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.









3 comments:

  1. 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?

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  2. Wow, there's has to be some connection here. Thanks for the update on the LSD news.

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  3. Car 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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Thanks for commenting. I moderate comments, so it may take a while for your comment to appear. You might enjoy my book about Flint called "Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City," a Michigan Notable Book for 2014 and a finalist for the 33rd Annual Northern California Book Award for Creative NonFiction. Filmmaker Michael Moore described Teardown as "a brilliant chronicle of the Mad Maxization of a once-great American city." More information about Teardown is available at www.teardownbook.com.