Retrofuturism: This Restless Future | Sleepcore
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- I was originally going to post a new episode of Animation/Propaganda today but with all that’s going on in the world, I thought we could all use something a little calmer.
I would like to express my support for those facing and fighting police brutality and systematic racism and encourage everyone with the means to donate to do so. I will post a link to resources on where to donate as well as non-monetary ways you can show your support down below.
I also acknowledge that much of the retrofuturism showcased on this channel imagines a future largely without black people. These clips are no different.
Whether intentional or not, this highlights how deep-rooted racism and white supremacy are in our culture. As a content creator, and as a person, I can do better to support and promote black voices.
As a start, here a list of resources discussing the concept of Afrofuturism as well as some examples of the aesthetic and philosophy.
Black Lives Matter.
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Retrofuturistic visions were almost always beautiful because they imagined a world in which the technology always improved, but not at the cost of, or not alongside, the degredation of the culture and aesthetics of the past
except for the dystopian visions of course
Yeah I own a car of 2005 and it's a plastic piece of parp. Breather pipe split due to cheap rubber and the thermostat housing has also split due to being a plastic component used to hold in superheated water under high pressure. Garbage. Hood would not shut due to the metal being too thin it has warped over time. (fixed with 4 washers).
Where's our 3 day work week and self driving jet car? I think a 1950's sci-fi fan if they got teleported to 2020 they would be very disappointed
I love when similar videos show workers complaining about three hour days just a few times per week. No one envisioned that technology would actually increase work hours and sometimes require workers to have multiple jobs to survive.
@Gnonam Pony No, 80s futurism was positive, back then as well, not just in retrospective. In general people believed the year 2000 would be very special (and nothing special happened).
@@mikesully110 That just sounds like a shitty car, not an indicator of current automobile technology.
Love Rollo the robit, who takes 15 minutes to get to the door.
No way do couriers wait around that long.
Yes very fond of the giant metal behemoth that gets to stay rent free and speaks in nightmares. Such a nice robit
1:20
Well, nice to have a great hospital for that little money. But from the test of that part of the story I actually felt sick. Definitely, everything wasn't better, back in the days! Oh my, that poor child...
I remember when people smoked in hospitals.
Why the hell do you not have more people appreciate your content?!? This is amazing and how you have managed to keep it up for such a long time. Thank you
It’s niche. I’m happy these find anyone at all.
@@picsnportraits Loved the Life in Hell video. I am not sure you are aware in the 1999 documentary My Wasted Life, Groening said he considered doing Life in Hell (solely written by him), but considering he is doing Disenchantment and he is 66, it is unlikely. As an aspiring screenwriter who read The Big Book of Hell, Binkey may not be likable due to having an abandoned Son (Bongo). If the series were to have light continuity (but not necessarily an arc) about Binkey struggling to fix this relationship, I find it not too different from the dramedy series Louie (by the outed Louis C.K.), which is about the misfortunes of 40 year old dealing with shared custody.
This was a revelation for me. I sleep like a fucking baby to the old shit.
People don`t appreciate it because they are too busy watching Tik Tok or music videos
Always loved the AT&T You Will promotion
My god, me too
@@ramirezannette0 a
But they didn’t…
Lol Roll-Oh looks ridiculous. Today the delivery guy would just say "Great, a nerd in a box. Sign here."
The Firebird Gas Turbine Jet car actually did exist in the fifties, so that is OK. But the amount of attention from the control tower this one car gets in 1976 on the highway is utterly unrealistic.
What would happen in a real life situation, with half a million cars on the road ? The film makers must have been in grade 8 at the time so much naivete
With one controller per car, that's a lot of public sector traffic control tower jobs by 1976.
A gas turbine engine powers the M1-A1 Abrahams tank in the U.S. military. A friend of mine retired from the Army said the Humvees couldn't follow too closely or it would burn the paint off of the hood.
I just discovered your channel last night. It's like you reached into my head and pulled out an aesthetic that I was unable to articulate and made it real. I guess that's one of the main functions of art, and that's what this is. Not only did it make my own vision clearer, it inspired me to create as well. I hope that if I do create something, what I produce is a tenth as good as what you've done here.
