Retrofuturistic visions were almost always beautiful because they imagined a world in which the technology always improved, but not at the cost of, or not alongside, the degredation of the culture and aesthetics of the past

@mind-of-neo

4 жыл бұрын

except for the dystopian visions of course

@mikesully110

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I own a car of 2005 and it's a plastic piece of parp. Breather pipe split due to cheap rubber and the thermostat housing has also split due to being a plastic component used to hold in superheated water under high pressure. Garbage. Hood would not shut due to the metal being too thin it has warped over time. (fixed with 4 washers). Where's our 3 day work week and self driving jet car? I think a 1950's sci-fi fan if they got teleported to 2020 they would be very disappointed

@Sassyjass2012

3 жыл бұрын

I love when similar videos show workers complaining about three hour days just a few times per week. No one envisioned that technology would actually increase work hours and sometimes require workers to have multiple jobs to survive.

@aronhighgrove4100

3 жыл бұрын

@Gnonam Pony No, 80s futurism was positive, back then as well, not just in retrospective. In general people believed the year 2000 would be very special (and nothing special happened).

@Nocturne22

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikesully110 That just sounds like a shitty car, not an indicator of current automobile technology.

Love Rollo the robit, who takes 15 minutes to get to the door.

@kiwitrainguy

Жыл бұрын

No way do couriers wait around that long.

@yoced1468

Жыл бұрын

Yes very fond of the giant metal behemoth that gets to stay rent free and speaks in nightmares. Such a nice robit

Why the hell do you not have more people appreciate your content?!? This is amazing and how you have managed to keep it up for such a long time. Thank you

@picsnportraits

4 жыл бұрын

It’s niche. I’m happy these find anyone at all.

@jstevinik3261

4 жыл бұрын

@@picsnportraits Loved the Life in Hell video. I am not sure you are aware in the 1999 documentary My Wasted Life, Groening said he considered doing Life in Hell (solely written by him), but considering he is doing Disenchantment and he is 66, it is unlikely. As an aspiring screenwriter who read The Big Book of Hell, Binkey may not be likable due to having an abandoned Son (Bongo). If the series were to have light continuity (but not necessarily an arc) about Binkey struggling to fix this relationship, I find it not too different from the dramedy series Louie (by the outed Louis C.K.), which is about the misfortunes of 40 year old dealing with shared custody.

@inflames6631

3 жыл бұрын

This was a revelation for me. I sleep like a fucking baby to the old shit.

@torontoash45

3 жыл бұрын

People don`t appreciate it because they are too busy watching Tik Tok or music videos

Always loved the AT&T You Will promotion

@ramirezannette0

3 жыл бұрын

My god, me too

@louishornok3743

3 жыл бұрын

@@ramirezannette0 a

@enginerdy

3 жыл бұрын

But they didn’t…

1:20

@ramchickedy9570

Жыл бұрын

Well, nice to have a great hospital for that little money. But from the test of that part of the story I actually felt sick. Definitely, everything wasn't better, back in the days! Oh my, that poor child...

@monicasojka2738

Жыл бұрын

I remember when people smoked in hospitals.

Lol Roll-Oh looks ridiculous. Today the delivery guy would just say "Great, a nerd in a box. Sign here."

I just discovered your channel last night. It's like you reached into my head and pulled out an aesthetic that I was unable to articulate and made it real. I guess that's one of the main functions of art, and that's what this is. Not only did it make my own vision clearer, it inspired me to create as well. I hope that if I do create something, what I produce is a tenth as good as what you've done here. If anyone has recommendations for this "genre," I'd love to hear them - but, it's pretty unique. The phrase "artistic genius" gets thrown around a lot, but I think it may apply here.

@DDSilver2024

3 жыл бұрын

I do have a recommendation for you. If you haven't already seen it, check out "Arise," the Church of the Subgenius documentary. It also aired on USA's "Night Flight" under the title "Love That Bob." It's far more manic than the work you create, but I think you'll appreciate the vibe they have going on. (Of course, it's highly possible you're already familiar with it... it wouldn't surprise me to learn it is one of your influences.)

