[4k, 50fps, color] 1939 New York World's Fair."The world of tomorrow" Featuring "Elektro the Robot"
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The 1939-40 New York World's Fair was a world's fair held at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York, United States. It was the second-most expensive American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. Many countries around the world participated in it, and over 44 million people attended its exhibits in two seasons.[2] It was the first exposition to be based on the future, with an opening slogan of "Dawn of a New Day", and it allowed all visitors to take a look at "the world of tomorrow".
When World War II began four months into the 1939 World's Fair, many exhibits were affected, especially those on display in the pavilions of countries under Axis occupation. After the close of the fair in 1940, many exhibits were demolished or removed, though some buildings were retained for the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair, held at the same site. - Фільми й анімація
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More than 80 years later, and I'm still speaking the same way to my phone to get it to understand me to call my parents.
I find it more interesting that you at more than 80 years old have parents that are still alive. Lol.
@@Waltkat we follow a very healthy diet
Awesome. That is exactly how I do speech to text.
@@rnvaamonde Eat nothing but the latest superfood fad and you will outlast the pyramids.
@@rnvaamonde ah a vegan family
1939: The future will be robots.
2021: The future will be robots.
It is. Just not the way you think
1939: The future will be robots.
1945: No, the future will be a freaking world war for the next 6 years...
Maybe in the 2040's or 50s
Not _robots_ but pretty advanced tech though. The robots we think about now are those advanced Skynet type of robots.
Most of our computers, phones, cars, and packaged foods are made by robots.
It is crazy when you realize it's same time of beginning of WW2 in Europe.
this comment gave me wolfenstein vibes.
@@herbhungry7565 His great grandson's new DLC just dropped
BJ, I mean. The Doom Slayer is his great grandson
yeah,..i mean america had a vision of a happy future,..and yet the rest of the world was trying to stop a NIGHTMARE OF A FUTURE!!
well, that's why USA won the war... we had Elektro the Robot on our side
Not really when you understand how basic that robot was. Even calling it robot is a push
The actor who plays "Bud" in this film is actually still alive
Edit: apparently, he recently passed at the age of 98
Jimmy Lydon97 year old boy, he is indeed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Lydon
And I can guarantee he ain’t from Indiana!
was robotic really a thing this time? what about automatons?
He has told any story about this?
@@XIXbacktolife Seems like a cool guy to get an interview with if possible. He probably has alot of cool storys to tell
Fun Fact: Elektro the robot is still around and is currently housed in the Mansfield Memorial Museum in Mansfield, Ohio.
Is he still smokin'?
@@Madness832 nah..he suffered lung cancer and had to turn him off
@@nekrositoh Maybe next time, have 'im smoke weed!
@@nekrositoh i didnt think he could get cancer having an iron lung? :-)
What's the name of the museum? I live in Ohio, and I would like to see it.
Gosh, the future is going to be swell!
You bet your fern
Gee-willakers I sure hope so.
And just think how diseases like the Spanish flu and SARS will no longer exist!
They thought wrong sadly
0:47 is that burj khalifa model of 1939!!
He is stiff, awkward, one-dimensional, and hugely uninspiring. The robot, by contrast, is fantastic!!
Is there actually not one reply to this? Well here you are good sir, a reply for you
@@snoopdoggthecertifiedg6777 Not everything needs a reply I guess. Sometimes a joke is a joke and people move on because there's not much else to say lol
That's mean to the man, he was fine as well.
😂well duh, this was the start fool
"Fun Shop."
"I wonder if they have any new gags."
The wholesome cheesiness is too much.
No, the cheesy wholesomeness is too much.
@@BigDogCountry No, the wholecheese someness is too much.
@@Pyranders No, the somewhole nesiness is too cheese.
Man, the 1940s are going to be amazing!
I can’t wait!
*"Halten Sie mein Bier!"*
Oh boy, I hear things are getting really well in Europe. They finally have their stuff right and their society is going to be swell.