If anyone has recommendations for this "genre," I'd love to hear them - but, it's pretty unique. The phrase "artistic genius" gets thrown around a lot, but I think it may apply here.
I do have a recommendation for you. If you haven't already seen it, check out "Arise," the Church of the Subgenius documentary. It also aired on USA's "Night Flight" under the title "Love That Bob." It's far more manic than the work you create, but I think you'll appreciate the vibe they have going on. (Of course, it's highly possible you're already familiar with it... it wouldn't surprise me to learn it is one of your influences.)
Most robots only go up to 10. Roll-Oh goes up to 15.
Was it inches, but of what?
that was the new and improved model !
Yet it stayed on 3, very disappointing. I hope they had one model in between that went to 11.
I want to order 10 of therm all at 15.99 each
The definition of "robot" was pretty wide in the '30s.
Robits
Sadly i think that was from about 20 years later than that. But yes, mostly light sensors and Technology Connections favorite toaster, which is entirely mechanical. And the late 40s car that is "loaded with robits." Ha.
I work for a large multinational food company maintaining their equipment. You would be surprised how many Material Handling devices we have that were sold as robots. Lots of them don't look anything like what you would think of as an industrial robot. It seems like robot is a buzzword used for all types of automated machinery
Funny how the Rollo robot is supposed to be futuristic but to us it looks prehistoric like something out of a bad sci fi film
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE all of those AT&T "You Will" commercials from the early 90's. They got almost everything right, if not somewhat askew from today's reality. The fascinating thing to me is that in all of them, the one thing that is never mentioned explicitly but which ultimately made each of them possible is the Internet.
@Intergalactic Dust Bunny I remember; I was there. Consumer dial-up Internet was a far cry from today's always-on Ethernet and wifi though, and those technologies were by-and-large the in-development prerequisites for this "future" that AT&T envisioned. I had Prodigy for years, eventually switching to AOL. In the early days when these new consumer technologies were being conceived, it was widely believed within the industry that (at least in the US), it was going to be "the phone company" building out a network akin to a second PSTN specifically for data transmission. That's why nobody refers to data connections or "Internet" here. They literally didn't yet know what form the network was going to take, so it was positioned to vaguely look like it would be part of the traditional public switched telephone networks, since that's where they thought it was headed.
Yeah, they were right. UNIX was conceived at AT&T, and variants of it run the internet and every smartphone.
Thank you for another lovely Sleepcore 🖤
Who could sleep through this? This stuff was magic for me as a kid. Can you imagine in the future of 1976 having your predigested food cooked by infrared light?
Lets appreciate the package delivery service dude for not throwing a dented box on the porch, also he biked that huge rectangular box on a bike lol
This stuff would GIVE me insomnia. Even after decades, the future we never got excites me like little else. Thanks for all this, and your thoughtful comments on thed whiteness of the content.
20:07 "Mind if I hotbox this 1950s version of a 1976 self driving car".? ...."no".....Grandpa likes up his stogie anyway. lol
How did they arrive at pronouncing robot "ro-bit"?
Don't look now but this car is full of ro-bits!
I immediately thought of Zoidberg "What with all the ro-bits and whatnot?"
HA HA I also made a comment like this.
Issac Asimov
Funny how automatic sensors are called robot machines like a sensor.....like how we call every program these days an "AI" LOL
Ackza... I must remind you that you have broken Numbers Pronoun Act of 1979... :D.. Please change your Username to AZ 2397...
Wish I had that snazzy car full of row butts.
Back then they pronounced "Auto-Moe-Beal".
18:34 A naïve view of a future where an average USian family actually understood science ...
And could afford a decent lifestyle just by going to work.
Of course if this were the reality today, we'd have a contact centre in India doing the traffic reports XD
The Mid-Atlantic accent is so iconic. I dearly wish to learn it.
The 1976 spoof started at 17:00 what a joke a single vehicle driving down the highway . Buddy in the tower gives instructions how to switch to autopilot it takes about 5 minutes worth of instructions to switch to auto from manual for a single car 🤣🤣 what would happen in a real life situation, with half a million cars on the road ? Never ! Fuck they were naive in those days !
And the control tower person dresses like field marshal.