Lets appreciate the package delivery service dude for not throwing a dented box on the porch, also he biked that huge rectangular box on a bike lol

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE all of those AT&T "You Will" commercials from the early 90's. They got almost everything right, if not somewhat askew from today's reality. The fascinating thing to me is that in all of them, the one thing that is never mentioned explicitly but which ultimately made each of them possible is the Internet.

@marcberm

Жыл бұрын

@Intergalactic Dust Bunny I remember; I was there. Consumer dial-up Internet was a far cry from today's always-on Ethernet and wifi though, and those technologies were by-and-large the in-development prerequisites for this "future" that AT&T envisioned. I had Prodigy for years, eventually switching to AOL. In the early days when these new consumer technologies were being conceived, it was widely believed within the industry that (at least in the US), it was going to be "the phone company" building out a network akin to a second PSTN specifically for data transmission. That's why nobody refers to data connections or "Internet" here. They literally didn't yet know what form the network was going to take, so it was positioned to vaguely look like it would be part of the traditional public switched telephone networks, since that's where they thought it was headed.

@matthiasmartin1975

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, they were right. UNIX was conceived at AT&T, and variants of it run the internet and every smartphone.

Thank you for another lovely Sleepcore 🖤

The Mid-Atlantic accent is so iconic. I dearly wish to learn it.

Who could sleep through this? This stuff was magic for me as a kid. Can you imagine in the future of 1976 having your predigested food cooked by infrared light?

Funny how the Rollo robot is supposed to be futuristic but to us it looks prehistoric like something out of a bad sci fi film

Most robots only go up to 10. Roll-Oh goes up to 15.

@WLHS

3 жыл бұрын

Was it inches, but of what?

@tuckhayes9402

3 жыл бұрын

that was the new and improved model !

@fisterB

3 жыл бұрын

Yet it stayed on 3, very disappointing. I hope they had one model in between that went to 11.

@pineapplesideways3820

3 жыл бұрын

I want to order 10 of therm all at 15.99 each

This stuff would GIVE me insomnia. Even after decades, the future we never got excites me like little else. Thanks for all this, and your thoughtful comments on thed whiteness of the content.

The definition of "robot" was pretty wide in the '30s.

@johnp139

3 жыл бұрын

Robits

@matthewbowen5841

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly i think that was from about 20 years later than that. But yes, mostly light sensors and Technology Connections favorite toaster, which is entirely mechanical. And the late 40s car that is "loaded with robits." Ha.

@joecummings1260

2 жыл бұрын

I work for a large multinational food company maintaining their equipment. You would be surprised how many Material Handling devices we have that were sold as robots. Lots of them don't look anything like what you would think of as an industrial robot. It seems like robot is a buzzword used for all types of automated machinery

Wish I had that snazzy car full of row butts.

@kiwitrainguy

Жыл бұрын

Back then they pronounced "Auto-Moe-Beal".

20:07 "Mind if I hotbox this 1950s version of a 1976 self driving car".? ...."no".....Grandpa likes up his stogie anyway. lol

The Firebird Gas Turbine Jet car actually did exist in the fifties, so that is OK. But the amount of attention from the control tower this one car gets in 1976 on the highway is utterly unrealistic.

@tiborpurzsas2136

3 жыл бұрын

What would happen in a real life situation, with half a million cars on the road ? The film makers must have been in grade 8 at the time so much naivete

@brianarbenz7206

3 жыл бұрын

With one controller per car, that's a lot of public sector traffic control tower jobs by 1976.

@texaswunderkind

2 жыл бұрын

A gas turbine engine powers the M1-A1 Abrahams tank in the U.S. military. A friend of mine retired from the Army said the Humvees couldn't follow too closely or it would burn the paint off of the hood.

How did they arrive at pronouncing robot "ro-bit"?

@ads214

3 жыл бұрын

Don't look now but this car is full of ro-bits!

@csd77771

3 жыл бұрын

I immediately thought of Zoidberg "What with all the ro-bits and whatnot?"

