José María Luna
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EPCOT & How Corporations Killed the Future
60 years ago, the future died. This is its story.
Visit patreon.com/JoseMariaLuna to support the channel!
For one time tips, you can do so via paypal.me/josemld or venmo.com/u/JoseMLuna
Not sure anybody's interested, but here's the Google Doc with all my research:
docs.google.com/document/d/1ppYDnIBMVtCzRLNlj_Gw0NmBjpfqwmJOaQAhcjrPj3s/edit?usp=sharing
Featuring the voice talents of!
Avelo @DreamsoundsVideo
William White
Simón Gómez open.spotify.com/track/1IuQ4xXjKKSTAwZebmd6qQ?si=4f6da8b1d4e5408f
Caelan Conrad @caelanconrad
Sam Richardson pestcontrol.transistor.fm/
Sarah and Neil from @TheLeftistCooks
Zack Paslay @ZackPaslay
Hoots @hootsyoutube
Bothered Boy @BotheredBoy
Rachel Duncan @ rachellacroixs on Twitter
Skyler Queen @ SkylerQueen91 on Twitter
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SECTIONS
0:00 - Intro: Remember the Future
5:05 - Part 1: The Wonderful Twentieth Century
20:03 - Part 2: Camelot
37:37 - Part 3: This Machine Kills Futures
57:35 - Part 4: The City of Tomorrow
1:10:42 - Part 5: Tomorrow, Today
1:28:07 - Part 6: So, What Comes Next?
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SOURCES
BOOKS
-Corn, Joseph J. and Horrigan, Brian. “Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future”
-Remembering the Future: The New York World's Fair from 1939 to 1964
--Rosenblum, Robert. “Remembrance of Fairs Past”
--Dickstein, Morris. “From the Thirties to the Sixties: The World’s Fair in its Own Time”
--Miller, Marc H. “Something for Everyone: Robert Moses and the Fair”
--Reave, Sheldon J. “New Frontiers: Science and Technology at the Fair”
--Haag Bletter, Rosemarie. “The “Laissez-Fair,” Good Taste, and Money Trees: Architecture at the Fair”
--Harrison, Helen A. “Art for the Millions, or Art for the Market?”
--Sheppard, Ileen. “Icons and Images: The Cultural Legacy of the Fair”
-Tirella, Joseph. “Tomorrow-Land: The 1964-65 World's Fair And The Transformation Of America”
-Hahn, Don. “Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Disney’s Magical Mid-Century”
-Gabler, Neal “Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination”
-Beard, Richard R. “Walt Disney’s EPCOT Center”
-Magolis, Jon ”The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 - The Beginning of the Sixties”
-Caro, Robert. "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York"
-Jacobs, Jane. “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”
-Krenak, Ailton. “Ideas to Postpone the End of the World”
-Krenak, Ailton. “Futuro Ancestral”
-Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. “La Mirada del Jaguar”
-Rivera Cusicanqui, Silvia. "Un Mundo Chi’xi es Posible”
SPEECHES
-Baker, Ella. "Mississippi Democratic Freedom Movement Convention Speech"
-García Márquez, Gabriel. "The Solitude of Latin America"
-Kennedy, John F. "1960 Democratic National Convention Address"
-Wallace, Henry A. "The Century of the Common Man"
PUBLICATIONS
-Stross, Charlie. Charlie's Diary, "We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus" (November 10, 2023) www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html
FILM
-20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) dir. Richard Fleischer, Walt Disney Studios
-Earth vs the Flying Saucers (1956) dir. Fred F. Sears, Columbia Pictures
-E.P.C.O.T. (1967) dir. Arthur J. Vitarelli, Walt Disney Studios
-Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) dir. Henry Levin, 20th Century Fox
-Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) dir. David Hand, Walt Disney Studios
-Steamboat Willie (1928) dir. Walt Disney & Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney Studios
-The Three Caballeros (1944) dir. Norman Ferguson , Walt Disney Studios
-The Time Machine (1960) dir. George Pal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
-Le Voyage Dans la Lune (1902) dir. Georges Méliès, Star Film Company
-War of the Worlds (1953) dir. Byron Haskin, Paramount Pictures
SHOWS
-The Imagineering Story (2019)
--"The Happiest Place on Earth"
--"What Would Walt Do?"
-SpongeBob SquarePants
--"SB-129"
-Walt Disney’s Disneyland (1955)
--"The Disneyland Story"
--"Davy Crocket Indian Fighter"
--"Man in Space"
-Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color
--"Disneyland at the World's Fair
VIDEOS
-Couldn't fit all this in the description, so here's a list of UA-cam videos I used as archival footage:
docs.google.com/document/d/1Rp1gZ5QgaZts1M4QHWa6uYTa3BHkPQ7vFxEg8fdZzlk/edit?usp=sharing
MUSIC
-Malt Shop Bop by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100496
Artist: incompetech.com/
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КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @cristhianvillegas8442
    @cristhianvillegas8442 3 дні тому

