On YouTube, I encountered this recording of a Chicago telecast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCz9YoD0l08
of "LA 2017", a television movie, which was directed by *Steven
Spielberg* (apparently one of his earliest efforts) and for which the
script was written by Philip Wylie (claimed to be his last work).
Philip Wylie wrote a controversial book on American politics with the
title "Generation of Vipers".
He also wrote "When Worlds Collide", which was adapted into a
spectacular movie.
Later on in his life, he shifted to writing novels about the
consequences of environmental neglect.
On YouTube, I encountered this recording of a Chicago telecast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCz9YoD0l08
of "LA 2017", a television movie, which was directed by *Steven
Spielberg* (apparently one of his earliest efforts) and for which the
script was written by Philip Wylie (claimed to be his last work).
Essentially, a man driving to Los Angeles for a conference somehow
happens to encounter a time vortex, and goes to the future of Los
Angeles in the year 2017, where it is nearly unlivable due to pollution reaching terrible levels.
Presumably, he vortexes out, and goes to his conference with a
heightened awareness of how bad pollution is, thus changing the future.
The plot, of course, could be said to be taken from Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Story".
John Savard
On Sun, 26 Mar 2023 17:54:05 -0700, Quadibloc wrote:
Philip Wylie wrote a controversial book on American politics with the
title "Generation of Vipers".
I lived in Santa Monica 1969-70 and remember the smog stinging
my eyes as I rode around the LA area on my motorcycle.
I see that Wylie died in 1971, a year after the Clean Air Act
was signed into law by Nixon. That pollution has been gone these
many decades, a major environmental success story.
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