@Isabel-ge1ou

2 жыл бұрын

HA HA I also made a comment like this.

@kiwitrainguy

Жыл бұрын

Issac Asimov

@karaqakkzl

Жыл бұрын

the Scouse?

That short film in the middle was shot so well. It said so much while doing so little.

I'm "loving" the open-wired circuitry at 33:52. Imagine a repairman trying to navigate his way through all of that.

Just started getting notifications for this channel. I am loving it. Thanks for the content.

The autopilot at the planes,it was a good prediction.

The video at 33:30 is so emotionally raw for some reason. like It's not at all like those idyllic films that you normally imagine when you think the the 1950's. Her everything's so quiet and somber; kind of depressing even. It pretty clearly shows how the 50's wasn't all that different from our lives now in many ways.

I love how old timey narrators pronounce “Robots” as “Roh-bits”

@martynstraughan5932

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I noticed that. The dad on the Goldberg's say it like that. I wonder if thats where they got it from.

@kiwitrainguy

Жыл бұрын

"Roe-Bit" is also how Dr.John Zoidberg says it. I think they get it from Issac Asimov.

Thanks for such cool vintage film clips!!

Funny how automatic sensors are called robot machines like a sensor.....like how we call every program these days an "AI" LOL

@jaydaviston8612

Жыл бұрын

Ackza... I must remind you that you have broken Numbers Pronoun Act of 1979... :D.. Please change your Username to AZ 2397...

Rolloh is flipping everyone off.

38:00 Somebody tell me where I can find that cigarette dispenser!

@AlexKislitsyn

3 жыл бұрын

man that segment was bleak

@michaelmerck7576

3 жыл бұрын

@@AlexKislitsyn that was one dysfunctional family ,no communicating with anybody ,everybody living the same house alone with themselves and they didn't have the internet to entertain them.just a great array of new appliances to cook unspectacular meals eaten alone and in total silencep

18:34 A naïve view of a future where an average USian family actually understood science ...

@mind-of-neo

4 жыл бұрын

And could afford a decent lifestyle just by going to work.

@averagegilo

3 жыл бұрын

Of course if this were the reality today, we'd have a contact centre in India doing the traffic reports XD

I absolutely love these videos, thank you!

These videos are are great. Thank you for curating them and sharing.

WOW I felt so sorry for the man whose part in this video starts around 24:00! He seemed depressed, work-worn, and very lonely. His family didnt give a crap about him as evidenced by his wife watching TV while he ate some gross TV dinner ALONE at the table.. And his wife apparently trotted off to bed just after he was done eating! That whole sequence was just depressing as hell...

@romanoquesgui9211

4 жыл бұрын

Sound it like my f%*#$% life boy

@butcharmstrong9645

4 жыл бұрын

@@romanoquesgui9211 I am very sorry for that. But i too, can relate to that poor guy.

@deathstrike

3 жыл бұрын

Not depressing, just another day in 21st century America. I almost envisioned the poor guy loading his record, grabbing his smoke, downing a bottle of Gin and just jumping out the window. I feel for him.

@siriustraveler7083

2 жыл бұрын

Hey they did get the future right after all 🤣

@butcharmstrong9645

2 жыл бұрын

@@deathstrike and that's NOT depressing?

Watched 12 Angry Men came here to this. A smooth transition

This is the content I've been looking for on KZread! You got a new subscriber!

I often put together ambient 80s commercial playlists, and I’ve watched 3 of your vids, and seen 3 of those commercials from my playlists. Dr Pepper, Chevrolet etc and I used to watch these retrofuturism clips obsessively, looking for what we have today in home automation, or are on the cusp of developing from self driving to auto chefs. Must have similar world views!

The 50s began the charge. We are living it still. Convenience. Automatism. Machinery. Uniformity. Mass entertainment. Individualism. Separate lives. Consumer society.

Wow, we didn't even envision a rotary can opener for the robot.

If war was never a thing, this could've been our future

@MickeyMishra

2 ай бұрын

You r so Close...

