1947 film about the future shows handheld TV users bumping into each other

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That’s got to be a cleverly done modern fake, or we would have seen it long before now.

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your [or my] philosophy. :wink:

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I want my Soup TV.

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Reminds me of my old Sony Watchman portable TV. Neat idea but it wasn’t very practical.

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I watched the first part while I was walking down the street the other day but then almost dropped my phone when some distracted pedestrian walked right into me.

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So nobody watched the watchman?

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What do the other buttons do aside from the tätä and maybe a classic rimshot?

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Around 1:20 It turns in to “Crash”.

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Allo Allo rectification

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Yeah - those 1947 mock-ups are very prescient. I had something like this, nearly 50 years later.
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This is so spot on! It even includes the annoying pop-up ads in the form of the dancing cyprian at the end.

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