The Moscow Times has published a fascinating filmstrip created by two artists from 1960 USSR, unimaginatively titled "In the Year 2017". The filmstrip itself, is anything but unimaginative. Over imaginative, indeed.
Like most futuristic predictions around the time, this one appears very dated. 2001: A Space Odyssey did get a lot right, but there was nothing quite outrageous about what they got wrong. But this one is different - it's all so over the top - it's the most extremely quirky and entertaining one of this type I've seen thus far. I wonder if Hanna-Barbara got hold of this one?
There's flying stations offering complete control over weather, atomic trains, interstellar rockets, underground cities, automatic cooks, and oh, alarms that wake you up by flicking your nose. To be fair, the latter is supposed to be an in-joke within the filmstrip, or is it? Well, they do get the "Televideo-phone" right, but that's about it.
It's a complete riot, you don't want to miss this one!
Check it all out here - https://themoscowtimes.com/photogalleries/soviet-lost-future-filmstrip-56724