Hitler invades polonia
@@cristiandobrescu3445 LMAO this is amazing
The 1939 new York fair was always referred as very important by many sci fi writers, I remember Isaac Asimov always referring how important It was for him and other sci fi writers
it certainly was the important spark that ignited a lot of very popular and influential Science Fiction stories.
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@@justme-yr2xf what are you talking about?
@@justme-yr2xf lolwut
it seems very important to many sci fi writers
Bender from futurama: we came a long way baby.
Bite my shiny bronze ass!
The robot is smoking. I think this is one of Bender's ancestors.
lmao.
My grandma was on the Olympic games 1936 and is still alive, she adapted to modern technology and is using her smartphone/tablet every day. She even managed to fix her internet radio.
We often underrate ppl from those days, they were not so different as we are nowadays.
Actually the unnerving part is we are almost exactly the same as we have been since the beginning, it apparently took us hundreds of thousands of years to develop language, yet it only took us about a hundred years to put the Earth on the precipice of an apocalyptic cataclysm
The people in the past are actually as smart or even smarter in some ways than us in the modern days, only that they are constrained by the limitations of their technology.
A wisdom I get from Tony Stark and his father.
that's wild--I wonder what she thinks of all our technology now
Did she meet Hitler?
Easy, while we use computers, they *created* computers :-)
it was also damn important that the robot could smoke. The thing was totally useless ... but he could smoke 🤣😂😅
I assume they wanted to give an impression about the future. For that they recognized: that a robot first of all needs to be 'human-like' (otherwise there is no benefit to a common machine (like a steam engine etc). So they tried to give the robot as much 'human' sides as possible at that technological possibilities of the 30's ... Smoking was one of the very few attributes, which were quiet easy to make, and give a ''human side'' ...
There was nevertheless a lot of fakery going on of course... And thats why they only wanted to give an impression - a glimpse of a future - and not the ''real'' thing - because they knew they cant give the real thing with the possibilities they have back than.
Its really just a kind of ''trying to dream about the future'' with the possibilities they have back than.
@@PygmalionFaciebat
That was an incredibly long and unnecessary post, clearly explaining every clear common sense thought a person should have.
@@Mommyandtux If that was a ''incredibly long post'' , then what would a guy like you said to that invention called ''book'' ? ;) Hope that was now short enough for your brain-abilities.
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Sadly, Electro would die from lung cancer 21 years later.
Damn this is probably some of the cleanest footage of the 1930s I've ever seen.
This was shot on film so that's why it is good
@@shahaffiq5860yeah no shit
So you've never seen The Wizard of Oz? OK...
Electro could not recognise speech but could recognise patterns with pauses between phrasing ...voice commands very carefully timed syllabic codes were turned in electric pulses by a grid-glow tube..that flashes were read by photoelectric tube and turn in to electric signal that relayed to Electro gears ..so operator could actually send him voice commands "Will you come / front" would make him go forward ..."Tell us how /old /you are" and "Count your age /with /fingers" would initiate same trick..etc
Oh interesting I just assumed it was being controlled by someone, and was a bluff.
And what about his voice? Was it just pre recorded speech or actually synthesized?
@@graysonwells21 pre-recorded
Bro that thing was controlled by some guy in the back room.
@@Dr.TJ_Eckleburg Not Exactly - Believe it or not, it was indeed responding to the presenters voice. However, a bit of deception was at work, to create the illusion of a ‘thinking’ machine.
In short - and to partly reiterate points made by the OP - the robot didn’t actually interpret or process any of the words themselves. At the time, the processing to do such a thing didn’t even exist as theory. The way it worked: speaking into the microphone created electrical pulses, by virtue of a grid glow vacuum tube, which opened and closed a shutter in front of a light in rhythm with certain syllables of words. The flashes were received by a photo receiver located offstage - and it was based on the number of verbal light “pulses” and the duration of the breaks between them, that different relays and motors were preconfigured to engage - as such, it was very important for the presenter to carefully follow his script!
