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2 | [[caption-width-right:256:'''Mike Nelson:''' "''[[XCalledTheyWantTheirYBack They want their little gold jacket back.]]''"]] |
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4 | '''Century 21 Calling''' is a 1962 stealth advertisement for telephone technology (much like ''Film/OnceUponAHoneymoon''). It aired as a short feature with ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode 906, ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E06TheSpaceChildren The Space Children]]''. |
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6 | It was directed by Jerry Fairbanks and features ample footage of the 1962 UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} World's Fair. |
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10 | * ChewingTheScenery: The two... teenagers mincing about the fair, nearly bowling people over. |
11 | ** It's clear a lot of people weren't aware of the filming. A woman shoots them a DeathGlare when they force their way to the front of a crowd. |
12 | * MightyWhitey: Heavily implied by the short, as the two teens treat various ethnic persons at the Fair like dolls. |
13 | ** Perhaps justified, as it was the World's Fair, and those people were there as live demonstrations of their cultures, including their clothing and accessories. |
14 | * LandmarkOfLore: The then-new Space Needle, Monorail and what is now the Pacific Science Center. |
15 | * TechMarchesOn: The prototype smart-house technology that turned the heat and lights on for you when you signaled it ahead of your arrival... from a pay phone. |
16 | ** Amazingly, as of the mid-2010s (more than fifty years later!) this particular prediction was surprisingly accurate, with the advent of home automation. The only real difference is that it's controlled by a smartphone rather than a payphone, but the concept is otherwise the same. |
17 | ** Interestingly, virtually every technology featured in this short has gone from new and exciting to commonplace. |
18 | * TheVoiceless: Nearly so. The two main characters nearly never speak, having only a couple lines each when demonstrating the push button phones. |
19 | * {{Zeerust}}: Zig-zagged; a number of the then-new advances have become ubiquitous. Other uses (such as phoning the house in order to start the oven) have been found too fanciful. |
20 | ** On the other hand, these days you can email your home printer and tell it to start churning stuff out, which is the same thing in a different room. |
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