French movie better than Lem. 73 years ago, he predicted that we would stare at the screens without interruption
People are sitting in a cafe and looking at small screens. Others walk around the park, staring at the displays. They fall into each other and almost under the car. In turn, someone else sits in front of the TV screen, with a toy steering wheel, and on the screen sees the route of the race. A report from the present day? No, these are scenes from a 1947 French film called Télévision: Oeil de Demain ("Television: an eye for the future"). The small devices used by the characters in the movie are not smartphones, although they perform a similar function. These are small TV sets, although they also have a communication function. In one of the scenes we can see that they can broadcast an image, and in another one what we would call a conference call. Television: an eye for the future is an educational film. He was supposed to make viewers aware of the possibilities that the medium, which was still young at the time, brings. It was intended for screening in front of the main ...