You can see these visual signal pulses in the robot when the man speaks into the microphone. And you’ll notice that he annunciates in a very pointed and deliberate way into the microphone, while also saying some things in a normal voice (for the benefit of selling the illusion to the audience and which are therefore not picked up by the microphone nor registered by the robot). While the robot is not controlled remotely by someone backstage, it’s also not really interpreting the presenter’s spoken instructions, at least not in the human-like manner being presented - rather, it is simply triggering specific pre-configured mechanical reactions in response to various pulsed light patterns. A sentence like “e-LEC-tro - HOW - ARE - YOU - - - toDAY” (Where the extra emphasis is on the capital letters) would be broken down into a matching series of simple binary (on/off) electrical/light signals like: “on - on - on - on - off/delay - on”, in cadence with the presenter’s voice. One could call this an early and (very) rudimentary ‘analog to digital’ voice converter.
The robot had very simple logic circuits (by any contemporary standard) comprised of relays where, for example, those four pulses, a pause, and a final pulse would activate certain sequences of motors. Interestingly, this means that electro was a hardwired computer and so the “programming” for these responses existed as hardwired circuits, not as coded binary machine language, and therefore, to modify Electro’s behavior, one would have to physically rewire or add additional wiring and circuit components. This is a partial example of a hardwired and analog approach to computing (versus digital computing). A neat fact about analog computers (although there are surely examples of digital computers where this is also true) is that for a their limitations they can in ways be considered far faster, more robust and more reliable than digital systems because the “programming” exists as physical circuitry. This however, comes at the great expense of capability as for similar size, physical complexity and power consumption, digital computers offer almost immeasurably greater capability, precision and flexibility. A cool example of “modern“ analog computing (not that you would compare it to Elektro): The Concorde SST airliner employed analog, analogue-digital as well as, perhaps surprisingly, digital computers in her avionics and various control systems - therefore during flight testing and development, and as previously noted, modifications to these computers to modify Concorde’s flight characteristics required redesigning and soldering up new physical circuit board layouts. Her analogue computers were regarded as being extremely reliable - imagine, a supersonic jet airliner flying in 2003 with 60’s era analogue avionics keeping her in the air...
But I digress… Back to Electro’s pulse-speech recognition: It could be further refined where a single-pulse command like “HOW!” or “YES!” or “SMOKE” would be interpreted as the same single pulse by the robot, no matter what the actual word was, but depending on the commands that preceded it, could produce a different mechanical response to further give the illusion that the robot was actually understanding and interpreting the verbal instructions. But the truth was that theoretically the presenter could equally have commanded the robot by simply tapping out patterns on a simple push button or beating on a drum next to the microphone. All that said, The versatility of these approaches, though rudimentary by modern standards was more capable than one might expect - Electro’s voice was recorded on a vinyl record(s) which contained hundreds of words and phrases registered to unique voice-light pulse patterns and among his various movements, his “eyes” could also register the difference between red and green light. At once, his technology is both antiquated and quaint - and yet utterly remarkable when one considers that many people still didn’t have their own telephones and roughly 90% of rural homes in America didn’t even have electricity in the mid 1930’s, around the time when Elektro debuted.
While the robot was far more simple than it seemed, also consider that its operation, as described above, is in essence the basic framework for compressing, automating, switching and accelerating the transmission and receipt of nonverbal communications over a distance - i.e. telephony networks and the data networks that were developed alongside them - ultimately giving rise to the inception of things like the Internet. Literally, you can see the precursor to all modern electronic communications flashing inside Electro’s chest.
Edit: spelling and a few extra details
It never ceases to amaze me nearly everyone wore hats back then.
Luckily I can experience that to an extent in my church. All women wear hats and all men wear suits and ties.
For most of history people wore hats. It's really cars and in door heating and a generally more casual society that lead to hats not being worn.
I still wear a hat everyday
Wait... if you don't wear a hat, then where do you keep your zipgun?
