From the video archives come these spots from three ABC-TV promotional campaigns of the early 1980s: "Now is the Time" - "Come On Along!" - "We're With You" All rights are acknowledged.
I can't begin to say how amazed I am to see these. I produced the first two campaigns on this clip and haven't seen them for almost 30 years. I just wanted to say to your younger subscribers that these were produced on 35mm film, no videotape, no computers, no digital editing software, everything by hand. All the animation that appears over the live action was created frame by frame and took forever. Thanks VintageTelevision! Harry Marks
This is AMAZING Vintage Television! Thank you!!!! Best memories growing up as a kid in the 80s. The younger generation has no idea how great tv used to be.
I remember the promos from 1982 and 84. I was a really young kid at that time. I don't remember the 1981 promo though. Anyway, these was awesome to listen to. I even miss the Saturday morning cartoons. Now, we don't get those anymore.
Cheesy, maybe, but something about these makes you think, "Why can't the world be like this again?" Wasn't prepared for Fonzie and Chachi being helicoptered in past the Twin Towers at 2:35
And "Come on along......" for '82-'83, "You're with us..." '84-'85, "You'll love it..." '85-'86, "We belong together....'86-'87, and "Something's happening............'87-'88!
The network promos with the cast members of their shows is something we're never see ever again too much money and not much time for those actors to do it.
I am from Australia... This is kind of like nostalgia... But not from my own past. I can only remember Happy Days, Fantasy Island and Benson from these...
correction & addition to my previous comment: My mistake. KITV 4 is the ABC affiliate in Hawaii. And BTW, KOVR 13 in Sacramento is now CBS, meaning KXTV 10 in Sacramento became ABC.
How long about, roughly, would you say it took to do the animation frame by frame, and how was some of it done? In the promo's shown, there's alot of animation going on, so I can only guess it would've taken weeks. This is when TV was good and wholesome. Now it's nothing. I haven't watched a show on a TV in about a year. The only thing I use it for, is an Atari 2600, an original NES and an Xbox 360 console. And most things I watch are on RU-vid and older shows on Netflix.
These 3 promos were just simply amazing, and the image campaigns in all 3 years were ABC's best, right down to the jingles. I know Frank Gari did the music for '81 and '84, do you know if he composed Come On Along in 1982?
Do you have the slogan & theme song for the 1983-84 season? What about "You'll Love It! On ABC" for 1985-86, "We Belong Together" for 1986-87, "Something's Happening! On A! B! C!" for 1987-88, "Some....things, Hap.....penning. on ABC" for 1989-90, & "America is Watching ABC" for 1990-91?
I don't know how WTSP in St. Pete-Tampa, FL did these promos, because their logo is "Sunset 10" and the logo is an incomplete circle. Would they cut the bottom part of the circle off for their logo and put the Sunset 10 on it?
Why can't networks do crafty, unique stuff like this today? All the network campaigns, logos, etc.--particularly those from ABC--are so bland and dull now. Especially given the fact that said network has been using that same "splash" animation SINCE TWO-THOUSAND AND FREAKING SEVEN! PLZ REPLACE IT WITH SOMETHING NEW ALREADY!!!!!
What show is being watched at 6:07? It looks like some cheesy science fiction show. It looks like people in the 1980's were interested in space travel. I wonder if we'll ever go into space.
