From. The. Stilted. ‘Proper’. Way. Of. Talking – to the very jobs that are miraculously eased by new efficient machines, there’s barely a pixel of this that applies today. Except, that is, for the bucketful of certainty that all this is the way of the future.

Efficiency Exhibition’s Office Robots

This is from British Pathé and around now I’d usually be telling you that there is a lot more to see on the original site. But right now, the word ‘more’ doesn’t feel adequate. The newsreel company has released 85,00 such movies. Go browse or try randomly search for the craziest terms you can think of.