During the 1966 sequence, Wells is looking at the products being displayed in the window of Filby's store. There is a flat-screen TV with a sign under it that reads "The Latest Tubeless TV." The TV is off and the screen is beige-colored for some reason, but this is pretty amazing, considering that this movie was released in 1960!
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Missed it. Thanks for pointing it out. I always find two "futuristic movie/tv" things funny:
1. They predict correct things, but way too soon. Movies/TV have people flying around in jetpacks to work in the 60's (or the flat-screen in 1966).
2. I don't know how the future from now will shake down, but I have yet to see the futuristic world of Movies/TV where portable devices play a huge part as they do in the future of 2012. It's as if that's the one thing nobody could have predicted back in the world of "bigger is better."
Yes. I watched the film yesterday, for the first time in many years, and did notice that and was equally impressed! I was only going to watch10 minutes of the film but ended up watching it all. Personally I think it has stood the test of time (ho ho) very well. An excellently crafted movie.
shareI grew up reading electronics magazines in the 60s and 70s, and it seems like flatscreen TV was predicted to be right around the corner about every five years.
It took a whole lot longer than it should have to get flatscreen TV. Personal computers would have been a whole more difficult to predict.
Agreed. I've just read a book entitled: 'The Usborne book of the future: A trip in time to the year 2000 and beyond' published in 1979, and it predicts that 'very large, flat-screen TVs will be no thicker than 5cm'.
Mind you, it also predicts the usual guff about household robots, moon bases etc all being common by 2000.
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I always tell my sons that I used to read and see depictions of flat screen tvs and never thought they would actually make them. Even as late as 1980 when it is shown in the second Back to the Future movie I thought it was a pipe dream. No jetpacks or flying cars but this they got right.
sharehere it is...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQxRpL0NTbg&list=UUiUthkZ7QsLc0h6JtFr2_sQ&index=6&feature=plcp
I have watched this movie a dozen times (for real on VHS and now DVD) and never noticed that. Just watched the youtube excerpt and there it is. Amazing really considering the time. Great eyes folks.
shareWhen countries go into a state of 'total war', researchers get staggering budgets to work on the most trivial things, we haven't had a great war since 1945, where we got nuclear weapons/power, jet engines, antibiotics and radar among other things. The competitiveness of the cold war gave us mobile phones, microwaves, the internet and numerous gadgets that are now household items but even that ended in 1991.
No moonbases for us for a long time because big research costs insane ammounts of money and money is only dished out insanely when two or more countries are having a dick-measuring contest.
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I agree. Most impressive. I too have watched the movie many many times and never spotted this. Thanks very much!
shareI too missed the flat screen TV.
One of the things in a future-related story that actually came about Sooner than predicted was the "communicator" in the pocket of every person on the Star Trek series. We have them now - only we call them "cell phones." It seems the only difference with the average person is the range - not sure mine could go "ship to planet" - but they are probably out there (or could be).
I agree with a previous poster that we could have had livable "pods" or whatever on the Moon by now, but for budgetary reasons.
As many times I've see it I never noticed it. Nice job.
Thing to Come (1936) predicted a transparent flat screen TV
https://youtu.be/rSpoOx5wgPY
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In the British sci fi TV show Space: 1999 they had comlocks (the show was made in 1972), a sort of boxy instrument that you held. It had a viewing screen and you spoke into it, like a cell phone but a bit bigger. Everyone carried them hooked to their belts. Oh, and they were on a moonbase!
shareWasn't Star Trek the forerunners for cell phones?
shareAs others have noted, this was really easy to miss. I have watched the film a few times and never noticed it before. But, yeah, it's very impressive.
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I have seen this film maybe a dozen times on a tv set, but tonight I watched it for the first time in my home theater.
I, too, just noticed the 1960's version of what looks remarkably like a 17 inch flat screen computer monitor! This movie never ceases to amaze me!
...Of Outer Space" (1958)with Zsa Zsa Gabor, which predated "The Time Machine" by 2 years you have a flat-wide-screen color TV that looks exactly like our latest
computer monitors !
Check it up ! Amazing !
But when we come to think of it, movie-recording magnetic tapes were
present already in 1949 and perhaps even before, although the cost then
made them confined to TV studios only.
By the way the movie "Queen Of Outer Space" in itself is a must-see too !
" By the way the movie "Queen Of Outer Space" in itself is a must-see too [] ! " ---- Thanks for the movie recommendation too lezardormeurgeant . I will be definitely checking out that one as soon as possible .