    The grindr notification got me EVERY GOD DAMNED TIME Idk how to feel about that

  • @antohp6512
    @antohp6512 3 дні тому

    nunca imaginé que escucharía mencionada mi ciudad (medellín) en uno de estos videos! me encantó !! :)

  • @DreamsoundsVideo
    @DreamsoundsVideo 4 дні тому

    Such a wonderful video <3 thanks for letting me contribute to it

  • @JIBos
    @JIBos 5 днів тому

    Very interesting video. The Self flagelation or self-induced SM by LBGT+ or - (wo)men is making life unnecessary miserabele. Not intelligent way to live your life. Just become yourself, we are all mortal.

  • @JIBos
    @JIBos 5 днів тому

    LBGT+ or - people shouldn't complain so much. Just make something of your life, being gay or not. Be authentic yourself, don't be a boring human being.

  • @graceryan6349
    @graceryan6349 6 днів тому

    As an American, you should totally use the Dick Cheney line. Just prepare for all of the people who say "Yeah! He was a real American!"

  • @loglorn
    @loglorn 7 днів тому

    This feels, and i understand this might sound weird at first lol, like the companion piece to Dr Fatima's video on aliens ("What astrophysicists think about aliens")

  • @loglorn
    @loglorn 7 днів тому

    I hadn't realized until the "sponsor" section how small this channel is. The production value on these are _really_ good, and the discussions are really good, i was positive this channel was way larger. I literally had to triple check the subscribe count

  • @lexa4160
    @lexa4160 12 днів тому

    Personally I've always loved sad gay movies. I love reading or watching tragedies, and I'm not into lighthearted stuff or fluffy/comedy. I find it better than now theres more variety of gay content but I hate it when people criticize on sad gay content, you can not like it, but leave it be for those who want to consumme it 🙄

  • @jinjisooul2065
    @jinjisooul2065 12 днів тому

    Gay=sad

  • @scoobyview
    @scoobyview 12 днів тому

    Big up the crystal palace

  • @wheezehead
    @wheezehead 12 днів тому

    if the average american voter don't got me then i know the coming boom in queer misery media got me

  • @paulafraile3143
    @paulafraile3143 13 днів тому

    A Latin American Serve ™️ (OMG your edition is so beautiful 🥹)

  • @OHJojo-
    @OHJojo- 13 днів тому

    What does queer mean? Gay? Transgender heterosexual man or woman? Bisexual woman in a heterosexual relationship? Pansexual man married to a woman? Like wtf is up with these umbrella terms that don't even encapsulate the individual experiences of a certain group? Stop with the queer shit, it's annoying. Give people the dignity of their respective experiences instead of queer lazy ideology that conforms everyone into some monolithic experience which couldn't be further from the truth.

  • @pile_of_bnes5748
    @pile_of_bnes5748 16 днів тому

    I think about this video so often. First of all, you laying down in bed with the occasional Grindr notification is genius. And of course the content is amazing. I tend to lean towards queer misery quite often, and everything was beautifully said. I once talked to my friend about how the show Heartstopper felt so sickly sweet and perfect, and they responded with “because the characters in your shows are always in peril”, which gave me a laugh. I should send that friend this video

  • @Tine_of_Nice_Dreams
    @Tine_of_Nice_Dreams 17 днів тому

    very high quality video, very high quality costume. Lying in bed listening to the music and letting the fears of real life sink in was a well shot and thoughtful moment.

  • @lenawalters1866
    @lenawalters1866 18 днів тому

    coming back to this video because it rocks so very much. watching this at work while slogging though writing up documents. thank you again for making it!

    • @JoseMariaLuna
      @JoseMariaLuna 14 днів тому

      This means so much to me, thank you 🥺

  • @jae7798
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    defense this prostate papi

  • @philparisi9175
    @philparisi9175 19 днів тому

    I don’t know if I would put queen in the category of a queen queer or person for that matter she was indeed strangely close or wonderfully close with her assistant I think it’s more of an experimental thing for her. She had already buried 17 children.

