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MutoidMan
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Design for Dreaming (1956)

on Wednesday, February, 21, 2007 1:49 AM
Seen this one Sketch? It's about a girl dreaming that she's at the 1956 General Motors Motorama.



Dang, how beautiful and cool.

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Re: Design for Dreaming (1956)

on Wednesday, February, 21, 2007 7:32 AM
Mwhaha. NUVEENA! WOMAN OF THE FUTURE!!

Erm, yeah. As you can tell, I've seen it...but on MST3K.
(After the short, they had a running gag throughout the "host segments" in the rest of the episode about the woman from the sketch--whom they called "Nuveena", "the magical singing, dancing woman of the future!"--showing up on the Satellite of Love for no reason and doing everything through song. And she could only _understand_ song, so Mike had to sing back to her. Funny stuff. )
The episode, in case you're interested, is the one with the movie called "Twelve to the Moon". Not at all a painful experiment; I frankly think the actual movie is not that bad, too, for an old B-movie. And their riffing makes this already weird short even funnier.

Anyway, yeah. Bizzarre but fun little short. It always makes me ask: What were they _on_ back then?! This thing is really surrealistic.
It also got repeatedly referenced (they showed little bits of it) in the special "How William Shatner Changed the World", by the way. I kept going "Hey, that's Nuveena!" every now and then. You can tell I'm a true MSTie if I can recognise something off of a _tiny_ little one-second throw-away clip...

Er, sorry for answering this even though I'm not Sketch. :P

EDIT: Upon actually watching this again, some observations...
--That's a really cool dress. I like how it seems to be fairly simple, and then turns out to have all these delicate complicated multi-layers..very pretty.

--I want that weird silver car too!

--(When it got to the futuristic world part at the end) That's really cool, in fact it's...(the camera pans back) HOLY CRAP _now_ I see why you'd post this on the TRON board! That's...that's uncanny, how well that cityscape would fit into either the movie or Tron 2.0, with only a small bit of modification...
I'm not sure if I've seen that bit before, actually. The MSTed version might've cut it slightly for length.

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Re: Design for Dreaming (1956)

on Wednesday, February, 21, 2007 9:21 AM
Yeah, seen that one, great video. Love the push-button future kitchen. That rotating fridge and bubble dome oven rock. Neat use of the Firebird II concept.

The Firebird concepts where awsome and great designs by Harley Earl.


Personal fav is the Firebird III.



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