Chris Sobieniak wrote:
> Quite interesting when you think of it in that sense. Of course many
> would like to think Tezuka was a robot who came to earth with the
> intent of doing these things within a life-span of a human being
> (reasons for the 150,000 pages drawn detailing everything)!
LOL! Actually, I'm amazed at all that Tezuka was able to do as a human.
> People in Europe did have Teletext in the 80's, that was a close
> equivalent to what The Jetsons had displayed.
Teletext had some similarities to the Jetson newspaper, in that it did
present headlines. But AFAICT Teletext was text-only (no pictures) and
never presented anything more than headlines.
>> The other 1960's cartoon with a newspaper on a TV screen was a black
and
>> white Anime series (sorry I cannot recall which one).
>
> Gigantor? Prince Planet? 8th Man? Just naming ones off the top of
> my head!
As a kid, I watched "Gigantor", "8th Man" and "Astroboy" on a regular
basis, so it could have been any one of those. I'm sorry that I don't
remember which series it was, but it was in a short scene in a program I
saw four decades ago.
Adult Swim should be commended for showing first generation Anime.
Undoubtedly these shows are aired to attract the huge baby boomer
audience. But programs such as "Astroboy" have a value beyond pure
nostalgia: these cartoons were the foundation of modern Anime. Watching
these shows gives you the chance to witness the birth of an art form.
> But at any rate,
>> there were cartoons that were at least bold enough to forecast the day
>> when on-line newspapers would replace the dead tree editions.
>
> True. And I hate it at times!
Yeah, hard copy can come in handy at times.
>> Now if we can only find a twentieth century cartoon that predicted the
>> Nintendo Wii ...
>
> Of course I hadn't seen a pre-70's cartoon that thought it could
> predict the future of video games for that manner.
This may be a stretch, but how about the classic "Star Trek" episode
"Shore Leave"?
--
"All things extant in this world,
Gods of Heaven, gods of Earth,
Let everything be as it should be;
Thus shall it be!"
- Magical chant from "Magical Shopping Arcade Abenoba****"
"Drizzle, Drazzle, Drozzle, Drome,
Time for this one to come home!"
- Mr. Wizard from "Tooter Turtle"
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