Out Of This World (1964) (digitally enhanced)

[fluffien]

So why are we not draining the oceans to make deserts into farmland?

[rsheeran100]

Whatever this woman is taking, I'll have a double

[MrMeaty727]

the spanish kitchen is the best @ 7\40

[SeeburgMusic]

Hahaha check out the Jap lady walking around the kitchen with her hands praying LOL ! I love how they all look and act so high!

[hauptma2]

damn the people who made this video need to lay off the hallucinogens!

[BigTerKC]

I want whatever she's taking!

[HD8Track]

Back in the 40's and 50's, people looked ahead with envy, now most of us look back with equal envy. Future gave us a lot of gadgets but everyone is miserable.

[katt157]

They entered Futurama, DAMN I WANNA MEET FRY! AND BENDER!

[coldtemperature]

Futurama!

[sincityfire]

this just makes it sound like the natural resources are unlimited....

[SteveCarras]

This Captiol Hi-Q music at the open is the same as in "Night of the Living Dead".:-)

[orion1077]

Ohh...just look a\t the ganja buds growing in the midle of the living room...just pluck one and roll a fatty bumbaty...enjoy!....it's not quite the LSD experiene, but but WILL keep you high till huby comes home with the proper shit. All thanks to the hard working peole of china and africa... for their valiant efforts make sure the American way of life continues.

[toxicz0mg]

if thats the future....then i am living in the past ??? :OOO

[2010mustang2]

Futurama!

[werdlederdle]

It's a fine line between under and over medicated.

[timbabcock]

Some of this infomercial would be considered racist by todays standars. Especially the Asian part. What was GM thinking back then? It was a great worlds fair but it was probably the last worlds fair that showed corporate irresponsibility. I don't think GM would spend that kind of dough on a pavilion today.

[thechairman123]

Well thanks for the lame ass trip around the world. I wanted to see weird ass kitchen appliances.

[intelboy15]

"...such a small space" as she opens her big-assed fridge! xD

[redcorncob]

Night of the Living Dead music!

[misio129]

I enjoy casual living too! I love it when we wheel our mobile refrigerator into our games room!

[furshthebutton]

Classic! Look everyone, it's the Amazon!! Beautifull huh? And just think...one day we will be able to HACK IT ALL DOWN and turn it into a giant Hamburger Patch. Yummy!!

[theden0minat0r]

I can't believe how culturally sensitive they were in 1964!

[Drexfiles]

Fantastic document.

[CombatArms1st]

nice toys

[64098]

Walk right into that one kitchen and smash into the pullout cooktop.

I want a Frigidaire kitchen!

[albertusj]

Aren't there treaties in place now that says Antarctica can never be mined or otherwise exploited?

[devospud]

post war america in particular was experiencing a huge boom in consumerism and quality of life, so naturally they assumed that the sky was the limit and that anything would be possible in the future... except they were rather handicapped by their own dated social ideas.

[devospud]

post war america in particular was experiencing a huge boom in consumerism and quality of life, so naturally they assumed that the sky was the limit and that anything would be possible in the future... except they were rather handicapped by their own dated social ideas.

[Blokkhedtwo]

This is the future in Futurama.

[zordmaker]

Now this is a good one isnt it. And to think my mum & dad's fridge in the '70s was a Frigidaire..

[redjupiter2]

At the same time in Hollywood in 1965 TV producer Irwin Allen predicted "a desperately over crowded and populated planet" by 1997. And that we would be sending as many as "10,000 families per year into space to new worlds", because earth would soon be uninhabitable. No wonder, GM planned it all right here in this film, total destruction of earths natural habitats, even pumping the oceans dry. Lost in Space wasn't so far off.

[superblondiefan1]

"did you have fun? "I sure did...and then the 'shrooms wore off.."

[ramblergarage]

people dreamed of a better life in those days. today we just complain and do nothing to better the future.

[silvertusk]

lol talking about wiping out forest and jungles. without knowing how much we actually destroyed now. way to much forest has been destroyed

[micmac99]

I'm actually using an oven from 1964 as we speak. Future schmuture.

[paulism100]

I bet she would love a vacuum cleaner for her birthday.

[pennstaterocks101]

lol these people.

[pikuorguk]

It's the future... exploit the planet! cut down the trees, drain the sea.

Oh, and of course there will be no traces of current civilisation at all - no old cities or towns. The whole planet will be wiped clean and we'll magically start again.

[zazose]

well seeing all the negative comments ill leave ait was a better time with better people and a better way of living ...1964-67 ....68 and on we lost an entire generation to drugs and free love ...hope they had fun cause now thats why the United States has turned to crap and will continue to do so ...they were great times and i,m glad to have been a part of them back in 64 you didnt have to lock your car and your wife didnt have to work

[PhilRacicot]

My fridge is exactly like the one with the bottom freezer at 9:08-9:23 but it's white. It's 45 years old now but it still looks good and it still works good! I have a 40" Custom Imperial Flair range too that's a bit older than those featured in this video. I wouldn't trade these appliances for new ones!

