Neatorama » newsreel http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:32:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Fashion In The Year 2000, According To The 1930s http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/25/fashion-in-the-year-2000-according-to-the-1930s/ http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/25/fashion-in-the-year-2000-according-to-the-1930s/#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:50:59 +0000 Zeon Santos http://www.neatorama.com/?p=56478

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Further proof that the future isn’t as cool, or cheesy according to your taste, as everyone thought it would be. The top fashion designers of the 1930s contributed their idea of 21st century fashion to this newsreel, and I for one am very glad that they were wrong about some things, or else men would dress like astronaut clowns and women would be wearing aluminum dresses!

–via BoingBoing

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Helen Keller and her instructor Annie Sullivan explain how Keller learned to speak in this 1930 Vitaphone newsreel. -via the Presurfer

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Voted Best Short Film at the New York Comedy Festival, a tongue-in-cheek look at the thin line between Utopia and dystopia.

– via buzzfeed

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Minnesotastan.

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