The House of Tomorrow (1949 film)

The House of Tomorrow
Directed byTex Avery
Story byJack Cosgriff
Rich Hogan
Produced byFred Quimby
StarringFrank Graham
Tex Avery
Joi Lansing
Narrated byFrank Graham
Don Messick
Music byScott Bradley
Animation byWalter Clinton
Michael Lah
Grant Simmons
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • June 11, 1949 (1949-06-11)
Running time
7:00
LanguageEnglish

The House of Tomorrow is a 1949 animated theatrical short directed by Tex Avery. It was part of a series of cartoons Avery did satirizing technology of the future which included: The Car of Tomorrow, The T.V. of Tomorrow, and The Farm of Tomorrow. These were spoofs of live-action promotional films that were commonly shown in theaters at the time.

The film is a straightforward narrated showcase of appliances said to be found in a typical house in the year 2050, roughly a hundred years after the cartoon was made, each one actually an outlandish joke. Most of the time, the inventions follow a similar pattern of being made for each member of the family, but ending with a fatal version for the "mother-in-law".