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Out of This World

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Reviewer: thatemailname - - April 4, 2009
Subject: View history in its historical context
Reading the comments here, I notice there is no sense of historical context in them. A film made in 1964, for what was primarily an advertising purpose, can't be judged by the sensibilities of 40+ years later.

It's also apparent by the comments that the reviewers have little or no knowledge of what kind of exhibit this film was created for. They seem to find a completely undeserved smug self-satifisfaction in the fact that the predictions of the future made in the exhibit were in some cases wildly off the mark, and in others would be frowned upon today.

One other thing to keep in mind when viewing this film - back in 1964, the world was a much *larger* place than it is today, and to the typical American (who is the audience for this film after all) the other countries mentioned in the film were for the most part still exotic, far-away places that they had had no first-hand experience with.

Reviewer: ERD - - September 30, 2006
Subject: Out Of This World Is Out Of Reality
First the film shows a future that dangerously alters the ecology of the earth and strips it of its natural resources, then it uses an international theme to show off kitchen appliances made by Frigidare. The actress sometimes looked silly prancing about as a person of different nationalities. This production certainly doesn't hold up now- but then it was never good to begin with.

Reviewer: bread - - September 27, 2006
Subject: Medicore!
I found this film medicore. If you like old kitchens, you might think about downloading it, but is not really that good. It just seemed like one overlong ad.

Reviewer: june(dive)travels - - November 7, 2004
Subject: Not sure
I really sit between nostalgia and science-fiction.
I donôt know, but maybe I am just too young for this.

Reviewer: Marysz - - September 1, 2004
Subject: Out of This World, But Still in a Kitchen
A housewife goes alone to the GM Pavilion at the 1964 WorldÃÂs Fair and is invited by the announcer to be ÃÂalone with her thoughts.ÃÂ He drones on about the world of the future where underwater farms feed the worldÃÂs population, who now live the ultra-futuristic ÃÂMetropolis of Tomorrow.ÃÂ

For all the its grandiose predictions about the future thereÃÂs one thing this film finds impossible to envisage: a woman outside of the kitchen. WeÃÂre treated to a reverie of the housewife alone in the ÃÂKitchen of TomorrowÃÂ in various foreign climesÃÂÃÂItÃÂs just like being in the Mediterranean! It is! Yummy!ÃÂ From there she goes to a kitchen in the ÃÂexotic eastÃÂ and then on to sunny Spain. What makes these dream kitchens of tomorrow so enticing? Maybe itÃÂs the fact that there arenÃÂt any real world husbands or kids around demanding to be fed and taken care of. And in each exotic clime, she gets to have different makeup and a new hairdo. Not to mention an alluring new wardrobe.

Inane as this film is, it contains a kernel of unintentional truth. Were housewives of the time desperate for new appliances or desperate to have some time alone to themselves? A child calls out ÃÂHey, Mom!ÃÂ and sheÃÂs back to being her plain-Jane self, in her real kitchen and her husband is home from the office. Fortunately, a pot roast seems to have cooked itself in the oven for dinner while she was at away at the WorldÃÂs Fair.

ÃÂWhat a day!ÃÂ she muses to herself, The film started with a male voice-over, but it ends with the housewife speaking in her own voice. ÃÂMy family will never believe me!ÃÂ The films ends with a dissolve from a close-up of her radiant face to her empty kitchen. WhereÃÂd she go? Could she have gone back Out of This World? Maybe she's decided she prefers the glamorous solitude of the Kitchen of the Future to her subservient life in the Kitchen of the Present.

Reviewer: Spuzz - - December 30, 2003
Subject: Calling all space cadets!
I'll say this up front. Download this movie NOW. I don't know WHY, but the appliance manufacturers never dissapoint and they always make the loopiest "What planet are they from?" movies imaginable. (See Frigidaire Finale and 'Match Your Mood' for other examples). This movie starts off with a woman going to the Futurama exhibit at the 1964 New York World's Fair. It's one of those sit down rides I guess, and the narrator explains to us the many environments we could move to (razing rain forests and the mountains are mentioned, which makes this viewer somewhat uncomfortable). From there, we take a look at the house of tommorow, and that's when, I'm sorry, I LITERALLY began to chortle. Looking at the design of the house will make you too. We then see a woman go into to kitchen of tommorow and demonstrate some not-really out there inventions of tommorow (although cooking a roast in a few minutes still has yet to be perfected). The film THEN LEAPFROGS into hilarity by going into designs from the far corners of the world. The kitchens AND the actress herself morph into many worldly designs, all of which I have to break down:
The "Mediterranian": The Model is dressed in some HEAVY 60's clothes, and lights a candle and sways! Groooovy! She explores her "Mediterranian" style kitchen comes with a counter stove which she can't stop fondling and a fridge which she keeps a HUGE ready-made salad in, just in case you know.
After a few more fondling of kitchen knick-knacks, the kitchen AND the actress morph into an Indian (You know, the "Exotic East") setting, where she drinks tea, does some more swaying, fondles her fridge, then visits her washer and dryer in a Gazebo/temple like setting! This W/D combo looks to be together and set in an IMPOSSIBLE angle for anyone to put in their laundry room comfortably.
After that, we go to the Orient. The actress plays a horrible geisha stereotype as she demonstrates this weird oven rack. After showing off more appliances and tasting some soup..
It seagues into a Spanish setting, where she opens her oven to look inside while wearing this dangerously loose blouse which makes contact with the oven rack! (Clucks tongue and rolls eyes). After fondling more knick knacks and of course, ending with a caress of the air conditioner, it all ends with her, of course, waking up. Her son and husband ask about how she liked the World Fair, and she replies, "Everything I saw was out of this world!" I'll say! A MUST SEE on this site!

Reviewer: cashel - - November 1, 2003
Subject: 1960,s style selling
the first half is a mildly entertaining fantasy with good color photography...The remainder is acommercial selling washing machines, refrigerators,stoves,refrigrerators..Recommended as TRIVIA