1960s
Arnulf Rainer
An experimental film from 1960 about flicker effect. Or, as one commenter on YouTube puts it, "One of the most horrible things ever in the history of the cinema."The film is named after the artist Arnulf Rainer but it's by director Peter Kubelka. Some more info from wikipedia:
Wikipedia also notes that Kubelka refused to digitize the film because "cinema is a completely different medium which cannot be imitated by the digital medium." But it's on YouTube, so someone digitized it.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 16, 2021 -
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Category: Art, Movies, 1960s
The Jiger
My 2 favorite parts of this video: when they launch off a ramp into water; and the vaguely retro-porn-style musical score that someone added.Wikipedia says this was the very first ATV.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 16, 2021 -
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Category: Motor Vehicles, 1960s
B-B-B Sweatshirts
Inexplicable fashion fad: In 1962, San Francisco adman Howard Gossage came up with the idea of putting the faces of classical composers on sweatshirts and selling them for $4. Consumers could choose between Beethoven, Bach, or Brahms. He quickly sold around 60,000 of them.If you want one of these sweatshirts today (at least, an original one), you'll have to pay significantly more. On eBay, the asking price ranges from $1500 all the way up to $9000.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - May 4, 1962
Oakland Tribune - Feb 8, 1962
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 12, 2021 -
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Category: Fads, Fashion, Music, 1960s
Answer Songs
Wikipedia defines an answer song as "a song (usually a recorded track) made in answer to a previous song, normally by another artist." For example, "Yes, I'm Lonesome Tonight" by Dodie Stevens was the answer to Elvis Presley's "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"Frank Hoffmann and William Bailey, in their book Arts and Entertainment Fads, note:
In this case, there was even an answer to Jeanne Black's answer: "I'm Gonna Stay" by Johnny Scoggins.
The Original: "He'll Have To Go" (by Jim Reeves, 1960)
The Answer: "He'll Have To Stay" (by Jeanne Black, 1960)
The answer to the answer: "I'm Gonna Stay" (by Johnny Scoggins, 1960)
Posted By: Alex - Tue Apr 06, 2021 -
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Category: Music, 1960s
Hidden Message in “I Am the Walrus”
Everyone knows that the Beatles song "I Am the Walrus" is all about the secret death of Paul McCartney.But back in 1968, reporter Jed Drews heard something else there.
Source: Fort Lauderdale News (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) 24 Feb 1968, Sat Page 15
I can find literally not one other online endorsement of this interpretation of the lyrics--except when Mr. Drews's article was inserted into the Congressional Record upon his testimony in DC.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 25, 2021 -
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Category: Drugs, Government, Music, Newspapers, 1960s
Early Jim Henson Commercials
Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 23, 2021 -
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Category: Death, Puppets and Automatons, Television, Advertising, Coffee and other Legal Stimulants, 1950s, 1960s
Primitive London
The IMDB page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 20, 2021 -
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Category: Movies, Exploitation and Grindhouse, 1960s, United Kingdom
Illegal Bikini
Source:
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas) 20 May 1966, Fri Page 12
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 19, 2021 -
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Category: Domestic, Sexuality, Public Indecency, Scary Criminals, 1960s
Stinker Station Signs
Stinker Stations were (and still are) a chain of gas stations in Idaho. Their corporate symbol was a skunk. During the 1950s they adopted an oddball advertising campaign which involved posting yellow signs with strange messages along the side of roads. Most of the signs were removed after the passage of the Highway Beautification Act in 1965.More info: Vintage Everyday
Posted By: Alex - Mon Mar 08, 2021 -
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Category: Signage, Billboards, Advertising, 1950s, 1960s
“Funeral Parade of Roses” by Matsumoto Toshio
Trying to explain the pleasures of such a scrambled impressionistic piece as Funeral Parade of Roses in plot terms is a pretty fruitless exercise, although the disjointed narrative does reach fever pitch in the latter moments, with developments inspired by the ancient legend of Oedipus Rex. The story really remains only a ruse for a work that is best seen as a fascinating reflection of a long-vanished place and time, caught in a cross-current of international pop-cultural styles and influences and not dissimilar to what was going on in similar circles in other far-flung parts of the world.
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 01, 2021 -
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Category: Movies, Sexuality, Violence, Avant Garde, 1960s, Asia
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