most of the time in 1955 they used film for television. I would love to see some of the content that was used on the DuPont network unfortunately someone got the bright idea to throw all the tv programs away in the ocean off of coast of NY.
First video tape recorder introduced in 1956. By the lake sixties there were home video recorders. They were big, bulky reel to reel afairs and were the equivalent of 10 thousand US dollars now.
Great memories. For every cigarette commercial there’s a don’t smoke commercial 😂. Looks like big pharma took the place of big tobacco for pushing their bad products.😂
It was an over-the-air battle between Big Tobacco and the Federal Govt. On New Years Day, just a few days after all this aired, it was the last gasp (no pun intended) for the tobacco companies to advertise on TV. 1/1/1971 they would no longer be allowed to run TV commercials selling their cigarettes, after Nixon signed a bill into law banning the practice forever. So I mean like every single commercial break it was a cigarette ad -- and the FCC countered with endless PSAs about the dangers of smoking. It was in essence a propaganda war fought between Big Tobacco and Big Government. Big Government won ultimately, but not without the tobacco companies plastering cigarette ads on every TV network over every commercial break, for months. I remember it well, because in December 1970 when all this was aired on KNBC (the NBC affiliate in L.A.), I lived in Los Angeles, and saw it all in real time. I was 14 at the time. So while this was a commentary on our sensibilities at the time, it still evokes good memories of my childhood living in Long Beach at the time.
@@briane173 I remember this as well, sort of. I was 7 at the time, living in NYC. For sure, remember the cig ad's. One in particular, like from 1970, had this super serious tone wt scary music. This cowboy walked into this darkened bar room with the swinging doors and lit up. Scared the hell out of me for some reason. I'd run out of the room as soon as it came on. I'm a little embarrassed to admit how much of an impact TV had on me as a kid. Mom always said "that idiot box" would rot my brain. Here I am to prove it.
I remember all these commercials and newscasters. Tom Brokaw was our local news guy. What a difference all those years made. It was the beginning of the anti-smoking and anti-drunk driving era. With a mixture of cigarette and booze commercials.
There was a war going on that month between Big Tobacco and the Federal Govt on TV for air time to advertise. I remember it distinctly. Were you living there two months later for the Sylmar earthquake? I lived in Long Beach when that hit, and even there it was a nasty quake. Scared the hell out of me; I was 14 at the time.
Each morning my Mom dropped me off to Kindergarten in the car. She'd be drinking a cup of coffee in the car keeping it in the cup holder. Noting that Mom drank fluids while she drove, I concluded that she "drank and drove". Accordingly, I told my kindergarten teacher that my Mom was a "drunken driver". A short term mess but fortunately I didn't get punished.
Tuesday December 29, 1970. Gotta love all the cigarette commercials as they knew time was running out. As always, thanks so much for sharing these as it’s like a Time Machine.
This was aired just three days until all of the cigarette ads are pulled the plug from radio and TV for good. I don’t smoke or buy cigarettes at all, never!
Thanks for getting the air date correct. I couldn't figure out if it was the 29 or 30 of December when it aired. This was just before the New Year of 1971.
In 1970 Congress passed an advertising prohibition act banning all cigarette commercials from the broadcast media effective January 2, 1971. 1970 must have been good revenue from tv ads from cigarette companies. So odd to see people smoking in cigarette ads.
All the cigarette commercials and Tom Brokaw as a local news guy in LA still.... Quite a find. I wasn't born til 1977, and some of those commercials were still airing when I was a kid in the early to mid 80s like the "spicy meatball." The production quality of TV didn't change a lot between 1970 and 1985 or so.
Wow, I though "A Rage to Live" was going to be a TV movie or even a mini-series (though they did not have those in the 1970s). A 1965 movie I have never even heard of and I am a big movie fan. Thank you again for stretching our education.
In this clip, three NBC Burbank voices are heard - Don Stanley and Donald Rickles (local KNBC voiceovers), and Eddy King ("NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies"). It was within this year that Victor Bozeman first joined.
Bill Fiore and Louise Lasser at 2:52 for NyQuil. And is that Jill Clayburgh for Kent menthol cigarettes at 3:25? At 4:31 it's Dave Madden doing the voiceover for the Schick hot lather dispenser. At 14:30 are clips from some classic Alka-Seltzer commercials featuring Jack Somack and Alice Playten. Ruth Buzzi as Gladys Ormphby in the Santa Anita spot at 23:15, with Gary Owens on voiceover.
Notice all the cigarette commercials. It was the last hurrah for them, banned 01/02/1971. The last cigarette ad aired at 11:50pm during the Johnny Carson Tonight Show for Virginia Slims.
