Days of Future Passed
Films, television productions, video games, etc. set in a future time that has come and gone.
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- DirectorJ. Stuart BlacktonIn this picture we anticipate the probable means of navigation in the coming century. A young lady and a friend are observed entering an air-ship. The vehicle is loaded with ballast, sand bags, vegetables, etc., the passengers carrying spy-glasses. They laugh heartily, shake hands and are off. Another individual is seen equipped with wings scurrying through the clouds. Leaving the aerial navigators for a moment, we see a Hebrew walking down the street. Some sawdust falls upon him. He glances up in a rage, then proceeds on his way. Presently some vegetables drop on him. A glimpse of the air-ship shows the occupants laughing and throwing various articles at the unsuspecting pedestrian below. Some passersby, noticing the Jew having his troubles, stop and look upward, and they are showered with vegetables, etc., as well. A policeman is walking along on his beat when a lot of things fall on him. By this time quite a crowd has collected. An air-cycle cop is summoned, mounts his machine and flies upward. Our Hebrew friend finally reaches his place of business and enters just as a man comes in to pawn a pair of wings. The broker is delighted, gives the loan, tries on his strange equipment, and soars up into the sky. The air-cycle cop gives pursuit, catches the Hebrew and clubs him. He falls through space, lights on the moon for a moment, then drops down, down into the ocean. We see him sinking lower and lower until he strikes the bottom of the sea. He flirts with the mermaids, but a whale suddenly appears and scares the poor man almost to death, then devours him. On board a ship the sailors are fishing. The hooks are baited and thrown overboard. We see it descending until the whale swallows it and is pulled up on deck. The sailors beat the struggling fish, cut it open and our Jewish friend comes out and does a Hebrew sailor hornpipe.2008.
- DirectorAlice GuyStarsDarwin KarrBlanche CornwallBilly QuirkA great number of prognosticators often terrify us with visions of what will be when women shall rule the earth, and the time when men shall be subordinates and adjuncts. It is rather a fine question to decide, for chivalrous men, anyway. Today, with the multiplicity of feminine activities and the constant broadening of feminine spheres, it is difficult to predict to what height women will ascend. In the Solax production of "In the Year 2000," the release of Friday, May 17th, a serio-comic prognostication is unreeled on the screen with such magnetic force, charm and rich imaginative detail that one is compelled to accept the theories advanced on their face value. The conditions are reversed. Women in this film are supreme, and man's destiny is presided over by woman. No attempt is made at burlesque, but the very seriousness of the purpose of the theme makes the situations ludicrous.2000.
- DirectorAllen CurtisStarsMax AsherLouise FazendaBobby VernonOn this certain afternoon in the year 2014, Mrs. Jones, and her daughter, stock brokers, advertise for a first-class stenographer. Charles Van Doren, a defenseless young man, striving to make a livelihood in the big city, and at the same time retain his good name, calls on Jones' daughter, and is at once accepted as the new stenographer. He has not been there long, however, when Mrs. Jones takes advantage of his innocence, and makes improper advances to him. Howbeit, he gives her to understand at once that he is a good man and will not flirt. The office girl, from her lowly position in life, looks up to and idolizes the beautiful steno, but believes that he would never listen to such love as hers. However, in the sanctity of his heart, Charles is certain he loves the office girl, and only hopes that she will have the courage to propose to him. At the moment when both Jones and her daughter each believe herself the accepted suitor of Charles, the office girl is made courageous by desperation. She asks Charles if he will marry her. He drops his eyes, a rosy blush creeps to his cheek, and he allows his head to be drawn to the office girl's bosom. She leads the blushing groom to a nearby church where they are married.2014.
- DirectorFred W. DurrantStarsLeo LilleyDiana ShawMr. F. DunnIn Norfolk, an officer and a girl fetch troops when invaders occupy a village.1915.
- DirectorJohn B. O'BrienChristy CabanneStarsJohn EmersonSpottiswoode AitkenW.E. LawrenceIn the future (1921), an alliance of several foreign countries plot to attack the US. American officials, coming to the realization that the country is basically defenseless, offer $1,000,000 to anyone who can come up with a weapon to defeat the invaders. Winthrop Clavering, a writer and inventor, hears of the reward and tells his friend Bartholomew Thompson, a scientist and inventor who has been working on developing flying torpedo. However, enemy agents have also heard about Thompson's project, and set out to kill him and steal his plans.1921.
- DirectorJacques JaccardStarsOrmer LocklearAllan ForrestRay RipleyA daredevil flyer delivers the night mail despite threats from weather and robbers.1925.
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsLeo ConnardEva SpeyerGeorg H. SchnellIn 1949, Earth is struggling to rebuild after its civilisation has been destroyed.1949.
