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The kitchen of the year 2000 is the subject of this crazy little film from 1957, produced in connection with the "Paris Exhibition of the Future." Shopping channels and microwave ovens make an appearance, as do pop-up cutlery and dish racks, a glass refrigerator, and an automatic recipe station that runs on IBM cards, all narrated in Czech with fabulously fractured English subtitles.
A Czech Vision of the 21st Century, from 1957
The kitchen of the year 2000 is the subject of this crazy little film from 1957, produced in connection with the "Paris Exhibition of the Future." Shopping channels and microwave ovens make an appearance, as do pop-up cutlery and dish racks, a glass refrigerator, and an automatic recipe station that runs on IBM cards, all narrated in Czech with fabulously fractured English subtitles.
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1:22 PM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Lynn Peril
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I can't wait till punch cards replace all my cookery books.
Cops took away my "cokery book" once. And judging by that fancy rotisserie thing, Ron Popeil was born in Czechkoslovakia..
And wait - can you imagine what this stuff must've looked like to that country's residents, who were all under a Communist regime?
This is the same kitchen featured in the beautifully surreal "Design for Dreaming", a promotional film produced for GM's Motorama exhibits. I would guess that the film is a dubbed czech version of footage from the same set.
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@hal2k: So it is! Good catch.
@In Other News...: It looked all the same, regardless of the regime.
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