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io9 - Sep 11, 2008
Here’s a clip from a cartoon I’ve never seen before: Dodo-The Kid From Outer Space. Produced in 1964 and originally broadcast in the L.A. area, Dodo was an alien child with a half-bird, half-computer friend named Compy …
Also tagged: cartoons, retro futurism, dodo the kid from outer space
io9 - Sep 9, 2008
Oh, don’t get your panties in a bunch—I think we all agree that Hanna-Barbera takes a distant third in the great Chuck Jones/Tex Avery smackdown. But seriously, an interracial all-girl rock band flies through outer …
Also tagged: josie and the pussycats, retro futurism, girl groups, shit stirring space cats
io9 - Aug 11, 2008
Pardon me while I have a MARF (momentary age-related freakout): I saw Star Wars in the theater when it first came out—and that was thirty-one frakkin’ years ago. Holy time warp! Anyway, here’s a commercial for the …
Also tagged: star wars, toys, retro futurism, marf
io9 - Jul 30, 2008
I love the visual and audio reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey in this early 1970s commercial for the new G.I. Joe Talking Astronaut. I’m not sure how many kids watching Saturday morning TV picked up on them, though …
Also tagged: astronauts, 2001, g i joe, retro futurism, lifelike hair
io9 - Jul 29, 2008
Imagine the scene: it’s 1962 and the space race is all the rage. You, on the other hand, are a venerable manufacturer of toy trains and your product line is beginning to look a little staid and boring next to all the …
Also tagged: project mercury, toy trains, retro futurism
io9 - Jul 16, 2008
We’ve written about elfin outer-space glam band Zolar X before, but just discovered what appears to have been a short-lived video podcast. Here, most recent member Qazar Quantor discusses his intergalactic origins and …
Also tagged: glitter, glam, retro futurism, zolar x
io9 - Jun 27, 2008
“This is the Atomic Pulse Rocket, a pot-bellied ship nearly the size of the Empire State Building, propelled by a series of atomic blasts.” Sure, it sounds like a bad idea now but back then it was on the cutting edge …
Also tagged: rockets, atomic power, retro futurism
io9 - Jun 18, 2008
Janet Christine Dietrich has died. In 1961, along with her twin sister, Marion, and eleven other women, Dietrich passed the same battery of physical tests as the men chosen by NASA to become America’s first astronauts …
Also tagged: rip, nasa, jezebel, mercury 13, janet dietrich, fellow lady astronaut trainees
io9 - Jun 13, 2008
Earlier this week we showed you the wonderful “cosmic soap opera” from Disney’s “Mars and Beyond” television show from 1957. This much more serious clip shows what a future expedition to Mars might look like. The …
Also tagged: mars, space travel, retro futurism, werner von braun, ernst stuhlinger
io9 - Jun 11, 2008
On December 4, 1957, the Disneyland TV show broadcast “Mars and Beyond,” a 53-minute exploration of the Red Planet’s history and future, as well as its impact on pop culture. A nerdy scientist, a hot secretary with a …
Also tagged: mars, pulp, retro futurism