My favourite cartoon as a kid was The Jetsons, hands down. I loved how everything was in a glass dome and you could take a shuttle to a resort at “Las Venus” at the drop of a hat. You can often find me rummaging through Flickr’s online archives of vintage stuff, which is how I came across this series of retros-futurist images distributed in 1954 by an old French chocolate brand, Cantalou. If you dug The Jetsons, you’ll dig these…

And then things start to get a little weird…

You can find tons more interesting series of vintage French media on this Flickr account. 

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