Future Shock (1972) 3/5

This is a little known documentary based on the book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler.

See review here:
http://oddculture.com/weird-movies/movie-review-future-shock/

This movie came out in 1972 and features Orson Welles as the narrator. I was most amused by the high amount of paranoia in regards to the future... some of the segments (like people choosing their own skin color) are downright hilarious.

Worth a look - at the very least for its historical value.

As far as I can tell, this documentary is in the public domain.

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Film & Animation

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• Future
• Shock
• Alvin
• Toffler
• Orson
• Welles
• paranoia
• documentary
• film
• movie
• short
• 70s

[superblondiefan1]

I remember those days. You little sissies today with your fake edginess are ridiculous and not impressive. lol. In those days there was serious social revolution going on, it wasn't a safe pre packaged slickly marketed alternative lifestyle. And they did all that activism and demonstration without the convenience of cell phones, blackberrys, voicemail, twitter or facebook. Nowadays young people can't find their way out of a paper bag without a gps.

[MacoutesGabber]

I support multiple sex partners. Fucking is good for you.Stop being such puritanical, prude and repressed assholes.

[Guestservice2000]

@superblondiefan1 Shut up hippie

[BeakyRed]

6:19 didnt he just say house of usa? lol

[clemstevenson]

@exeuroweenie Anyway, yes... The queen was told to talk about the preservation of religion. When I went to school, I couldn't get away from religion. I had to attend assembly, and I was even told that I was too young to reject religion. I had to attend religious education classes every week. But in the real word outside of school, religion was already on the scrap heap of dumb ideas. Someone in high office thought that we needed to learn something that they already knew was hogwash.

[clemstevenson]

@exeuroweenie Well...I was watching a recording of the Queen's Christmas TV Speech from 1957 on YouTube. This is an annual Christmas TV event in the UK, which started in 1957. I am in no doubt that the Queen is told what to say, and her 1957 statements referred to the preservation of old values. She said, in her stiff upper lip accent, that one of those old values was religion. You see, the powers that were pulling the queen's strings in 1957 saw religion as a control mechanism.

[exeuroweenie]

@clemstevenson Accounts like that lead me to think there must be something to it.That old adage;"where there's smoke there's fire".I remember some odd incidents as a child.Besides,who could be a more reliable source than Churchill?

[clemstevenson]

@exeuroweenie Remember the Rendlesham forest business? Well, Larry Warren claims to have met with an alien, who told him that his religion was deliberately faked to stop humans killing each other. Larry Warren wouldn't believe what he was told. But Winston Churchill found out about the fake alien gods, back in the 1940s. Churchill was so scared that he had a UFO report kept secret, because the truth would smash the church. Churchill's response is actually on record.

[exeuroweenie]

@clemstevenso Lol I wish Celtic mythology-or whatever it takes-would rule out all religion worldwide.It's too much for Richard Dawkins to handle alone-clever as he is.It's similar here,of course,though there are probably more religious people per capita.Religiosity varies a lot according to regions,though.The southeast being the most,with parts of the northeast the least.

[clemstevenson]

@exeuroweenie England...yes...there seems to be an ancient historical connection. Good job that I'm not religious at all, because I think the theosophical people have really screwed it up. They are expecting the return of Jesus (you must have seen the Omen), in England. But the guy in ancient Celtic mythology was Hesus, not Jesus. This has something to do with the people who built Stone Henge thousands of years ago, which rules out modern religions.

[exeuroweenie]

@clemstevenson You're in the UK/England,right? England seems very popular with U.F.O.s;crop circles et al.Whoever/whatever they are,they know beautiful countryside.I think there has to be something to it.I read about that Rendlesham forest incident-astounding.I life in Florida now-a weird place even by American standards.Ironically there's less purported UFO activity than more staid areas in the northeast,such as Maryland and New Hampshire.It's possible Florida politics scare them off.

[clemstevenson]

@exeuroweenie Yeah, UFOs. I keep videoing UFO activity, but I won't pretend not to know why. I've been experiencing weird stuff, dating-back to the 1980s. My jobs started getting impermanent back in the 1980s, with companies starting up and going bust overnight. Technologies changed so rapidly that gadgets were obsolete before they could sell them. It's the same today. Computers will be better, faster, and cheaper, tomorrow.