16:50 The mom is Beverly Sanders, one of the all-time great commercial talents. 20:49 Jake Holmes sings the Pan Am jingle. 25:10 Ken Nordine sells us Gallo wine.
5:01- Karl Weber, announcer. 10:32- Orson Welles for Paul Masson, paying the bills. Johnny Carson parodied that ad on "THE TONIGHT SHOW", in which he also appeared as a "skid row bum" who groaned, *"IT'S TIME!!!!!!!!!!"* 😆 13:28- Jackson Beck, announcer. 14:20- A somewhat altered version of this ad was later shown, with a dubbed voice saying, "Well, partner, our future's riding on this *proposal."* 14:51- "Red Skelton proves he's *still* alive to Mike, tomorrow at 4:30!" 😉 15:49- Robert King is the "hidden camera interviewer"; Stan Sawyer, announcer. 32:00- "LOU GRANT": "Samaritan".
Kodak tried its own (superior) instant photo system, but Polaroid sued for patent-infringement, and won. So, Kodak had to sell off all of its instant cameras & film at discount prices, and never make any more. And pay Polaroid's legal fees and damages.
This tape was from a local lot of betamax tapes that I picked up from the original recorder in person. I got a few boxes from them, and this was one of the tapes I found in that lot. All the tapes I upload on my channel are from tapes I personally have digitized from my collection :)
That's one terribly faded & discoloured print of "Gone With the Wind". To think, we used to accept prints like that, instead of over-restored, with colours more vivid than the original filmmakers had carefully designed in the first place.
The "definitive" remastered version of the film hadn't been prepared as yet (and neither was "The Wizard of Oz", with the Kansas sequences still processed in black and white).
I'm Canadian. We used to get American commercials with Canadian place names added. We could always tell because of the accents. The worst was a Brim commercial that had a woman claiming to be selling Brim (the official coffee of the Montreal Olympics) at those Olympics. But her "Quebec" accent was actually a ditzy "French maid" accent. Her performance was as inappropriate as someone doing the dialect of a minstrel show.
