I'm a sucker for cartoons of the 40s and 50s, whether it's Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, or those two squirrels that just wanted to have a nice life where everyone left them alone (their names escape me at the moment). I also like the great pseudo-documentary cartoons that you often saw, like the one after the jump.
It's Television From Tomorrow from MGM and Tex Avery. It shows what the typical household is going to look like in the future (the future meaning now - this was released in 1953). Specifically, it shows what the television of the future was going to look like. It's not serious, of course, but it's very clever and really fun. I like the big guns that pop out of the top of the television, and I think that complicated knob on the front of that one TV accurately predicts the complicated remote controls we have today. Oh, and the 4 out of 5 people who own TV sets? That could have been drawn today.
Can you guess who the narrator is?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-24-2008 @ 5:56PM
Zach said...
This video taught me two things. Scottish people are cheap and you can shoot your friend in the forehead if he messes with your tv.
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2-25-2008 @ 6:53AM
Jimmy said...
Scots are thrifty, not cheap.
2-24-2008 @ 6:45PM
Jeff N. said...
I believe Paul Free was the Narrator of this cartoon. He did many many voices for Animation. Most famous for me was Boris Badenov of Rocky & Bullwinkle fame. Also did many Wonderful World of Disney voice overs.
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2-24-2008 @ 6:46PM
Jeff N. said...
That was Paul Frees not Paul Free. Sorry for the typo.
2-24-2008 @ 11:13PM
Mr. G. said...
Very creative! And a little risqué, surprisingly so for that day and age.
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2-25-2008 @ 7:32AM
Cindy Gibson said...
Are you thinking of Chip and Dale? They are chipmunks
not squirels but I can't think of any others.
They are one of my favorites, right up- there with foghorn
leghorn and Bugs.
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2-26-2008 @ 1:29PM
Brent McKee said...
Just imagine seeing that on the big movie screens of the 1950s.
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