The "New York in 1880" should have shown some of those horses taking dumps and a few falls off of those old high wheeler bicycles - those things were kind of death traps.
I literally can't believe how good this stuff is. This is incredible stuff and I'm so pleased to have found this channel that I don't know how to thank you properly. I look for this kind of material all the time and this is the best. Thanks.
i too remember getting a # in a letter from the gov, but b4 1980, circa '69, following that # in that letter were the words " you are hereby ordered to report to draft board # 10 Mt Vernon NY for indoctrination n2 the US ARMY...
To be honest they were pretty close with the drone vehicles... only another 50 years out (how did they know about the downward propellers for lift?) but not sure the wing walking would ever be a thing lol.
I think the lithium battery is the reason we have recently overcome the power-weight ratio problem. The US navy did make a full human scale vertical propeller craft in the 1950s or maybe early 60s. So the idea has been around in aviation. But control, power, stability, and weight have been the problems to overcome. And with the lithium battery and digital controls I think drones are the next step. Like as in every hundred years or so our maximum speed as a species increases at an exponential rate. So it should be very very exiting what the next half century will bring.
Yes, 1880 totally free of street traffic. I can't tell if they are being sarcastic. 5th Avenue in NY in 1880 may not have been quite as dense but there was traffic (and lots of horse poo) and the whole 'everyone was polite' has never been true in any place or era. I also like the not so subtle dig at prohibition!
I thought the same thing. I've seen motion picture footage. In San Francisco, trollies were crisscrossing with intersecting rails, people dodging them while crossing streets, or hopping on and off. Horse-drawn carriages were stopping short to avoid collision. Fruit and vegetable carts everywhere. Kids and dogs running. It looked so risky just getting around. No traffic control.
I love the digs they're getting in about Prohibition. This film is from 1930 and Prohibition didn't end until 1933 (although I think they allowed beer again a year or two earlier).
2:31 This scene was used as stock footage in the Buck Rogers serials as exteriors of the world of the future. The Televizors would show a second or so of the city before tuning in what you were meant to watch. *ALSO* This scene was used in the short subject 'The Romance of Radium' to show that a piece of Radium would still have half of its power in 1600 years. th-cam.com/video/724Do_WYGsA/w-d-xo.html
I just recently caught up to all your past videos and patreon content and I must say I'm fucking hooked. Similar to how retrofuturism reveals more of the past than the accuracy of the predictions, sleepcore to me feels like it embodies some crazy ass snippet in a much healthier way than I have grown to feel of my childhood. I'm an '87 kid so I remember being exposed to old propaganda and ads/media in general. As an Asian American during that broad period I almost glorified/fetishized the perceived lives of liberal white America and it's odd cause a lot of that felt like propoganda in a sense to me growing up soaking it all in, at times even feeling cathartic even if my life wasnt anything like what was portrayed. Anyways, random comment kinda, thanks a bunch for your shiet. Sleepcore and media profiles have been so enjoyable on a super weird and almost cerebral level
Dude. The Zeppelin Corp drinking song from "Just Imagine" is my official drinking song for decades now. Someday I'll hire a quintet to sing it in a packed beer stube.
"The editor of my paper assigned me to cover a routine check of infra radiation flux on galaxy M12" If I had a dime for every time I was asked to do that I'd be a rich man by now.
The THX-1138 movie is pretty close to what a future high tech, high surveillance totalitarian society with no family structure would be like, with social control enhanced thru selective individual medication, specific indoctrination and education tailored for different classes of people who are selected at a early age and artificial wombs to remove any human element to their upbringing. A perfect hive society where freedom and choice are minimized for the good of the state. A movie way before it's time.
Ah yes, the 80's; those wacky clothes, the flying cars, the Social Security numbers, the gawdawful dialog. You would think they might have gotten color instead of just black & white. Notice that no one DARES to predict The Future anymore.
Funny the “issue” they wish to tackle in this video is not being able to marry the girl you want because some other dude wants to marry her. Little did they know what the divorce rate would be in 1980 and beyond.
Well, they imagined the government would be attempting to make our life choices for us through mandates and laws. They hit the nail on the head with that one.
Compared to movies like 'Metropolis' [1927] and 'Fantasia' [1939] this seems like it was made before flight took place, say around 1900, by amateurs with a very low budget.