WOW!! That GM Frigidaire musical was jaw-dropping!!!

the "have I told you lately that I love you", should have been called "the said family". I guess tv dinners will do that. I love how she took the food from the tv dinner and put it on a plate...nope eat it right out of the package. I love this sleepcore channel !

Subscribed ! This is great. Thank you

listening.. like finding a lost Firesign Theatre Episode , including Ice Cream Truck music between scenes

Good stuff uploader......GREAT JOB !.....Keep em coming

Sometimes it was hard for me to tell if they were trying to show a futuristic feature because there are some that we are already used to now a days

The show (if it could be called that), at 24:00 to 38:50 is one of the most noir things I've ever watched. It's depressingly dark and very removed. From the casting credits to it's fade to black is entirely genius. I wanna find a copy of only that movie(?). The commerical that follows at 40:40 is just as dark but 5 times more bizarrely unique. It borderlines a horror/psycho suspense thriller genre. Both are brilliant works. Keep up the great work on the channel. Thanks for providing the refreshing quality media for my grey matter.

this looks more like the flintstones than now

Amazing thank you. Funny the song the couple are singing reminds me of the tune from tv series horrible histories.

I can't wait to send a fax from the beach

The thumbnail is actually very relevant and accurate to these days!! E-learning!Except the computers are much smaller and each student is in their own bedroom!!

@gormenfreeman499

3 жыл бұрын

Its unfortunate extra floor square footage cost so much more. The types of places people have to live is getting in the way of the future. People need extra rooms for each of type of activity. Its really unproductive cramped hell doing it all your bedroom.xD

It's telling how many of these are adverts

@michaelmerck7576

3 жыл бұрын

It's all sponsored by GM so go figure ,it s an older version of an informercial

The hospital mentioned is Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Walnut Creek, California - it was the hospital we went to growing up in the San Francisco East Bay Area in the 60's & 70's

@TheFons77

Жыл бұрын

Does it still have a pool?

@Burkenation

Жыл бұрын

That place has sure gone to pot…

This is the very stuff I love to doze off to!!! Oh I can't thank you enough 💕

18:30 All this computerized futuristic technology, but still relying on voice comms instead of transmitting data directly.

@covenawhite4855

3 жыл бұрын

They did not predict internet 😁

@michaelmerck7576

3 жыл бұрын

Still proud of the pager like that was miracle device

@kiwitrainguy

Жыл бұрын

Voice Activated.

@MsLila44

Жыл бұрын

what a busy job to direct car traffic…. The auto pilot is more trouble than it’s worth..

The future never turns out how it's expected.

Something about the aesthetic of this time is so beautiful. Other than the complete nonsense we had going on with segregation at this time, it’s such a simple take on life, just making it accommodating & having such high hopes. Sad to see that basically none of these ideas actually came to fruition.

I live 1950s everyday apart from my hidden laptop my car clothes Telly everything, Its so futuristic, some people think midcentury is Modern far from it.

Kaiser was the hospital of the future 😂 Today its equivalent to a prison ward.

20:00 Boy oh boy were they ever ridiculous. I guess this is GM's mad men at work.

So cool!

another sleepkino.. nice :)

this channel. It’s so goooood.

The 1976 spoof started at 17:00 what a joke a single vehicle driving down the highway . Buddy in the tower gives instructions how to switch to autopilot it takes about 5 minutes worth of instructions to switch to auto from manual for a single car 🤣🤣 what would happen in a real life situation, with half a million cars on the road ? Never ! Fuck they were naive in those days !

@brianarbenz7206

3 жыл бұрын

And the control tower person dresses like field marshal.

The short that starts at 23 is like a nightmare!!!

My goodness, if these people live in our world today, our stuffs will blow their minds away.

The first part was strangely depressing. It was so dreary in black and white. The people seemed zombie-like and unhappy. Especially the man. He seemed so lonely.

@burprobrox9134

Жыл бұрын

So basically they foretold the truth

Love how they said ro butts

right or left lane driving and when the control tower gives you options.. where did we go wrong??

