So I had to replace most of the audio in this video due to copyright and replaced with copyright-free music from KZfaq, so hopefully it's not too jarring after it gets processed.

This is a worthwhile reminder that the US was a very creative country and should use its energies for good.

Brings back memories of my brother and I on a rainy day at my grandparents farmhouse reading grandpa’s old Popular Mechanics magazines to keep us out of trouble. Great times!

One hundred year old music STILL copyrighted. Why? That is simply insane.

Nice one. Love it. Metropolis 1927 is good film too

that original "future of the 1920s" video is how i found your channel. that video popped up for me a few weeks ago and i ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT.

Love the pictures and music, goes great together with the video ..

Subscribed! I wish I knew this channel existed sooner! My paternal grandparents were born in 1919 and 1921. I've always had an interest in their era of when they were growing up. This channel is great. Thank you

I feel like I got addicted to dope..I love this stuff..am old enough (65) to remember my Great Grandparents having magazines from that time... still has a fascinating effect on me... kinda liked their vision better than how it's turned out..

Love these depictions of vertically integrated cities.

Love your work.

I wonder what anyone who was living in the 1920's would think about how we live today. Computers that you carry with you, instant access to any information, driverless vehicles, 600 plus passenger jets, fresh fruit & vegetables year round ... etc.

For any reason I love this music and feel attracted to that time, fashion and architecture, must have been a beautiful time

I like how they predicted television, drive-ins and video calling. I especially like the images with the TV sets.

I love "the future that never was". Nice choices for the music. Thanks for the video.

Awesome, just found your first Future Of video today, and a new one came out literally yesterday. Thanks for the content, this channel is an excellent resource for my research.

Love how the Sky Rocket has a vase of flowers.......perfect for space travel !!

Copyrights expire after 95 years in the US. You should be safe up to, almost, 1928. A secondary copyright wouldn't have any bearing on your use of them.

This decade happened 100 years ago. But I’ve still been waiting for this video for months lmao

Absolutely ❤️ LOVE your work!!! 🏆!!!!

People of the 1920s and 1930s were actually way ahead of their own time. I always wondered how they actually see what we have today on what they actually dreamed of. Like cellphones, laptop computers, driverless cars, smart watches, hoverboard, etc. In 1937, World of Tomorrow county fair. Nikola Tesla was actually behind the scenes of the World of Tomorrow back then.

The airport to city subway transport system was ABSOLUTELY PERFECT it is actually quite genius i would love to see it in modern cities!

6:14....."Wireless antennae strung between periscope columns." Science fiction out-running science fact. A truly great series....many thanks.

I just happened to stumble on the two twenties vids and they’re wonderful. I’m a (learning) 3D computer VFX artist and I’ve received so much inspiration from these two videos. And the links to the source material, too! Truly great stuff. Thanks. Subscribed and thumbs up.

They were on the right track on a few things. Electric fireplaces, tvs and video calling for one.

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Part 1 was recommended to me and i really like your stuff, cheers

Part 1 got me hooked on your channel. Keep up the great work!

Just have to say Dynamite job !!! Thank you So Very 💗 Much !!!! Mike from Boston

Fucking love it. I used to see these types of drawings all over the place, when I was growing up. Miss all that. The ideas for the future were so positive. Much better than ideas from the 1970's and onward. Thanks for the trip. It was awesome. :)

1:18 "To the Moon at 7 miles a second. Engineers plan strange new rocket". They got that right! The exact speed of escape velocity that Apollo used.

I like that they had the rocket motors powered by radium. Most of all it did in that decade a century ago was make a few dozen unfortunate soul's jaws fall off of course, but it showed that they did have some kind of faint inkling of the then newly discovered latent power inside the nucleus of the atom. That little girl riding the "motor wheel" at 11:50 was a real thing that actually happened... unbelievably and ill-advisedly enough, and you can see video of her riding it through a big pile of horsepoop while her dad runs to keep up just by searching "motor wheel" on here.

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The cityscape at 12:55 reminds me of Metropolis,great video btw.

My Mom and Dad were born in 23-24, so fun to see their world.

If I were to assign a name to the 1920s futurism, I'd call it Gothica. It always strikes me as Gotham City but older. Like what Gotham was like before Batman. All that Art Deco and Art Nouveau.

They predicted internet and wi-fi calling it "radio". There's one picture that caught my attention, it says something like "radio controlled skates, mail by radio, calls by radio"... if you substitute "radio" with "internet"... there you have it.

Decopunk is a subset of Dieselpunk and covers the 1920s.

6:29 This picture totally reminds me of the app game Fallout Shelter! Also 10:53 this looks like a precursor to the hyperloop! 🤔

WONDERFUL! The panned closeups offer greater detail, which is cool. I found myself, however, really longing to see a full display of each graphic AFTER panning ( assuming it wouldn't conflict with any copyright issues ) - that would add a more cohesive overview to experience the artist's vision while really enhancing each overall visual.

