Young Nation

Country: United Kingdom

The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This was a TV segment on the BBC in the mid-1970s that interviewed young people. It had upbeat theme music and is now mostly lost except for a few clips.

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What happens

Young Nation was a TV segment of Nationwide which aired on the BBC during the mid-1970s. It often featured interviews with people of interest to the youth of the time. Its theme music, typical of the time, was a bouncy tune with high-pitched vocals by a female and a male (a clip of this was featured in the Sex Pistols documentary The Filth and the Fury). An excerpt from the program was seen on a bonus DVD that came with the 2006 re-issue of ABBA's Arrival album. According to a disclaimer at the start of the excerpt, the BBC no longer had the programme in their archives, and the clip was from the archive of ABBA's record label. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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