In 2017 – Unique Soviet futuristic filmstrip made in 1960

In 2017 – Unique Soviet futuristic filmstrip made in 1960
First of all, it is really interesting what future people dreamed 57 years ago, and in particular, how they saw us in 2017. People dreamed. And thanks to the artist L. Smekhov, authors of the film V. Strukov and V. Shevchenko the studio “Filmstrip” in 1960 released the fantastic slideshow with subtitles “In 2017”. So, we can now check how true were people’s dreams. Its authors tried to explain to Soviet children in an understandable manner what the world will be like in 57 years. Besides, the year of 2017 is not by accident, it is a Centenary of the Great October Revolution which took place in 1917.
According to the fantasy of the creators of the filmstrip, in 2017, robots, video communication, atomic trains and space travel are in full use. The story tells of one of the days of a Soviet schoolchild who goes to an underground city in Antarctica – Uglegrad. Under a thick layer of ice, life is “boiling”, and Soviet workers extract fuel under the rays of the quartz sun.

Slide #2. In subtitles – The statement about the great desire of people to look into the future. “In 2017” – Unique Soviet futuristic filmstrip made in 1960

The story begins with a school bench, where students observe with their own eyes how great their country, the USSR is. After watching the film, the students go home to prepare for an excursion to Antarctica. The protagonist of the filmstrip wakes up using a robot-alarm clock, and the cooking machine prepares for him a breakfast on the mother’s recipe.

In the present year of 2017, many people use smart alarms and various electronic kitchen appliances that can be programmed so that the porridge is ready in the morning. Probably, the creators of the filmstrip in 1960 suspected something …

And here’s the TV set – a fictional prototype of modern Skype, Facetime and other video communication services.

The flying weather control station in the filmstrip is very cumbersome. But in the present 2017 the dispersal of the clouds is not a fantasy at all.

In 2017 – Unique Soviet futuristic filmstrip made in 1960

1. Soviet people improve the world for peace and happy life for all

Schoolchildren of 2017 sit in the educational cinema. The loupe of time allows them to plunge into the past

The guys saw how the bridges over the bottomless mountain gorges stretch towards each other

Very accurately directed atomic explosions cut unnecessary hills and cut channels

The Ob and the Yenisei turned back and rushed to the Caspian Sea. This sea, which had just dried up, had now taken on deep rivers

The dam across the Bering Strait – on it the atomic trains are rushing. The dam blocked the way to the Arctic Ocean and the climate of the Far East became warmer

In the depths of volcanoes, underground boats – moles from especially heat-resistant steel broke through the mines to eternal sources of energy

In space with the speed of light, photonic rockets – interstellar ships – rushed to the closest planetary system of Alpha Centauri

When the film session was over, the geography teacher reminded of tomorrow’s excursion to Uglegrad, located in the Arctic

The next morning Igor woke up because of a light click on the nose. It was a wall clock, jokingly invented by his father, the controller of the Weather Control Center

I will see Uglegrad, Igor was happy

The clever machine has already prepared breakfast, according to mum’s instruction

Igor in the kitchen, where clever machines work according to instruction

Suddenly, from dad’s study Igor heard mum’s voice

His mum looked at Igor from vide-telephone. She was on the ship deck, where the kindergarten with her younger children was children

The mother explained that she is on the Black sea, on business trip, inspecting ship kindergartens

In half an hour Igor was already far from Moscow. Meanwhile, Arctic met him and other schoolchildren with snow storm

Before the tourists opened the hatch, and a wide escalator tape drove them down

Excursion around Uglegrad, where the lime blooms and on the beach people are sunbathing under the quartz sun. It was hard to believe that at the top of the blizzard