I remember my aunt telling me how she was scared to death the first time she took a ride in an airplane. She was a young lady in the 1920’s. She was born in 1899. She was 19 years older than my mom born in 1918.

1:57 Tesla's wireless power was a powerful icon of the future, but almost no one wanted to invest in it.

Like allot of others have commented, i just had you part 1 video show up in my feed the other day.

Interesting that the word "Airliner" had already been coined back then. Looking on Wikipedia the world's first airline was started in Germany in 1909, but one wonders if the term "airline" was used to describe it. The ocean-going equivalent to an airline was a "cruise line" (like Cunard), but I suppose "Ocean Liner" would have inspired "Airliner". (KLM was founded in 1919, and is still with us today.)

Well information. Good show. Well information.

Loved the music!

Flying cars seemed to be the No. 1 prediction of most past "futurists." We're still not there. On the other hand, none of them predicted the internet.

One thing they didn't predict is that the Disney corporation would bribe politicians to extend copyright to a century so they could keep control of Mickey Mouse (it was originally 7 years)

A hundred years went by and the train system in the U.S. got worse instead of better...bet they didn't see that one coming. The rocket to the moon was well called though, as it's very similar to Space X and Blue Horizon, just not to the moon yet. Cool to see radio control stuff, wireless, war machines, congested cities, disk movies (DVD), air freight, mega power plants, and 2-way TV totally on-point.

Fantastic videos I love this sort of stuff. 🥰 But I can't find Metropolis any where 😮

Interesting to see the use of the word 'Television' so early. When Baird first experimented with his mechanical system in London in the 1920's the word wasn't used, even though the devices did bear a resemblance to the images in the clip. There was some doubt as to what to call the new device. At least thats what the recieved history says. Yet here seems proof the modern word had already been coined.

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13:05: I believe the drawing of that large, round building was from the movie "Metropolis".

Excellent

There are videos on here from various World Fairs and what they thought of the future. They are from before 1940 and predicted just a few decades later. They got the interstate highways correct, but that is mostly it.

Large housing projects did replace individual homes in the inner city, and they became crime-infested dumps. Many were torn down after 20 years.

8:52 - Clover leaf interchange. These were invented by the Germans for the Autobahn some 10-15 years later. 10:34 - DC was talking about extending the Metro out to Dulles Airport some 25 years ago. I don’t know if it ever actually happened.

1:31 One thing that people of the 1920s didn't predict: That the 'limited times' secured for copyright holders would be extended to a century or more! (For more on this, see "the Mickey Mouse Protection Act".)

Lord Musk never had a single idea that could not be found in an old issue of Popsci or Popular Mechanics

The term you are looking for is "deco-punk", which fits between steam and diesel.

This is great. Always enjoy your research.

I'm curious who the artists were that created these scenes are. I imagine them becoming lost in their work and the love they had while creating these dreamscapes 😍 nice work, I enjoyed the music also

Your content and overall editing skills are awesome. Keep it up !

The music enhances the nightmarish feeling.

Disk movies for the home? Don't we call them DVDs?

Back in the 70's Ma Bell came to our jr. high school & I asked about video phones. I was told not possible; sound was sent line of sight & the representative had no sight for vision of the future.

A little narration explaining what each picture is supposed to represent would help. Some were easy but some were, like, "WTH was that supposed to be?"

God I’ve waited for this video so long

All these pictures look so optimistic. We have created more technological achievements then they could have imagined but as a society we are more depressed then ever

I had the opportunity to talk to old timers sitting outside our 8flat in chicago during the fifties. As a child I would listen to their 19th century life experiences, being a fossil myself nowadays I am amazed at what reality has brought us and finally know how they must have felt. I must say that you capture the sense of an "imagineer" picturing the might be against the what is and the scary thing is "what will be" for the upcomming generation. You are an imagineer trying to relive a previous generations sensations for the "what if" with a great success!

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The moon rockets were not that far off, needed bigger tail fins and no radium engines. But what really surprised me was seeing the word "television" in one of the drawings from the 1920s. I didn't think that word had been created until the late 1940s.

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Only a day to travel to Paris from NYC , wow ! First you need to survive the ride on the NYC subway.

I like that we're used to be so obsessed to travel to the moon. And we just got it real since the 60s. And now we go satellites at every edge of the world

8:09 I’ve been on a spiral escalator. They have one in Las Vegas

Imagine if marty mcfly haved gone to 1925 and say that 1985 is the futuristic time.

Waiting for part 3 and make it as series

Bear in mind as you watch this that in one form or another, nearly everything you see depicted here did come true. I get a kick out of how they thought "radium engines" were going to propel rockets, but again, they were already tinkering with the rudiments of understanding how nuclear power would one day be harnessed.

It's damn near 2023, and we still don't have any boss battle tanks.

