This is the last segment of “Magic Highway USA”, from a 1958 episode of the Disneyland television show that features an wonderful animated vision of the future of transportation. I miss the future of the past. File this under “Where’s my Jetpack?”
Here are a couple of great write-ups on “Magic Highway U.S.A.” from 2719 HYPERION and Paleo-Future, including some of the art from the episode.
Paleo-Future also recently came across some “Magic Highway USA” publicity stills uploaded to Flickr by Disney collector and freelance designer Kevin Kidney.
PS: Is that an 8 sided die at the 0:24 second mark?
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Disney should be ashamed after watching this. All they inspire anybody to do these days is get pregnant at 16, and buy shitty remakes of any movie they made in the last 50 years.
Walt, despite what anybody has to say about him, may not have been a visionary, but understood that people needed inspiration to create. Some of the things predicted here have happened.
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