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''Design for Dreaming'' ( 1956 ) is a musical Sponsored Film about a woman (played by Tad Tadlock ) who dreams about a masked man ( Marc Breaux ) taking her to the 1956 General Motors Motorama and Frigidaire's "Kitchen of the Future." The film starts off with her in her bedroom, with the masked man suddenly appearing. He then takes her to the Motorama. After looking at several cars including Buick , Chevrolet Corvette , Oldsmobile , and Cadillac s, she is taken to the "kitchen of the future," where she bakes a cake. She then goes back to the motorama and dances the "dance of tomorrow." After looking at more cars, she and her masked man (who unmasks himself) travel on the "road of tomorrow" and fall in love. ''Design for Dreaming'' is one of the key Populuxe films of the 1950s. The film was directed by William Beaudine and produced by Victor Solow . It features Tadlock, Breaux, and the voice of Thurl Ravenscroft , later famous as the voice of Tony The Tiger and the singer of " You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch " in the TV version of Dr. Seuss 's '' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! '' ( 1966 ). ''Design for Dreaming'' has gained a small cult following, with different people enjoying it for different reasons. One prominent showing of the film was as a short feature in a fifth-season episode of '' Mystery Science Theater 3000 '' (''MST3K'').''Mystery Science Theater 3000'', " 12 To The Moon " {Link without Title} , 5 February 1994 . The BBC documentary series '' Pandora's Box '' by Adam Curtis made extensive use of clips from ''Design for Dreaming'', especially in the title sequence. Some footage was also used in the Music Video for Peter Gabriel 's 1987 single " In Your Eyes " and a 1989 commercial for the Nintendo Game Boy game '' Super Mario Land ''. ''Design for Dreaming'' is in the public domain, and has been download over 25,000 times at the Internet Archive (as of September 2006). The version mocked on ''MST3K'', which is still copyrighted, is available on the ''Mr. B's Lost Shorts'' DVD in the ''Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVD Collection Volume 6''. SELECTED QUOTES
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