I still wear my tam o'shanter everywhere
"More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette!"
More Electros as well!
@unarmed blackman And no lung cancer for the robot, no sir!
Tar is hell on the servos, though.
Jontron: That one didn't age quite so well!
My grandmother talked about her trip to the '39 Fair for the next sixty years with fondness. It was hugely exciting.
My father was there at 6 years old & remembered Electro very well. He also remembered the people at the fair telling him that Americans would travel exclusively by airship by the 1970's.
Yea the last summer i travel to mars, its majestic
My grandpa would have been 20 when this took place, he’s still alive. Can’t imagine living in those times
Things were a lot better.
@@thystaff742 how so? This was the start of ww2 millions of people would die, times were tough in those days too just as they are today
@@nathanrobert2550 Things were still better far as family and how people treated each other. Back then Christian values where adhered too. Unlike today where everything is about selfishness and narcissism. We have pedophiles reading to toddlers in libraries while police protect them, and you think it was just as bad then as it is today?
@@thystaff742 yes, back then technology was limited, you don’t think that crap didn’t happen back then either? I’m sure it was worse because the lack of technology to spread the word. Women were made housewives and weren’t allowed to have jobs until the war effort started in ww2
@@nathanrobert2550 Also if you weren't white... the past might look bit different.
If they ever invent the time machine, this is what I'd do. Go back to attend these world fairs.
I'd buy lots and lots of bitcoin back in 2009.
There are 2 kinds of people lol
This is kind of very sweet fro
You. I would love to hear from you how they were. When u r bCk i. Our time :)
I’m sorry to break it to you, but we will never invent a time machine. Because lots of people would go back in time, and we haven’t seen a soul. (Yeah I get it, you are just saying like “hypothetically”. Have a nice day :))
@@OlavARod Or are they just hidden? Or are there very very strict laws in the future that prohibit most use except in very minor situations?
No joke, but the past looked more modern than now
What does that say about the world we live in today?
@@Thedudemannn That we're going backwards thinking we're going forward
@@michox this really says a lot about society
Yeah, and statues weren’t taken down for stupid reasons.
@@MrGojira95 a lot of those statues were being put up or had yet to be put up at this time
8:19 assuming this older lady is in her mid 60’s in 1939 she would’ve been born in 1874, seen the rise of modern railroads, automobiles, airplanes and diesel powered ships. Not to mention the proliferation of electricity in every home. Medical advancements alone are what gave her such a long life. People died from tooth decay before the introduction of anesthesia!
It mustve been mind blowing. my great grandma was born in 1922 and died in 2020 and probably saw something similar with the wars, the jet engine, the atomic bomb, nuclear energy, television, the internet. i fear for what awaits me in the future and i fear for my
inability to cope with it as generations past had.
"You see, all I need to do is speak into this phone and electro does exactly what I tell him to do.
Sometimes. "
It would have been hilarious if Electro had gone haywire and crushed that guy’s head like a grape. That would’ve been an exhibit worth seeing!
@@scottmoore1614 Shut tf up scott
@@scottmoore1614 "KILL TRIGGER DETECTED. DO NOT RESIST."
Modern voice command system can still be described too well with that quote, made me laugh quite a bit
@@scottmoore1614 you have quite a chaotic imagination! XD i love it!
Luxury Then: Living in a modern city full of machines that make you life easier.
Luxury Now: Not living in a modern city full of machines that make your life misserable.
there's a tipping point
Well, I dont think they ever imagined that the technology that makes life easier would also make everyone lazy pieces of shit crying about the slightest inconvenience lol, these people had to actually deal with hardship unlike most of us today
Lol right been looking into homesteading gotta have a good amount saved for land most people sell everything to do so
Boston Dynamics improved a lot since
Back then we didn't kick our robots
Yeah, but can a Boston Dynamics robot smoke a cigarette? I didn't think so!
"Improved" is a relative term.
