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The House of Tomorrow

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The House of Tomorrow (1949)
ComedyFamilyAnimation
A narrator takes us on a tour of the dream house of the future, and its many innovative appliances.A narrator takes us on a tour of the dream house of the future, and its many innovative appliances.A narrator takes us on a tour of the dream house of the future, and its many innovative appliances.
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
666
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
100,202
1,570
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    • Director
      • Tex Avery
    • Writers
      • Jack Cosgriff(story)
      • Rich Hogan(story)
      • Heck Allen(story)
    • Stars
      • Tex Avery(uncredited)
      • Frank Graham(voice)
      • Joi Lansing(uncredited)
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Tex Avery
    • Writers
      • Jack Cosgriff(story)
      • Rich Hogan(story)
      • Heck Allen(story)
    • Stars
      • Tex Avery(uncredited)
      • Frank Graham(voice)
      • Joi Lansing(uncredited)
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    • 7User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Tex Avery
    Tex Avery
    • Burps
    • (uncredited)
    Frank Graham
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Joi Lansing
    Joi Lansing
    • Beautiful woman on television in swimsuit
    • (uncredited)
    Don Messick
    • Narrator - Pressure Cooker Blackout
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Tex Avery
    • Writers
      • Jack Cosgriff(story)
      • Rich Hogan(story)
      • Heck Allen(story) (uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      While Don Messick is heard on some prints of the cartoon, his voice was a "looping" of the scene about the pressure cooker. The original narration referenced the year 1975 as being the "tomorrow" of the title, so the line was redone by Messick (Frank Graham having died years before) to advance the year of the future to 2050.
    • Goofs
      The automatic sandwich maker makes sandwiches by slicing up bread and salami and demonstrates how the sandwiches are made. In the next shot when the sandwich maker is putting the sandwiches on the plates, the remaining loaf of bread and salami have both vanished.
    • Connections
      Featured in Toon in with Me: Catch of the Day (2021)
    • Soundtracks
      M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)
      (uncredited)
      Music by Theodore Morse
      [Plays when mother's entrance is shown. Also plays when mother's medicine cabinet is shown.]

    User reviews7

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    Top review
    7/10
    obviously a product of "back then", but still pretty neat
    I have to admit that I only loosely know Tex Avery's work (namely that it was the inspiration for "The Mask"), but "The House of Tomorrow" is still a treat. A look at how people in 1949 imagined that future dwellings would be - think "The Jetsons" - there are some things that might eat at us in the 21st century, namely the fact that the cartoon envisions housewives staying home cooking and cleaning while their husbands go to work.

    But, as long as we understand that this cartoon was a product of its era, we can accept it for what it is. And I think that everyone can agree about the mother-in-law; it looks like they were talking about Endora on "Bewitched". In conclusion, this cartoon will always remain a classic! And about that woman on dad's TV: meow meow...
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    • lee_eisenberg
    • May 31, 2006

    Details

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    • Release date
      • June 11, 1949 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Будинок майбутнього
    • Filming locations
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      7 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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