1942, Debbie Reynolds in General Electric ad
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This ad appeared in July 1942. The headline was the clunky "Men Who Think of Tomorrow Appreciate Seagram's Foresight!" The futuristic detail soared above the page: an illustration of a sleek flying wing flying over clouds.
" The superplane of the future - shooting through the stratosphere at a thousand miles per hour. You'll breakfast in New York and lunch in London ... or jump from Boston to Borneo between dawn and dusk. And all because there are men today who think and plan for Tomorrow. "
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American Locomotive. Two Trains of Thought
Life Magazine. February 16, 1942.
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The radio of the future is... a television?
This 1942 ad for Admiral radios featured modernist designer Samuel A. Marx and his vision of a "radio of the future" :
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This ad appeared in July 1942. The headline was the clunky "Men Who Think of Tomorrow Appreciate Seagram's Foresight!" The futuristic detail soared above the page: an illustration of a sleek flying wing flying over clouds.
" The superplane of the future - shooting through the stratosphere at a thousand miles per hour. You'll breakfast in New York and lunch in London ... or jump from Boston to Borneo between dawn and dusk. And all because there are men today who think and plan for Tomorrow. "
American Locomotive. Two Trains of Thought
Life Magazine. February 16, 1942.
The radio of the future is... a television?
This 1942 ad for Admiral radios featured modernist designer Samuel A. Marx and his vision of a "radio of the future" :
