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Scenes from "Just Imagine" [1930 Sci-Fi film set in 1980]
Youtube ^ | 9/20/2015 | antaresrichard

Posted on 11/01/2019 6:43:49 PM PDT by simpson96

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To: simpson96

This is the future?! Giv me the good ol’ days!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEP0_8uzdvg


21 posted on 11/01/2019 9:30:55 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: simpson96

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czr-98yo6RU


22 posted on 11/01/2019 9:34:51 PM PDT by GOPJ (This is the Democrat Party using its vote advantage to overturn the results of an election-BenLurkin)
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To: simpson96

That imagine with the flying cars must be the inspiration for them in Star Wars.


23 posted on 11/01/2019 9:44:26 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....)
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To: Flick Lives

Of course, there is the modern Eastern European version shot with models in a garage...
Slice of Life - Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcDJCZrwkLw

Don’t believe how they did it? Behind the scenes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9UPUtlZUJ4
more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTw1DC4XP9M


24 posted on 11/01/2019 9:46:45 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: 21twelve

Have never dug into it all but some of HG Wells’ politics have seemed globalist utopian.


25 posted on 11/01/2019 9:49:11 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: dhs12345

Lol. And we were supposed to to have reached Mars in 2001, Space Odyssey.


Not Mars, but Jupiter. We were supposed to have several colonies on the moon.


26 posted on 11/01/2019 10:12:30 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Flick Lives

Look at all that electricity ! And in California ! You know that’s definitely a sci-fi film.


27 posted on 11/01/2019 10:46:13 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: a fool in paradise

He was a Communist. Even mentioned it a bit in “The Time Machine” of wanting to see what a future Socialist/Marxist society of “equality” would look like (they took all that out in the film adaptations). We know now what it does look like in practice: totalitarianism, no electric power, and human $hit on the sidewalks and streets.


28 posted on 11/01/2019 10:50:34 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: 21twelve
I probably have some of that wrong

Yes, you got some of that wrong, but it was without question "Things to Come" (based on the book "The Shape of Things to Come," by H.G. Wells), starring Raymond Massey.

Regards,

29 posted on 11/02/2019 1:53:01 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: 21twelve

That was H.G Well’s “Things To Come’’. Raymond Masse is the man in the helicopter/balloon flying machine. Ralph Richards plays “The Boss’’, the tribal chief.


30 posted on 11/02/2019 2:28:25 AM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: 21twelve

Sorry, I meant to say Ralph Richardson plays “The Boss’’.


31 posted on 11/02/2019 2:30:42 AM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

What is interesting is that the old fashioned Commies wanted tight control of borders so that they could steal stuff from prosperous citizens.

It would never have occurred to them to import starving third world people to bankrupt the system—since they actually wanted their Commie world to work.


32 posted on 11/02/2019 3:01:52 AM PDT by cgbg (Vote Trump or you will _be_ Trump)
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To: 21twelve

Sounds like North Korea.


33 posted on 11/02/2019 3:03:59 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others.)
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To: cgbg

Well, first they’ve got to destroy the country (Cloward-Piven) and then they remake their dystopian utopia. Something nightmarish like “Harrison Bergeron” or some such, as per their ludicrous obsession with “equality.”


34 posted on 11/02/2019 3:31:49 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

It looks like a red pill... and I guess the movie was made before Pan Am went belly up in 1991.


35 posted on 11/02/2019 4:03:11 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: simpson96

That’s some fancy flying going on below her


36 posted on 11/02/2019 4:03:52 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Well... he was a Fabian socialist, albeit briefly, as I recall he thought of them as slackers.


37 posted on 11/02/2019 4:14:37 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

“Equality” is just a talking point.

The lefties want to have the elite rulers and their families living like kings, and everyone else “equal” as their slaves.


38 posted on 11/02/2019 7:39:56 AM PDT by cgbg (Vote Trump or you will _be_ Trump)
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To: cgbg

Yup.


39 posted on 11/02/2019 8:14:08 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: 21twelve

I was for the great rocket gun before I was against it.


40 posted on 02/25/2020 1:06:41 PM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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