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28/09/2023 2:02 pm
"Metropolis" was an astounding science fiction movie for it's time, and now, too. Some of their transportation conveyances and the general tone of the picture was amazing, and even more so in the silent era. "Nosferatu" was another silent era picture with an eerie, dark atmosphere about it. Glad to see they have restored and expanded the extant Fritz Lang "Metropolis" film.
In the late Forties and Fifties, sometimes "atomic" power was used as a basis for horror/terror movies, with memories and realities of that time, sometimes combined with the flying saucer and outer space and coming space/rocket flight as additional elements..
In many of them transportation elements ranged from everyday to the futuristic, science fiction type of object. Both General Motors and Ford certainly could feature such genres in their futuristic designs and Harley Earl, at least, was alive to it's possibilities !
Paul Rouffa and Charles Rockett reacted
28/09/2023 2:07 pm
@mikedetorrice I agree about GM and Ford of course, but IMHO the same can be said for Spaceley Sprockets and Cogswell Cogs!
Steve Jacobs reacted
28/09/2023 3:05 pm
@mikedetorrice Good observations, Mike. Not having known '50s culture, but looking back at it, it seems cars, kitchen appliances, electrical goods; indeed all industrial design had to be space-age or it was passe. Regarding the atomic bomb, there's even a Bill Haley - and his Comets - song (Thirteen Women) in which he and the thirteen women are the only survivors of a nuclear holocaust - in his dreams! (I used to listen to this and dream of the Futura!)
Topic starter
28/09/2023 3:19 pm
Lol, well I guess Bill Haley and the Comets could find at least an upside and some humor to such a catastrophe ! Reminds me as bit of a Twilight Zone (?) episode in which actor Burgess Meredith. as a bookworm, finds himself the only survivor of a nuclear holocaust and sitting in front of a gigantic public library ! He has "all the time in the world" and thousands of books ....... but he accidentally stands up ............ and crushes his needed glasses.
Jack Dodds and Charles Rockett reacted
28/09/2023 10:06 pm
@mikedetorrice I agree about GM and Ford of course, but IMHO the same can be said for Spaceley Sprockets and Cogswell Cogs!
That's one of my all-time favorite cartoons George Jetson Judy Elroy Astro and Rosie the robot although I forgot the wife's name now...
Help me out here I'm drowning..lol
28/09/2023 10:08 pm
How many here remember the late '60s early '70s series 'The Invaders' with Roy (Thinnes) ?
I loved that series I used to walk around school with a crooked finger...lol
Jack Dodds reacted
28/09/2023 10:42 pm
@mikedetorrice I agree about GM and Ford of course, but IMHO the same can be said for Spaceley Sprockets and Cogswell Cogs!
That's one of my all-time favorite cartoons George Jetson Judy Elroy Astro and Rosie the robot although I forgot the wife's name now...
Help me out here I'm drowning..lol
Jane.
Steve Jacobs reacted
28/09/2023 10:47 pm
28/09/2023 10:48 pm
Maybe one less beer should have been drunk tonight...hmm.. is that the right past tense..
28/09/2023 11:05 pm
Maybe one less beer should have been drunk tonight...hmm.. is that the right past tense..
Once again Steve I unreservedly recommend Duff beer; it's on tap at Moe's Tavern.
Steve Jacobs reacted
28/09/2023 11:08 pm
Thank-You, Jane...err...mean Jack..
I always get my 'J's' mixed up..
"I always get my 'J's' mixed up.."
Have you been hanging out with Cheech and Chong again Steve?
Steve Jacobs reacted
28/09/2023 11:09 pm
Maybe one less beer should have been drunk tonight...hmm.. is that the right past tense..
Once again Steve I unreservedly recommend Duff beer; it's on tap at Moe's Tavern.
I think I'll go for a what do they call it one of those Red Bulls....
I'm trying to be ready for the big Huntington Beach air show this weekend..!!!!
John Kuvakas reacted
28/09/2023 11:17 pm
Maybe one less beer should have been drunk tonight...hmm.. is that the right past tense..
Once again Steve I unreservedly recommend Duff beer; it's on tap at Moe's Tavern.
I think I'll go for a what do they call it one of those Red Bulls....
I'm trying to be ready for the big Huntington Beach air show this weekend..!!!!
Good luck with that nectar there Ricocchet Rabbit!
Steve Jacobs and John Kuvakas reacted
29/09/2023 8:37 am
Thank-You, Jane...err...mean Jack..
I always get my 'J's' mixed up..
"I always get my 'J's' mixed up.."
Have you been hanging out with Cheech and Chong again Steve?
Shh, don't tell no one...oh heck, I just dropped my ceramic bong...
Jack Dodds reacted
29/09/2023 12:19 pm
Thank-You, Jane...err...mean Jack..
I always get my 'J's' mixed up..
"I always get my 'J's' mixed up.."
Have you been hanging out with Cheech and Chong again Steve?
Shh, don't tell no one...oh heck, I just dropped my ceramic bong...
That's harsh...in more ways than one.
John Kuvakas reacted