I love how old timey narrators pronounce “Robots” as “Roh-bits”
Yeah, I noticed that. The dad on the Goldberg's say it like that. I wonder if thats where they got it from.
"Roe-Bit" is also how Dr.John Zoidberg says it. I think they get it from Issac Asimov.
That short film in the middle was shot so well. It said so much while doing so little.
The 50s began the charge. We are living it still. Convenience. Automatism. Machinery. Uniformity. Mass entertainment. Individualism. Separate lives. Consumer society.
The video at 33:30 is so emotionally raw for some reason. like It's not at all like those idyllic films that you normally imagine when you think the the 1950's. Her everything's so quiet and somber; kind of depressing even. It pretty clearly shows how the 50's wasn't all that different from our lives now in many ways.
Just started getting notifications for this channel. I am loving it. Thanks for the content.
The autopilot at the planes,it was a good prediction.
WOW I felt so sorry for the man whose part in this video starts around 24:00! He seemed depressed, work-worn, and very lonely. His family didnt give a crap about him as evidenced by his wife watching TV while he ate some gross TV dinner ALONE at the table.. And his wife apparently trotted off to bed just after he was done eating! That whole sequence was just depressing as hell...
Sound it like my f%*#$% life boy
@@romanoquesgui9211 I am very sorry for that. But i too, can relate to that poor guy.
Not depressing, just another day in 21st century America. I almost envisioned the poor guy loading his record, grabbing his smoke, downing a bottle of Gin and just jumping out the window. I feel for him.
Hey they did get the future right after all 🤣
@@deathstrike and that's NOT depressing?
Thanks for such cool vintage film clips!!
The first part was strangely depressing. It was so dreary in black and white. The people seemed zombie-like and unhappy. Especially the man. He seemed so lonely.
So basically they foretold the truth
Kaiser was the hospital of the future 😂
Today its equivalent to a prison ward.
18:30 All this computerized futuristic technology, but still relying on voice comms instead of transmitting data directly.
They did not predict internet 😁
Still proud of the pager like that was miracle device
Voice Activated.
what a busy job to direct car traffic…. The auto pilot is more trouble than it’s worth..
I'm "loving" the open-wired circuitry at 33:52. Imagine a repairman trying to navigate his way through all of that.
Sometimes it was hard for me to tell if they were trying to show a futuristic feature because there are some that we are already used to now a days
If war was never a thing, this could've been our future
You r so Close...
Something about the aesthetic of this time is so beautiful. Other than the complete nonsense we had going on with segregation at this time, it’s such a simple take on life, just making it accommodating & having such high hopes. Sad to see that basically none of these ideas actually came to fruition.
These videos are are great. Thank you for curating them and sharing.
They sure called it wrong with the robot of the future repair guy! We don't fix ANYTHING that's electronic. we just throw it in the garbage after Apple hacks it to 50% of it's previous top speed. That's PROGRESS!
You demonstrate your preference in action. It made sense when investing in third world countriws cost nothing and Higgs law was in full force. We'll see how the market responds to new conditions
Rolloh is flipping everyone off.
I live 1950s everyday apart from my hidden laptop my car clothes Telly everything, Its so futuristic, some people think midcentury is Modern far from it.
It's telling how many of these are adverts
It's all sponsored by GM so go figure ,it s an older version of an informercial
listening.. like finding a lost Firesign Theatre Episode , including Ice Cream Truck music between scenes
this looks more like the flintstones than now
The hospital mentioned is Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Walnut Creek, California - it was the hospital we went to growing up in the San Francisco East Bay Area in the 60's & 70's
Does it still have a pool?
That place has sure gone to pot…
Watched 12 Angry Men came here to this. A smooth transition
Everyone is talking about how everything has gone to the toilet compared to the past’s predictions, but a quick reminder: in the 60s, there was racism. In the 70s, there was a gas crisis. In the 80s, there was the AIDs crisis. Every time period has its problems, just dressed in different clothing. So don’t let that be a distraction from how much good has been accomplished since, and will be accomplished in the future!
Oh, yes, racism. The greatest problem of the 60's. 😂
Too bad (((margre sanger))) couldn't get em all...
The thumbnail is actually very relevant and accurate to these days!! E-learning!Except the computers are much smaller and each student is in their own bedroom!!
