Set at the 1956 General Motors Motorama in Los Angeles, this weird Populux film reveals a drunkenly giddy, very likely drug-fueled vision of the future that obviously never came to pass for Flint. It's half Broadway musical, half burlesque show as envisioned by horny middle-aged GM executives.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
In the future when all's well
On the glorious day that General Motors posted a $3.25 billion quarterly loss — heralded by analysts as "better than expected" — let's look back to happier, more optimistic times for the auto manufacturer born in Flint.
Set at the 1956 General Motors Motorama in Los Angeles, this weird Populux film reveals a drunkenly giddy, very likely drug-fueled vision of the future that obviously never came to pass for Flint. It's half Broadway musical, half burlesque show as envisioned by horny middle-aged GM executives.
Set at the 1956 General Motors Motorama in Los Angeles, this weird Populux film reveals a drunkenly giddy, very likely drug-fueled vision of the future that obviously never came to pass for Flint. It's half Broadway musical, half burlesque show as envisioned by horny middle-aged GM executives.
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I thought the guy who discovered LSD died yesterday (April 29th). You mean he figured out a way to pass LSD through celluloid and into the eyes?
ReplyDeleteWow, there's has to be some connection here. Thanks for the update on the LSD news.
ReplyDeleteCar Woman Fashion - nothing like a little hallucinogenic-fueled Twilight Zone style commodification to make the world go round...Where on earth did you dig up that film?!
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