There's a book series called the lensmen written in the 1920's by E.E. Doc Smith.that I adore. I always imagine the imagery from that era. Even though the concepts were probably the basis for Star wars.

For the million!

It's really annoying how everything is shot close-up I feel like I need to zoom out to look at the whole picture to understand it completely

I would have liked some narration, explaining what you see in the pictures. Otherwise very interesting!

Thanks. I enjoy your channel.

We've invented some of the things mentioned, like the pictures from disks, they're called DVDs. We can go to the moon, but why would we want to? There's no Disney related parks, yet😉😅! We don't do a lot of things mentioned and we don't have highways on rooftops!😅

7:09 The concept of having a highway as a roof for building does exist in some places. But really the opposite have become much more common. That is, having building as roofs for highways. So called overdecked highways, a cheaper alternative to tunnels. 7:20 i´m amazed how obsess they was about mixed usage buildings in the 1920s. And obsession that really have been there all the way to current times, and just very recently is a true reality. 7:29 Over decked railway is more uncommon. But they do exist. (its more expensive and less profitable) 7:39 Interesting how they talk about congestion... often we hear that today as a new problem. Its not, we just spreed it out a bit more. 8:03 here is a multi level street that kin of make sense. Having the road traffic under ground with over deck. While we do see that today, its still very rare. Interestingly in Stockholm in the 1950s and 1960s they overdecked a large chunk of the streets, but they did it in the opposite direction, with foot traffic under ground and cars over ground 10:05 Of cause, we can go NY to Paris with in a day. The specific aircraft design seam to be based on a German design that was very common in future of the 1920 picture. The wings was so thick that people could sit in them. That aircraft only had 4 propellers. (2 large, 2 smaller). Just scaling it up would increase the range. Possibly making NY to Paris possible. (maybe with a mid Atlantic stop over for fuel) 12:05 Well.. the jet stream, we do use it nowdays to save fuel. The time saving is not as large as it would be in 1920 becasue we simply fly much faster. Its interesting how well informed they was about this condition already back then. 12:31 Interestingly the aircraft got a ram-air turbine. Something that is still used to this day. Also a ram air pressure intake. Those are used to day on A350 and B787, but they use internal turbines in steed of bleeding it of the engines "one man operate the airplane, one the radio" this is actually fairly accurate to how it works today. "triple riveted aluminum" well.. someone saw the comet coming. 13:23 .. i didn´t catch it at first, he is actually doing online shopping. That is one h*ck of an expensive overcoat in 1920 monetary value. This is something most people don´t understand. It was actually possible to send TV signal over telephone cable in the 1920s. This was only possible for a short while. Later they started signal stacking, and lossed that ability. Some dedicated cables was keeped non stacked for video conferences. But to the general public the ability to watch TV over telephone was lossed and really not regained until 2003. But before that ability was lossed there was plenty of idea to use video telefon and call a video archive, and even the ability to have video links, yes, pretty much like youtube. The reason why this solution was unworkable was not due to technology, but due to cabling. It was simply to expensive. The reason why we can do it today with fiber optics have actually not anything to do that we have powerful electronics, but more so to do with the incredibly band width of fiber optics, and we can simply stack more bandwidth. The technology was known in the 1920, but the laser to make it a reality was not yet made. 14:05 The reason why we in the west hardly got any stacked roads, and in Asia got a lot is simply because we are more wealthy. We could afford to choice between speeding the cities, and building up. And we did mostly spreading. In large Asian countries they did more high rise building and they also have more stacked road to compensate. We in the west also generally have more highway tunnels, being a more expensive, but better solution than over ground highways. So why this may look very futuristic, what we got, was actually way better. 14.27 A company called skylon is currently working on a system like this. Its a dual system air/oxygen breathing rocket. So it can go mach 5 inside the atmosphere, and mach ~15 just above it.

Will we ever get to see you ?

"We just had a war to end all wars. We'll never have one again. Let the good times roll!! Just like the optimism of the Colmbian Exposition 30 years before. Beats our dystopian futures of the past 40 years.

The dreamers of yesterday aren't much different than the dreamers of today...

Very cool...I have about 40 victrola disks from the 20's. Since I have the source material, I can make a recording and own the copyright since they are public domain. You can't make a copy someone's copy, but as I said if you own the original... perfectly legal.

"We must abolish war or war will abolish civilisation" its depressing that's the most accurate 1920s future prediction.

Back To The Future - Huey Lewis & The News

The future is so hard to predict. WHAT the future will be like, not how. How describes the active operations that would be involved. Grand totals reminiscent of calculated constructs leading to more reality based dynamics.

Remote controlled and Wireless aircraft and ships are 21st-century Drones. so people from the 1920s predicted UAV Drones of the future.

According to the 1920s magazines I've read, the Elder Gods should be taking over soon.

Some of these vehicles have a hint of star wars design.

The 20s urban futurists were so 3D!

Very very Good most interesting thank you

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