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Il y a 50 ans, la pacification du monde après 5 ans d’années noires combinée au développement des premiers engins à vocation spatiale, les débuts de l’énergie atomique, le pétrole à profusion et la consommation à crédit étaient la garantie d’un avenir radieux. L’an 2000, chiffre rond et symbolique, devait correspondre à la réalisation de tous les fantasmes d’alors.

En attendant, designers, constructeurs automobiles, architectes et bien d’autres s’ingénient le coeur battant à figurer ce à quoi ressemblera demain.
De ces moments d’euphorie, il reste toute une série de dessins et de films représentant un futur qui n’a jamais eu lieu. Et pourtant, la vision de ces documents d’époque nous fait encore rêver, 50 ans plus tard. Serions-nous passés à côté de cela?
Aujourd’hui, le regard que nous posons sur le futur, expérience oblige, est certes synonyme d’espoir mais teinté de crainte.

Retour sur quelques clips (parfois humoristiques) des années 50 où le rêve rime avec insouciance.

House of the future - part 1
House of the future - part 2
Magic Highways
Farm of Tomorrow
A Ballad for the Fair 1964
Future Design
The Jetson
A Is For Atom
Vision of year 2000 from year 1957



Na 5 donkere jaren waren 50 jaar geleden de wereldvrede samen met de ontwikkeling van de eerste ruimtetuigen, het begin van de atoomenergie, de overvloed aan aardolie, en het kopen op afbetaling de garantie voor een stralende toekomst. Het jaar 2000, een rond en symbolisch getal, zou al die dromen van toen waarmaken.

Ondertussen, deden designers, autofabrikanten, architecten en tal van anderen, met hart en ziel hun best de dag van morgen uit te beelden.
Van deze momenten van euforie getuigen een hele reeks tekeningen en films. Ze laten een toekomst zien die er nooit gekomen is. Nochtans, doen deze documenten van vroeger, na 50 jaar, ons nog altijd dromen. We hebben onze les geleerd en de blik die we vandaag op de toekomst richten is er één vol hoop, maar is ook gekleurd door vrees.

Terugblik op enkele clips (soms humoristische) uit de jaren 50 waar droom rijmt op zorgeloosheid. 

House of the future - part 1
House of the future - part 2
Magic Highways
Farm of Tomorrow
A Ballad for the Fair 1964
Future Design
The Jetson
A Is For Atom
Vision of year 2000 from year 1957  
 

 
50 years ago, the world peace after 5 dark years, together with the development of the first space crafts, the introduction of nuclear power, the profusion of petroleum and hire-purchases were the guarantee of a brilliant future. The year 2000, a round and symbolic number, should have made all these dreams come true.
 
Meanwhile, designers, car manufacturers, architects and many others were striving to represent tomorrow.
Of these moments of euphoria, is left a whole series of drawings and films representing a future which has never come true. Nevertheless, the vision of these documents of that period of time still makes us dream, 50 years later. Would we have missed that?
 
Today, the glance which we put on the future, the experience obliges, is certainly synonym of hope but tinged with fear. 

Flashback on some clips (sometimes funny ones) of the 50’s when dream rhymed with carelessness.
 
 

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March 25. 2008 05:44

Fred

I am pleased to reminisce about the World's Fair of 1958 where I represnted the US at the US Pavilion as one of the guides who came from the US . At the time I was in the third year at the University of Maryland. I took a leave of absence when I was selected by the US Department of State. It was a most memorable time of my life. I had emigrated to the US in l952 from Verviers in Belgium. It was the second time I came back in 6 years, once only 2 years after I had left Belgium, as an American soldier occupying Germany. At the US Pavilion I served on the team which handled the VIPs visiting the pavilion such as Sphia Loren and Brigitte Bardot among noted actressess. Orson Welles and Errol Flyn as actors, Cardinal Benjamin of Spain, President Vorochiilov and minister Anastas Mikoyan of the then USSr, and Governor Adlai Stevenson, a former Presidential candidate; President Hoover, and many others. I am fluent in several languages. I was also active in Jeunexpo , the social group of the Fair workers. Best wishes on th 50th Anniversary from Freddy in Washington, DC USA

Fred

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