Too bad you can't sleep to this with all the annoying ads. You need to film it on your camcorder stopping for the commercials then play it back on your VCR.
Um, I'm sorry, please correct me if I'm wrong... but wasn't interracial marriage still illegal back then & same sex relations were considered an unspeakable criminal act & a sign of severe mental disturbances, never mind a legally sanctioned union between two loving consenting adults, so yeah, I'm pretty sure the government was already telling you whom you should marry at that point, as they had been for millennia.🙄
Oh yeah, I would LOVE that. For the courts and Govt. to have way more say in our family affairs than they already have. What a GREAT future they've imagined here... f#
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever. George Orwell
O'Brian?
The "New York in 1880" should have shown some of those horses taking dumps and a few falls off of those old high wheeler bicycles - those things were kind of death traps.
It's downright eerie how accurately they nailed it.
1980...when all cops were Irish and Black people hadn't been invented yet.
Interesting note: Archie Savage portrayed the black astronaut in 1960's "Assignment: Outer Space"! That was pretty amazing...
Imagining 1980 with "modern" Art Deco aesthetic, it doesn't get more retrofuturistic :)
We tried that and got Martin Lawrence Galleries
Miami vice?
@Sticky Steve
More like ‘Superman: The Animated Series,.
Wasn't that basically Tim Burton's Batman?
Amazing effects for the time. Just image how the folks felt when they first watched this film. The sense of amazement and awe.
I literally can't believe how good this stuff is. This is incredible stuff and I'm so pleased to
have found this channel that I don't know how to thank you properly. I look for this kind of material all the time and this is the best. Thanks.
Actually, for all you young people watching this video, we had flying cars in 1980. We have since reverted back to cars on the surface.
I was 20 in 1980. You're right!
Shhh! That's supposed to be a secret! Do you really want to deal with Millennials and Gen Z's on a 3D playing field.🤣
ha,ha, good one
I do remember getting a number from the government circa 1980. But it was laid out like xxx-xx-xxxx.
i too remember getting a # in a letter from the gov, but b4 1980, circa '69, following that # in that letter were the words " you are hereby ordered to report to draft board # 10 Mt Vernon NY for indoctrination n2 the US ARMY...
To be honest they were pretty close with the drone vehicles... only another 50 years out (how did they know about the downward propellers for lift?) but not sure the wing walking would ever be a thing lol.
Indeed. Also, yes I thought he was going to lose a foot. Hehe
I think the lithium battery is the reason we have recently overcome the power-weight ratio problem. The US navy did make a full human scale vertical propeller craft in the 1950s or maybe early 60s. So the idea has been around in aviation. But control, power, stability, and weight have been the problems to overcome. And with the lithium battery and digital controls I think drones are the next step. Like as in every hundred years or so our maximum speed as a species increases at an exponential rate. So it should be very very exiting what the next half century will bring.
What a crock of shit.....It's 2021 and I still haven't been assigned my marriage match! Bloody bureaucracy, I tell you hwat.
Love the art deco sets in this
It’s still hard to believe that 1980 was only four years ago.
Easy for you to say, PB-69!
@@helbent4 ...69?.
@@darioburatovich2240 Look, I don't assign the numbers around there. That's the New York Naming Authority's job.
😂😂
Very high quality props and costumes.
Yes, 1880 totally free of street traffic. I can't tell if they are being sarcastic. 5th Avenue in NY in 1880 may not have been quite as dense but there was traffic (and lots of horse poo) and the whole 'everyone was polite' has never been true in any place or era. I also like the not so subtle dig at prohibition!
Yes, the Volstead Act. Never thought much about it in 1980, but it was still relevant when that scene was filmed.
I thought the same thing. I've seen motion picture footage. In San Francisco, trollies were crisscrossing with intersecting rails, people dodging them while crossing streets, or hopping on and off. Horse-drawn carriages were stopping short to avoid collision. Fruit and vegetable carts everywhere. Kids and dogs running. It looked so risky just getting around. No traffic control.
It's interesting that there was still oxygen on the moon in 1925.
All gone by the time Kubrick went there to film in 1969.
@@helbent4 😄
I love the digs they're getting in about Prohibition. This film is from 1930 and Prohibition didn't end until 1933 (although I think they allowed beer again a year or two earlier).
