Television
Phil Spitalny’s All-Girl Orchestra and the Hour of Charm
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 06, 2018 -
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Category: Music, Television, 1940s, Women
Sal Mineo Drum Contest
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 24, 2018 -
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Category: Movies, Television, 1950s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
The Fonz and friends do time-travel.The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 13, 2018 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Television, Science Fiction, Time-travel, Cartoons, 1980s
Watch the Grinch at Xmas!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 24, 2017 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Television, Cartoons, 1970s
High Flyin’ Bird
Quasi-angry, quasi-metaphorical, quasi-psychedelic song--from these folks.
Relevant Wikipedia page here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 16, 2017 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Music, Television, 1960s
Where’s Huddles?
Sure, why not transplant THE FLINTSTONES into a contemporary NFL setting? That'll be a hit, for sure!
Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 04, 2017 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Sports, Television, Cartoons, 1970s
The Tomorrow People
Combine The Mod Squad with The X-Men and you have The Tomorrow People.
Wikipedia page here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 06, 2017 -
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Category: Human Marvels, Television, Comics, Science Fiction, 1970s, Europe, Differently Abled, Handicapped, Challenged, and Otherwise Atypical
Paul Whiteman’s TV Teen Club
Imagine someone like Paul Whiteman being a teen idol or mentor these days.
More info here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 24, 2017 -
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Category: Music, Television, Teenagers, 1950s
Frontier Circus
In 1962, variations on the popular Western genre reached new and unlikely permutations.
Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 13, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Clowns, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, Regionalism, Television, 1960s
The Vidifont Titling Device
How did TV put a caption on the screen in the Sixties?Graphics, including all title graphics (i.e. "President Lyndon B. Johnson” or "Walter Cronkite”) were set in type or drawn by graphic artists. The graphic was photographed using 35-mm film, the film developed, and a 35-mm slide generated. The time to generate a slide exceeded one hour. The slide, when used, was placed in a special projector, scanned by a television camera, and keyed into the studio video feed. This method was known as ‘Superimposition’. Since the news department had to be prepared to identify any speaker who might appear before the cameras during the convention, Bass was faced with creating in excess of 4000 slides in advance for each convention. If an individual who was not a delegate or an alternate was called upon to give a seconding speech or to participate in an interview, a title slide probably would not be available. Bass was seeking an instantaneous, graphics-quality titling capability solution to the problem. The goal was to produce graphics that could be transparently mixed with artwork created using traditional methods.
Imagine then the delight when the Vidifont device was invented.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 24, 2017 -
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Category: Technology, Television, 1960s, 1970s
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