They’re called Viddicons in our world, a sort of retro-futuristic FaceTime. Salesman Herb Porter (Dewshane Williams) makes a call on the Viddicon in “Hello Tomorrow!” Apple TV+ Jack Billings (Tommy Crudup) sits in a hover car on “Hello Tomorrow!” Apple TV+ How did you design those funky video phones? That was made by our carpenters and we put lights around the center of it and worked with the the special-effects supervisor to imagine what a hologram would look like coming up through the center. I wanted it to look like a nice piece of furniture … and I thought of this sort of doughnut-shaped table that looks like it’s made out of walnut and there’s a very small control panel with a slot for the punch card. When I was designing the table, the big thing was to put a punch card in and the hologram would start playing. On the backs of our main robots there’s a slot for the punch card that programs them, and you see that in other gadgets as well. Shirley (Haneefah Wood) gets an able assist from an office robot in “Hello Tomorrow!” Apple TV+ Many of the gadgets use old-fashioned computer punch cards.įrom the beginning, Ahmet and Lucas had this idea with punch cards and wanted them in this world. Some car companies and appliance companies were spending money making “concept” cars or “concept” kitchens and those were really fun to look at. I also looked at old World’s Fair catalogues and Popular Mechanics magazines, which had all this weird gadgetry. I had a ton of catalogues from that era and books on advertisements in the ’50s and also old Sears catalogues and old decorating books and old car books people brought in. That was very inspirational for our gadgets they needed to have some weight to them but needed to have all curved lines and look like they could be aerodynamic. The Art Deco era was wonderful with those industrial and product designs - everything looked streamlined and could possibly fly. With the research on the gadgets … I looked back from the 1920s to the late 1960s. The minute I read the script I started doing a ton of research, and then my team came on and everybody started spitballing ideas. In a wide-ranging interview, Sigel described how she and her team created some of the futuristic gadgets seen in “Hello Tomorrow” - and how these machines doff an authentic tip of the cap to the space-age Eisenhower Era. “It’s anchored in the 1950s … where technology has advanced at a much faster pace than it did in our history.” “That was what we were going for,” series production designer Maya Sigel told The Post. The Apple TV+ series, starring Billy Crudup as a slick huckster selling timeshares on the moon, is set in 1950s America - yet it’s an alternate-reality version of the decade that still feels familiar. Holograms, hovering cars, ubiquitous robots, video calls - they’re all an integral part of “Hello Tomorrow!” - but with a slight twist. ‘I just feel bad for Jennifer Aniston’: ‘New Girl’ actor Jake JohnsonĪ ‘Ted Lasso’ star is performing at the Beacon Theatre in 2023. MLB’s hideous streaming partnerships are filled with arrogant greed ‘Ted Lasso’ star Brett Goldstein extends U.S.
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