"Space Seed" Original Run Commercials
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Hey that was brilliant! Thanks for sharing!
More proof maybe to support Herb Solow's theory that Trek was only kept on the air because it was a brilliant showcase for colour TV's?
Anyway, that was awesome.
More proof maybe to support Herb Solow's theory that Trek was only kept on the air because it was a brilliant showcase for colour TV's?
Anyway, that was awesome.
I hear you; I sometimes do, too. I was reading an Apollo moon walk 40th anniversary news article: one of the astronauts observed there were 3 billion people living on Earth back then -- and it's doubled now. Of course, I knew this; but within our lifetimes, it's a bit startling.
Well, I lived it and I miss it...but you know within a five year period this country saw three major political figures assassinated - one of them the President.
Think for a moment about in what nations with what kind of governments you would expect, today, to see that kind of turmoil.
And that's just one aspect of it. The twentieth century was a global charnel house, and as charming as aspects of our popular culture and growing up as children of relative wealth in a relatively simple kind of ornamental culture were for those of us (like myself) who had that particular variety of the American experience, there are much sadder truths about those times. I think I'm happier to see my children living in the world as it is now, with all its current problems.
Think for a moment about in what nations with what kind of governments you would expect, today, to see that kind of turmoil.
And that's just one aspect of it. The twentieth century was a global charnel house, and as charming as aspects of our popular culture and growing up as children of relative wealth in a relatively simple kind of ornamental culture were for those of us (like myself) who had that particular variety of the American experience, there are much sadder truths about those times. I think I'm happier to see my children living in the world as it is now, with all its current problems.
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I was a kid then, and it was both a very exciting and a very scary time, all at once. The threat of nuclear annihilation hung over us, or so it seemed to this kid.
Very often, I wondered if I would survive to be an adult.
With all the stress of today's society, I think kids have less worries. Or at least their worries don't include worrying about thermonuclear war!
Very often, I wondered if I would survive to be an adult.
With all the stress of today's society, I think kids have less worries. Or at least their worries don't include worrying about thermonuclear war!
Damn, you're posting from two hundred years in the future? 'Cause I want some of that medicine.
Just FYI for those interested (and since I have a copy of this particular airing):
The source was a 16mm print (no, I do not have the print). This was the summer repeat of Space Seed (aired on 8/24/67). Note there is no "next week" preview on this episode.
I also have a copy of the summer repeat of "Is There In Truth No Beauty", some interesting commercials there too.
The source was a 16mm print (no, I do not have the print). This was the summer repeat of Space Seed (aired on 8/24/67). Note there is no "next week" preview on this episode.
I also have a copy of the summer repeat of "Is There In Truth No Beauty", some interesting commercials there too.
My parents gave me a new kind of Polaroid that came out about that time; a very casual camera, called the Polaroid Swinger (photo).
I loved that thing! It was popularly priced, so teens like me could afford it and the film. A hugely successful item. It's too bad they didn't have one of their commercials; but this one was nice. I hadn't thought about that camera in years.
I wondered and kind of figured on that; thanks! I remember making a reel-to-reel recording of the Star Trek theme song from the TV speaker. Ostensibly, I was supposed to use my tape recorder for high school French class language lab.
I won that when I was ten or eleven in a contest. I can't remember the name of the item, but it was a styrofoam plane that you bought with designs on it. There were all sorts of different types of designs and I guess they wanted more ideas, so they did a contest. I sent in a "flying house on fire" and a "flying Earth." The Earth was the body of the plane and I had the moon and stars on the wings (even in the 1960s, I was thinking of space!) Flying Things 1 Flying Things 2
Don't know which one of the "flying things" won, but I won that camera! Man, that was exciting! It was, for the times, cutting edge, and to get one's pictures right away? Wow!
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The Swinger was one of the coolest things ever - ours was the first camera we owned that I was allowed to just use whenever I liked. Simple to use, durable, and you got to see your photo in a minute or two. It encouraged creativity. 
And only nineteen dollars and ninety-five!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7k2uwJmwxo
And only nineteen dollars and ninety-five!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7k2uwJmwxo
O. M. G. !! That was so sweet! Thank you, Dennis.
I love that jingle. The music in that commercial was dated even for that time frame; it was like Jan and Dean from 1963. The music should have been Cream or Steppenwolf.
However -- is it just me, or do those kids in the commercial look ok? I mean not so bad -- for today?
I love that jingle. The music in that commercial was dated even for that time frame; it was like Jan and Dean from 1963. The music should have been Cream or Steppenwolf.
However -- is it just me, or do those kids in the commercial look ok? I mean not so bad -- for today?
What she said.
I certainly wouldn't mind a do-over.
As to the music, it was always waaaaaay behind the times on TV back then.
Now for the younger generation... make one of those of a current Star Trek and see how much longer yours runs with all the commercials.
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