“ NyQuil 3:00 Sick husband after getting a dose of NyQuil fro his loving wife. “ I’m lucky to have you, Mildred” Wife “ I know” And we thought Han Solo was clever with the “I know”. lol. Forgive me. I’m loving this too much. It feels so damned comfortable to watch... I’ll try to be cool.
@@debswatching With Bill Fiore playing the husband. He was later in a series of commercials in which a strange man keeps popping up on the other side of his bathroom mirror to talk about Right Guard deodorant.
Ms. Fawcett appeared on the Saturday night version of "The Dating Game" on ABC just before April Fools Day 1969. She was largely unknown to the public then. Unbeknownst to her and the viewers initially, her three bachelors were Hollywood stuntmen who broke into a physical fight after Fawcett made her selection for a date. The fight, host Jim Lange revealed a moment later, was a staged April Fools prank--probably producer Chuck Barris's idea. I don't know if Fawcett appeared on "The Dating Game" again.
Richard Zanuck gets bounced from running 20th Century Fox by his own father, goes over to Universal to set up shop with producer David Brown. Among their first movies they make are "The Sting" and "Jaws". I'd say he did okay.
Ruth was crazy beautiful. Wonderful personality, extremely funny and I personally feel she had the best body during the tattoo/bikini segments on the Laugh In show. And I’m ready to fight anyone who disagrees with me. Even beating out Goldie Hawn. (if you see this Goldie I’m sorry) lol. 😂❤
@@gregorysharp Fond memories of Ruth Buzzi from Laugh-In. Going around assaulting the dirty old man on the park bench. At like age 6-7 I got to stay up Sunday nights and watch Laugh In. Everyone in the house could appreciate it.
Oh man. You are on a role. Thank you thank you. 1:38 Dean Martin Commercial. A bad/funny joke lost to time? Nope. I love all you do. ❤ It was your videos a couple years ago with Dean that first got me watching your priceless Chanel.
@@ciabattatom521Was that really Charo? I thought it was at first but then she didn't do that gyrating "Choochi-choochi!" thing. She was kind of acting semi-normal.
@@RaptorFromWeegee I never questioned whether that was Charo, but your comment had me briefly wondering. Without knowing the full context of the entire "Merv Griffin" episode, it could have been a parody. According to IMDB, Johnny Carson's guest lineup for "The Tonight Show" was from the December 29, 1970 episode. Merv Griffin's guest panel that same night did include Charo.
I have mixed feelings. On one hand I'm bummed I was around way back then in the 70's. On the other hand I'm glad I can still remember some of this stuff. 😃
I'm not bummed necessarily; but while this is a peek into everyday life in L.A. at that time there was plenty of nasty shit going on in the news on a daily basis -- Vietnam, Manson murders, Sylmar earthquake to name a few. Oddly enough, even at 14 I still remember the headline in the L.A. Times the day after New Years, about a week after this stuff aired: "SACRAMENTO RECORDS $901 MILLION SURPLUS." After running deficits for 10 years under Gov. Brown and the first two years of Gov. Reagan, Reagan finally achieved what he'd set out to do -- achieve a balanced budget in CA for the first time in over a decade.
The 70's was a mix of greatness and darkness like any other decade but in my opinion the good far outweighed the bad. Can't say the same for modern times. I would gladly take the 70's over today anytime. Show me the time machine and I'm outta here. NO I'm Not wearing rose colored glasses or nostalgia goggles. My opinion and attitude is based on real memories. The good old days wasn't a perfect utopia but far better than today. Humanity is currently in serious decline.
Interesting that in the stock market report the Dow was at 842 and had gone up 11 points that day, with volume of nearly 18 million shares traded. Today the Dow is around 33,000, it goes up and down by hundreds of points daily, and there are individual stocks that trade 18 million shares in a single day.
Imagine where we'd be if we'd invested in a DJI index fund in December 1970. There was no NASDAQ back then either. It was then known as the Over-the-Counter Market.
@@briane173 Better to wait till `1974 or 75, THEN invest. The market was still fairly solid in 1970. 73-82 it really hit the skids with high inflation, recession, layoffs, and later, stagflation. Great time to be a kid but rough time for an adult trying to manage the family finances.
And for every cigarette commercial Big Tobacco was throwing up there was an equal number of PSAs from the Nixon Administration. And that last month it was like every 5 minutes.
