You simply will not believe what they did to this model's face to test a cold cream! See lots more crazy commercials at: www.tvparty.com WTF?!? Shocking 1987 LAPD Recruitment Ad! • WTF?!? Shocking 1987 L...
+Will Drucker LOL, no...but I and many of my mates would be trotted off to the local Buster Brown shoe store to get quality shoes ( and they were). We would stand at a 'foot X-Ray machine, insert our feet, and could look through a 'peering-slot' and wiggle our toes and see our foot bones, this was done, per the mfg. in order to show the kids and the parents that our feet were getting a 'proper fit' with their shoes. Just LOL, truthfully, the 1st time I ever had seen a geiger counter was when a storm-of-a-Hellaballu in the consumer watch-dogs concerning the safety of this machine on the feet of children. So, in order to combat the 'vile' things being said by consumer protectionist, Ever store had a geiger counter to wave over the feet of said 'little' customers, in order to comfort the fears that the parents might have. Hell, me and some of my buddies would spend some time ever chance we could get, to insert our feet into the machine, just to watch our toes 'wiggle'. Also, do you, or any one else out there remember when in the early 60's some mfgs. were using a Blast of Radiation on kitchen tableware, and office items, during there manufacturing process, in order to permanentely stablize the paint or color application. In 1968, had a tour of an IBM exhibit that 'Touted' the 'Safe Use & Application' of Radiation 'zapping' for everything from #2 yellow pencils, to Meats and Vegetables in order to pro-long their shelf life..Dude, like today's Marketers, they did some 'crazy shit'. E Tu, volkswagen?
Improper cleansing? Like putting radioactive materials on your face? I think face cancer is worse than a bit of dry skin.... "Maude! Maude! I have dry skin!" "Oh, don't feel so bad Deloris, you might have bad skin, but at least your not dead like my all the women in my family. They all caught radioactive face cancer."
You do know that granite rock and seawater are both radioactive, right? People in New Hampshire live on top of a bunch of granite, and it doesn't hurt them. Even better, everyone who lives in Denver Colorado gets twice as much radiation exposure every year as someone living at sea level, because Denver has 5000 feet less air between it and the cosmic rays. "Just enough to detect with a geiger counter" is a very small amount, since it will respond to the background radiation that's all around us.
Actually the dirt was from the ground where they were doing nuclear testing. This face wash was to wash off the radioactive dirt that blew onto people's faces during the day.
Many of the things that are considered completely reasonable to day will be regarded as insane by future generations. Confidence in ones righteousness is often a delusion.
yeah, depending on how low the counter registers it might have been an amount of radioactive less than simply getting an x-ray. no real problem except for a miniscule increase in the risk of developing cancer
Amusing. I am sure that people 50 to 60 years in the future watching commercials made this year will be equally amused as we are. Fun stuff to watch, entertaining history lessons.
wackyworldnews The actress in the commercial was in absolutely no danger. In fact, radioactive tagging is a very useful scientific and medical tool still used today, but this commercial was made before decades of half-brained idiots "taught" us all that there's no such thing as a safe level of radiation.
When I was a kid we had art classes where we made things out of asbestos fibre mixed with water to make a sort of clay, and shoe stores had X-ray machines so you could look at your feet and see your bones and how well your new shoes would fit. This doesn't surprise me, but I'm glad we have gotten more knowledgeable about the risks involved.
When I was a kid in the 50s I got a chemistry set for Christmas and it had a chunk of radioactive uranium in the kit. No lie. Or, maybe I should say "Great Scott!"
Using trace radioisotopes is a common medical procedure for all sorts of tests, done millions of times a year to millions of people, why should anyone be shocked that it was done to one volunteer, one time, for a scientific purpose, and at even LOWER intensity (and it WAS lower, much lower, probably by a factor of hundreds or thousands, if it only barely was detected by a geiger counter, whereas in medical imaging it must be concentrated enough to not just spill out a single gamma ray here and there but actually make a visible image on a photographic plate). Frankly I find the implication of the title and description to be unforgivably ignorant. Almost as bad as those simpletons who think cellphones will give you cancer and think it's irresponsible to let a child use one. Frankly this commercial gives me a higher opinion of the people in the 1950s than today, because the viability of this advertisement means people weren't just frightened little ignorant sheep back then. Meanwhile, back in present day, I look at these comments and they're all just a bunch of mindless scientifically illiterate cavemen. Do you simpletons even understand that you are exposed to radiation constantly, that comes in through the atmosphere from cosmic rays, and up from the ground in natural radioactivity that is all around you? Do you have any idea how little radiation it is, if it is just barely enough to be detected with a geiger counter? You can walk around with a geiger counter and find radioactivity all over the place. The radioisotope doped dirt that she used to clean off with this cream was probably not even that one woman's biggest exposure to nuclear radiation that day! It probably amounted to one hour's worth of average natural exposure.
notcyndi The ignorant comments are coming from the same scientifically-illiterate pinheads who banned the use of alar, banned DDT (leading to the malaria deaths of millions of additional Africans), insist that CO2 is a "pollutant," wouldn't get their kids vaccinated because a Playboy bunny told them it causes autism, think the polar bears are going to drown (despite triple their populations in the past 40 years), and are now banning transfats. And yet the Left thinks that IT is the "party of science."
