Brings back a lot of memories watching this. I was in my final year at Primary School when this was recorded. Now I'm approaching 60. A mixture of melancholy and nostalgia is how I feel.
I was born around this time and even I'm astonished at these ads. A mixture of Northern Irish (shop a terrorist, become a screw, don't play with guns, kids) and brands we didn't get on this side of the Irish Sea. The jarringly jaunty background music accompanying the cheapy ads at the beginning - especially the Clovax "don't let foot rot cripple your profits" and Toy Guns ads - was unintentionally creepy. Thanks for uploading. I can't even imagine what it would have been like to live in NI around that time, but you've given me an idea.
The worse ones weren't even ads.. its be a banner running across the bottom of the screen saying something like " woukd all keyholders of businesses in the ***** Area please make yourselves known to police" It meant a major bomb had gone off . Or similar .
I don't know where you get these ads, but adverts this far back are like gold dust! Thanks for posting these, as otherwise these adverts would of been lost forever.
That dounds very much like Jim Dougal on continuity duty. He became an experienced journalist in newspapers and television in Ireland, North ahd South, including Political Editor at BBC Northern Ireland.
What a grim set of ads that really were the zeitgeist in UTV land. Notable to see a 6 second ad in Black and White as late as Nov 1973 for Aspro. It looks like you have a complete set of World at Wars taped in your archive :)
Watching these ads "down south" was intense. "ahem.. war? What war? war you say? Emm.. oh dear .. oh dear .. emm... Well let's see.. Oh nevermind .. Mum, Coronation Street is back on!"
Nowhere near the same level as in N.I., but there were car bombs, shootings and plenty of other bombings. The contrast between the very cheery and warning ads here is extremely sobering.
Seems like the cheap and somewhat cheerful “voiceover a slide” ads at the start were voiced live (as the VO/anno stumbles over a telephone number). Possibly voiced by the duty continuity announcer?
@@Voxac100b I don't have physical copies, I'm afraid. UTV tended to pick tracks from both KPM and Bruton libraries, and a lot of the KPM archive is now available on Spotify. So far, I've only tracked down one of the tracks they used for cardboard ads on there... but that's not to say there's more to uncover.
Brings back a lot of memories watching this. I was in my final year at Primary School when this was recorded. Now I'm approaching 60. A mixture of melancholy and nostalgia is how I feel.
The group of commercials up to the Astro one will have been from slides voiced by the continuity announcer.. that was common at Ulster
I was born around this time and even I'm astonished at these ads. A mixture of Northern Irish (shop a terrorist, become a screw, don't play with guns, kids) and brands we didn't get on this side of the Irish Sea. The jarringly jaunty background music accompanying the cheapy ads at the beginning - especially the Clovax "don't let foot rot cripple your profits" and Toy Guns ads - was unintentionally creepy.
Thanks for uploading. I can't even imagine what it would have been like to live in NI around that time, but you've given me an idea.
The worse ones weren't even ads.. its be a banner running across the bottom of the screen saying something like " woukd all keyholders of businesses in the ***** Area please make yourselves known to police"
It meant a major bomb had gone off . Or similar .
I don't know where you get these ads, but adverts this far back are like gold dust! Thanks for posting these, as otherwise these adverts would of been lost forever.
I wish to apply as a 1970s Northern Irish prison officer
That dounds very much like Jim Dougal on continuity duty. He became an experienced journalist in newspapers and television in Ireland, North ahd South, including Political Editor at BBC Northern Ireland.
What a grim set of ads that really were the zeitgeist in UTV land. Notable to see a 6 second ad in Black and White as late as Nov 1973 for Aspro. It looks like you have a complete set of World at Wars taped in your archive :)
They’re no different than other parts of Britain.
That car was not a control explosion, is was just a Morris Marina, they had a tendency to randomly blow up.
Or get flatned when a piano storm is forecast!
Watching these ads "down south" was intense. "ahem.. war? What war? war you say? Emm.. oh dear .. oh dear .. emm... Well let's see.. Oh nevermind .. Mum, Coronation Street is back on!"
Just shows what a different life we had in England,no risk of your car being blown up..
Nowhere near the same level as in N.I., but there were car bombs, shootings and plenty of other bombings. The contrast between the very cheery and warning ads here is extremely sobering.
Oh Joe 😁 Who is the continuity announcer here? Not a voice I am familiar with as an exile from the UTV parish. Thank you again for these rare gems!
Seems like the cheap and somewhat cheerful “voiceover a slide” ads at the start were voiced live (as the VO/anno stumbles over a telephone number). Possibly voiced by the duty continuity announcer?
This was how UTV did such ads up until the late 1990s.
However, the library music was dropped for good in 1989.
@@ColmORourke1981 have you any of the library music?
UTV was one of the last stations to drop in vision continuity too. Adverts were done live
@@Voxac100b I don't have physical copies, I'm afraid.
UTV tended to pick tracks from both KPM and Bruton libraries, and a lot of the KPM archive is now available on Spotify.
So far, I've only tracked down one of the tracks they used for cardboard ads on there... but that's not to say there's more to uncover.