Forgotten wonders from the past.
Let’s say you’re a film-maker and you’ve got a great story – about a bunch of eccentrics that decide that working for a living’s a waste of time, it’s much better to live for unspecified kicks, trying to improvise a living.
Good idea for a comedy caper movie.
But there’s a catch – it’s 1944, and there’s a war going on – and the Censorship commission would never approve a movie about people unwilling to be valuable members of society.

What do you do?
Simple – you set your movie in the future, after the war is over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tXHIAnGHZY

A bona-fide science fiction film (hey, it’s set in the future, right?) Give us the Moon is a strange movie, with machine-gun witty dialogues and a strange prophetic value – the “White Elephants Society” is an uncanny parody of the existentialist and beat crowds that were, at the time of filming, at least 5 years in the future.

The sparkling lady is gorgeous Margaret Lockwood, the twittering girl is future superstar Jean Simmons.
The movie was directed by legendary director Val Guest, based on a novel by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon, called The Elephant is White.
For interested parties, getting the movie is a little easier than finding a good copy of the book.