1960s Soviet filmstrip shows USSR’s victory over the West and predicts FaceTime and self-driving cars
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A vision of life in 2017 shows remarkable prescience about today's transport and mobile connectivity
Future gazing: the opening frame of "In the year 2017" Diafilms, Moscow
An astonishing vision of life in 2017 has come to light, in which the Soviet Union is thriving and has prevailed over the capitalist West. The filmstrip, produced in 1960, reveals some intriguing views of how transport would look in the centenary year of the October Revolution.
B 1917 godu, “In the Year 2017,” produced at the Diafilm studio in Moscow in 1960, depicts a world in which Siberia and Alaska are connected by a high-speed, atomic-powered trains on a rail link over the Bering Strait, using a double-decker bridge.
The filmstrip loosely follows the story of a boy named Igor enjoying all the ac...