Boston dynamics is just cgi graphics..
@@frankensteinmoneymac I see the tobacco shills are still around
The sculpture at 0:53 is an art deco sundial called "Time and the Fates of Man" by Paul Manship.
Being made of plaster, I suppose this 80 foot high sculpture is no more.
@@Paladin1873 Sadly yes, all of the plaster sculptures were destroyed. However, a 20-ft bronze version exists today in Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina. It was cast in 1952 from Paul Manship's original model. Manship owned the bronze version, which he sold to a private owner. The bronze sculpture was eventually purchased by Brookgreen Gardens in 1980.
@@RetNemmoc555 Thanks, I saw that when I looked up the original. I find it intriguing.
Electro becomes self aware on August 4th 1997 and Skynet then takes over.
Stop
@@geobigntall3830 no
It's Legion now, Skynet was cancelled. Golly, Gee! I want my future back...
48 Circuits, it’s remarkable how much progress has been made technologically.
With 48 RELAY circuits, Elektro had full speech recognition capabilities and could talk 😆 🤣 and why did he have to be so clunky and big?
Good imagination though...
I honestly cannot believe it is an actual movie from 1939. The quality is really good.
That's film for ya.
8:01 It's amazing how that kitchen looks almost exactly like a modern kitchen
Because no real progress has been done since then except for computers. They polished old devices and they keep on selling them with new paint and some feels and whistles.
This is SO cool! I'm sharing your channel with all my social media. As a history buff, this is paradise for me!
Thanks so much, Evan. Feel free to suggest new films or historical events.
A man after my own heart.
Hold up, hold up, HOLD UP. That automatic dishwasher washed and dried all those dishes in only 7 minutes? Am I hearing that right? Remarkable!
Yes, they always have until the 90's waltz around and changed it to an hour. Used to be efficient and clean in the 1930's-1940's and 1950's.
Modern industrial dishwashers can do it in seconds. But they cost $10-20k+. I worked in a big hotel as a dishwasher.
@@TheDominionOfElites great, this is 1939...
1. Phosphates were banned from detergent; new formulas take a longer time to work.
2. Energy and conserving water to meet guidelines; they use tricks to meet those requirements and takes longer.
3. Dishwashers are more quiet and how they achieve that is going slower.
We should also add that every scene in this video had a script and a director. Most of the talking people were actors.
It's a bit hard to tell if the machine really worked as well as they made it seem.
"This video is displayed as an historical record. The channel does not endorse any of the politically incorrect situations depicted, including:
- Badass, sexist, 2 year old smoker robots.
- Female dishwashing competitions."
whoever wrote this must be a fan of mystery science theater! well done sir!
How about...HORRORS!...all White people enjoying themselves without self-consciousness or being called "RAAAAAACIIIST?"
@@AmazingArends ?
@@AmazingArends rofl right? look how much cleaner the streets were, how much more orderly, and polite they were, christ its almost like....diversity is actually a weakness?
@@DeathSithe92 Psst, be quiet or they will cancel you.
@@DeathSithe92 It's a staged film.
Amazing, that dishwasher of 1939 cleaned dishes in 7 minutes & 58 seconds, while today's machines take 3 HOURS! That's progress for ya!
It used a lot more water and better, less environmentally friendly chemicals. Nowadays everything is regulated to use less water and the good dishwashing chemicals are banned
Progress. Now that same woman can get triggered by this old footage in under 10 seconds.
Electro says: tell it to the the hand, little man.
The grandma knows very well about how she used to cook in a kitchen back in the late 1800’s 😉
My grandma was only "born" in the late 1800's. :D
Beautiful transfer..being made in Technicolor (1939) Westinghouse spent a ton of money on this. Looks fantastic!
Man, the level of detail achieved in all these new video restorations is wonderful. Thanks so much for doing this. You are providing us wannabe time travelers with windows to different worlds, and these visual documents have such a quality that you feel you could just step inside. Gotta love that futurism from the good old days. But beyond the visual accomplishment, you can really learn a lot about people's lives back then. This must have been an amazing thing to see back in 1939!
