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These "futurist" images are always weird, but the second from last is downright bizarre. The design of the "car" in which Elvis is holding the pink-haired girl's hand is completely impractical. When the windshield is slid down and closed, there won't be enough headroom for people inside to sit up straight. The pillar-like thing on one side at the back would throw off the aerodynamics at high speed. There's no steering wheel or controls of any kind, except the sundial-looking thing at the upper left of the opening, which you couldn't get at from inside with the windshield closed. The flying saucer building at right has such a steeply sloped roof that the outermost ten feet of every floor inside would be wasted due to lack of headroom. The three-pillared thing in the background must be colossal, but lacks any windows.
ReplyDeleteLast picture: the way that monorail is tilting, it must be taking that corner at a hell of a speed. Quite the G-forces for the passengers to deal with. Most of the buildings look like the architects were completely drunk.
And on the second picture, why is the monorail at the upper left attached to the inside of the dome like that? There's nothing high enough for it to go to or from. People's spelling appears to suck, too. I can't believe this civilization won a war against "Martians".
Ah, visions of the future.
The longer I look at these, the weirder they get. That top monorail in the second picture would take less than a minute to go all the way around the circle at that level of the dome. What's the point? The third picture looks Gigeresque somehow. The sign on the second building on the right seems to say "UNDERGROUND BOIL". Is that some kind of restaurant? It sounds like a skin disease. The fountains (if that's what they are) in the middle distance must be a hundred feet high, based on the size of the cars. Where is the weird light at the back coming from? Why are there walls of bare rock in the foreground? Is this an underground cavern? A cavern big enough to have an airplane and a helicopter flying around inside it? Then on the last picture I noticed that the eggroll-looking things on the far side of the thing the monorail hangs from seem to be part of the train, attached to the pink pillars on top of it. How do they get past the support pillars arcing out from that side of the thing? Why would the train be attached to the side of the thing it hangs from like that? No wonder it's tilted. More drunk architects.
ReplyDeleteInfidel - Wow, you spent a lot of time examining these.
DeleteSadly, the future in store for us is much more frightening than these imaginings predict.
ReplyDeleteIt was always interesting to look at these multi-faceted images of what our USA future would look like! Including the guided car films which Ford did a video of in 1956 or so. Or the similar GM Firebird concept running on the test track, getting ready to drive to "the eastern USA" on a guided roadway (at what seemed like 20mph).
ReplyDeleteThe buildings were always way too tall, the highways way too wide, with huge amounts of fast transit vehicles, like above-ground subways. More about what COULD be possible, rather than what it would cost, how it would be run, or how much money it cost to access it. Rounded architecture? More space for storage in those wounded edges of the buildings, I suspect.
Remember "The Jetsons", whose pod-house was on a very tall stilt, above all of the POLLUTION below? Had it not been for Nixon's EPA legislation, we'd need to be in that situation, now, I suspect.
ONE thing has survived, though, the massive highway interchanges!
Der deutsche Film Metropolis von 1927 mit den Dezign und Spezialeffekten von Eugen Schüfftan hat zweifellos amerikanische Futuristen beeninflusst.
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