[raizon36]

this is truly vile, and yet hilarious

[jblucio3177]

Good film the only part that I had a problem with was the japanese decore.Japanese women don't walk like that.

[Josh3455]

I hate this future.

[GoblinXXX]

The lady burned the shit oit of her hands taking a roast out of the oven with no mitts, but fortunately, she's so medicated, she didn't feel it.

[timbabcock]

@GoblinXXX That was supposed to be a microwave oven. It was demonstrated during the fair.

[PuzzlingEvidenceTV]

@GoblinXXX Heat is not used in the "oven" of the "future"...

[electrogeek77]

Which part of the Mediterranean looks like a giant kitchen?

[floooky1]

Wow. Billed as a marketing film for Frigidaire, this looks more like a concept proposal for dosing women across the globe with LSD and brainwashing them into feeling contented bliss by cooking and serving drinks on Bridge Night. OooOohh...salad.  Wooo...frozen foods! God that was funny.

[antovador]

Once upon a time when GM thought oil was infinite and women fall in love with kitchen.

[KWCWalters]

I like that in the future people will be able to remove searing hot glass baking dishes from the oven with their bare hands!

[Druidbw]

Betty Crocker is rolling in her grave! Who the hell lives like this anyway!?

[xanafanadu]

why were people 40 and 50 years ago obsessed with the future (specifically 2000 AD) ??

[UnableToGiveADam]

jetsons

[Toyman07]

@UnableToGiveADam

Not even close..The Jetson's never had to do anything more than a button press. ;)

[sagedrummer]

because they were depressed ants and were looking for some hope in their bleak cookie cutter lives.

[Lynx251]

Because there was a great amount of Technological evolution back then - things were becoming easier for people now as the technology became more available, alot like nowadays!! In 40 years I hope people ask themselves "Why were people so obsessed with climate change?" :P

[thomasford]

Aren't we "obsessed" with the future? They still make sci-fi films.

[LordRhimmer]

The new Century plus, they would be alive still around that time.

[TomsFriendKake]

@xanafanadu Because so many of those people lived through the great depression, the great drought, and then WW2. They had hard lives, and with the conclusion of WW2, a whole host of new technologies were unleased on to consumers and into consumer products.

[Demache92]

@xanafanadu I guess because it was time when technological innovation was building at such an incredible pace, compared to the past. We starting looking at what kind of innovations we will have in the future. And 2000 seemed to be a good milestone (it was the the end of the millennium).

[tek1001]

@xanafanadu My guess is because everything was changing so fast that the future was "going to get here" a lot faster than in centuries past when life changed little and neither did it seem like it was going to change much in the foreseeable future. Now, the ride into the future will be in your life time and it will be different, whereas in the past, a few centuries ago, life was going to be pretty much as it was for your parents, so why think about it much, it will be like it is now.

[VeganKayaker]

Surely GM didn't come up with the idea of destroying rain forests for cattle ranches and stealing water from where it's needed to irrigate lawns in Nevada?

or did they?

[justme632]

Sounds like alot of heavy promoting of stealing natural resources from everywhere

[Nigralurker]

@justme632

Stealing? And who they belong to? Other then the nation who owns the land of which it's on?

[deeppipeinhaler]

Where's the microwave oven? I believe they were invented by 1946. Exploitation of the rain forests and Antarctica....they got that right. Turning deserts into farmland....not feasible.

[GirMittens]

this is so confusing!

And how does shuffling and praying while you walk make you chinese?

Grrrrrrr. :k

[iabbervocium]

Jeez...racism or what? Haha...I'm sure ALL Japanese ladies really walk that way.

[robharp1]

campy and racist.......also reminds me somehow of the stepford wives lol

[joiadbvjaw9384]

Oh grow up. Racist? Hardly. Melodramatic, campy - yes. Racist - no. Come off it!

[Chenzel05]

LOL talk about isolationism and ethnocentrism, love how france is described as a "far flung corner of the world" and what was up with the way the japanese lady was walking

[joiadbvjaw9384]

Uhmmmm - this was 1964. Back then, France *was* a far-flung corner of the world to the majority of this film's audience.

[gli7utubeo]

I like how they wanted to turn the Amazon in to a cattle ranch.

[AVDJ]

Funny how the end of the video is all about how fabulous the kitchen of the future will be for the ladies. Thank goodness we're headed in another direction from that, but I totally dig the feel of this old film. Thanks for posting it.