I can't get past how good the upscaling looks.
0:58 Stark corporation
Elektro needs overclocking then he might be able to talk at normal human rate rather than somebody two spliffs in
Nah, it is all that smoking he does; makes him slow and short of breath
Hard to imagine that this isn't a film made in 2020. The world sure looked so different back then.
Say...what's the big idea with all those fancy electric gadgets?
this was so immersive i feel like i really stepped into that world
Boston Dynamics has something laying around that would send all those people running.
KEKW
Boston Dynamics has stuff that would send modern people running, that shit is terrifying.
It's amazing how well preserved this film is, good job on the people restoring the Film. It's impressive that even thought it has this Sepia tones to it you can still tell appart coulours.
It was filmed in Technicolor, so it really isn't impressive at all. The quality has degraded a LOT.
I would love to see some sort of alternate history world where predicted tech from the past actually exists
Basically scifi
Now could you imagine people wearing Suits and Dresses to a convention in the 21st century.
Hell, no. Tee shirts, ball caps and flip flops. Style amongst the common man has not progressed.
@@scottmoore1614 couldn't agree more
For 1939 that robot was really impressive along with many of the other things.
It was
it's fake
Have you wondered why they had to talk to him over a phone handset? If thus didn’t enlighten you I don’t know what would.
What kills me is the guy had to be polite and say please with each instruction 😆
@@pawelpap9 Imagine that the modern Ameca robot still pulls the same fake conversation with people 83 years later, that's progress!
Some people really believed they were having a conversation with an I.A. conversation software. 🤣😂😅
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Wow, really color filmed back then! It shure was expensive! I love to see real early color footage. Digital color software appears to be all brown and blue. We'll have to wait to the future to bring us real color (again?) I loved this video! Thank you very much!
Electro actually had no capability of voice recognition. Engineers behind the scenes were controlling his behavior. It was not computerized in the least, he was just a remote control gadget with a speaker through which one of the controllers spoke.
Still impressive given the limitations of the era, I can only imagine how they would geek out seeing modern robots with built in miniature computers, sensors like nobody's business, and a decent bit of personality in how they move
No shit, Sherlock. They don't even have transistor and only vacuum tube. No way they can fit vacuum tubes/electrical relay capable to proccess voice and control the movement inside that thing.
Yeah you can see it's right leg isn't lifting and when they chance perspective you can see a line behind it. Looks like tracks it's driving on. The left leg probably gets lifted by some chain reaction.
analog photography is so far superior to early digital. for around 30 years from the 80s to 2010s we lost a ton of good stuff to poor quality recording. then we lost a bunch more on memory cards and lost or broken devices
Keep in mind that a bunch of films were lost due to nitrate film fires. And a lot of episodes from shows in the 50s were lost due to wiping and junking of tapes.
@@edwinsalisbury83 Exactly. I *still* can't watch 4 of the earliest Charlie Chan movies because they were lost to a film fire in 1937. Granted, 40 out of 44 of those movies made from 1931 - 1949 survive, a large percentage. But Charlie Chan _was_ a huge deal back then.
@@101Volts not to mention the missing episodes of early Dr who
What an amazing quality footage... Sensational info!
This is amazing. seeing those scenes as if they were shot yesterday, with some filters on.
I want that dishwasher. It's A LOT faster than mine!
The quality on this is great; however why is there a yellow tint across the entire film? Kodachrome and Technicolor prints I’ve watched of this film don’t depict the yellow color cast.
I think the sepia was deliberate artifice. It helps convey a sense of authenticity and age. And it helps obscure other colour defects. I'm guessing the colour and resolution were reconstructed with software, not remastered with film.
It may have yellowed from iffy storage conditions, or some other issue and the person working on the film for this cleanup chose not to do white-balance correction
Funny, my wife also speaks into the phone and tells me exactly what to do...which i do sometimes. In another life, Elektro and i could have been friends.
