Trying to find OLD movie...of the future

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by AiboPet

Friends and I have been trying to figure out just WHAT movie I'm remembering.

I remember a couple walking up to what was effectively a vending machine.....but a BABY came sliding down, in a little basket and everything

I remember the couple standing there...and sort of "ordering" a baby...."blue eyes, brown hair" or somesuch.....and then a baby came down a chute or something from the wall. Am I crazy to JUST remember this dumb thing? It's something I saw on TV as a little kid....and it musta been part of a movie.

I'm assuming this has got to be some movie about stuff that will happen in the future, but from a LONG time ago. Maybe I was like five or six when I saw it. I actually love these sort of "this is gonna happen in the future" movies. Movies like "Things to Come", "Brazil", "Metropolis", etc.

So does anyone remember this dumb "baby vending machine" part of some movie?

No, I never saw anything like that, to the best of my knowledge; I watched a lot of TV when I was a kid (in the days when we only got three channels from Cleveland, and my family only had one b&w TV in the living room), but never saw anything quite that outlandish, unless you consider the 1960s Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon series "The Jetsons" on NBC Saturday mornings (remember its automated food machine in the kitchen, wall-mounted TVs that also showed the daily newspaper, flying saucers instead of automobiles, a robot maid, etc., but never a baby vending machine).

However, since anything, however ridiculous, silly, or downright impossible in real life it may be, is possible in movies, stories, etc. (I am presently and have been for the last at least 25 years been writing a story in which some pretty outlandish things happen), a movie such as you mention is entirely possible as someone's vision of the future, say 25, 50 or 100 years from now. There is a TV series, for example, on cable's SyFy channel titled "Continuum", set in the year 2077; it started on the 14th of this month. I'd like to see just what the show's writers and producers came up with as their vision of life (and the world in general) 64 years from now.

There was also a song which was popular on top-40 radio in the mid-1960s (the record may have also been and likely was available in record stores of the time as well) by the group Zager and Evans. The song was titled "In The Year 2525"; it was a futuristic vision of the world in that year and on through the year 10,000 (!). If you have an oldies radio station near you, you might hear the record once in a great while, but it wasn't that big a hit when it was new, so I wouldn't count on hearing it today very often. The "classic hits" (a. k. a. oldies) FM radio station in Cleveland hasn't played this record in some time (perhaps a decade or more), although I don't know for sure as I haven't listened to the station much lately. They may and probably do have it, however, since their music library is huge -- probably the largest of any Cleveland rock station.