"Rollo like!". ;*[}
I love all these future highway visions where there's ten cars every hundred miles....either the Earth depopulated or everyone r e a l l y s p r e a d o u t......
20:00 Boy oh boy were they ever ridiculous. I guess this is GM's mad men at work.
I absolutely love these videos, thank you!
the "have I told you lately that I love you", should have been called "the said family". I guess tv dinners will do that. I love how she took the food from the tv dinner and put it on a plate...nope eat it right out of the package. I love this sleepcore channel !
look at 19:20. I'm not an expert on jet cars or anything like that but shouldn't those Jet turbines be spinning?
The turbines in jet turbines are concealed inside the engine you should be able to se them spinning at low speed only from the front where they usually draw a spiral to make the spinning noticeable
I often put together ambient 80s commercial playlists, and I’ve watched 3 of your vids, and seen 3 of those commercials from my playlists. Dr Pepper, Chevrolet etc and I used to watch these retrofuturism clips obsessively, looking for what we have today in home automation, or are on the cusp of developing from self driving to auto chefs. Must have similar world views!
See kido's. Dystopian visions of the future have crowds, muchos crowds.
If you want this sort of future get the earth's population down to 500 mil.
That's the plan.
Wow, we didn't even envision a rotary can opener for the robot.
I guess they didn't want to predict the millions of old cars still being driven because some people cannot afford to buy new cars.
My goodness, if these people live in our world today, our stuffs will blow their minds away.
I can't wait to send a fax from the beach
The short that starts at 23 is like a nightmare!!!
a 1961 Cadillac and a corsair Lakewood?? very nice!
This is the content I've been looking for on RUclips! You got a new subscriber!
The scene at 24:00-25:00 contradicts the idea that couples always slept in separate beds in earlier entertainment. They usually did, but not always.
And yet Richie Petrie -- the miracle child.
5:49 Brilliant...until you happen to place the kettle beside the sink and the ejected cord drops into the water. They didn't have GFCI plugs as the kitchen standard in those days.
the amount of time it took to set a route in that self driving car. gm was smoking a lot of weed if they thought that was ever realistic
Damn what a future, I wish I lived in 1976!
1976 , I was 16, don't remember it that way.
I used to immaginate the future that way
You mean when sex was safe and motorcycles were dangerous?
@@Thebasicmaker Imaginnate is not a word, therefore meaningless.
The show (if it could be called that), at 24:00 to 38:50 is one of the most noir things I've ever watched. It's depressingly dark and very removed. From the casting credits to it's fade to black is entirely genius. I wanna find a copy of only that movie(?). The commerical that follows at 40:40 is just as dark but 5 times more bizarrely unique. It borderlines a horror/psycho suspense thriller genre.
Both are brilliant works.
Keep up the great work on the channel. Thanks for providing the refreshing quality media for my grey matter.
Pfft. My car has that. My car has that. My car...what? Orange juice and ice cream? WHY DOESN'T MY CAR HAVE THAT?
right or left lane driving and when the control tower gives you options.. where did we go wrong??
In 1976 (~17:05), those kids will happy in their new Pacer! :D
Rohlo is Rosie from the jetsons lmao minus the apron
So much impracticallity; if RUclips and Thunderf00t existed in this era he'd a field day in a 100 acre woods!
Some concepts actually made it to the modern day.
I can't stop laughing when I watch these retro future videos.
Who were the actors in the firebird clip. Cool. They predicted GPS
The son is someone very familiar but I can't place him.
@Oppekdeldoc1: My first impression was Burt Ward.
I think it's Timmy Everett who played Tommy Djelis in "The Music Man."
Good stuff uploader......GREAT JOB !.....Keep em coming
WOW!! That GM Frigidaire musical was jaw-dropping!!!
The cigarette dispenser at 38:08 captures the The meaninglessness of modernity in the early 1950s - a trivial mechanical device dispensing a carcinogen to the accompaniment of trite music to a man whose day has ended at 9:30 at night. At that time (I was there), companies were trying to automate everything and nothing worked for very long, if at all. It was the age of the repairman (or banging objects to make them work), recalcitrant conveniences like the cigarette machine, and plastic food shorn of nutrition and flavour for convenience sake. Dishwashers left behind hardened food and saltwater-etching. Cars weren’t engineered but “designed” by “stylists”. The designs and components were defective-unsafe at any speed. I recommend reading the original “Design for the real world : human ecology and social change”. Papenak, Victor J. (1973), New York, Pantheon.