In such an alternate universe, this is real
Can't wait to sleep to this
Like it leads to weird af almost fuzzy dreams right? Like in a good way... It does for me haha
That was cracking, I think it's now my favourite... Great work thanks
Yeah I had a 1980 cordoba just like that, propeller on front and all...
I love retrofuturism! "Just imagine 1980". One must remember that this is only four years prior to "1984".
I don't think 1984 had been written when this film was made 🤔 and its all 40 yrs ago 😳
The real 1980 was discos with neon lights inside, on the upper walls and on top of the bars. Glare. Disgusting.
Yeah the Americans were optimistic the Europeans pessimistic.
@@clydecessna737 I think the effects of WWI, may have been influencial there🤔
@@clydecessna737 That’s an oversimplification. Orwell didn’t write 1984 until after WWII. And 1930 wasn’t an optimistic time in the US.
At least we got the video phone at last. Not sure we want it now. Lol.
2:31 This scene was used as stock footage in the Buck Rogers serials as exteriors of the world of the future.
The Televizors would show a second or so of the city before tuning in what you were meant to watch.
*ALSO*
This scene was used in the short subject 'The Romance of Radium' to show that a piece of Radium would still have half of its power in 1600 years.
th-cam.com/video/724Do_WYGsA/w-d-xo.html
I am way too high for this 1980
1980...Nailed It!
1980?, is this alternate Earth ?.
Well sorta.
Still waiting on that foot pedal activated hand dryer thingy. What an amazing technological Marvel that will be
And NOW its a great day! Thanks!
I just recently caught up to all your past videos and patreon content and I must say I'm fucking hooked. Similar to how retrofuturism reveals more of the past than the accuracy of the predictions, sleepcore to me feels like it embodies some crazy ass snippet in a much healthier way than I have grown to feel of my childhood. I'm an '87 kid so I remember being exposed to old propaganda and ads/media in general. As an Asian American during that broad period I almost glorified/fetishized the perceived lives of liberal white America and it's odd cause a lot of that felt like propoganda in a sense to me growing up soaking it all in, at times even feeling cathartic even if my life wasnt anything like what was portrayed. Anyways, random comment kinda, thanks a bunch for your shiet. Sleepcore and media profiles have been so enjoyable on a super weird and almost cerebral level
Yeah, it’s interesting to see the world my parents grew up in.
I love his voice.
While I don't begrudge not owning a rocket car yet, those chaps from the 1930s don't have to rub it in.
Dude. The Zeppelin Corp drinking song from "Just Imagine" is my official drinking song for decades now. Someday I'll hire a quintet to sing it in a packed beer stube.
Some of those skyscrapers are very cool looking,I wish they would have built them.
Must get cold flying those cars in the winter time!
Did I read somewhere this was filmed on the sets of Fritz Lang's Metropolis?
"We are living in the future;
I'll tell you how I know:
I read it in the paper
Fifteen years ago."
John Prine
Love your work
30:33 I too, am *appalled* at the greatness of the Universe. 😟
Hey look - Drones, but with people in them. 6:20
Golly jeepers! As it's reckoned there's a 1000 million worlds? Gee whiz! That's a lot! 👀
Songs in 1980 still sounded like thirties crooning. Not at all like "Another One Bites the Dust" or "Whip It".
I love these videos. I get super high and just think. Lol
옛날 공상과학 영화인데 요즘에도 자주 볼 수있는 기술들이 나와있네. 놀랍다.
Very interesting retrofuture views. I think I'll look up "steampunk" next.
Wowsers
Did you know - if you can think faster than seven miles per second you can leave Earth in your mind?
"The editor of my paper assigned me to cover a routine check of infra radiation flux on galaxy M12" If I had a dime for every time I was asked to do that I'd be a rich man by now.
I actually started working as a newspaper reporter that very year. Makes me realize I missed the glamor assignments.
The kids nowadays waltz into a paper and expect to be handed radiation flux stories on day one.
We didn't get flying cars, we got 140 characters
I can't wait until 1980 arrives.
They got the drone thing
Whoa, directed by David Butler - cool!
The THX-1138 movie is pretty close to what a future high tech, high surveillance totalitarian society with no family structure would be like, with social control enhanced thru selective individual medication, specific indoctrination and education tailored for different classes of people who are selected at a early age and artificial wombs to remove any human element to their upbringing. A perfect hive society where freedom and choice are minimized for the good of the state. A movie way before it's time.
