Video: Smartphones and holograms in a 1947 French film
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
A documentary film created in France in 1947, predicts the evolution of television in a portable pocket format like modern smartphones, stationary and wall TVs, as well as automobiles.
Everything shown in this film is so similar to modern times that one can only marvel at the perspicacity of its creators.
People using miniature television devices in public places; professional meetings using video telephones; cars equipped with television screens; shops advertising their products on television: holograms.
Although the small handheld devices used in the film have long retractable antennas that resemble the first cell phones, they actually do reflect today's smartphones that are in almost everyone's pocket.
At the end of the film, the audience is transported to the bedroom of a married couple, where the man is having trouble sleeping. It seems to him that he "summons" a hologram of a dancing woman who appears at the bottom of the bed and watches her while his wife sleeps next to him.
The movie about the coming television use does seem to be a pretty accurate prediction of modern digital media in terms of the flexibility and hybridity of media technologies and their various forms of consumption.
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