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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

Just Imagine is a 1930 science fiction musical-comedy film, directed by David Butler. The film is known for its art direction and special effects in its portrayal of New York City in an imagined 1980. Just Imagine stars El Brendel, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Garrick and Marjorie White.

The film starts with a preamble showing life in 1880, where the people believed themselves the "last word in speed". It switches to 1930, with the streets crowded with automobiles and lined with electric lights and telephone wires. It then switches to 1980, where the tenement houses have morphed into 250-story buildings, connected by suspension bridges and multi-lane elevated roads.

Scenes from "Just Imagine"

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: movies; scifi
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1 posted on 11/01/2019 6:43:49 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

“Spandex jackets - one for everyone...”


2 posted on 11/01/2019 6:47:36 PM PDT by CTyank
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To: simpson96

Wonder if they imagined California - where people freeze hungry in the dark despite abundance.


3 posted on 11/01/2019 6:49:05 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: simpson96
That's the American view of the future.

The German view, however….


4 posted on 11/01/2019 6:49:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: simpson96

Very interesting, I can’t believe that I was unaware of this film, even though it made was only 20 years before I was born.


5 posted on 11/01/2019 7:13:56 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: simpson96
I do not remember flying cars in 1980.

I must have been out of the loop.

6 posted on 11/01/2019 7:14:21 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: simpson96

Were these flying cars recalled?


7 posted on 11/01/2019 7:19:01 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: simpson96

Great film!
Love it!
(And not only because of Maureen).

Everyone: watch it!


8 posted on 11/01/2019 7:22:43 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Deaf Smith

There were supposed to be flying cars in 2015 according to Back To The Future (a movie from 1985). So we should get busy because we are already late buy 4 years.


9 posted on 11/01/2019 7:55:58 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: simpson96

I remember seeing that movie about 50 years ago - I could never remember the name - thanks for posting


10 posted on 11/01/2019 8:06:19 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: dhs12345

We were supposed to have colonies on the moon by 2001. Where are the moon colonies? Where are the Pan Am space planes to take us to Station V? Where is Station V? Where is Pan AM? What universe am I living in?


11 posted on 11/01/2019 8:09:49 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: dhs12345
... and don't forget the flying cars in "Blade Runner", which was supposed to take place in the future of November 2019!!


12 posted on 11/01/2019 8:13:02 PM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: Flick Lives

What is she sticking in her mouth? Why is there a blinking PAN AM sign in the background?


13 posted on 11/01/2019 8:17:15 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Deaf Smith

We are living in the future
I’ll tell you how I know
I read it in the paper
Fifteen years ago
We’re all driving rocket ships
And talking with our minds
And wearing turquoise jewelry
And standing in soup lines
We are standing in soup lines

https://youtu.be/2ftvh9eWkAc


14 posted on 11/01/2019 9:00:05 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: simpson96

Interesting. I recall watching an old movie from that era (probably at the recommendation of a freeper thread) that was about a country that, iirc, had isolated itself and kept up a fake war to keep it’s people in control. The technology they had was before the engine and electricity iirc.

Then a helicopter / air balloon type thing lands. It is from something like the U.N. where the entire rest of the world has joined together in a utopian world with no fighting.

I probably have some of that wrong, and I can’t recall how it ends - but it is interesting to see how they viewed the future.


15 posted on 11/01/2019 9:10:41 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
Probably a pill. Don't know what kind.

Probably a tribute to Kubrick's 2001. Pan Am Airlines was still in business through the 1980s, though not much longer.

16 posted on 11/01/2019 9:14:01 PM PDT by x
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To: dhs12345

We could all have had autogiros by now, but people just had to hold out for flying cars.


17 posted on 11/01/2019 9:17:35 PM PDT by x
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To: Flick Lives

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


18 posted on 11/01/2019 9:18:57 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: 21twelve

Sounds like the shape ofThings to come
With raymond Massey.
Set in a dystopian England
After a war.


19 posted on 11/01/2019 9:21:56 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atwfWEKz00U

YES! I knew some Freeper out there would figure out my poor description. Above is the link to the film. Done in 1936, based on the story by H.G. Wells.


20 posted on 11/01/2019 9:25:44 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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