Originally Posted By Dabob2 Some of you may have seen this before, but it's new to me - the most extensive footage of the old House of the Future (1957-1966) I've ever seen. On my very first trip in 1966 it was there, but we didn't go in. On my next trip, it was already gone. Ironically, the video is essentially a look into the past now (on so many levels) - but fascinating nonetheless. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VowfYuhx1-o&NR=1&feature=endscreen" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...ndscreen</a>
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA That is a great find, Dabob2. Wonder if it was produced by Disney or Monsanto? And who was the audience to watch it?
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I'm not sure. I'm going to guess Monsanto for several reasons: a). it's the first thing they mention, b). you see that word prominently, c). the narrator is not, I don't believe, one of the guys Disney used during that period (I don't remember all their names, but there were about 3 guys who seemed to do most of the Disney-produced narrations about DL at that time); d). I think I've seen just about everything produced about early DL for the Disney TV show and this also devotes much more time to one attraction than that show ever did. It looks to me like something Monsanto produced - for what audience, I don't know.
Originally Posted By Tikiduck What a blast from the past! I love that old 50's video style. That music was not by Disney, and the production style is likely not what Disney would have done. He would have had the Mouseketeers in there, or Fess Parker and Buddy Ebsen in some time travel scenario. I have one of those original brochures somewhere in my collection.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost What struck me the most was how the one thing that hasn't changed is how we dress to go to a theme park. Right on! Ward and June Cleaver on Vacation. 50's style!
Originally Posted By mawnck Your stereotypical 1950s corporate film, the exact opposite of Disney from a filmmaking standpoint. Glacial pacing, goopy production library music, hammy pantomime acting ... I LOVE IT. Here's the full version, which has the opening credits. Produced by Bay State Film Productions for Monsanto: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoCCO3GKqWY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...CO3GKqWY</a>
Originally Posted By phruby How exactly does a sonic dish washer work? Why doesn't the bathroom of the future have a toilet?
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost All foods consumed in the future are designed to completely absorb in the body, like those degradable sutures.
Originally Posted By Bellella How quaint. Living the typical American dream of mass-consumerist, throwaway living. I'd have liked to have seen it for real. Too bad the technology dated out before I was born. When my friends see this video, they say "What's the big deal? We have all this today." I have to explain that new stuff we take for granted now was a big deal back in the 60's. As for me, I wouldn't have wanted to live in a house like that, full of plastic. Wonder what a new House of the Future would look like if they rebuilt it. (leaving the stuff in Innoventions out of it).
Originally Posted By fkurucz Back in the 50's anything plastic or synthetic was considered cool. That's one prediction they missed by a mile.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Wonder what a new House of the Future would look like if they rebuilt it.<< 180 square feet.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I love how they take pains to mention that everything in there, even the fabrics, are man-made and artificial. That fad really didn't last long; certainly by the late 60's, "plastic" was kind of a dirty word, and "natural" was in again. That's lasted till today, when people mostly only buy man-made fabrics and faux wood and etc. because it's cheaper - if you can afford the natural stuff, that's what most people prefer (with a few exceptions).
Originally Posted By Tikiduck In many ways, man made materials are far more sustainable than their natural counterparts. Technology has made them more practical and durable as well. Looks like the whole thing is coming full circle.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 They're so durable that when they tried to demolish the House of the Future in 1966, the wrecking ball bounced right off it! Being THAT durable is actually its own problem. They stay around essentially forever without biodegrading.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Not if you want an "Alpine Gardens" (now Pixie Hollow - there's a lot of plastic there too, but I don't think it's recycled from the HofF!)
Originally Posted By phruby I hear they buried the HOTF in the same landfill Atari buried all of those E.T. cartriges.
Originally Posted By Bellella If we recycled all the plastic we use, (and I do mean ALL of it), and therefore we wouldn't have to make that much more of it, plastic might be all right. But we don't. How much of it is tossed in landfills on land and sea?