[Casanuda]

The 1950s was the first decade America had any culture, I don't remember exactly when it all slipped away but I think it was a few days after Kennedy was buried.

[ladyraven72]

great promise to the future my ass hahaha! antarctica is melting and is going to drown us by 2029... so much for antarctica..

[mubd1234]

Wow, they were almost right about the kitchen of tomorrow!

[eharriso]

It's all still coming, especially the submarine train. Just be patient.

[Stereolabdream]

She's hot. Must be about 85 now...

[tvwiggles2u]

here is the freaky part of all this narration...this man's voice is the same one on ALL those films I saw in school as a child..warning us about drug use and telling us to be good citizens. God! I feel so old now. I was at the World' fair in 1965..NYC

[jamie1974]

Good thing they didn't care so much about environmental impact! They had the right attitude! Those people grew up before conveniences afforded by airplanes, cars, electric oven ranges, refrigerators, tractors, etc. People have become spoiled by modern conveniences and so they don't appreciate them nearly as much. Thats part of the reason so many people are willing to become "environmentalists." Its a)trendy, and b) they take tech for granted.

[timbabcock]

GM certainly didn't care about the evironmental impacts for their vision. This video doesn't show it but they did show a machine that would rip out a tree from the ground and build a highway behind it. When they were at Expo 74 ten years later, the message was very different.

Lots of good Googie architecture in here as well.

[jamie1974]

Yeah, they had the right attitude back then! That generation of people knew (Probably unlike you), what life was like before the modern autos, tractors, motors, flight, etc. I think there was a greater appreciation/fascination with what machinery could do to serve mankind. They grew up breaking their backs with the plow. Now that people have grown bored/spoiled with the modern conveniences, it becomes easier to want to become more "natural"...its trendy. Least for now...

[hotsaucyduck]

this film sadly reminds me how much more pessimistic we are about the future now than we were in the 50s.

[83azh7ipds]

make that "realistic".

[littlesht2]

im tired now. but it really is hysterical to find out what they thought the future would be like back then.

[goclick]

I want a radar range, safety shamfty I want 5 minute roasts!

[geekgirl45]

"jungles turned into fields for cattle"....yep got that one right. thanks McDonalds for making the future come true!

[Brainpumper]

World of tomorrow? Are u kidding? It looks more retro than anything else :D

[dannynanner]

It's sort of depressing to watch this; a time when people had so much hope for the future. It really is a shame that it's 2007, yet most American homes do not have modern looking kitchens (or anything else, for that matter) like the ones in this video. And it's not because this stuff is not available, because it is; it's just that somewhere between then and now Americans, and maybe the world in general, lost all vision for the future and completely gave up.

[TomsFriendKake]

It's not so much that people gave up, but they're were huge walls in technology that were encountered. Living in space or below the ocean was found to not be as easy as once thought. Furthermore, because of constant inflation of our dollar, and America's massive debt, our money does not go as far today, and things are manufactured to a lower quality. Most family's have both parents working, and money issues which leads to stress and rising divorce. America is not the America of the 50s/60s.

[dannynanner]

Money is no excuse for things looking as poor as they do today in 2008.

Manufacturing things with cleaner and more sightly designs does not have to cost more money. In fact, it would be cheaper to make more minimal items. It is also very easy to purchase expensive items at a low cost (bargain shopping is easy if you really want something).

People have completely lost what they once had. Young people are hopeless and clueless, and older people have allowed themselves to become washed-up.

[musicom67]

I especially like the fact how they didn't cover food in the fridge.. Saran Wrap anyone? No, just put the salad in there as is and let it absorb all the odors... Yummy!

[troybk]

ha futr rama like that tv show

[fbmarz]

Yess Yess! I truly do enjoy casual living!

[jcook56050]

Well, you'll at least have to admit that there's a lot of familiar stuff here. Most of the kitchen prophecies came true. Men even continue to wear that funky, updated, 1800's Victorian suit that dad wears in the film. Gosh, these folks must have looked into a crystal ball or something.

[stemcellfilms]

christ, "this land will be transformed into land for farm and pastures."

they didn't even try to hide it back then... lets destroy the rainforest, I mean I knew we did, and I knew we figured we were doing it at somepoint, but that much thought went into it... wow....

[jeffbob4343]

They should have kept the fair intact. I know, I know. too much bucks. What an incredible experience it was though. Robert Moses was a genius.

[TP2001]

Fabulous video! The Oriental Kitchen was my favorite when she takes tiny little Hello Kitty steps around her Dream Kitchen. This housewife spends the whole day at the World's Fair and still has time to cook up a massive Brontasaurus Roast for her family. Amazing!

[skot66]

This was the inspiration for Tomorrowland

[Robert4770]

I rode this as a kid at the World's Fair.