1960s
Poor Man’s Fallout Shelter
Following up on my post last week about Dr. Willard Libby and his "nuclear detergent," here's Dr. Libby again, in 1961, promoting his "Poor Man's Fallout Shelter," which could also have been described as the "If you're stuck in this, you're screwed" shelter. Note that it was obligatory to wear a white tuxedo and bowtie while in the Poor Man's shelter.
The Herald (Jasper, Indiana) - Oct 5, 1961
Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 18, 2014 -
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Category: Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1960s
Paris Sweepstakes
Boring pep talk from a CEO segues into a husband's foreign sex fantasies. That's a sweepstakes promotion!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 17, 2014 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Advertising, 1960s, Europe
Nuclear Detergent
Willard Libby is best known as the winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded for his role in developing radiocarbon dating. But throughout the 1950s and 60s he was also a tireless promoter of nuclear energy, assuring the public that fears about radioactivity and nuclear fallout were greatly overblown. One of his ideas for a beneficial use of radiation was to radiate laundry detergent. As far as I know, no detergent maker ever got behind this idea.
Source: Newsweek - Jan 13, 1964
Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 14, 2014 -
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Category: Science, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1960s
Raquel Welch Sings
via Redundant Variety Hour
Posted By: Alex - Thu Nov 13, 2014 -
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Category: Music, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #233
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 06, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Clowns, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, 1960s, Alcohol
Jack van Impe
Wikipedia entry on the man.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 04, 2014 -
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Category: Drugs, Music, Rants, Warnings, Jeremiads, Prophecies and Cassandra-like Figures, Sexuality, Public Indecency, Teenagers, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Conspiracy Theories and Theorists, 1960s, 1970s
Roto-Rooter Commercials
Saving idiot housewives, time-stressed housewives, and horror fans from yucky stinky water troubles for decades.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 03, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Hygiene, Excrement, 1960s, 1970s
David Holzman’s Diary
I never knew of the existence of this film until reading the obituary of one of its creators, L. M. Kit Carson. As an ancestor of Spinal Tap and others of that ilk, it should appeal to WU-vies, I think.
Unfortunately, the entire video does not seem available online. There's a snippet above, and a mini-documentary about the documentary in two parts below. (Caution: brief flash of modest nudity in part two.) You can buy the disc or stream it at Amazon.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 01, 2014 -
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Category: Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Documentaries, 1960s
Doomsday Flight
The movie is apparently pretty good. So good, in fact, that it soon earned an odd place in film history as The Movie Too Dangerous For The Public To See. Whenever it was shown, it inspired a slew of copycat bomb hoaxes, eventually leading the FAA, in 1971, to send a letter to TV stations, requesting that they never show it again. The FAA's letter warned that "the film may have a highly emotional impact on some unstable individual and stimulate him to imitate the fictional situation in the movie."
TV stations honored the FAA's request, and to my knowledge have never aired it again. It eventually was released on VHS (Available on Amazon
), and there may be a DVD of it available (though not on Netflix). But you won't see it on TV.You can find a fuller version of this movie's history here and here.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Oct 30, 2014 -
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Category: Movies, 1960s
Okee the Painting Otter
A forgotten giant of the art world. Source: The Santa Cruz Sentinel - Apr 7, 1965.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 28, 2014 -
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Category: Animals, Art, 1960s
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