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Ma Bell pulls off what no other manufacturer could accomplish: It accurately predicts on film how its products would evolve. They show then-marvels including TouchTone dialing, pagers, call-annoying, etc. Listen for the Simpsons-esque tram announc

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Century 21 Calling...
Ma Bell pulls off what no other manufacturer could accomplish: It accurately predicts on film how its products would evolve. They show then-marvels including TouchTone dialing, pagers, call-annoying, etc. Listen for the Simpsons-esque tram announc
The Big Bounce
Every truly great tech advance starts with something you can find in a toy chest, including international phone service. The first telecom satellite was a balloon. Here's the story of Echo, the big balloon that could.
To New Horizons
Hard as it is to imagine, there once was a time when 1960 was still 20 years in the future. Here is a documentary about the Futurama exhibit in General Motors' "Highways and Horizons" pavilion at the 1940 World's Fair.
The John Glenn Story
This is a fun time capsule, recording an era when the public never doubted that its heroes were pure, and the U.S. could be unanimously proud of something. Narrator Jack Webb tells us that the Glenn story "throbs with nation's restless energy."
Design for Dreaming
A single gal dreams that a top-hatted, gold-masked man pops into her bedroom to show her a better life through purchasing. Singing and dancing like in a Broadway play, the Keely Smith look-alike warbles, "I want a Corvette!" Stand in line, s
Leave it to Roll-oh!
With Roll-Oh, a "chromium-plated butler," your "domestic problems are completely solved." But don't run out to buy your own robot (here pronounced robut)! He's just a story tool used to show how "thinking machines" already serve
Man and His Culture
Using the conceit of a space alien's report on earth's cultures, we learn that Western culture is complex and African cultures are simple. Lab credit for viewers who explore Epcot Center.
A Touch of Magic
This is a Freudian marketing dream. GM teases our latent desires with jazz, car pitches, knights and a dragon. Watch for the inter-species/inter-fantasy love subplot, when the dragon tries to make time with Miss Consumer.
American Look
This Technicolor treat presented by Chevrolet is a call to shop. It extolls America's "ever-improving good taste" for "wonderous possessions" in "tempting, hinting and revealing" packages. Sounds like marketing for Playboy of the same era.