Saturday, June 04, 2005

Design for Dreaming

Design for Dreaming might be the goofiest industrial film ever made. In it, a woman dreams that a masked stranger floats her to an auto show to see the gleaming General Motors product line for 1956. Lovely! For some reason, she's then transported a space-age kitchen to make a cake. Then she performs a rhythmic "dance to the future" which I'm sure had Bob Fosse quaking in his boots. More cars follow. In the end, Mr. Mask whisks her away to a barren, futuristic highway. My heart belongs to the pixie-haired lead actress and how she reacts to everything. Mystery Science Theater 3000 did a mock-up of this short, but the regular version housed at The Prelinger Archives is almost as hilarous. [from Scrubbles.net]

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