Just Imagine (1930) opening sequence

[tryggda]

Where is the whole movie?!?!?

[tenorlord]

@tryggda

Tivoed onto a DVD of mine.

[tryggda]

@tenorlord Please post it on youtube!! With the new longer time limits (20 or more mins I think) it would probably only need 3 or 4 segments. Better yet, consider uploading it to the Internet Archive as a whole. We thank you! archive.org/details/movies

[CLASSICMONSTERGUY95]

1980 according to the 1930's - Cool sci-fi-ish flying vehicles.

The truth: Crap cars, crap hairstyles, crap clothing, crap music (well not all), crap movies (though some did stand out)

[Rickyrab]

Now doesn't the gay marriage debate sound a bit silly?

[xanafanadu]

where the hell is michael jackson?????

[GusF]

That's Maureen O'Sullivan, Mia Farrow's mother. I'd never have recognised her.

[JPnintendofan]

The narrator makes it seem like having a number for a name and the government deciding whom you marry is a good thing.

[granddad2002]

The whole eugenics things was supposed to have been the model of how we were to 'breed'. Who in their 1930 minds would have conceived of 'single moms', 'routine divorce', 'biracial marriage' or 'gay rights'? Aerospace has leaped beyond the "moon': but it isn't the technology, it's the finances that allow you a 'personal' flying machine. This whole progress thing is only a few centuries old, with technology being a significant factor from the 1800's onward. I'd like to know more?

[kightsun]

ummm... what the fudge!!

even though obama is aiming to a communist country with that health care....

[evilsenemy123]

yea i think they were a little off

[sayanroy36]

a luftwaffe bombing raid 10 years from then, is more similar, minus the explosions and destructions ofcourse

[ma049]

I was in New York in 1980 and it was exactly like that!

I used to hate it when you got called up to a marriage tribunal, there was never any where to land my Aero-car!

[pointblizzy]

LMAO!!

[Idjitz]

Still Irish traffic cops in the future, too, I see.

[Joylibelle]

Finally, I found it... Watched this movie as a young girl in 1982, and never forgot about it. Big impression, the 1930 view of the future and although not quite accurate, it does tell something about the 1930 way of thinking...

[kid29a]

lol but when you think about it... people who made it were (well almost) witnesses of electric revolution, car invention, phone, radio, aviation... no wonder they had big expectations about the next 50 years

[trulybazlol]

lol planes :o that is so classic

[renata1934]

I am downloading this movie, I just can't wait to watch it =O

[jsl151850b]

This clip or the entire film?

If the latter, from where?

[jsl151850b]

Google for

Marvelous Movie Miniatures Portray Cities of the Future

It's a magazine article from 1931.

Scenes of the city were used in the

'Buck Rogers' serials of the 1930s.

See 'Planet Outlaws' at Archive. ORG

[Warsie]

Everyday Sciene and Mechanics had some similar stuff like that from 1932 too..

[pschroeter56]

Now that was just plain silly! I guess I will have to email and beg TCM to show it.

[sugarpuddin88]

Ha!

NYC hasn't changed much since that time!

Every mayor election for nearly 100 years NYC hears promises to "finish the 2nd ave train line"

Still never finished to this day!

Now other countries like China rival New York City in modern marvels like 200 plus mph trains!

[kevinthewid]

this is kind of scary

[oxmys]

What quiet dignity...what quaint charm...what about all that manure and dead horses stinking up the streets...ah things are never as good as they were in the old days...

[jsl151850b]

I see what you did there.

Stanley Adams / Twilight Zone / Once Upon a Time.

[SariaMew456]

1:48 - Honestly, don't they have a robot for that? What are my tax dollars paying for!

[tenorlord]

He's even Irish!

[SariaMew456]

Darn Irish, stealing all the jobs from our hardworking *American* automatons! ;-D

[Doon1990]

@SariaMew456 hey man, it was the 80's. We've grown a lot since then.

[dumbbo1]

"I AM NOT A NUMBER! I'M A FREE MAN!" (oops...wrong video)

Oddly enough, this movie was made BEFORE Roosevelt and the New Deal and Social Security numbers. I imagine his Brain Trust would have eventually thought up the idea of playing matchmaker as part of the Nanny State they started if he hadn't died in office in '45.

[getadamwearadamfly]

oh YES the American peoPle are way to(o) smart to become individually nUmbered

[DoctorScuba]

"A Number instead of a Name..." oh, that will NEVER happen! The American People are way to smart to become indevidualy Numbered!

[tenorlord]

But they DO have names!

Helen, Jay and Empty! :-D

...and I was alive in 1980. It was just like that, right down to the Irish cop directing traffic!

[VidalTripsa]

What a wonderful clip! I've been trying in vain to see if somewhere like the Internet Archive might offer streamed downloads of the full feature, but no such luck yet.

[fromthesidelines]

Yes, there might have been SOME influence from "Metropolis" when this movie was conceived, 'rado'- but this was basically a "typical" Fox talkie musical of the period, with more gentle satire than insight...

[oxmys]

Great special effects and lousy acting...seems they predicted the future just fine. ;)

[rado907]

Looks like a cute movie. Something like Hollywood's attempt at Metropolis.

[qikster]

well, they weren´t really far away from imagine wht really happens... yes we are a number in our credit cards and cell phones... and we travel in uncomfortable air buses all the time... my first thought was..."uhh...we dont have individual planes :P... they were wrongggg"... but the metaphore and the myth reach deeper levels. no?

cheeerzzz

[islandblackberryvine]

I think I might have seen the air machines before in a watercolor, by EZ.