I bet you're a hit at parties, Karen.
@@ashleyhathaway8548 But you’re still going to read the book, right? Without that, you entirely miss the point that I’m making-the 50’s spawned the 60’s and life really kicked off.
@@annteve I certainly will check it out; skim the contents to see if it's something that interests me, at the very least. Thanks for the suggestion! :-)
I grew up in a small town you've never heard of to a working class family that lived in a tight knit community. To our parents, their religious faith was the core of their lives. All of this you see was just something the others with "money" did. All we could do was watch them as the drove by in their fancy cars and lived in their big houses. To be honest, we thought of them as "souless", without heart and lacking a moral core. That explained their aloofness and cruelty...for the most part we were proven right (IMO). How do we know this? By the god they worshipped: money. This is how I remember those days.
Some of the automated futuristic ideas were silly, of course. Why put your shoes in the closet when a complex series of belts and motors can do it for you in only 15 minutes! They never considered the cost and future maintenance of such complicated conveniences designed to fix something that didn't need to be fixed.
I can’t wait to get a 1976 Firebird.
38:00 Somebody tell me where I can find that cigarette dispenser!
man that segment was bleak
@@AlexKislitsyn that was one dysfunctional family ,no communicating with anybody ,everybody living the same house alone with themselves and they didn't have the internet to entertain them.just a great array of new appliances to cook unspectacular meals eaten alone and in total silencep
The future never turns out how it's expected.
Amazing thank you. Funny the song the couple are singing reminds me of the tune from tv series horrible histories.
Retrofuturism is not always accurate but I am sure about one thing, Americans can't imagine future without cars.
If there are no cars, who will build the roads? Who will subsidize our glorious Detroit?
Just kidding. 15 minute cities would be incredibly profitable in ancapistan, which is why European nobility built places like Amsterdam, rome, copenhagen, and Stockholm before democracy kicked in with the massive subsidy of suburbs.
another sleepkino.. nice :)
I remember that AT+T commercial! 😅
I wonder if this production is what inspired the Jetsons..or Visa vie?? Filmed onset location.
Love how they said ro butts
0:58 Pneumatic tubes. Could still be a useful technology.
It still is. Blood samples, medicine etc. are still transported this way, if speed is key. For some places that collect lots of cash, like toll booths, cash registers in big stores etc. it can be a viable alternative to carrying the cash to the central office.
Your local bank uses them for drive ups.
“Ding ding. Slide me muh baby thru the baby-chute.”
Well they might have got the Medical title correct, it will be a "dream" in the future to get real healthcare.😰
This is the very stuff I love to doze off to!!! Oh I can't thank you enough 💕
17:05 Can you imagine how many people would be required to monitor that type of highway system in 1976?
2021- "Ok Google, find me the best route to Chicago and make us reservations at a Hotel along the way." "Hey Google, please lock the front door, ask the thermostat to set the home temperature to 70 degrees, ask the dishwasher to start."
Siri and Alexa can do all that
The robot's name - Skynet.
Warning from the future, warning! We don’t have robots but we have gender dysphoria, no housewives bc ppl just hook up, and so much food & automation diabetes and obesity is at an epidemic
That deserves a big fat "OK BOOMER," bud.
Sounds more like you're from the past than the future,
Unless I’m mistaken, that’s Bing Crosby’s voice at 15:58. Which means they were all doing lip-sync! But would Crosby go uncredited in a GM commercial? Maybe, if they paid him enough.
i knew i heard him
i love retrofuturism xD
LOL at the Panther 6, literally Homer Simpsons design.
19:30 look how close to a mouse they were right then. They say Xerox came up with it first but this is really close. Also like an Etch A Sketch.
i'm starting to get where the inspiration for the bots in intersteller came from.....
45:39 What happened to those pillarless designs ... were they not considered safe enough?
Did those doors have one huge window?