[All] We're living in color [Twilight Sparkle] Step out of the shadows and into the light Where it's bright and you might see all the colors you are [Rainbow Dash] Or any color you wanna be that your mind can see And wear them bright like a shining star [Rarity] Why just be black and white? No need to hide all those colors inside [Fluttershy] 'Cause when they shine up bright It just feels right [All] To be living in color We'll be living in color To be living in color We'll be living in color [Applejack] Make up any colors that you can devise Mix 'em up, watch the joy as it multiplies [Kerfuffle] Make a rainbow and you will see How together we are like [All] One when we harmonize [Rarity] Why just be black and white? No need to hide all those colors inside [Fluttershy] 'Cause when we shine so bright It just feels right [All] To be living in color We'll be living in color To be living in color We'll be living in color [Fluttershy] Hello, my friend is a big bright yellow [Twilight Sparkle] Violet's what you get when you're feeling mellow [Moody Root] Red is the part where your heart starts to glow [Kerfuffle] In the mood, in the groove, indigo [Rainbow Dash] Blue is the sky spinnin' high as can be [Applejack] Orange can amaze, bringin' days that are sunny [Mrs. Hoofington] Green is serene, take a breath, feel new [Pinkie Pie] Feel all the living colors [All] There's a rainbow in you Now we're living in color Yeah, we're living in color Now we're living in color Yeah, we're living in color We're all living in color (living in color) We're all living in color We're all living in color (living in color) Yeah, we're living in color We're all living in... color!
The Johnny Carson clip kind of predicts the future. The guy he's interviewing in the audience was from Burbank and not long after this clip the Tonight Show moved to Burbank permanently. I was too young in 1970 to be up that late but later on watched Johnny Carson for years, he was the master of talk show hosts.
0:21 Young Tom Brokaw relates how Charles Manson was charged with another murder. I think that would be the murder of Spahn Ranch stuntman Donald Shorty Shea, who was murdered by several of Manson’s crowd a couple of weeks after the Tate and LaBianca murders in August of 1969. Shorty worked at the ranch where Manson and friends had been living, and he was not a fan of the group. Charlie and Shorty did not get along, and based on various descriptions Charlie suspected Shorty was giving information to the police about various Manson Family deeds. He was murdered and buried near the ranch. At the time of this broadcast, the Tate and LaBianca murder trial was nearing the end of the guilt phase. Manson and his three female co-defendants were found guilty the following January, followed by a penalty phase. Various other members of the group were charged and tried for several murders in separate proceedings. Donald Shea served as a partial inspiration for Brad Pitt’s character in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.
@@BananaPhoPhilly No offense taken, you're just telling the truth as it is. Today, theres so much restriction on booze, it feels like they're trying to sneak prohibition back in on us.
(15:03) Yes! -- 'Secret Ceremony.' I remember catching that on a cable channel in the '90s. Psychodrama directed by the U.S. ex-pat (in England) Joseph Losey.
26:30. I looked up Gordon Bowers and Donna Gobble to see if those two crazy kids made it. Looks like they didn’t, but Gordon did become a Captain with the Burbank PD and married someone named Susan.
@@skipflow Movie ratings were _extremely_ conservative back then. _MIdnight Cowboy_ was released that year and it got an "X" rating. Today "X" is reserved for sleazy porn movies. Yet _True Grit_ was also released that year with a "G" rating, which nowadays would have earned a PG. Movie ratings were only a year or so old at the time and standards were all over the place and _very_ subjective. It's a little less unruly now but standards have definitely dumbed down since then.
He'd only worked for KNBC I think 2 years by then, and then after the Sylmar earthquake - which happened barely a month later - he got enough national exposure to put him on NBC's radar for a position on their national news program and would later anchor _Today._
And they say menthol was is out for minorities, that's what caused mental to be banned finally here in california. But then you see these old commercials from the 1970s and the ones that are Hawking the menthol cigarettes are all white. Gee, sure is a bad thing when you think about it.
LOL at the 19:55 mark the president of 20th century Fox fired after the studio showed a 5 million dollar loss. 2023 entertainment companies are posting Billion dollars loss, and it is sort of the norm.
They do grow tobacco in MD, going back to the 1600s. But I was born and raised there and never heard of em. My mom smoked Salem 100s and my dad smoked something but not those.
It didn't cost this nation a single penny! If YOU smoked, you paid the consequences ...until you and your fellow socialists began plundering your neighbors to pay for your bad choices (medical expenses). Even after you soshies plundered the tobacco companies themselves, you STILL can't pay for all of the publicly funded entitlements you created! What an alien idea: adults paying for their own choices! The flipside of freedom is self-responsibility.
