Design for Dreaming
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Design for Dreaming is a 1956 musical Ephemeral film about a woman (played by Tad Tadlock) who dreams about a masked man taking her to the the 1956 General Motors Motorama and Frigidaire's "Kitchen of the Future". It starts off with her in her bedroom, with the masked man suddenly appearing. He then takes her to the Motorama. After looking at several cars, including Buicks, Chevrolet Corvettes, Oldsmobiles and Cadillacs, she is taken to the "kitchen of the future", where she bakes a cake. She then goes back to the motorama and dances the "dance of tomorrow". After looking at more cars, she and her masked man (who unmasks himself) travel on the "road of Tomorrow" and fall in love.
It is one of the key Populuxe films of the 1950s. The film was directed by William Beaudine and was Produced by Victor Solow. It starred Tad Tadlock, Marc Breaux, Thurl Ravenscroft. In recent years it has gained itself a small cult following, with different people enjoying it for different reasons. It is in the public domain, and has been download over 25,000 times at the Internet Archive(as of september 2006).
[edit] Selected quotes
- Man - "This is just a dream and involves no money which one would you like me to buy you honey"
- Woman - "Tick Tock Tick Tock I'm free to have fun around the clock"
- Woman - "I dreamt last night, the moon was so bright, it melted the world away"
- Woman - "No need for the bride to feel tragic, the rest is pushbutton magic"
- Man - "Quick please a gown" Woman - "Ooh ill be the talk of the town"
- Man - "Girls don't go to motoramas, dressed in a pair of pink pajamas!"
- Woman - "The kitchen of tomorrow is calling me"
- Woman- "oh my!" Man - "go after it fly"