  • @Tine_of_Nice_Dreams
    @Tine_of_Nice_Dreams 19 днів тому

    I enjoyed your appearance on the bechdel cast episode and had to come see this video for myself. Imagining the adventure genre as shifting to feature native people recovering their own heritage is so wonderful. We have so much to learn from surviving cultures and past ones buried by colonizing violence. The world may be well charted in this era but the vastness of human knowledge and history provides us with more to explore than can fit in a human lifespan.

  • @Tine_of_Nice_Dreams
    @Tine_of_Nice_Dreams 19 днів тому

    I was not expecting the cat to be that SMALL

  • @Bl4k3.
    @Bl4k3. 20 днів тому

    man, this is an amazing essay. i feel this so hard. never had any draw to pride or queer joy media. because i've never experienced gay pride as a lesbian. because my community growing up rejected homosexuality as a sin. het comp, all that. being gay in my mind has always been my struggle. and i'm at peace with that. and i love my partner and our little gay life. and misery is okay to experience.

  • @ScottInDallas
    @ScottInDallas 21 день тому

    🏳️‍🌈✌🏻

  • @Hubin12
    @Hubin12 22 дні тому

    Queer is when straight, very unserious list of films.

  • @mariaandreaacosta7706
    @mariaandreaacosta7706 24 дні тому

    Excelente el video! La gatita es divina. Esto me hace pensar en cual sería la evaluación del uso del concepto en Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail. Es una expansión de un MMO así que sería difícil de alcanzar sin una inversión de tiempo significativa, pero me gustaría compartir el concepto como una Colombiana que lo disfrutó: En este mundo fictiocio, América nunca fue colonizada y sus poblaciones basadas en culturas nativas (mayormente veo inspiración Maya, Azteca, Quechua, Navajo, Anasazi que puedo identificar) continuaron por su cuenta, con conflictos hasta que el Dawnservant unificó a todos en una nación Tuliyollal. Este monarca ya esta en sus años viejos, y decide hacer un concurso para escoger a su sucesor. Solo conocemos a su hija adoptiva la "Tercera Promesa" quien nos cuenta que hay rumores que el concurso involucrará encontrar "La Ciudad de Oro," la cual es una leyenda local. Nunca usan el término El Dorado pero es claro que viene de eso, y hacerlo un rumor que no nace de extranjeros ya es una inversión total del concepto. Ver este video me ayuda a pensar en como pudieron haber llegado a la idea de la verdad de ese rumor

  • @Tramadol_is_my_boyfriend
    @Tramadol_is_my_boyfriend 25 днів тому

    Beautiful 😢

  • @frandreola
    @frandreola 26 днів тому

    just laughed out loud at the reference to the rachel bloom classic, fuck me ray bradbury

  • @MFYouTube683
    @MFYouTube683 26 днів тому

    02:13 1. That is not a valid argument. We have to take into account that an Oscar bid is a very expensive and calculated operation and since most truly great LGBTQ films are indie and arthouse, the money for the Academy screening alone is $12500 if the film is not released early enough and average PR and campaign budget to position a multi Oscar picture is $3-5m. 2. There is great queer cinema that got snubbed, but although I love LGBTQ film as a gay man, I can’t say I agree on feeling underrepresented. Only because members of the academy are lgbtq or a film has queer aspects will not determine whether it holds up against the incredible competition. And I hardly think this is how to measure representation, recognition or the quality of the body of work of queer people in film and their stories.

  • @Renott
    @Renott 29 днів тому

    "Rachel Bloom darling Ray Bradbury" lol

  • @smartsmartie7142
    @smartsmartie7142 29 днів тому

    16:05 From what I know the reaction of the public to broadcast of HG Well's war of the world was extremely exaggerated by the newspapers

  • @kazmierka
    @kazmierka 29 днів тому

    I don't usually comment on videos but this video hit me particularly hard and I tried calling my mother to tell her about the fact that I'm a lesbian. I ended up texting her after the call to let her know. I wish that I could say that she had a good reaction, she didn't, it didn't come from a place of homophobia but from a place of our relationship being broken way before I even decided to do this. In a way maybe it's a good thing that when I look back on this I'll have this video, which is genuinely a really good video, to look back on.

