před 8 lety +1

      +HappyToBeReligionFree at least they're allowed to ride in the car.

    • @happytobereligionfree9648
      @happytobereligionfree9648 Před 8 lety

      ***** "one of those..." what's THAT supposed to mean?

  • @CarlosLopez-re2pp
    @CarlosLopez-re2pp Před 2 lety

    Simplemente ..... Exelsior's ..... desde Quito - Ecuador , muchisimas gracias , bye - bye .......

  • @aliimran5503
    @aliimran5503 Před 2 lety +1

    What a lovely time that was !

  • @louisaloi9178
    @louisaloi9178 Před 2 lety +4

    Best slot cars track ever👌

  • @PacificEdibleSeaweed
    @PacificEdibleSeaweed Před 10 lety +3

    1976! Boy - those folks wouldn't have recognized that world either. Fun bit of retro - future

  • @robertmuller5039
    @robertmuller5039 Před 2 lety +1

    Love it. It's been about 50 years since I've seen this

  • @BradiKal61
    @BradiKal61 Před 2 lety +1

    Those Firebird concept cars are kept at the GM Heritage museum in Sterling Heights Michigan

  • @jamesbutterson426
    @jamesbutterson426 Před 6 lety +4

    NO cigars dad we'll all suffocate in this bubble .

  • @DARKSN0VV
    @DARKSN0VV Před 9 lety +4

    Pretty much as they envisioned, only about 49 years later than expected.

  • @ulrichb3937
    @ulrichb3937 Před 2 lety

    Wonderful ... and from 1956 !!!

  • @AmazingArends
    @AmazingArends Před 9 lety +34

    The funny thing is, this video didn't give a hint as to how this driverless car worked. Was it computers or hidden tracks in the road or the dispatcher or something else? The video didn't say. An in-car ice cream dispenser is more important anyway!

    • @erikawarren171
      @erikawarren171 Před 6 lety +2

      I'm not entirely sure, but I think GM set up a demo track with magnetic rails under the pavement that guided the car. I know they did that with one or two of their future-50's cars, but I don't know if it was this specific one.

    • @lucasrem
      @lucasrem Před 5 lety +1

      AmazingArends
      For consumers, not meant for skilled people to see this, housewife levels!
      Remember the V2, same tech 20 years prior to this, they did own this tech by then, only not able to make money on a system.....
      Fresh drinks are so normal now, only the fire bird jet engine never made it, back to electric cars we went!

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 Před 2 lety

      @@lucasrem Except the V2 gauged its distance by contiously integrateing its velocity from a tiny propeller on the front.
      No wonder they chose the largest city in Europe to launch those cruise missiles. The sheer amount of compounding error and inaccuracy.

  • @richarderrington2602
    @richarderrington2602 Před 9 lety +57

    "Care if I light a cigar?"
    "Oh no, not with this wonderful air conditioning."
    Proceeds to light cigar anyway.

    • @paulthetexan
      @paulthetexan Před 9 lety +47

      Richard Errington Right. If someone says, "Do you care if I do something" and you say, "No", that means "No, I don't care if you do that something". See, the wonderful air conditioning makes it so that she can't smell the cigar. If they didn't have the wonderful air conditioning, she would care if he smoked a cigar, but since they do have the wonderful air conditioning, she doesn't care if he smokes the cigar.

    • @ArseneGray
      @ArseneGray Před 9 lety +4

      ChannelZ Dont know if Richard Errington sounds "native speaker" or not. :)

    • @AuH2O
      @AuH2O Před 9 lety +8

      Richard Errington You obviously don't understand English very well...

    • @nephildevil
      @nephildevil Před 9 lety +5

      Richard Errington lol fail comment

    • @omgnotaflake
      @omgnotaflake Před 9 lety +4

      ChannelZ I think the patriarchy is why he did it

  • @manuelescareno7031
    @manuelescareno7031 Před 2 lety +3

    Second-hand smoke... The good old days!

  • @blintzkreig1638
    @blintzkreig1638 Před 2 lety +1

    And what a wonderful, brave, new world we have now :)

  • @SuperPussyFinger
    @SuperPussyFinger Před 2 lety

    Wow. The future looks bright. I can’t wait for 1976.

  • @blurglide
    @blurglide Před 8 lety +7

    That was some labor-intensive auto-pilot, with a control tower and everything. I suppose he only had to direct one car though.

