Tex Avery predicts the Television of Tomorrow (in 1953) - VIDEO

February 24th, 2008 | Category: Animation

I’m a sucker for cartoons of the 40s and 50s, whether it’s Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, or those two squirrels that just wanted to have a nice life where everyone left them alone (their names escape me at the moment). I plus like the great pseudo-documentary cartoons that you often saw, like the one after the jump.

It’s Television From Tomorrow from MGM and Tex Avery. It shows what the typical household is going to look like in the future (the future meaning now - that was released in 1953). Specifically, it shows what the television of the future was going to look like. It’s not serious, of course, but it’s very intelligent and really fun.

I like the big guns that pop out of the top of the television, and I think that complicated knob on the front of that one TV accurately predicts the complicated isolated controls we have nowadays. Oh, and the 4 out of 5 society who own TV sets? That could have been drawn nowadays.

Can you guess who the narrator is?

[via Boing Boing Gadgets]

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Original post by Bob Sassone