Design for Dreaming 1956 General Motors Motorama Film

[walterbrob]

I want that Corvette too!!

[kokopelli314]

Does anyone else find the "Tomorrow" song at 8:00 just a little dark and creepy?

[VengeanceIsMine79]

In the US, they are proposing on redesigning the seats on planes because most Americans over age 30 are obese!

[bunnybooties]

Oh, it's so dreamy! I can't wait!!!!;)

[dave777blaster]

To think that GM had 76% of the car market in their pocket ,what happened?

[AryanKnight]

~GM's artistic Flights of fantasy, promoting extreme automation, usually silly gadgets we didn't need, which ultimately breakdown to be more trouble than worth. The refrigerator was the best home-kitchen innovation ever, and the microwave-oven is similarly safe and reliable. The automatic-transmission has proven its merit, along with elect.windows, but pwr.-steering & pwr.brakes are there only because the cars are to heavy. The Lady & Gent did a wonderful job of selling the fantasy.!!!

[MerleOberon]

As modern as today's atomic power plants...

[enestok91]

scary

[trapsmaker]

this video have zero dislike :O! 

[moochincrawdad]

I visited Detroit last year and it was like a ghost town, living proof that everything changes and nothing will last forever.

[Zelusetradix]

I came here because of Röyksopp - It's What I Want

[Donnerstag]

@Zelusetradix Same

[MerleOberon]

Too bad GM didn't renew the copyright, bet they would make money on it now....

[ILOVEMYSUNGLASSES]

What a wonderful piece of art. =)

[DPO263]

@ILOVEMYSUNGLASSES

Interesting that you should say that. This has recently been shown on Classic Arts Showcase.

[stingme88x]

@DPO263 ah i saw it there too, its what brought me here(:

[jaguarjaguarjaguarja]

The Gernsback Continuum! The future that never was.

Pretty tragic that the real future didn't come out the way they thought it would be.

[MichiganTreasure]

Ha! That's back when Americans were full of dreams and optimism.

[busessuck1]

They're singing ... but not moving their lips

Aahhh!

[Lanceisabeach]

To bad it never came true :(

[cortneydream]

In the future vehicles will operate like slot cars and everyone will be caucasian?

[reviewman]

crow was right "just because it's futuristic doesn't me it's practical."

[musicl0vN]

The world of tomorrow is so beautiful, all we need is unlimited resources.

[downeast45]

This was a film used to promote GM's huge touring "Motorama" show. My dad took me to it when I was 11 years old. To a kid who was into 1950 science fiction, this show was pure magic. My memories are of the "cars of the future," the kitchen of tomorrow, and the unbelievable, it drives itself, Firebird II. These were heady post-war years. Lots of money around and imported autos weren't even on the horizon.

[Greddybear]

something fucked up the time line Marty

[HeyRadialMoon]

@Greddybear Isn't that the truth!

[GoblinXXX]

I'm sure we'll have an oven that can bake, frost, and put candles on a cake (AND light them) by the time we can call our houses on the phone and tell the oven to start-- Which AT&T has been promising us for at least 50 years. (And I've still never heard anyone express a desire for it.)

[herenciacarclub63]

6:54 into the video !!! the first impala ever !!!!!

[RossiniSoprano]

The male singer (not the guy on screen) is Howard Keel. I don't recognize the female singer.

[wallybloom1]

@RossiniSoprano I think it's Keely Smith, popular Vegas lounge entertainer and recording artist during Sinatra's rat pack days.

[shesnailie]

@wallybloom1

The flightiie in the nightie is dancer Thelma 'Tad' Tadlock.

[TheDorkEvilOne]

Also, an MST3K classic.

[TheDorkEvilOne]

Bizarrrrre.  This got sampled in Bowie and the Pet Shop Boys video for the "Hallo Spaceboy" remix (1995).

[FIREBIRDC9]

i love how they thought the future was going to look XD

pity they didnt know it was to be full of boring Daihatsu's and Beige Nissans

[liddlebopeep]

@FIREBIRDC9 Too bad GM couldn't forsee it's own dark future back in 1956:

Vega, Ventura, Cavalier, Firenza, 6000, Astre, Monza, Cobalt, Ciera, Celebrity, Cimarron, Sunbrid, Aztek, Trans Sport, Fiero, Achieva, Grand Am, Corsica, Beretta, Lumina, etc.

[VengeanceIsMine79]

@FIREBIRDC9 or 350 lb Americans driving in luxury SUV's they can't possibly afford. Ford, btw, is building more production facilities in India. The globalists run America and nationalism has been slowly dying here since they assasinated JFK!

[FIREBIRDC9]

@VengeanceIsMine79

Well over here in the UK we are currently undergoing the KIA invasion , they have flooded the market recently

[02chevyguy]

I guess acid and other recreational drugs were affluent in the '50's and distributed to ad execs as well?

[ShadowXII]

What in fuck's name have I just witnessed?

[patton4418]

3:09 best friggin line in the entire thing!!!!!

[proudUSNgf8687]

@patton4418 Oh Goodness!!!!

[catfan]

Tad Tadlock's dance at 5:14 seems to be one inspiration for Suzanne Lloyd's dance in 1959's "Perchance To Dream" episode of The Twilight Zone, and this is all from the same era. She was one ultra-cool dancer and performer, and I am sorry we lost her in 2000. As for the video itself, it is the product of its time. Though unrealistic, the production values are fun in themselves!

[herbienbrian]

LOL! the centurion grew to be a big pile of steaming crap.

[Teaandcakesandices]

Why is she talking without moving her lips? This was obviously an intentional decision when the film was shot, but why did they do it?

[MerleOberon]

Tad Tadlock rules!

[WunderDoob]

get her into the kitchen! quick! 

[msteven515]

Pretty surreal.

[kikddabottle]

I don't get it I thought that Cadillac was top brass yet the Buick gets top display?!That Buick is dreamy though...

[jxhensley]

This is it, the height of American military/economic power. If you weren't around or weren't white, you missed it.

[yourhighness336]

so valid.

[MoxHypKa]

Please PM me with URL if you know, where I can DL the original video of this.

I mean .avi or something, not .flv.

[hialeahe]

LOL, hey your apron is showing, quick get her to the kitchen XD

awesome video thanks for posting