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TUMS Antacid - "For Acid Indigestion and Heartburn" (Commercial, 1965)

Views: 1760

Here's a vintage commercial for TUMS antacid, with an animated man's acid indigestion and heartburn represented visually by such images as volcanic eruptions, lightning strikes, a distorted shot of midtown Manhattan from atop the Empire State Building (looking north towards West 42nd Street and 5th Avenue), stop-motion animation of dinosaurs fighting, building explosions, high tides, war zones and ships hit by turbulent seas - and after he takes a Tums, his relief is visually represented by s...

American Airlines - "California" (Commercial, 1965)

Views: 2711

Here's a commercial for American Airlines, which starts off with a re-creation of a turn-of-the-century train robbery, then segues from that to the various sights of California including the dolphins of Marineland, San Francisco's Chinatown, night skyline, Mission Hill, cable cars, a pelican at the bay, Big Sur, and the infamous freeways. Ends with a shot of a four-engine Boeing 707 touching down as part of their "Royal Coachman" service.

Voiceover by ??

"The wa...

Vicks VapoRub - "Continuous 8-Hour Relief" (Commercial, 1965)

Views: 1477

Here's an early 10-second commercial for Vicks VapoRub vaporizing ointment, promising continuous 8-hour relief of misery from children's colds.

Voiceover by ??

This aired on local Chicago TV early Friday, March 5th 1965.

Wrigley's Doublemint Gum - "Doublemint Time With Tommy & Joy" [Incomplete] (Commercial, 1965)

Views: 1432

Here's an early color commercial (albeit incomplete) for Wrigley's Doublemint Gum, with Tommy and Joy, backed by a full orchestra, singing the famous "Double Your Pleasure" jingle. The tape cuts out midway through this ad.

The "Tommy" would appear to be the late singer and actor Tommy Leonetti (who was a cast member of the series Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. during its first season in 1964-65); can any of our Fuzzy experts advise who "Joy" was?

This aired on loca...

Calgon Water Conditioner - "Mommy's Choice" (Commercial, 1965)

Views: 2316

Here's an early color commercial for Calgon Water Conditioner, with a child's voiceover explaining (with animation done in the style of children's drawings) how it gets rid of artifacts from "bathtub ring" on clothes.

This aired on local Chicago TV early Friday, March 5th 1965.

WLS Channel 7 - The 3:30 Movie - "Pocketful of Miracles" (Promo, 1974?)

Views: 1299

Here's a promo for the upcoming 3:30 Movie presentation of the 1961 film "Pocketful of Miracles" starring Glenn Ford and Bette Davis, preserved on 16mm film. This was most likely for the two-part airing to be shown on February 7th and 8th 1974, as the typesetting for the title (set in a font called Frankfurter) was different than that on this 1972 promo.

Technical / Modification Note: This ...

WREX Channel 13 - "The Circus" (Take 2, 1969)

Views: 2145

Here's another take of an (evidently lipsynced) performance from a band called "The Circus" - recorded at WREX Channel 13 in Rockford, IL. (Not sure if this ever ran on or was intended to run on WCIU Channel 26 or not.)

This came from the other Quad tape that I found in Jack Mulqueen's basement recently. (Recorded in low band, according to the slate at the opening of this clip - as accompanied by an 800 Hz tone).

I was hoping this tape might have contained an...

WREX Channel 13 - "The Circus" (Take 3, 1969)

Views: 1509

Here's the third and final take of a (evidently lipsynced) performance from a band called "The Circus" - recorded at WREX Channel 13 in Rockford, IL. (Not sure if this ever ran on or was intended to run on WCIU Channel 26 or not.)

This came from the other Quad tape that I found in Jack Mulqueen's basement recently. (Recorded in low band, according to the slate at the opening of this clip - as accompanied by an 800 Hz tone).

I was hoping this tape might have c...

WNBQ Channel 5 - The Dorsey Connors Show (Part 1, 1963)

Views: 3262

Here's Part 1 of an edition of The Dorsey Connors Show on WNBQ Channel 5 (which, like most shows of this period, is only available via 16mm kinescope film). Ms. Connors, who died on September 5th 2007, was a fixture on Chicago radio and television in the early years of the latter medium, with a daytime program that was along the lines of shows such as that of Lee Phillip on WBBM Channel 2. But whereas Ms. Phillip continually remade herself (and in the process, remained a Chicago TV p...