+Rob Watts I wasn't sure at first but it was too accurate with the current future to be made in the 1930s. Also like Crashhandburn999 said, electronic computer didn't really exist until the 50s. The term "computer" is far older though but I'm pretty sure that the term "crash" for a computer was only popularized around the 70s.
Not possible. They might have had a primitive analog computer but there were no electronic devices until the invention of the vacuum tube early in the 20th century.
Quite accurate? QUITE ACCURATE????? I live in Great Britain and I have spent an entire school year (semester) and I use Southern Railways, run by Govia Thameslink Railway, and no train, and I mean NO TRAIN, has run on time in the ENTIRE year. Quite accurate my arse!
At first, I thought this was a real dated 1937 film. But when I saw the portable Grammophones, I got the joke. Truthful as the trend is, British people in 1937 would have thought this would be completely awkward! Exposed midriffs, yes. But they will be tummies that are tight, toned, and twerked.
bubblinbrownsugar616 ha go to any theme park in the summer time and you will see lots of midriffs that are not toned and definitely should NOT be exposed.
How dare you insult the British, old chap! We are the height of excellence! We're tip-top old chum, and don't forget! We still have the Empire, don't you know? Oh? We don't? It's what now? Speak up, old chum, I can't hear you? God save the queen, tip-top and cheerio, old chum!
private railways and 'on time' women's body display and 'piercing' the brooch music on run computers in every home women's politicians surprisingly accurate
The reason they're talking about 2001 and getting it so accurate is because this episode was made and aired in 2001. It's a spoof! For those who STILL don't understand: British railway privatisation happened in the 1990s and hasn't been 100% successful. The portable gramophone is poking fun at the Sony Discman and other portable CD players that were popular around the millennium. "The Enormous Turkey" is poking fun at the Millennium Dome because "turkey" is British slang for a loser or something completely useless/pointless. "Jollity" is obviously Ecstacy.
Another joke is that the railways weren't nationalised until 1948 and this spoof is set in 1937 when there were separate rail companies, just like after the privatisation of 1994-97.
Yes...true...and those people..generally older..who see an actor appearing in two different TV programmes at the same time...astonished that they can be on two places at the same time...I've even heard someone say ...it must be a lookalike ..incredible in this day and age of high tech
***** When it doesn't seem funny at all. No offense, your guises humor can be a tad weird sometimes. XD What do I know, I'm American and even our humor can be..ye
***** No I agree, I don't find those shows funny at all and I mean Friends is old and Big Bang is just...eh. I mean you brits have a unique humor like we Americans do. What we find funny might not be funny at all. To be honest, I don't find most shows on tv funny anyway.
As soon as you said America didn't land on the moon you lost all credibility. Look at the facts. America was there. I am sorry that you are so angry you were not born an American. It's ok though bro. I am sure your country will accomplish something some day.
***** It's true, it was too expensive to go to the Moon so they went to Mars instead. That's why all the photo's and TV transmissions were in black and white. No-one suspected a thing! The laser reflectors at the "landing sites" were actually set up by Werner von Braun's contacts at the Nazi Moon Base.
Some Americans get British humour because they are British descendants, but large numbers of Americans descend from Europeans many who are emotionally dead... like the Germans. America is a cultural wasteland.
Wow! this may have been a joke but they sure were spot on for the most part: (navel piercings, cd's, iPods, pc/mac, female politicians, prescription drugs)
***** Mate, I have to admit I think the bastard got us :D I can smell a troll at about 14 feet, but this new Internet thing has me fucked. I don't mind admitting that I reckon now he was pulling our leg.
Wonderful comedy. Harry was one of those rare talents, that broke new comic ground. But sadly, what it does, is show what crap we have to put up with now. I wish he would reintroduce these very funny characters again--my favourites.
In November 1998 a survey found that 73% of people said that they were not planning to celebrate anything more than a normal new year's day on 1st January 2000 ... most of the remaining 27% were Catholics - for them the year 2000 was a Jubilee Year, the last year of the 2nd Millennium. On January 1st 2000 huge celebrations occurred throughout the world with most people believing it was the first day of the 3rd Millennium, the first day of the 21st century.
Actually, a guy by name of Philo T. Farnsworth, from Utah, had first working TV in 20's, from idea he had in 1916.Sarnoff(head of RCA), and his lawyers, fought issue, but eventually Farnsworth was credited with original idea but received virtually nothing.AC power was project of George Westinghouse in late 1800's, long predating Tesla.
WOW this was spot on! the walkman! the drug addicts! the computer in every home! discs that can fit on your hands! Women's movement, women working high end jobs! EVEN THE JEWELRY ON THEIR BELLIES! this shit was spot on!
They were so right about every household having a computer and women being in leadership positions and grammaphone records being so small that you can hold them in the palm of your hands.
"All the trains run on time as usual" An average day in Seattle, WA in the year 2017 "Passenger trains will be delayed today again. Sound Transportation citing freight traffic as the cause"
Just the laughter and the comedy timing gives it away in just a few seconds. Can't believe some people actually believe this....And i mean that...............if you can't figure that out by yourself, there is really something wrong with you.
Congratulations to all you Americans who realised, really quite quickly for Americans that this film was a satirical British entertainment from the 1990s and not a remarkably prescient documentary piece from the 1930s.
America has only existed for a fraction of the time that notable authors have been making biting satires. Jonathan Swift was one of the greatest satirists of all time and was writing before the Revolution even occurred.
The reason why US "invented" most things was because inventors, many of them immigrants or children of immigrants, were allowed the benefits from their ideas.A good example was the Frenchman that perfected photographic techniques in 1800's.Concept was appropriated by French government and inventor merely given a pension by the French government.In US, a person could become very wealthy from patent or selling patent.This important fact overlooked by both sides in this debate.
@rhn94 because if it was shot with "Film" and converted to digital they wouldn't have static that is usually found while recording this on a vcr from the TV
".... and life will be so much better in the year 2012, dontcha know, dontcha know, because the people of the future won't know how to larf like we do in these present days. They will not understand things seen on these new compuuuters, and will believe it all to be real (arf arf)" !!!
Nothing ever disappears. In some highly guarded, dark, obscure archive somewhere, all the Tesla stuff is there.It still begs the question, as I'm typing on a device, whose technology was unimaginable a generation ago, what things did Tesla discover over 70 years ago that still hold such a need for secrecy?
