“An excerpt from the 1958 Disneyland TV Show episode entitled Magic Highway USA. In this last part of the show, an exploration into possible future Transportation technologies is made. Note the striking animation style here, achieved with fairly limited animation and spectacular layouts.”
- Greebo Worshipper
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Thank you to Dirk Krause
Tubular highways! I just posted a link for my history class to watch this.
Haha! Even with all these labour-saving devices the mother is still needed to run the house full time
Jaw-droppingly naive
That is amazing and jaw-droppingly naive! One wonders if the British Secretary of State for Transport, Philip “Hoverboard” Hammond saw this as a child and still believes it to be true, after all he is on record as saying that electric cars and more motorways will solve the problem of congestion.
What a wonderful, if naive, view of the future. Am I the only one who wishes it were so?
Sheer Brilliance! This video really shows the bright, ultra-modern future that the people of the 50′s imagined! A wonderful video and it really brought a smile to my face
This fairy tale of a look into the future fails to spotlight the mass taxation that would have to take place in order for any of this to occur…
“Our rear-view mirror is actually a television picture” – They make these.
“America will someday be criss-crossed by a network of super speed trans-continental motorways” – True, if 70 MPH is “super speed”
“progress can be checked on a synchronized scanning map” – GPS
Self-driving cars – They working on these and are making good progress:
http://news.discovery.com/autos/how-google-self-driving-car-works-111018.html
“On route, business conferences are conducted by television” – Teleconferencing.
“Highly specialized pleasure vehicles will have every convenience of home” – Motor-homes, RV’s
Of course the rest is total B.S.
Looks like this film either borrowed designs from Syd Mead or else hired him as a designer.
This stuff now feels naive, but lot of it has taken place already and much, much greater things will appear more and more often as we approach the technological Singularity.