Harmfulness doesn't matter I just thought it was a hoot. Beside people in what I thought to be a reasonable place the USA elected trump kind being hoodwinked with HATE HILLARY so Science is out the door It's just funny to see Seriously that's it. Don't try to tell the current population it wasn't harmful they know like trump the most about everything
It was fun going from my nuclear stress test to my friend's and asking him to check me out with his Geiger counter. As he approached, he said it must not have been working right because he got a reading already quite a distance away, until he realized, no, that was for real, from the technetium-99m in me. But then, he also likes detecting the potassium-40 in a banana. Could there be some slight danger in this? Sure, but definitely worth it to find out how my coronary circulation's doing.
This commercial gives you an idea of what attitudes towards radiation were at the time. You also see it on the set of 'The Conqueror' (1956). There were rumours of radioactive contamination from atomic testing, but they were treated as a joke. There was even a publicity shot of John Wayne and his sons with a Geiger counter on the set. Years later the cast went down with cancer.
If you listen to the inflection in her voice and read between the lines you can tell she's silently saying "No, the model wasn't in any danger". Whether or not that's true is debatable but they didn't just go "Amma put radioactive isotopes on your face! Derp!"
@@blurgle9185 he’s just saying that people (now) dont really know anything about radioactivity. The amount of people thinking that radiation glows astounds me. (Yes i know it can glow at high concentrations in water, and in rare cases in air). Many people still think of nuclear waste as green sludge in a barrel. People are way too scared of it, people in the 50s were not scared enough.
@@pliat I've never met or talked to anyone who believed anything of what you said. Don't mistake screenwriters utilisation of tropes as an indicator of public awareness. What people generally are ignorant about is modern nuclear safety, and then there's the tinfoil-hattery around the unsubstantiated fears of 5G, but even these topics are receding and continually abandoned, mostly lonely old people keep the old fear of 5g fire alive. For instance, did you ask around in the 50s if people thought radioactive material glow green in the dark? My guess, the hitrate of "yes" would be far greater back then. There's no doubt people generally know more about it today than in the 50s, simply because: Internet.
@@blurgle9185 you give people way too much credit. there are an unfathomable amount of people who believe stupid things, and even more who just dont know better.
@@pliat Sure, alot of people still believe in god and afterlife and all that mumbo jumbo, but public awareness around radioactivity seems fairly established these days. No shame to people in the 50s, it's just that the technology has been around for longer and we've encountered some horrible trials and errors to imprint further awareness into modern people, therefore nobody thinks its just green sludge in a barrel that glows green. That's just a gaming/movie trope made to easier convey the presence and danger of radioactivity. But if you can find one evidence, or even an anedoctal reference, of people expressing such a cartoonish understanding, feel free to share.
Missy Finley I'm quite serious. Everyone living on the planet gets an annual dose of something like 100 millirems of ionizing radiation. People in New Hampshire get more because there's lots of granite there and granite is radioactive. People living on the coast get more because seawater is radioactive. People living in Denver get twice as much because there are five thousand fewer feet of air between them and whatever's coming in from outer space. Airline pilots, especially ones on the polar routes, can get quite high doses during flight. In fact it's remarkable that airline pilots are the only industrial workers exposed to significant radiation who don't have to wear a film badge at work to record their exposure history -- and at the same time their routine exposure levels are far higher than people receive working in nuclear power plants, for example. Geiger counters are extremely sensitive. Every time you hear one click, it means a single alpha or beta particle, or gamma ray, passed through the thin membrane of the window at the end of the tube and slightly ionized some of the rarefied gas inside the tube, so that it conducted electricity for a moment.
This was the same era when shoe stores used to take foot x-rays of customers' feet to get the perfect fit. My mother remembers having this done as a little girl. What we don't know can't hurt us, eh?
These old commercials reminded me of things do get old. I am 33 years old now and im going to be very old soon and this 33 didnt really feel like 33 years old has passed.
Wow! During that time period and earlier, workers used radium to make those glow in the dark clock and watch dials, and no one realized at the time how dangerous this was to them. Scary!
