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Showtime's 'In the 20th Century' is een millenniumgerelateerde reeks lange documentaires waarin beroemde regisseurs belangrijke onderwerpen naar keuze behandelen. In de derde van de zes films, 'Yesterday's Tomorrows', duikt filmmaker Barry Levinson in wat wij, als Amerikanen, dachten dat de toekomst zou zijn terwijl we door de 20e eeuw reisden. Huizen en auto's van de toekomst, de belofte van technologie en de andere hoop en dromen uit het begin van de eeuw maakten plaats voor de angsten en zorgen die werden veroorzaakt door het atoomtijdperk en de Hollywood-rampenfilms die daarop volgden. Al snel vroegen we ons af of we de technologie konden beheersen, of dat zij ons zou beheersen. Deze film is afwisselend luchtig en doordacht, en zeldzame historische en archieffilm, geproduceerd door overheid en industrie, afgewisseld met interviews op het scherm met mensen zo divers als consumentenadvocaat Ralph Nader, cartoonist Matt Groening, futurist Alvin Toffler.

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Yesterday's Tomorrows

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Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take on major subjects of their choosing. In the third of the six films, "Yesterday's Tomorrows," filmmaker Barry Levinson delves into what we, as Americans, thought the future would be as we traveled through the 20th century. Houses and cars of the future, the promise of technology, and the other hopes and dreams of the early part of the century gave way to the fears and anxieties brought about by the atomic age and the Hollywood disaster films that followed. Soon we wondered if we could control technology, or if it would control us. This film is by turns light-hearted and thoughtful, and rare historical and archival film, produced by government and industry, alternates with on-screen interviews with people as diverse as consumer advocate Ralph Nader, cartoonist Matt Groening, futurist Alvin Toffler, comedienne Phyllis Diller, and actor Martin Mull.

1h 39m

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