Hildebrands Kakao Trade Card: Theater im Jahre 2000 Holographic Stage
Remote telepresence and holographic projection technology forms the central vision of this remarkable Victorian-era futurist trade card — a live performer is projected as a luminous apparition onto a home stage via what appears to be an early telephonic-cinematic transmission system. Audiences in evening dress watch a glowing spectral diva materialize from a projection beam, while a vignette shows a reclining woman speaking into a telephone receiver, suggesting she is the remote performer broadcasting her image to distant parlors.
Imagine watching a glowing lady appear out of thin air right in your own parlor — no need to go to the theatre at all! This Kakao card makes the year 2000 look like the most magical place imaginable.
“Hildebrands Deutscher Kakao Theater im Jahre 2000”
