Cartoon Aficionado / Contributor
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Mar 22, 2011, 5:54 AM
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Ahead Of Their Time.
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I can think of three popular HB cartoons that may have been ahead of their time:
"The Jetsons." Back in 1962, this series showed moving sidewalks, large screen TV's, and picture phones, the latter of which was actually in existence at the time. Today, more than half of the devices on this show are used today, including the use of computers for processing documents.
"Goober And The Ghost Chasers." This series had the title characters using a Specter Detector to track down ghosts. Today, "Ghost Adventures" on The Travel Channel has three men using hightech equipment to uncover ghosts in haunted places.
"Clue Club." These crimebusters not only had a two-way TV in their car, and wrist communicators, but Dotty used her home computer to run background checks on the suspects, a practice police use today.
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"Never walk alone in a danger zone."
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Animator
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Mar 22, 2011, 10:49 AM
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"Goober And The Ghost Chasers." This series had the title characters using a Specter Detector to track down ghosts. Today, "Ghost Adventures" on The Travel Channel has three men using hightech equipment to uncover ghosts in haunted places.
Not to mention other shows like "Ghost Hunters" on Syfy.
Another example of "The Jetsons" being ahead of their time: In the episode "A Date with Jet Screamer", Elroy is seen talking to someone on Outer Plutonia using a very large, bizarre speakerphone. He asks how things were on Outer Plutonia, and the Plutonian said they weren't bad. While we can't communicate with beings on other planets and galaxies just yet, we can communicate live with people half-way around the world using Skype or Vonage, along with webcam and live chat. We can check how things are in other parts of the world for ourselves within seconds.
I wonder if we should move this to "Trivia", to allow for a wider array of studios. One thing I can think of regards Warner Bros. cartoons. In a lot of cartoons, primarily the Roadrunner/Coyote cartoons, a character can order something they need right now, and within seconds it appears. While we don't have that speedy of a delivery, orders can be shipped within the same day it is placed, and we get it within the same week in most cases.
(This post was edited by PatrickRsGhost on Mar 22, 2011, 10:54 AM)
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Toonhound / Moderator
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Mar 22, 2011, 11:53 PM
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Farm of Tommorow
Shows a humorous prediction of splicing to improve farm productivity.
Today we have tomatoes with trout genes, goats with spider genes,
monkeys with jellyfish genes, and pigs with a bit of human in them
another from
The Jetsons
Epsiode: Test Pilot
George Jetson gets a medical exam from the inside by swallowing a small monitoring pill.
Today the pillcam can be used to view the inside the digestive tract
(This post was edited by Straydawg on Mar 27, 2011, 8:08 AM)
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Animator
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Mar 24, 2011, 7:11 AM
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Farm of Tommoroow
Shows a humorous prediction of splicing to improve farm productivity.
The day in which we have tomatoes with trout genes, goats with spider genes,
monkeys with jellyfish genes, and pigs with a bit of human in them
Not forgetting some of the other "...of Tomorrow" cartoons, including the "House of Tomorrow" and "Car of Tomorrow." With the latter, it shows some of the different model cars and some of the new features. While none of these have come to pass (fortunately in some cases), we have come close. There was one car that supposedly runs on actual horses, possibly a glimpse at hybrids? Nowadays vehicles come equipped with other features and extras that no one would have dreamed of 50 or 60 years ago, including navigation, built-in entertainment centers, and the ability to upload your entire music collection to the car.
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Research Guru / Moderator
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Mar 29, 2011, 5:43 PM
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The 1945 Gandy Goose cartoon Post War Inventions correctly predicted that color TV would be widely available in the home.
In fact, such TV broadcasts that existed in the U.S. before being interrupted by the Second World War were in black and white. Color TV was highly experimental and wasn't seen outside scientific labs until the early 1950s.
The cartoon also depicted a boxing match. This was a spot-on prediction!
Boxing matches were common to postwar TV: these were cheap to broadcast, the camera only had to point to the small space covered by the ring, and the games were hugely popular to drinkers in bars... where some of the first TV sets were located!
The first boxing telecast was on NBC's Cavalcade of Sports on November 8, 1946 -- one year and seven months after this TerryToon was released.
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"Oh boy." -- Allan Sherman
(This post was edited by eminovitz on Mar 29, 2011, 5:43 PM)
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Supervising Animator
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Mar 29, 2011, 9:19 PM
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"Goober And The Ghost Chasers." This series had the title characters using a Specter Detector to track down ghosts. Today, "Ghost Adventures" on The Travel Channel has three men using hightech equipment to uncover ghosts in haunted places. Not to mention other shows like "Ghost Hunters" on Syfy. Another example of "The Jetsons" being ahead of their time: In the episode "A Date with Jet Screamer", Elroy is seen talking to someone on Outer Plutonia using a very large, bizarre speakerphone. He asks how things were on Outer Plutonia, and the Plutonian said they weren't bad. While we can't communicate with beings on other planets and galaxies just yet, we can communicate live with people half-way around the world using Skype or Vonage, along with webcam and live chat. We can check how things are in other parts of the world for ourselves within seconds. I wonder if we should move this to "Trivia", to allow for a wider array of studios. One thing I can think of regards Warner Bros. cartoons. In a lot of cartoons, primarily the Roadrunner/Coyote cartoons, a character can order something they need right now, and within seconds it appears. While we don't have that speedy of a delivery, orders can be shipped within the same day it is placed, and we get it within the same week in most cases.
I do like those "...of Tomorrow" Cartoons. There's STILL some episodes like that today that are ahead of their time.
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Thank God for kids who love obscure things-Lee Hazelwood (1929-2007)
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