It's actually very impressive that they showed a scene that looks very much like the famous "Earthrise" photo. Starting at 30:51.
Brilliant! Larfed my arse off.
it's great they used a black man in assinment outer space...real cool.
I agree. It was really forward thinking for the time this was made.
I’m a bit surprised by Al !
I love how in 1880 horses didn't need to go to the loo... me thinks the streets weren't that clean.
They were called road apples.
If you thought 1980 was bad, just wait until 2030!
Your being sarcastic right. Cause 79s and early 80s new York was absolutely positive pootly terrible
@@Ross_England maybe? 😉
"Male or female"
Well, they nailed it there.
Now, we need three options on the form to tick: 'male', 'female', and 'don't know'.
That second part somehow looks familiar to me! :-)
retrovertigo mr. bungle
2.48 he has a whistle floating in the air😂😃🤣
Ah yes, the 80's; those wacky clothes, the flying cars, the Social Security numbers, the gawdawful dialog. You would think they might have gotten color instead of just black & white. Notice that no one DARES to predict The Future anymore.
No? th-cam.com/channels/ZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g.html.
Congratulations to MP3!
Those evil roundabouts are futuristic! But what happened to Tarzan??
I got married in 1980
No social distancing at all.
Peak Wow...
In 1980 we won't have physics anymore.
How cool was that? Thanks : )
Funny the “issue” they wish to tackle in this video is not being able to marry the girl you want because some other dude wants to marry her. Little did they know what the divorce rate would be in 1980 and beyond.
Well, they imagined the government would be attempting to make our life choices for us through mandates and laws. They hit the nail on the head with that one.
How come there’s no footage of the Hindenburg in this one ?!
1:56 If you can dodge traffic, you can dodge a ball!
1st you gotta dodge a wrench ;)
@@ObsessedCollector He also got hit by a car, so his team will fail anyway :D
"Everything that can be done in aviation has already been done." - Elon Musk
Everyone has a flying car.
Nothing has changed based on this, vs logic. But Elon is still a freak.
I'm still waiting 4 the flying car😃😂
Gernsback continuum.
Compared to movies like 'Metropolis' [1927] and 'Fantasia' [1939] this seems like it was made before flight took place, say around 1900, by amateurs with a very low budget.
Ooooh, they try to prevent stalking in this 1980! Tells you something about 1930, eh?
We lined up to it. 2000 feet away. Cool to see people of color in an authoritative position though
How cute a JPEG married an mp3
lol... no wounder we are so screwed up
I'm glad I avoided 1980. It must have been awful.
I would never go to galaxy M-12. That place is a pit hole.
What are newspapers? 😂
2021: I'm the Boogeyman and I'm coming to het you.
Exactly why are we all a #, and the government deciding who we marry in 1980?
Too bad you can't sleep to this with all the annoying ads. You need to film it on your camcorder stopping for the commercials then play it back on your VCR.
Sure glad it's not 1980 anymore.
Me Tarzan, you LN-18 ....
Quirky
I'd be fine if the world hadn't progressed past the 1980s .Life was great without smartphones and any other " smart" technology
IKR
I miss the retractable wall sinks.
The future is always impossible to predict using current technology at whichever time, it was predicted.
God bless, Revelation 21:4
Um, I'm sorry, please correct me if I'm wrong... but wasn't interracial marriage still illegal back then & same sex relations were considered an unspeakable criminal act & a sign of severe mental disturbances, never mind a legally sanctioned union between two loving consenting adults, so yeah, I'm pretty sure the government was already telling you whom you should marry at that point, as they had been for millennia.🙄
I like my girls to be just like grandma used to be……..mmmk
6:55 Predicted one of the worst inventions of the 1980s.
Today is yesterday's future......and?....I'm.livibg in the future.....big deal !!
Same shit as yesterday, slightly different smell.....
Oh yeah, I would LOVE that. For the courts and Govt. to have way more say in our family affairs than they already have. What a GREAT future they've imagined here...
f#
You can laugh, but aren't we going down that PC woke path!!
Bo-hoooooo!
lol 1980.. what a disappointment
Puras tonterias.🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