I think all the switching the stations did in those days was done live and manually. Each station had a "Master Control Room" filled with patch bays, switchers, and monitors showing all the feeds. A guy at a desk with reams of printouts, and clip boards controlled all those dissolves and fades between ad's and programing. TV felt more interesting and real when so much of it was done live. All the little imperfections gave it texture and character.
It’s amazing we have tapes with random television bits dating back this far. Imagine if VCRs were around in 1955!
most of the time in 1955 they used film for television. I would love to see some of the content that was used on the DuPont network unfortunately someone got the bright idea to throw all the tv programs away in the ocean off of coast of NY.
First video tape recorder introduced in 1956. By the lake sixties there were home video recorders. They were big, bulky reel to reel afairs and were the equivalent of 10 thousand US dollars now.
I absolutely love the brief moment of quiet dead air between each segment.
Great memories. For every cigarette commercial there’s a don’t smoke commercial 😂. Looks like big pharma took the place of big tobacco for pushing their bad products.😂
It was an over-the-air battle between Big Tobacco and the Federal Govt. On New Years Day, just a few days after all this aired, it was the last gasp (no pun intended) for the tobacco companies to advertise on TV. 1/1/1971 they would no longer be allowed to run TV commercials selling their cigarettes, after Nixon signed a bill into law banning the practice forever. So I mean like every single commercial break it was a cigarette ad -- and the FCC countered with endless PSAs about the dangers of smoking. It was in essence a propaganda war fought between Big Tobacco and Big Government.
Big Government won ultimately, but not without the tobacco companies plastering cigarette ads on every TV network over every commercial break, for months. I remember it well, because in December 1970 when all this was aired on KNBC (the NBC affiliate in L.A.), I lived in Los Angeles, and saw it all in real time. I was 14 at the time. So while this was a commentary on our sensibilities at the time, it still evokes good memories of my childhood living in Long Beach at the time.
@@briane173 I remember this as well, sort of. I was 7 at the time, living in NYC. For sure, remember the cig ad's.
One in particular, like from 1970, had this super serious tone wt scary music. This cowboy walked into this darkened bar room with the swinging doors and lit up. Scared the hell out of me for some reason. I'd run out of the room as soon as it came on.
I'm a little embarrassed to admit how much of an impact TV had on me as a kid. Mom always said "that idiot box" would rot my brain. Here I am to prove it.
so not a fan of personal responsibility
I remember all these commercials and newscasters. Tom Brokaw was our local news guy. What a difference all those years made. It was the beginning of the anti-smoking and anti-drunk driving era. With a mixture of cigarette and booze commercials.
There was a war going on that month between Big Tobacco and the Federal Govt on TV for air time to advertise. I remember it distinctly. Were you living there two months later for the Sylmar earthquake? I lived in Long Beach when that hit, and even there it was a nasty quake. Scared the hell out of me; I was 14 at the time.
Oh yeah.... I lived in Pasadena and we definitely felt that Sylmar quake! It emptied one of our kitchen cupboards.@@briane173
Each morning my Mom dropped me off to Kindergarten in the car. She'd be drinking a cup of coffee in the car keeping it in the cup holder.
Noting that Mom drank fluids while she drove, I concluded that she "drank and drove". Accordingly, I told my kindergarten teacher that my Mom was a "drunken driver".
A short term mess but fortunately I didn't get punished.
That's hilarious! @@RaptorFromWeegee
Tuesday December 29, 1970. Gotta love all the cigarette commercials as they knew time was running out. As always, thanks so much for sharing these as it’s like a Time Machine.
This was aired just three days until all of the cigarette ads are pulled the plug from radio and TV for good. I don’t smoke or buy cigarettes at all, never!
Those coffin nail ads certainly evoke a certain nostalgia, don't they? 🚬
Thanks for getting the air date correct. I couldn't figure out if it was the 29 or 30 of December when it aired. This was just before the New Year of 1971.
In 1970 Congress passed an advertising prohibition act banning all cigarette commercials from the broadcast media effective January 2, 1971. 1970 must have been good revenue from tv ads from cigarette companies. So odd to see people smoking in cigarette ads.
My neighbor lady smokes just under 20,000 cigarettes per year. She is in her sixties and looks ninety.
this channel should be kept at the Smithsonian
They would fall over themselves trying to get copyright clearance for every little thing and you'd never get to see this.
All the cigarette commercials and Tom Brokaw as a local news guy in LA still.... Quite a find. I wasn't born til 1977, and some of those commercials were still airing when I was a kid in the early to mid 80s like the "spicy meatball." The production quality of TV didn't change a lot between 1970 and 1985 or so.
Those headline teasers were pretty tame compared to today's news.