  • @mystiverse
    @mystiverse 29 днів тому

    The artistry in this video simply bleeds through the screen. Fantastic work, and I'm so excited to watch where you go next!

  • @NealHunterHyde
    @NealHunterHyde 29 днів тому

    You had me with EPCOT and (the death of) FUTURISM … but add in (3m30s) Queer Filmmaker and i think I’m gonna have to stick around beyond the preview and into the feature presentation!! Xo

  • @shane92515
    @shane92515 Місяць тому

    I’m here from the Leftist Cooks and I’m staying!

  • @daniethegirl029
    @daniethegirl029 Місяць тому

    Masterpiece ❤

  • @wigglerlesbian
    @wigglerlesbian Місяць тому

    thank u I loved it

  • @aleacuna2794
    @aleacuna2794 Місяць тому

    10:19

  • @thoughts_in_detail
    @thoughts_in_detail Місяць тому

    Thank you! I recently mustered up the courage to make a video about homophobia, so anyone feel free to watch and share it if you’d like. In 2024, we still have to keep fighting for basic human rights!

  • @lenawalters1866
    @lenawalters1866 Місяць тому

    Love that we have a Hate Robert Moses Cinematic Universe across multiple video essay channels. So nice! I'm sure he's looking up at us hating every second of it.

  • @LuisCalle98
    @LuisCalle98 Місяць тому

    Contrapoints, PhilosophyTube, and now JML are my top video essay channels. You don't get them often, but when you do it's an EVENT.

    • @JoseMariaLuna
      @JoseMariaLuna Місяць тому

      An honor to be in this company! Thank you so much!

  • @c.r.bledsoe9322
    @c.r.bledsoe9322 Місяць тому

    Not saying it was award winning story telling by any means, but the thing that love Victor got right especially over love Simon was that it gave a real depiction of coming out and your family not being cool with it. Sure it wasn't over the top, but the best part of the show was seeing the family realize the expectations they had for their presumably "straight" son were never going to happen, and figure out how to accept that and move on. The petty highschool drama was honestly the thing dragging the show down the most.

    • @JoseMariaLuna
      @JoseMariaLuna Місяць тому

      I did like that, especially some of the nuances of coming out in a Latino family. I really wish the show had given that more weight than the submarine teen drama plots

  • @Luis-hc9kp
    @Luis-hc9kp Місяць тому

    I just found your channel through another video and subscribed, first time ever for a channel of video essays 😅 I'm watching this now and I'm wondering if you'll mention Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe!

  • @DarthXombieX
    @DarthXombieX Місяць тому

    Hello Valley resident and Metro user here reporting from the future. Sad to report the dream of an on time 183 is dead. It was killed as a route just three months after this video released. Trying to ride Metro from the Southeast Valley into Burbank/Glendale is even worse than before 🙃

    • @JoseMariaLuna
      @JoseMariaLuna Місяць тому

      I want the 183 to know it was me (Also, is the 501 still a thing?)

    • @DarthXombieX
      @DarthXombieX Місяць тому

      @@JoseMariaLuna Yeah, no plans for that route to be cut afaik, at least not until the NoHo-Pasadena BRT is built.

  • @ikerapar1382
    @ikerapar1382 Місяць тому

    URUGUAY MENTIONED RAAAAAA que grande el Pepe Mujica, y que grande vos, José. Sos un genio.

  • @lenawalters1866
    @lenawalters1866 Місяць тому

    My husband just shouted from the next room over "I freaking loved that hydroponic farm!!! I got to eat a hydroponic potato!!" 😅

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    AVELO OMG OMG I LOVE YOU BOTH

  • @BanzaiBenzai
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    I am so glad the algorithm placed this video into my front page. This video was a breath of fresh air in a seemingly endless haze of late-stage-capitalism noxious fumes. I appreciate the plethora of well researched ideas and perspectives from other cultures. It is not often that I get to hear these less-heard voices, and I appreciate your work in collecting, researching, and sharing them.

    • @JoseMariaLuna
      @JoseMariaLuna Місяць тому

      Thank YOU so much for giving it a chance!

  • @ngrayson
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    Wow surprised how many subscribers yall have. Deserve at least 1 million!!

  • @Victorian_sleepscape
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    I used to think human beatrice was hot

  • @Furore2323
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    Super hooray time!

    • @Furore2323
      @Furore2323 Місяць тому

      Never apologize for your cat!