Reel Decay 73 // Ecological Cinema Archive
Lecture · Reel 04 | NY · 2155 | RUNTIME 42 MIN
A Lecture in Three Reels 04 / 12

Rationing Tomorrow

On the smog economy — and the green wafer that fed it.

A field study of dystopian one-sheet design, 1968–1979: how condensed type, halftone grain, and a sickly chromatic key were used to sell the end of the world to a public that was already running out of food.

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