You may remember, "...but did you know that the original polydancian dance #2 by Boridin?" They ran that same ad for decades with John Williams
I was born 9 months before these aired. Maybe I was conceived during one of these? Probably during the airing of “A Rage to Live”.
😂 Maybe 😂
"Who are your parents?"
Liz Taylor and Robert Mitchum.
You were more likely conceived during a morning episode of HR Puffin Stuff! Or Tom Slick!
'conceived'? So did you mean to say you were born 9 months *after* these aired, rather than 'before'? Hard to be born before you're conceived.
Between the cigarette smoke and all the sick people, I need a shower and a mask 😂
Wow, I though "A Rage to Live" was going to be a TV movie or even a mini-series (though they did not have those in the 1970s).
A 1965 movie I have never even heard of and I am a big movie fan. Thank you again for stretching our education.
Kinda comes off like a poor man's 'Payton Place'
In this clip, three NBC Burbank voices are heard - Don Stanley and Donald Rickles (local KNBC voiceovers), and Eddy King ("NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies"). It was within this year that Victor Bozeman first joined.
Bill Fiore and Louise Lasser at 2:52 for NyQuil. And is that Jill Clayburgh for Kent menthol cigarettes at 3:25? At 4:31 it's Dave Madden doing the voiceover for the Schick hot lather dispenser. At 14:30 are clips from some classic Alka-Seltzer commercials featuring Jack Somack and Alice Playten. Ruth Buzzi as Gladys Ormphby in the Santa Anita spot at 23:15, with Gary Owens on voiceover.
Thank you. I couldn't figure out who the Nyquil lady was.
I like the way you think!
Notice all the cigarette commercials. It was the last hurrah for them, banned 01/02/1971. The last cigarette ad aired at 11:50pm during the Johnny Carson Tonight Show for Virginia Slims.
@@debswatching I know. I was alive then, in 5th grade.
Not convinced it's Jill Clayburg.
“ NyQuil 3:00
Sick husband after getting a dose of NyQuil fro
his loving wife.
“ I’m lucky to have you, Mildred”
Wife “ I know”
And we thought Han Solo was clever with the “I know”. lol.
Forgive me. I’m loving this too much. It feels so damned comfortable to watch...
I’ll try to be cool.
And the actress in the commercial, Louise Lasser, plays the lead in “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.”
I know exactly how you feel. I love these commercials.
@@debswatching With Bill Fiore playing the husband. He was later in a series of commercials in which a strange man keeps popping up on the other side of his bathroom mirror to talk about Right Guard deodorant.
Mary Hartman Mary Hartman selling NyQuil.
It was with the mid 2000s commercials went to crap. I remember when most commercials became drug ad's.
Farrah Fawcett also made an appearance in ‘The Partridge Family’ series as well as ‘The Dating Game’ this year.
That was Mr. Kincaid doing the voice over for Schick Hot Lather dispenser.
@@deeanna3335 OMG, I thought I was the only one who noticed!
@@RaptorFromWeegee lol yeah I was a Partridge Family fan, actually David Cassidy, so I watched the show..
Ms. Fawcett appeared on the Saturday night version of "The Dating Game" on ABC just before April Fools Day 1969. She was largely unknown to the public then.
Unbeknownst to her and the viewers initially, her three bachelors were Hollywood stuntmen who broke into a physical fight after Fawcett made her selection for a date.
The fight, host Jim Lange revealed a moment later, was a staged April Fools prank--probably producer Chuck Barris's idea.
I don't know if Fawcett appeared on "The Dating Game" again.
23:37
The Bird with the Technicolor Plumage strikes again! 🥰
Richard Zanuck gets bounced from running 20th Century Fox by his own father, goes over to Universal to set up shop with producer David Brown. Among their first movies they make are "The Sting" and "Jaws". I'd say he did okay.
Your actually making bad news sound good. That worked out for everyone.
Those must have been rough Thanksgivings
I just started smoking today because of this damn video
...The NBC Studios in BEAUUUUTIFUL down town Burbank.
This comp reel is priceless - many thanks.
Tom Brokaw before he made it national and it was great to see Dean Martin.
I really enjoyed the Santa Anita rating commercial with Ruth Buzzi. I was 10 at this time, and I spent many days there with my father. 🐴
Ruth was crazy beautiful. Wonderful personality, extremely funny and I personally feel she had the best body during the tattoo/bikini segments on the Laugh In show. And I’m ready to fight anyone who disagrees with me. Even beating out Goldie Hawn. (if you see this Goldie I’m sorry) lol. 😂❤
@@gregorysharp Not only do I hope Goldie does not see this, I pray it does not end up with you having to fight her. (Love you both, Ruth & Goldie!)