This commercial would have low advertising value today because people are scared of radiation (with good reason), but even if that test really happened as described, the model wouldn't *necessarily* have been harmed. Even in the 1950s, radiation detectors were already sensitive enough to detect radiation several orders of magnitude lower than harmful levels. It's for no other reason that nuclear medicine examinations are performed - sometimes with radioisotopes that are *chemically* toxic regardless of their radioactivity (like thallium or technetium, for example), but the dose needed to detect their radiation is so low that it's not a concern.
Goytá F. Villela Jr. Thank you for saying that, I thought the model was a goner for sure. The commercial said the dirt was made just radioactive enough to register on the Geiger counter. If that's true, then probably the model was not harmed. Shocking to hear, though.
+Goytá F. Villela Jr. _Even in the 1950s, radiation detectors were already sensitive enough to detect radiation several orders of magnitude lower than harmful levels._ But, consider how long it would have had to go on for. Take the people that painted the radium on the dials in the factory. Just once or twice, they were fine. Repeatedly, over an extended period of time, "fine" looked more like: www.themedicalbag.com/images/site/article_radium-1.jpg
+Smitty Werben Jaeger man Jensen (Number One), yes, there were the poor "radium girls" who died of cancer like flies, and there was also the high-profile Eben Byers case, when a millionaire heir poisoned himself with a "miracle" radium water quackery and lost his jaw before dying painfully, but they were all caused by repeated and prolonged exposure to radioactivity. In the case of this commercial, supposing it was real (it might well not be), the exposure had low intensity and happened only once. It's unlikely that the actress suffered any harm.
Goytá F. Villela Jr. Knowing the way advertisements are filmed, it probably didn't happen just once. But, you're right, she *probably* didn't suffer any harmful effects, even over multiple takes for an advertisement, or line of advertisements. My point was simply that, over an extended time, "just radioactive enough to register on a Geiger counter" necessarily =!= harmless. On the whole, though, you're absolutely correct. But, believe me, I'd like to pretend that I don't think a corporation would deliberately subject an employee to harm, but the "radium girls" we mentioned earlier were told that the paint was safe...
yes you are right, others got it too in the comments. Thinking about it, people were afraid of a nuclear war back then so this form of advertisement must have been quite clever ("oh lets buy this cream because if there is a war I can still remove all the radioactive dirt from my face")
Look people, any time you see the word SHOCKING on the title of any You Tube video, please realize that it won't be shocking because it's only used to entice you to click on it. You Tube is the land of bait and switch.
Not sure why this was shocking, this stuff works. We were over in Japan when they had the plant meltdown not too long ago, and this stuff cleaned the radioactive material right off.
The wacky 50s. That's when the Army demonstrated its arsenal with live nukes. Watch this men, here put these sunglasses on. KA-BOOM!!! Impressive, huh?
Crazy as this sounds, I recently had to do a gastric emptying study (seeing how quickly you're digesting food). In order to do this they put a small amount of radio active material on an egg sandwich... and I. ATE. IT! Then they take pictures every 30 minutes to see how it's going.
Cosmetic companies have preyed upon women's vanity forever. Still, women will spend $350 for an oz of La Mer, even though the body of science, and dermatologists especially trained in aging skin, say a thin film of olive or coconut oil is just as effective. Even petrolatum performed as well as La Mer. Yet, I see a new eye cream or anti-aging cream every couple months or so. It helps if they have a French or Italian name. (L'Oreal, Princess Marcella Borghesa....)
Being a housewife was recognized for the noble calling that it was. My wife is a trained professional but chooses to stay home and raise our children while they are little. You only get one shot at it. I know it has been good form my family and I have absolutely no regrets in that regard.
It wasn't the cold cream that was made radioactive, it was the models face -to show how well the cold cream worked. Only problem was they did not do a second scan with the geiger counter after she cleansed her face. I find it surprising how many commenting here mis-listened to the commercial. Makes me wonder how much else we think we listen to that we get wrong?
+Federal Signal 1953 Microwaves aren't radioactive. You find the microwaves on the lower end of the electromagnetic spectrum. (At a lower frequency than visible light).
We -loved- radioactivity in the 1950s. Kids could look at the bones in their feet using an x-ray-fluoroscope, found in almost every show store. The girls who worked painting luminous watch dials had fun using the paint for glow-in-the-dark makeup. Some of us lived.
It's so handy to have radioactive products lying around. We can do all kinds of things with them. Then when we are done, we just throw them out. Or let the kids play with them.
wowwww....you can tell that this was on "I Love Lucy" by the theme music before the commercial...Lucy should have done a parody skit on the radioactive cold cream.
No no no. Weren't you listening? They said "this dirt was made just radioactive enough to register on a Geiger counter". They're trying to prove that the cold cream cleans so amazingly well, it actually cleaned the radioactive dirt!
