The Family: Lifestyles of the Future
The Family: Lifestyles of the Future
Film tries to predict what families will be in the year 2000. General shots of daily living in 1970s. Some of the footage is of experimental communal living, but it could also work for general daily life.
The Family: Lifestyles of the Future
CU of a man w/ long hair playing the piano. MS of Dr. Margaret Mead, anthropologist, talking to the camera. Cut back to muscians on stage.
The Family: Lifestyles of the Future
Mother & 2 children sit at a piano in their home. Children & adults play in the snow on a farm. White geese walk across the snow. Family builds a snowman & throw snowballs. MS of Dr. Margaret Mead talking about what the future holds for families.
The Family: Lifestyles of the Future
CU of a man & woman looking into each other's eyes. CU of faces of men & women. They are all living in the Perth County Conspiracy, commune. CU of a man's hands touching his hair. Man in groovy 1970s fashion plays the guitar & sings. Winter scenic of a farm. Adults walk through the snow. Dog & cat follow the people. Horses run in the fields on the farm. Men working in the barn. 8 Pan across the winter landscape to a man holding a child. They sing together.
The Family: Lifestyles of the Future
Woman & 2 children sit at piano. They sing together. CU of a person smoking a cigarette. Men, women & children in the living room of a moderate house. The adults are talking & playing with the children. CU of faces. MS of Dr. Margaret Mead.
The Family: Lifestyles of the Future
CU of a baby. Pull back to show crib. A white baby & African American baby in the same crib. African American woman is dressing a toddler. A white man dressing an African American toddler. Child is sucking its thumb. CU of child w/ glasses. Several kids eating ceral. 4 adults sitting in a living room. Good 1970s fashion. CUs of the adults as they talk about their lives in the communal house, sharing chores, etc. MS of Dr. Margaret Mead.
The Family: Lifestyles of the Future
Children race through a doorway & around the house. Camera follows them. The kids jump into bed with their parents to wake them up. There are 2 women & 1 man in bed together (bigamy, polygamy). Children play w/ the adults. Thet get out of bed & go to the kitchen for breakfast. Adults prepare breakfast. Eating cereal & toast. Man talking to camera, smoking & drinking coffee. Adults talking to camera about their relationships. Family sitting around the breakfast table.
The Family: Lifestyles of the Future
CU of child putting on a winter coat. Woman is holding a brown paper bag, pobably a lunch. Woman leaves for the day w/ 2 children. Pan to man sitting at kitchen table smoking a cigarette. MS of Dr. Margaret Mead. A band on stage, playing. MS shots of people listening to music. CU of faces.