@@gregorysharp Fond memories of Ruth Buzzi from Laugh-In. Going around assaulting the dirty old man on the park bench. At like age 6-7 I got to stay up Sunday nights and watch Laugh In. Everyone in the house could appreciate it.
The last televised cigarette commercial aired on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show January 1st 1971 they were banned after that point
That’s why I don’t buy or smoke cigarettes, no way!
Tom Brokaw back in the day.
16:42 Farrah Fawcett (RIP)
Please take me back to this time...I will behave , I promise
My dad got a Schick hot lather dispenser for Christmas... Pretty cool. My dad used shaving cream until the end.
I got one for my father for Christmas. SO I could use it!
Oh man. You are on a role. Thank you thank you.
1:38 Dean Martin Commercial. A bad/funny joke lost to time? Nope.
I love all you do. ❤
It was your videos a couple years ago with Dean that first got me watching your priceless Chanel.
This is spectacularly great!!!
A young Cybill Shepherd in a CoverGirl Sheer Makeup commercial.
She's still beautiful. That bone structure is to die for.
Pretty ironic Johnny picked someone in the audience from Burbank given the show would move there about a year & a half later...
What kind of a psychopath changes the channel when Charo is doing her thing?
I cannot think of anything more kooky-kooky!
@@ciabattatom521Was that really Charo? I thought it was at first but then she didn't do that gyrating "Choochi-choochi!" thing. She was kind of acting semi-normal.
@@RaptorFromWeegee I never questioned whether that was Charo, but your comment had me briefly wondering. Without knowing the full context of the entire "Merv Griffin" episode, it could have been a parody.
According to IMDB, Johnny Carson's guest lineup for "The Tonight Show" was from the December 29, 1970 episode. Merv Griffin's guest panel that same night did include Charo.
I have mixed feelings. On one hand I'm bummed I was around way back then in the 70's. On the other hand I'm glad I can still remember some of this stuff. 😃
I'm not bummed necessarily; but while this is a peek into everyday life in L.A. at that time there was plenty of nasty shit going on in the news on a daily basis -- Vietnam, Manson murders, Sylmar earthquake to name a few. Oddly enough, even at 14 I still remember the headline in the L.A. Times the day after New Years, about a week after this stuff aired: "SACRAMENTO RECORDS $901 MILLION SURPLUS." After running deficits for 10 years under Gov. Brown and the first two years of Gov. Reagan, Reagan finally achieved what he'd set out to do -- achieve a balanced budget in CA for the first time in over a decade.
@@briane173 sounds like some of the last glory days for California
The 70's was a mix of greatness and darkness like any other decade but in my opinion the good far outweighed the bad. Can't say the same for modern times. I would gladly take the 70's over today anytime. Show me the time machine and I'm outta here. NO I'm Not wearing rose colored glasses or nostalgia goggles. My opinion and attitude is based on real memories. The good old days wasn't a perfect utopia but far better than today. Humanity is currently in serious decline.
17:45 Actor/Comedian Bob Hope coming home from 7th Christmas Vietnam War USO tour.
The bank commercial about investing. $1.00 in 1970 is equivalent buying power of $7.93 in 2023.
Yet the Dow is now _38 times_ what it was at that moment in 1970. And 23 X more shares traded.
Interesting that in the stock market report the Dow was at 842 and had gone up 11 points that day, with volume of nearly 18 million shares traded. Today the Dow is around 33,000, it goes up and down by hundreds of points daily, and there are individual stocks that trade 18 million shares in a single day.
Imagine where we'd be if we'd invested in a DJI index fund in December 1970.
There was no NASDAQ back then either. It was then known as the Over-the-Counter Market.
@@briane173 Better to wait till `1974 or 75, THEN invest. The market was still fairly solid in 1970. 73-82 it really hit the skids with high inflation, recession, layoffs, and later, stagflation.
Great time to be a kid but rough time for an adult trying to manage the family finances.
Inflation
Dave Madden of Partridge Family fame at 4:40.
Wow, that was really a lot of fun. Am I the only one noticing the voice-over at 5.00? Its Reuben Kincaid from Partrage Family, right? Danny's nemesis?
13:31 - I thought he was going to whip out a pack of Marlboro to deal with that nasty cough....
Just great to see this. Thank you so much for posting!
Damn. The big tobacco companies were yelling smoke up suckers while they still could.
And for every cigarette commercial Big Tobacco was throwing up there was an equal number of PSAs from the Nixon Administration. And that last month it was like every 5 minutes.
@@briane173 I saw a documentary saying the ratio was basically decided on the fly as one PSA to every three commercials.