I’m much more fascinated by the entire audience dressed in suits and formal dress wear than that clunky, highly choreographed robot. We were a better society when public formalities were paramount.
I agree, nowadays at least a quarter of them would have on pajama wear lol.
Amazing! The 50fps conversion makes it look weirdly modern.
"no one who hasn't cooked of a wood stove by the light of a kerosene lamp can really appreciate what it all means" wow.
Looks like the guy at 1:19 got hit with a fatal dose of love at first sight.
And he does too. It's almost creepy how hard he's gawping at her.
totally addicted to your channel
The video is fantastic. The disclaimer had me rolling on the floor.
8:10 she defiantly graduated from Mikes's Stoklasa acting school
It's quite telling that the time capsule was set to be opened in the year 6939. Most people nowadays don't even believe humans will still inhabit the Earth in 5000 years.
Doctor Who always stays fascinated how we humans always survive through decades and decades.
We'll barely survive after the next global crisis but it wont be in the billions. Barely will be in the millions.
What makes people arrogantly assume that humans of the future should want to pay any attention to this cenotaph message? People who unearth this "capsule" are likely to assume it's just another piece of garbage (itself full of garbage) and dispose of it accordingly. Assuming they could still read writing which would be older to them than (still undeciphered) ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics are to us.
it's very weird to see such a old clip with such good quality. 4k!
Wow, Electro had 48 relays, that's twice as smart as a contemporary 1930's pinball machine!
Ah, the good old days. Even though I grew up in the 50's and 60's, I miss the innocence and simplicity of the old days.
The World of 1939 was actually more optimistic than that of the 50s and 60s, Sadly all the hope died in the fires of WWII.
A 7 minute dishwasher? We've been robbed! '39 is better than 2021!!!
Regulations
Elektro: *counts to five without speaking*
Lady: Gee is this man a engineer?!
Im fairly impressed by the quality of this recording.
Bot: "Kill all humans".
Crowd: (applause)
They know they have ample time to get away from it before somebody would turn it off. Moves slower than a corpse.
"Mom, what's a human?
They had Elecktro, we've got Sophia ..but electro didn't joke about destroying humans..lol.
Man that footage look so incredible.
I think a smoking robot was the last thing I was expecting to see today, and in 4K quality too!
1:11 “And here he comes, ladies and gentlemen! Walking up to greet you, under his own power! ... Eventually... any second now... soon...”
Any minute now.....come on electro we don't have all day.
Haha thought the same thing!... This may take awhile.
When people cared about style and consistency for the whole picture
Right here is a perfect example why film will always be better than digital wonderful job on the transfer
Thank you for sharing.
Look at all the "progress" we've made...
....
Abstract progress.
@Luis Jayons Only a unified humanity can fulfill great things. Problem aren't cultures, but racism.
Germany and the US destroyed Yougoslavia, not "multiculturalism".
But, if you want good examples, just look at Western Europe, dying from African/Arab/turkish immigration.
We went to the moon, invented all kinds of neat gadgets, and pretty soon we'll send someone to Mars, have self driving cars, and you can ride around your city in a drone. I'd say that's pretty good progress.
In a Twilight Zone reference, Flight 33 is flying over their heads ✈️✈️✈️
WOW! great job on restoration!!
The image looks excellent. Greetings Santiago, Chile🇨🇱✌
Unless humanity is way way way more advanced than we're lead to believe, then the robot was just some guy speaking into a mic, and controlling the robot using electrical switches. Cool to see old videos being quality upgraded, though.
Oh
It was the pauses, as explained in another comment.
it's more an automaton than a true robot
The odd "pattern" of the commands is probably a big "tell" of how it works, the circuit is just counting the number of things he said and the timing to figure out which canned action to play, the speach is probably a reel to reel tape player or something with one of the audio channels set with tones to control the movement of the robot's mouth.
