Tag: TV
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Vintage TV: Bill Cullen
A look back at game show master Bill Cullen.
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Why local news is no longer appointment TV for me
Essay: why I hardly watch local TV news anymore. Hint: no substance.
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Ozzie and Harriet for Kodak
Vintage commercials for Kodak cameras, via Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.
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1950s TV commercials for Ansco cameras and films
Remembering camera and film company Ansco through some 1950s commercials for its products.
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Vintage TV: Garfield Goose and Frazier Thomas
Even in the 1970s, children’s television could be frenetic. Frazier Thomas and his friend, puppet Garfield Goose, were the gentle antidote. A pleasant morning breeze upon the children’s TV landscape, Garfield Goose and Friends aired each weekday at 8 AM on WGN-TV in Chicago. The premise was that Garfield Goose thought he was the king of the…
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Vintage TV: The CBS Late Movie
I mentioned this post recently here and decided it’s high time to rerun it. It’s an oldie, originally published in August, 2008. Starting in the late ’70s, my brother and I got sent to Camp Grandma in southwestern Michigan for a couple weeks every summer. The rules were extremely relaxed at Camp Grandma. Pepsi and…
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Why local news is no longer appointment TV for me
The drunk police officer plowed his squad car into two motorcycles stopped at a red light. One rider was killed; two others were injured. A bungled and compromised investigation, continued bad behavior by the officer, and the slow wheels of justice kept this story at the top of the news for three years. At last, the officer…
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Vintage TV: Beany and Cecil
Have you ever had a childhood memory so dim and sparse that you wondered if you had dreamed it? I’ve had a few. Sometimes I’ll encounter something that cracks such a memory open. Here’s one. In college thirty years ago, I built a collection of Paul McCartney vinyl. One day I bought a 45 of the song Another…
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Vintage TV: 1950s commercials for Ansco cameras and films
Do you remember Ansco cameras and films? For many decades, Ansco was second only to Kodak in the United States. Headquartered in Binghamton, New York, the company’s history stretched back to 1841. But its peak years were probably the 1950s, when it routinely manufactured two million cameras a year. Ansco manufactured simple cameras that anyone could operate, like…
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Captured: Time has come today
Sometimes I noodle around with my Canon S95 or my iPhone while I’m watching TV. I’m not sure why I do it, but I have captured my TV screen dozens upon dozens of times. I think I’m fascinated that my digital camera can capture a crisp image off my flat-screen TV. One evening I was watching some…
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Vintage TV: The Twilight Zone
My kids don’t like The Twilight Zone. During my 1970s kidhood, this show was one of my favorite gems of syndicated television. I loved to come across it, especially late at night, and enjoy its tales of science fiction and fantasy, of warped human nature, and of dystopia. What I didn’t understand was that when the show originally…