https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Roptw1AGp8 I never knew there was a black and white version of ‘The Flintstones’. That’s no doubt because when the show aired in syndication in the 1970s (which is when I saw it) black and white was felt to be undesirable to the children who were watching the show. Far
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usrhAo9KOCUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1WX9znN7CE The commercial campaign for the Revlon fragrance ‘Charlie’, which debuted in 1973, was centered around a very hip little jingle which accompanied model Shelley Hack as she strode confidently through a club, onto a boat, getting out of a nifty 1930s Dusenberg etc. Further hip-ifying the campaign was the
Readers of this blog are perhaps familiar with my obsessive love for the KTTV Channel 11 logos of the 1970s. KTTV was my go-to home channel for my entire youth, with their schedule heavy on old movies (they had the MGM library), the Ben Hunter Matinee every weekday at noon,
During the 1970’s thru the 1990’s, Jon Byk Advertising created numerous 10 second TV spots, many of them for local Los Angeles businesses. Thanks to their short length, 10 second spots were effective as they could played hundreds of times during the programming day, sometimes saturating a specific hour-long show
Here’s a nice little (fifteen minute) collection of daytime commercials aired on Chicago’s WGN-TV station in 1971. Since they are specifically daytime they lean heavily on kids toys and amusements, many of which are defunct. Ronald MacDonald was still appearing live at McDonald’s locations back then. A woman named Mrs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvxwf1jxdaMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb1KndrrXsY Above I’ve posted two views of the infamous Paul Masson wine commercials which helped support Orson Welles and his filmmaking career throughout the 1970s. The first consists of outtakes and the second shows the finished commercial. Unfortunately, as the outtakes show, Welles is too drunk to perform. The director
A couple of days ago I posted a reel of 1970s TV commercials. My sense was that the 70s saw an upturn in the humor and style of commercials as opposed to the style of the 50s ads which were largely straight and often painfully earnest and the 60s which
What do Ann Miller, Roy Scheider and Bing Crosby all have in common? The answer: commercials in the 70s! While Ann and Bing were very much known and recognizable, Scheider appears to have been just an everyday lucky actor who got a much sought-after gig doing a Folger’s Coffee commercial–I
No, he doesn’t dance in this clip but George Raft at 85 is as suave, cool and charismatic as he was fifty years earlier. This is a very nice interview segment from a Mike Douglas show in 1980–alas Raft died the same year (he mentions to Mike that he has
The late great Nick Tosches (author of ‘Dino’, ‘The Devil and Sonny Liston’, ‘Cut Numbers’ and much more) was a friend of mine way back at the end of the last century and over lunch would occasionally describe ideas for books he knew he’d never get around to writing. One