    • @MrWolfSnack
      @MrWolfSnack Před 8 lety +2

      +blurglide It's probably like an airport terminal, one car at a time to be cleared.

  • @Bankside1997
    @Bankside1997 Před 8 lety +50

    Nobody predicted free porn

    • @kenetickups6146
      @kenetickups6146 Před 7 lety +2

      Bankside1997
      the only good thing to come (hehe) from modern times

  • @davidjoe3368
    @davidjoe3368 Před 2 lety

    What a treat this glimpse into the future was! And in Color!

  • @grandfathergeek
    @grandfathergeek Před 2 lety +1

    I’m imagining a dozen things that could go wrong in this scenario, and a singing traffic control officer is at the top of the list.

  • @bindgagger
    @bindgagger Před 9 lety +6

    In the 1950s anything was thought possible. If not at the time, then by 1976!

  • @WAQWBrentwood
    @WAQWBrentwood Před 8 lety +5

    I love that "the key to the future" intro has the old school GM key! I have a set from my 1965 Electra! (Non factory replacements, Theyre solid aluminum!)

    • @michelleshilling7450
      @michelleshilling7450 Před 8 lety

      OH yeah, aluminum is SOOOOO tough.

    • @WAQWBrentwood
      @WAQWBrentwood Před 8 lety +1

      I didn't say they were "tough" I said "solid"....There aluminum presumably for light weight carry like in the once common key pouches in a wallet.

    • @johnmoyer2849
      @johnmoyer2849 Před 2 lety

      I have the original 2 keys for my 1957 chevy.

    • @td3993
      @td3993 Před 8 měsíci

      The ones I've had were plated brass, and were made here in Milwaukee by Briggs and Stratton.

  • @njhampster
    @njhampster Před 2 lety +2

    I would love to have a slot car set like this!

  • @moviesgalore9947
    @moviesgalore9947 Před 2 lety +1

    Very accurate I had that car in 1976 it was awesome fun to drive.

  • @rwdplz1
    @rwdplz1 Před 2 lety +3

    "405, you'll never arrive!" Some things never change.

  • @loafandjug321
    @loafandjug321 Před 2 lety +3

    I like the 600 mile long Kentucky Derby guardrail.

  • @joelellis7035
    @joelellis7035 Před 6 lety +1

    It's 2017!! Two years ago, Doc Brown was supposed to show up with Marty in his time machine/Delorean! Where the heck are they? Also, where is my hover board!

  • @jorgejefferson8251
    @jorgejefferson8251 Před 2 lety

    Hands off driving....only missed it by about 45 years

  • @zombiestation
    @zombiestation Před 4 lety +7

    I work for GM and have seen the Firebird II in their private museum. The shark fin on the back is incredible.

  • @bouxesas
    @bouxesas Před 9 lety +43

    Of course they also predicted the WW3, that's why there are only 3 cars in the highway.

  • @animateddreams569
    @animateddreams569 Před 8 lety +2

    I love old movies....

  • @paulolameiras861
    @paulolameiras861 Před 6 lety +1

    Simply amazing!

  • @MakeSushi1
    @MakeSushi1 Před 8 lety +53

    what a wacky idea to have every car communicate with a control tower to engage the autopilot, and then have so much procedure

    • @jabbafo
      @jabbafo Před 6 lety +3

      How To Make Sushi it was the jet age, they cummed their pants for this kinda shit. Instead of a tower we have GPS and computer controlled auto pilots (at least in the Teslas).

    • @fairfaxcat1312
      @fairfaxcat1312 Před 6 lety +2

      jabbafo Lamentably, the remarks made by How to Make Sushi (above) were profane if not obscene and women and children should be warned. Very poor, How to Make Sushi.

    • @lucasrem
      @lucasrem Před 5 lety

      How To Make Sushi
      the hair styles too, all wacky.
      That's how we did it back then, ports, airports, same deal...

    • @kenetickups6146
      @kenetickups6146 Před 4 lety

      Fairfaxcat lolwut

    • @michaelwhalen2442
      @michaelwhalen2442 Před 3 lety

      I like how everybody in this video is Caucasian.

  • @Zehcnas89
    @Zehcnas89 Před 8 lety +32

    This is the US 2077, just before the War!

  • @zanlooney343
    @zanlooney343 Před 2 lety

    High production value. Nice bit of model work and matt painting.

  • @woodywood1951
    @woodywood1951 Před 2 lety

    as usual, futurist movies are off the charts.