Talk:Just Imagine (film)

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On 21 April 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from Just Imagine to Just Imagine (film). The result of the discussion was moved.

References to use[edit]

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Spring, Katherine (2010). "Just Imagine: The Musical Effacement of Dystopia in an Early Sound Film". In Bartkowiak, Mathew J (ed.). Sounds of the Future: Essays on Music in Science Fiction Film. McFarland. pp. 67–87. ISBN 0786444800.

Year[edit]

"Just Imagine!" was NOT set in 1988. Anyone who is vaguely familiar with the film knows that it was a 1930 production that imagined life in the future world of 1980, half a century hence. In fact, clips from the film were shown on the CBS Evening News on the January 1, 1980 broadcast, since Walter Cronkite remembered the vision of the future that didn't quite come true. Mandsford 03:36, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Musicals declined in popularity"[edit]

In the reception part it says " By the time it was released, movie musicals had greatly declined in popularity". I fail to see how this is possible, when movie musicals had just a few previous years before been made possible with the advent of talkies. Furthermore, the heyday of musical films had not yet reached its peak. In the following year, 1931, over 100 musical films were released on Hollywood alone, and people like Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Ginger Rodgers had not yet even reached stardom. See Musical film Scifist (talk) 14:27, 14 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Post Amazers"[edit]

Wikipedi says is a modern 2d/3d graphics co, founded in 2002. Is somebody making a joke here (reference in article to that company producing graphics for this 1930 film). 81.157.165.14 (talk) 22:45, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Preservation status[edit]

There definitely needs to be some information on the film's preservation or lack of it, and just how complete surviving versions are. According to John Clute's article on The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction website:

"As a viewing experience, Just Imagine must be imagined to be seen, so rough and seemingly gap-filled are its known surviving versions, which may have been photographed from 16mm prints; the best song, 'Never Swat a Fly', was only recovered in recent decades. What remains, befogged and bedraggled, does in any case convey a sense that the original may have been almost as hard to parse, both as visual display and as an attempt to exploit some poorly grasped sf topoi in order – it may be – to release some of the tension of living in 1930." Lee M (talk) 02:17, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Move discussion in progress[edit]

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