The following Friday was the last day to have cigarette ads on TV...
2:41 & 23:37 - The following program is brought to you “Living In Color” on NBC.
[All]
We're living in color
[Twilight Sparkle]
Step out of the shadows and into the light
Where it's bright and you might see all the colors you are
[Rainbow Dash]
Or any color you wanna be that your mind can see
And wear them bright like a shining star
[Rarity]
Why just be black and white?
No need to hide all those colors inside
[Fluttershy]
'Cause when they shine up bright
It just feels right
[All]
To be living in color
We'll be living in color
To be living in color
We'll be living in color
[Applejack]
Make up any colors that you can devise
Mix 'em up, watch the joy as it multiplies
[Kerfuffle]
Make a rainbow and you will see
How together we are like
[All]
One when we harmonize
[Rarity]
Why just be black and white?
No need to hide all those colors inside
[Fluttershy]
'Cause when we shine so bright
It just feels right
[All]
To be living in color
We'll be living in color
To be living in color
We'll be living in color
[Fluttershy]
Hello, my friend is a big bright yellow
[Twilight Sparkle]
Violet's what you get when you're feeling mellow
[Moody Root]
Red is the part where your heart starts to glow
[Kerfuffle]
In the mood, in the groove, indigo
[Rainbow Dash]
Blue is the sky spinnin' high as can be
[Applejack]
Orange can amaze, bringin' days that are sunny
[Mrs. Hoofington]
Green is serene, take a breath, feel new
[Pinkie Pie]
Feel all the living colors
[All]
There's a rainbow in you
Now we're living in color
Yeah, we're living in color
Now we're living in color
Yeah, we're living in color
We're all living in color (living in color)
We're all living in color
We're all living in color (living in color)
Yeah, we're living in color
We're all living in... color!
The Johnny Carson clip kind of predicts the future. The guy he's interviewing in the audience was from Burbank and not long after this clip the Tonight Show moved to Burbank permanently. I was too young in 1970 to be up that late but later on watched Johnny Carson for years, he was the master of talk show hosts.
0:21 Young Tom Brokaw relates how Charles Manson was charged with another murder. I think that would be the murder of Spahn Ranch stuntman Donald Shorty Shea, who was murdered by several of Manson’s crowd a couple of weeks after the Tate and LaBianca murders in August of 1969. Shorty worked at the ranch where Manson and friends had been living, and he was not a fan of the group. Charlie and Shorty did not get along, and based on various descriptions Charlie suspected Shorty was giving information to the police about various Manson Family deeds. He was murdered and buried near the ranch. At the time of this broadcast, the Tate and LaBianca murder trial was nearing the end of the guilt phase. Manson and his three female co-defendants were found guilty the following January, followed by a penalty phase. Various other members of the group were charged and tried for several murders in separate proceedings. Donald Shea served as a partial inspiration for Brad Pitt’s character in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.
Considering all the cigarette commercials, im glad that there were a few American Cancer Society commercials thrown in the mix. thanks
That air pollution commercial I had forgotten about.
Ahh back when LA was a lot more pure than now, the good ole white days before woke migrants
Seems like Shakira owes Charro some royalty payments...
Tom Seguras mother....small world. (Wish Tom would respect her a bit more, she was more important culturally than he knows).
70's beer commercials were the reason I started to drink a s kid. It made drinking look fun and it was!
Back then drinking WAS fun!
@@RaptorFromWeegee It's still fun, you're just older now and everything's less fun (no offense)
@@BananaPhoPhilly No offense taken, you're just telling the truth as it is. Today, theres so much restriction on booze, it feels like they're trying to sneak prohibition back in on us.
Yeah, Stetson hats in Philadelphia went bankrupt in 1971. The current "Stetson" brand isn't really Stetson.
That was out of site, man!
Farrah Fawcett in the United Airlines commercial
"Cured for eight long lazy weeks"😅
(15:03) Yes! -- 'Secret Ceremony.' I remember catching that on a cable channel in the '90s. Psychodrama directed by the U.S. ex-pat (in England) Joseph Losey.
The Roots do the same bit on the Tonight Show these days! Love it.
17:32--The instrumental in the Benson and Hedges spot was called "The Dis-advantages of You."
53 years ago! I believe the announcer for the Nyqul commercial was veteran actor Lloyd Nolan.
26:30. I looked up Gordon Bowers and Donna Gobble to see if those two crazy kids made it. Looks like they didn’t, but Gordon did become a Captain with the Burbank PD and married someone named Susan.
