Future Shock
1972 | 43m | English
Popularity: 0.7 (history)
| Director: | Alexander Grasshoff |
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| Writer: | Alvin Toffler, Ken Rosen |
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| “Our modern technology has achieved a degree of sophistication beyond our wildest dreams. But this technology has exacted a pretty heavy price. We live in an age of anxiety, a time of stress. And with all our sophistication we are in fact, the victims of our own technological strength. We are the victims of shock … of future shock.” No, this isn’t a quote from a Huffington Post column on the Facebookization of modern communication. Nor is it pulled from an academic treatise on the phenomenologies of post-industrial existence. This statement was made by Orson Welles in the 1972 futurist documentary Future Shock, and, unlike some of the more dated elements of 1970s educational films, Future Shock remains shockingly current in verbalizing the concerns and anxieties that come along with rapid societal and technological change. (Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive) | |
| Release Date: | Feb 22, 1972 |
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| Director: | Alexander Grasshoff |
| Writer: | Alvin Toffler, Ken Rosen |
| Genres: | Documentary |
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| Production Companies | Metromedia Producers Corporation, McGraw-Hill Films |
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Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: May 08, 2024 Entered: Apr 26, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Orson Welles | Narrator |
| James McGaugh | Himself |
| Alvin Toffler | Himself |
| Name | Job |
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| Alexander Grasshoff | Director |
| Gil Mellé | Original Music Composer |
| Alvin Toffler | Book |
| David Newhouse | Editor |
| Ken Rosen | Writer |
| Vilis Lapenieks | Director of Photography |
| Joe Wonder | Production Manager |
| Name | Title |
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| Charles W. Fries | Executive Producer |
| Karl Schanzer | Associate Producer |
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