Design For Dreaming.
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Duration: 10 min.
Year Published: 1956
Creator: General Motors Corp
Format: 16mm
Color: Color
Sound: sound
Description:
DESIGN FOR DREAMING (1956, sound, 9 min, color, 35mm)
Sponsor: General Motors Corp. Production Co.: MPOProductions Inc. Producer: Victor D. Solow. Cast: Thelma “Tad” Tadlock, Mark Breaux. Resources: Copyright 1Apr56 MP7798; “Motorama: Vision of the Future,” Bus Scrn 17, no. 4 (1956): 40. Holdings: Getty Images, GMMA, LC/Prelinger.
Best-known of the films presenting “Motorama,” General Motors’ annual traveling automobile and appliance trade show. This example introduces the 1956 automobile models, Frigidaire’s “Kitchen of Tomorrow,” electronic highways of the future, and GM “dream cars” the Oldsmobile Golden Rocket and the turbine-powered Pontiac Firebird II. An amalgam of styles drawn from industrial stage shows and Hollywood musicals, Design for Dreaming has become emblematic of 1950s futuristic modernism. note: Debuting at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, the 1956 “Motorama” show attracted 2 million people during its five-city tour. It was released in 35mm Eastmancolor and 16mm Anscocolor prints and shown in theaters and at automobile dealerships.
Complete Record: DESIGN FOR DREAMING (1956, sound, 9 min, color, 35mm) Sponsor: General Motors Corp. Production Co.: MPOProductions Inc. Producer: Victor D. Solow. Cast: Thelma “Tad” Tadlock, Mark Breaux. Resources: Copyright 1Apr56 MP7798; “Motorama: Vision of the Future,” Bus Scrn 17, no. 4 (1956): 40. Holdings: Getty Images, GMMA, LC/Prelinger. Best-known of the films presenting “Motorama,” General Motors’ annual traveling automobile and appliance trade show. This example introduces the 1956 automobile models, Frigidaire’s “Kitchen of Tomorrow,” electronic highways of the future, and GM “dream cars” the Oldsmobile Golden Rocket and the turbine-powered Pontiac Firebird II. An amalgam of styles drawn from industrial stage shows and Hollywood musicals, Design for Dreaming has become emblematic of 1950s futuristic modernism. note: Debuting at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, the 1956 “Motorama” show attracted 2 million people during its five-city tour. It was released in 35mm Eastmancolor and 16mm Anscocolor prints and shown in theaters and at automobile dealerships.
Transcription
[Music] nighton so bright it melted the walls away and it wasn't alarming when I saw Prince Charm my bom and let me persuade you to come to the place where tomorrow meets today ooo thank you it sounds very exciting may I Come Just As I Am hey girls don't go to mamas dressed in a pair of pink pajamas maybe they don't but I don't care haven't got a single thing to wear quick please a gown ooh I'll be the Talk of the Town oh my go after it fly I followed my heart through the night pass a thousand Windows yellow with light down down it fell and it landed in the wardor Estoria Hotel I'm a girl who happen to think that a brand new car is better than mink excited delighted so glad I got invited since it's just a dream and involves no money which one would you like me to buy you honey they are all so beautiful I really don't know so let me go down get thead down and look at each one much closer [Music] I want a Corvette I thought you would oo I want a Pontiac too okay we'll have the usual two-car garage how do you feel about this final mobile it's easy to see myself taking the wheel this Buck a be I'll try it oo what a dreamy right I think that we are to buy it let's go fall out and buy a Cadillac to I can hardly wait for this dream to come true hey lady your apron is shine I better get her into the kitchen quick just like a man you give him a break and you wonder up in a kitchen baking a cake but this was a kitchen like none i' seen put a card in the slots and onto the screen pops a picture of just how your dish will look plus all the ingredients you need to cook no need for the bride to feel tragic the rest is push button magic so whether you bake or broil or stew the fidget a kitchen does it all for you don't have to be chained to the stove all day just set the timer and you're on your way tick tock tick tock I'm free to have onun around the clock Jeepers I'm exhausted the kitchen of Tomorrow is calling me my cake is ready time for the show everybody on stage and now a glamorous dancer in a special number dance of tomorrow everyone says the future is strange but I have a feeling some things won't change [Applause] now the dream cars of Tomorrow a magnificent El Dorado Town Car are by Cadillac Ensemble by Christian Dior of Paris Buick presents the Sleek Centurion driving coat by Montano of New York olds Mobile's elegant golden rocket sport outfit by Pat Primo of Los [Music] Angeles pontiac's Club demare open to the sky costume by Emilio Capri trevet is Impala graceful and Swift silk casual by big of London and last of all designed for the electronic Highway of the future The Fabulous turban powered Firebird 2 [Music] why it's you Firebird to to control tower we are about to take off on the highway of Tomorrow stand [Music] by tomorrow our dreams will come true [Music] together will make the world M strange shapes will rise out of the night but all love will not change it will be like a star burning bright liing away when go [Music]
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