Tired of sitting in traffic ? Just take the completely automatise , high - speed safety lane ! At least that ’s what the singing , prison term - traveling crime syndicate of the fifties did in this amazing film from General Motors .
In 1956 , over 2.2 million Americans visited the General Motor ’s Motorama exhibit . It traveled from city to metropolis showing off the latest and greatest in elevator car . But visitant also arrive a peep at the future , with this myopic celluloid style “ Key to the Future , ” which transported a kinfolk of the 1950s into the futurist humanity of exile in 1976 . The motion-picture show is really quite fantastic , if completely bizarre .
To begin with , the full family breaks out in song . Which naturally segues into Junior pop the question a piece of time travel . Just wrench that radio telephone dial , and off you go 20 years into the time to come .
We got ta slow down , slow down
So much dealings cut the menstruum down
Until they institute the highways up to particular date , you’re able to depend your high compressing we ’re gon na be late
How sad , poor daddy , too uncollectible
We ’re stuck , elusive luck , yuck yuck
While we ’re waitress around , talk the blues , turn on the radio for main road news
But it was n’t just the futuristic main road that was peculiar . The film have the Firebird II , a GM construct car that cavort the most classically midcentury spirt age blueprint one could imagine . Every motorcar society of the fifties and 60s wanted to be consociate with thejet years . And the Firebird II attain that aesthetically . Only now , the conception car feature something even more futuristic : ego - drivingcapabilities .
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Of naturally , after audiences get down a flavour at the automated main road and cars of tomorrow , they experience the potential hotel accommodation for weary travelers of the future . Push - release live at its very best , indeed .
The one matter that picture does n’t directly address is really the most distressing : Did the menage stick in the future ? It ’s one thing to just skip 20 years into tomorrow for a trial - drive , but actually appease in the year 1976 nonplus serious problems for this house of 1956 .
What if you bump into your succeeding ego ? What will they do to earn a living ? Will the family put some of their tattle gift to expend and become like a Jetsonian translation of the Partridge Family ? These are all crucial dubiousness that GM need to address , and I ’m demanding a full congressional investigation . As always , Paleofuture will keep you up to escort on this important retro - futuristic narrative .
Images : Screenshots from the 1956 GM film Keys to the Future
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