It's primitive and not practical, but extremely cool work for the time, from doubtlessly talented engineers who would likely geek out sing the wild stuff robots can do now with far less smoke and mirrors
Howard Stark sent me here.
The old woman at 8:06 sums everything up perfectly. You can't marvel instead of complaining and being entitled if you don't know what the alternative was. Even though commonplace now, it is still amazing.
Wow!!! I’m amazed at the image!!! So clean So clear
Frank Wells as in the Disney CEO from the 80s? woah!!!! what a fun little surprise
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4:08 For Some reason I half expected John DiMaggio's voice here saying
"I'll make my own NY World's Fair; but with blackjack & hookers!"
You mean NNY, because the Original NY was destroyed by aliens
Very incredible thing is the "robot mania" that was during the 20's and 30's, we just learned about this in literature lessons. It was because some lad wrote a dystopian play that was abour "artifical men" taking over original ones, and some people hated it so much so they created literature about good robots, the "three laws of robotics" or even built these "robots"!
6:11 We really need the return of the fastest dishwashing contest.
What have you based that on other than your inability to get women, you tool?
A robot that can smoke. Now we know where the money goes. Useless.
I assume they wanted to give an impression about the future. For that they recognized: that a robot first of all needs to be 'human-like' (otherwise there is no benefit to a common machine (like a steam engine etc). So they tried to give the robot as much 'human' sides as possible at that technological possibilities of the 30's ... Smoking was one of the very few attributes, which were quiet easy to make, and give a ''human side'' ...
There was nevertheless a lot of fakery going on of course... And thats why they only wanted to give an impression - a glimpse of a future - and not the ''real'' thing - because they knew they cant give the real thing with the possibilities they have back than.
Its really just a kind of ''trying to dream about the future'' with the possibilities they have back than.
These days robots smoke electronic cigarettes called batteries.
THIS IS SO COOL! I love the look of Electro, all the floral print, the coiled hair, the sea of slacks, the porkpie hat up front! It's very interesting how the presenter has to pause between each operator word/phase as if the program takes a little while to load each command element. The cultural element of the robot smoking to "humanize" it is a wonderful note. "Bud" is the epitome of the good boy of the times. The demonstration of the dishwasher speaks to a plethora of women's social role information. Thank you very much for this time capsule.
The robot is voiced by a pre-recorded 78rpm record (they didn't even have tape yet), trust me, voice-recognition technology was not a "thing" in 1939. All in all, it's impressive, but it was not a robot in the true sense. It was a fancy remote-controlled mechanical man.
@@edthesecond9772 then why didn't he speak in normal speech to the robot? Was he forgetting his speech?
@@dovebair The same reason the robot voice was recorded silly. Thats how they thought robot talk had to be.
@@edthesecond9772 WW11 would have looked very different if the US had robots with speech recognition!
@@dovebair Electro could not recognise speech but could recognise patterns with pauses between phrasing ...voice commands very carefully timed syllabic codes were turned in electric pulses by a grid-glow tube..that flashes were read by photoelectric tube and turn in to electric signal that relayed to Electro gears ..so operator could actually send him voice commands "Will you come / front" would make him go forward ..."Tell us how /old /you are" and "Count your age /with /fingers" would initiate same trick..etc
The quality is incredible
does anyone have the original version of this film uploaded anywhere? (the one without 4k, 50fps, and so on)
Gee willikers paw. That sure is neat.
Indonesia 2021
New york 1930s, even more modern
Trust me pal, some mentalities never evolves, they even go backswords...
You can argue that 1930s era futurism looks far more advanced than what we see now in our time.
You definitely never been in Ukraine 😂
1930s america was impoverished and destitute.
@@samnicholson5051 They've watched a short film. That means they're informed now.
I saw an ad for this 1939 World's Fair short in a 1939 issue of Life Magazine. The family were portrayed as cartoon characters.
Well, they are...sort of.
I appreciate the good quality of the video.