24:23 - Charo was "cuchi-cuching" it with Merv even during his CBS late-night days.
she REALLY got on peoples nerves
23:53 beginning of a NYC-era Tonight Show with Carson, very rare indeed
5:36 And you thought "The Exorcist" was scary...😱
"rated gp" for The Great White Hope, lol. You mean PG? 😂
For a few years GP meant "general audience, parental guidance" before it was changed to PG.
@@skipflow Movie ratings were _extremely_ conservative back then. _MIdnight Cowboy_ was released that year and it got an "X" rating. Today "X" is reserved for sleazy porn movies. Yet _True Grit_ was also released that year with a "G" rating, which nowadays would have earned a PG. Movie ratings were only a year or so old at the time and standards were all over the place and _very_ subjective. It's a little less unruly now but standards have definitely dumbed down since then.
@@skipflowCorrect. "Love Story," released in 1970, was also rated GP.
Tom Brokaw!!
He'd only worked for KNBC I think 2 years by then, and then after the Sylmar earthquake - which happened barely a month later - he got enough national exposure to put him on NBC's radar for a position on their national news program and would later anchor _Today._
Dec 29 1970 Tonight Show
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Wow so cool
1:47
young tom brokaw!
"A Rage To Live" ... LOL. Man was that ever a stinker of a movie
2:40 Santa Fe warbonnet at LAUPT. Perhaps a San Diegan, judging by the length of the train.
Charo. LOL. A name I haven't heard in almost 50 years.
(2:52) Bill Fiore, R.I.P.
Instamatic 104 where many of budding photographers dreams ended in a 126 square turd.
And they say menthol was is out for minorities, that's what caused mental to be banned finally here in california. But then you see these old commercials from the 1970s and the ones that are Hawking the menthol cigarettes are all white. Gee, sure is a bad thing when you think about it.
2:17--Tom Snyder, then with KNBC in Los Angeles.
LOL at the 19:55 mark the president of 20th century Fox fired after the studio showed a 5 million dollar loss. 2023 entertainment companies are posting Billion dollars loss, and it is sort of the norm.
Back when money was worth something.
A very young Tom Brokaw!
22:46 Dick Enberg doing voice over for the Chrysler/Plymouth ad
I thought cigarette ads were banned from TV in the sixties. ?
71
Baby brokaw
When cigarettes were good for you. Ah the old days
The shameless tobacco advertising lol
Maryland Brand Cigs?...Never heard of 'em.
Alluring aroma, satisfying flavor and 20 cents a pack. 😂
@@goaheadmakemydrinkWay more than that now.
@@gidzmobug2323 $16 to $18 a pack where I live. Newfoundland, Canada.
@@goaheadmakemydrink That's very expensive for a pack of cigarettes.
They do grow tobacco in MD, going back to the 1600s. But I was born and raised there and never heard of em. My mom smoked Salem 100s and my dad smoked something but not those.
53 years ago.
Don't remind me. I lived in L.A. back then and remember all of this.
What exactly is “menthol”? 😂
The functional equivalent of smoking weed through a bong.
Where is she!? 😠
Fresh Air Cigarettes! Mm-mmmmmm
It’s staggering just how much Big Tobacco has cost this nation and its citizens. They have some heavy karma coming.
Naw, karmas not real. Those guys all retired quite comfortably to Palm Beach and Jupiter Island
It didn't cost this nation a single penny!
If YOU smoked, you paid the consequences ...until you and your fellow socialists began plundering your neighbors to pay for your bad choices (medical expenses).
Even after you soshies plundered the tobacco companies themselves, you STILL can't pay for all of the publicly funded entitlements you created!
What an alien idea: adults paying for their own choices! The flipside of freedom is self-responsibility.
My sophomore year.
I was a freshman.
Josephine comet cleanser
Too bad the video quality was so poor.
Be glad video tape even exists for segments that aired 53 years ago.
No wonder I smoke...
Lol ..me too
Best blast from the past was Billy Graham praising Nixon's Vietnam policy. If I knew the area code for hell, I'd call him and thank him for the laugh.
TV sucked back then and it's only gotten worse since!
Mary Hartman, Mary HARTMAN !!
Did ya see her?
In the Nyquil ad. Louise Lasser. At this time, she would soon be appearing in the Woody Allen film 'Bananas' (1971).
I absolutely love the brief moment of quiet dead air between each segment.
I think all the switching the stations did in those days was done live and manually. Each station had a "Master Control Room" filled with patch bays, switchers, and monitors showing all the feeds.
A guy at a desk with reams of printouts, and clip boards controlled all those dissolves and fades between ad's and programing.
TV felt more interesting and real when so much of it was done live. All the little imperfections gave it texture and character.