The robot thing is like a stacked hi-fi thing.

a 1961 Cadillac and a corsair Lakewood?? very nice!

the amount of time it took to set a route in that self driving car. gm was smoking a lot of weed if they thought that was ever realistic

I remember that AT+T commercial! 😅

I can’t wait to get a 1976 Firebird.

“Ding ding. Slide me muh baby thru the baby-chute.”

In 1976 (~17:05), those kids will happy in their new Pacer! :D

Roll-oh lit a candle with flame thrower breath. Does that come standard on robots, or is it an add-on feature?

i love retrofuturism xD

"Rollo like!". ;*[} I love all these future highway visions where there's ten cars every hundred miles....either the Earth depopulated or everyone r e a l l y s p r e a d o u t......

19:30 look how close to a mouse they were right then. They say Xerox came up with it first but this is really close. Also like an Etch A Sketch.

They sure called it wrong with the robot of the future repair guy! We don't fix ANYTHING that's electronic. we just throw it in the garbage after Apple hacks it to 50% of it's previous top speed. That's PROGRESS!

@screwstatists7324

8 ай бұрын

You demonstrate your preference in action. It made sense when investing in third world countriws cost nothing and Higgs law was in full force. We'll see how the market responds to new conditions

Rohlo is Rosie from the jetsons lmao minus the apron

Damn what a future, I wish I lived in 1976!

@johnbockelie3899

3 жыл бұрын

1976 , I was 16, don't remember it that way.

@Thebasicmaker

3 жыл бұрын

I used to immaginate the future that way

@donkeyslayer4661

3 жыл бұрын

You mean when sex was safe and motorcycles were dangerous?

@donkeyslayer4661

3 жыл бұрын

@@Thebasicmaker Imaginnate is not a word, therefore meaningless.

What's the name of the actor who is driving the Firebird 2? And was he really singing, or was that Bing Crosby doing the actual singing?

So much impracticallity; if KZread and Thunderf00t existed in this era he'd a field day in a 100 acre woods! Some concepts actually made it to the modern day.

The scene at 24:00-25:00 contradicts the idea that couples always slept in separate beds in earlier entertainment. They usually did, but not always.

@brianarbenz7206

3 жыл бұрын

And yet Richie Petrie -- the miracle child.

Wow so much amazing content.. A lot of these look as if they were made back when I was a kid (yeah I'm old..lol) And I don't recall seeing them back then. I'm guessing some were banned or something due to the strict censorship back then :o)

Sleep Core!!!! YEH!! :)

i'm starting to get where the inspiration for the bots in intersteller came from.....

22:20 best scale model!

Much of this we have .

at 41:43, did some promotional department have some money left over in their film budget, so they figured they'd better spend it asap?

45:39 What happened to those pillarless designs ... were they not considered safe enough?

@michaelbruns449

Жыл бұрын

Did those doors have one huge window?

LOL at the Panther 6, literally Homer Simpsons design.

look at 19:20. I'm not an expert on jet cars or anything like that but shouldn't those Jet turbines be spinning?

@Thebasicmaker

3 жыл бұрын

The turbines in jet turbines are concealed inside the engine you should be able to se them spinning at low speed only from the front where they usually draw a spiral to make the spinning noticeable

Fantastic video! She is just keeping up the stereotype in the caddy AD just any other propaganda that our parents try to brainwash us with that their parents brainwashed them with to think, that is the only important thing in the world to do!

0:58 Pneumatic tubes. Could still be a useful technology.

@nrdesign1991

4 жыл бұрын

It still is. Blood samples, medicine etc. are still transported this way, if speed is key. For some places that collect lots of cash, like toll booths, cash registers in big stores etc. it can be a viable alternative to carrying the cash to the central office.

@bratticuss

3 жыл бұрын

Your local bank uses them for drive ups.

The robot's name - Skynet.

Mr.Handy left the group.

5:49 Brilliant...until you happen to place the kettle beside the sink and the ejected cord drops into the water. They didn't have GFCI plugs as the kitchen standard in those days.