Future Shock (1972) 3/5

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This is a little known documentary based on the book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler.
See review here: http://oddculture.com/2004/11/13/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 dow
nright 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. Part 3 of 5

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I'd like to know ... ( 11 months ago by buggoff)

I'd like to know what came of the people in the group marriage...

We are going to be ... ( 10 months ago by nextren)

We are going to be taken over by blinking mannequins. PS: Orson himself had 3 wives (consecutive). And many other women. As to family, his parents were both dead by 14, he practically abandoned his first daughter, and he neglected his other two for years... They could have picked a more appropriate narrator for this.

Orson tut-tutting ... ( 10 months ago by nextren)

Orson tut-tutting over the disruption of family. 3:00 Laughable all the madness of the late 60s/early 70s. Group marriages and gay weddings indeed! "Machines and science" did NOT cause societal breakdown. Certain people did. One of them is the guy, seen here, who wrote those books pushing "group marriage." Were people just stupider back then?

I think that real ... ( 8 months ago by utubeworms)

I think that real future shock probably started around the time of world war two. Not in the early 70's.

"What happens to ... ( 8 months ago by utubeworms)

"What happens to the definition of man," he asks. Hopefully he won't be a biggoted, war mongering wasteful jerk like he has been for all of past millennium! Orson, why don't you go back to selling wine and stop making stupid documentaries meant to scare people.

freekin 80s ruined ... ( 8 months ago by fleckis)

freekin 80s ruined everything

it's like someone ... ( 7 months ago by AEigner)

it's like someone time-traveled back to the 70's and simultaneously screwed up culture, common-sense, fashion, architecture, and interior design all at once : ) - but yeah I guess with some of the radical cultural and technological changes we stood to be affected by, the future then must have seemed a land of anarchic insanity.

Um, Wells died in ... ( 6 months ago by DigitalJediMaster)

Um, Wells died in 1985.

It's important to ... ( 6 months ago by DigitalJediMaster)

It's important to note, that the era of this documentary was coming off a very paranoid time. Everything invented for the betterment of mankind was suspected for more insidious motives.

People didn't care ... ( 6 months ago by DigitalJediMaster)

People didn't care about that stuff back then. What mattered in those days was your public image. There was no immediate way to research people's biographies as there is now, and the media in those days didn't harp on celebrity failings as they do now. Welles and and Nimoy were THE guys to get when narrating your docu back then, for the voice and persona alone.

5:15 Miss little ... ( 6 months ago by kpb96m)

5:15 Miss little missy cooing over her happy little home, where a group of dorky ferret faced men "care" about her and her wellbeing. Yea, at least up to the moment you stop putting out. Then your ass is on the street like the ho you are!

7:15 "primitive ... ( 6 months ago by kpb96m)

7:15 "primitive communes". Hmmm..wasn't there one of these in Waco Texas once? There's a reason these don't work. How did our country ever survive the massive liberal front of the 1968-75 area?

lol, pwned. ( 5 months ago by cky83)

lol, pwned.

i think the only ... ( 5 months ago by cky83)

i think the only reason she's there is because she's too ugly, or lazy to find somebody. btw, i love how she says she can love different people, "not equally" but in her own "special way." fucking bitch.

SkyNet takes over, ... ( 5 months ago by DigitalJediMaster)

SkyNet takes over, 2015...or something like that. =/

DigitalJediMaster ( ... ( 5 months ago by lazydogs)

DigitalJediMaster (2 hours ago) More, more, more info lol thanks

Array ( 4 months ago by koabr3gn)

so...
according to this film:
the real threat to the american way are migrating poligamist gay hippies who live in communes, watch x-rated films, and might possibly have artificial limbs ... all thanks to our modern technology Go modernity!

yea... the "liberal ... ( 4 months ago by radiofreak56)

yea... the "liberal front" of that time was overwhelmingly successful,
woman's rights
gay rights
reproductive rights, we got 'em all!

Array ( 4 months ago by koabr3gn)

agreed!
lol

I agree. So many ... ( 4 months ago by 1947Desoto)

I agree. So many many things were invented and or massed produced during WWII: Juke box's, Jet planes, wireless, computers, transisters, synthetic rubber, and 4X4's.

gay marriage, stem ... ( 3 months ago by thecheckercorner)

gay marriage, stem cell research...still seems like issues we are facing today. This guy was against women's rights tsk tsk.

Lol! Born into a ... ( 2 months ago by 1erichellstrom)

Lol! Born into a future shocked world...

I saw this in ... ( 1 month ago by thaxdouglas)

I saw this in sociology class in high school in 1973

Propaganda. ( 15 hours ago by kcirtap01)

Propaganda.

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