Yesterday's Tomorrows
- Barry Levinson
- 1h 39m
- August 9, 1999 · United States of America
Overview
Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take on major subjects of their choosing. In the third of the six films, "Yesterday's Tomorrows," filmmaker Barry Levinson delves into what we, as Americans, thought the future would be as we traveled through the 20th century. Houses and cars of the future, the promise of technology, and the other hopes and dreams of the early part of the century gave way to the fears and anxieties brought about by the atomic age and the Hollywood disaster films that followed. Soon we wondered if we could control technology, or if it would control us. This film is by turns light-hearted and thoughtful, and rare historical and archival film, produced by government and industry, alternates with on-screen interviews with people as diverse as consumer advocate Ralph Nader, cartoonist Matt Groening, futurist Alvin Toffler, comedienne Phyllis Diller, and actor Martin Mull.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 9, 1999
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Buena Vista Television,5759 Productions
- Cast
- Walter Mosley,Richard Belzer,Isaac Mizrahi,Martin Mull,Ralph Nader,Bob Newhart,John Waters,Phyllis Diller,Heidi Toffler,Spalding Grayand 7 more
- Director
- Barry Levinson
- Writer
- Richard Berge,Kenn Rabin
- Cinematography
- Michael Chin
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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