- DirectorHans WerckmeisterStarsEmil JanningsJohn GottowtHans Adalbert SchlettowAn alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that gives him superpowers.1921 to 1940.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniNoah YoungWomen rule the world in this vision of the future. Men wearing frills and lace, women in charge is the least of the zany future envisioned in this film, sure to be banned in Tennessee.2000.
- DirectorJohn G. BlystoneStarsEarle FoxeDerelys PerdueGrace CunardIn the future year of 1940, a young man is rejected and humiliated by a girl and goes off to be a hermit in a redwood forest. By 1950, a dreadful plague of "Masculitis" has killed every male over the age of puberty but our hermit hero. He's become a national treasure, and millions of man-starved females crave him, yet he still wants the gal who wouldn't have him.1960.
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsYuliya SolntsevaIgor IlyinskyNikolai TsereteliEngineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los travels to Mars where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group of Elders with the support of Queen Aelita who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.1974.
- DirectorWilliam WatsonStarsNeely EdwardsBert RoachAlice HowellOscar, a hen-pecked husband of a forthcoming generation, gets caught by his wife, who surprises him in the act of flirting with the ice-woman. His domineering spouse beats him up and then goes down to the office to earn the family bread. He then goes marketing, but is forced to submit to the unwelcome advances of a masherette. She forces him into her limousine and takes him for a long ride in the country. His unwillingness to indulge in a petting party results in his having to get out and walk home. The ice-woman returns and wants Oscar to elope, but is caught by Mrs. Oscar, who drives the interloper away. The ice-woman leaves, vowing vengeance: "You'll not get any more ice!"1964.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsBenita HumeBasil GillHumberston WrightWomen unite to prevent financiers from engineering a second world war.1940.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsWilly FritschGerda MaurusKlaus PohlA tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.1940.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsEl BrendelMaureen O'SullivanJohn GarrickNew York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.1980.
- DirectorEdgar SelwynStarsDiana WynyardLewis StonePhillips HolmesLaura is a nurse at the Front in World War I. She meets and falls for a young flyer named Geoffrey. On his first mission, Geoffrey is shot down and taken to the hospital where Laura works. Within days he succumbes to his injuries. Faced with the fact that she is with Geoffrey's child, she accepts the proposal of Ed Seward who still wants to marry her. Laura vowes that her new son will never fight in a war again. Jumping ahead it is 1940 and Robert, who is Geoffrey's son, meets Peggy Chase on a Ship steaming across the Atlantic. Ed Seward, who is now the Secretary of State, has adverted War by drafting a peace treaty with a belligerent country called Eurasia. However, before the treaty can be signed, Eurasia has the envoy assassinated and both sides escalate. At home, Laura campaigns for Peace, Ed stands with the country and will fight and Robert declares that he will not fight. In doing so, Robert loses Peggy and sees his family break apart.1940.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsRichard DixLeslie BanksMadge EvansA team of international scientists and engineers attempts to build a tunnel under the ocean.The 1940s.
- DirectorWilliam Cameron MenziesStarsRaymond MasseyEdward ChapmanRalph RichardsonThe story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.1940, 1966 and 1970.
- DirectorVasily ZhuravlyovStarsSergey KomarovKsenia MoskalenkoVassili GaponenkoIn 1946, the Soviet space program is undergoing turmoil. Professor Sedikh, who is planning to lead the first manned exploration to the moon, is denounced by his rival Professor Karin as being too old and too mentally unstable for the mission. Professor Sedikh, aided by his assistant Marina and a youth named Andryusha, disregard Prof. Karin's authority and make a successful landing on the moon. Although a few problems occur at the moon, including the discovery of a damaged oxygen tank and Professor Sedikh's becoming trapped under a fallen boulder, the expedition is a success and the cosmonauts return to Moscow.1946.
- DirectorAnton KutterStarsFritz ReiffRolf WernickeCarl WeryBefore television crews and thousands of spectators, Spaceship-1, commanded by Commodore Hardt inventor of the powerful rocket fuel "Neotan-X", blasts off on the first flight to the Moon.1963.
- StarsDerek BondHarvey BrabanWilliam Lyon BrownTechnological progress, in the shape of Rossum's Universal Robots, threatens to dominate and wipe out mankind.c. 1955.
- DirectorAlberto CavalcantiStarsLeslie BanksC.V. FranceValerie TaylorAn English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion.The late 1940s.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanBugs arrives in the desert to find Elmer prospecting for gold. Fudd is finally driven to pull his own gold tooth.1993 and 2011.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsMargaret LockwoodVic OliverPeter GravesA young man falls in with a society whose principle is a complete disregard for work, and chaos ensues when the society decides to help run the hotel of his father.ca. 1947-1948.