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8.1  PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS CELEBRITY PSAs

1) Shirley MacLaine speaks to theater audiences about need for them to contribute in helping film industry in its support of the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital and Research Institute in Saraneck Lake, New York―hospital battles tuberculosis TB, chronic heart disease, and lung cancer―this is THEATRICAL charity appeal, not a TELEVISION PSA

2) John Wayne speaks for the Freedom's Foundation―strident and worshipful patriotism should be taught to children or else we may lose the struggle with Communism in the world―this spoken with old-fashioned 4th of July celebration (with 19th century cowboy antics) in foreground―then Wayne in cowboy garb speaks directly on camera

3) Eddie Fisher says education is one of this nation's many blessings to be counted―support schools―for National Education Week  1954-1955

4) Victor Borge for mail-forwarding when you move and use of the new ZIP Code system

5) Carroll O'Connor talks about smog and air pollution―from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

6) Jack Benny re problem drinkers and drunk driving―from U.S. Department of Transportation  1969

7) Pat Paulsen in comic fishing routine for water pollution from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

8) Bob Hope for energy conservation―PSA from Texaco gasoline

9) Art Linkletter urges calm understanding and treatment of drug abuse and drug users―mentions death of daughter Diane

10) Eddie Albert re the beauty of American coastlines―good images of toxic waste being dumped in ocean―mentions new anti-dumping law―from Environmental Protection Agency

11) Burl Ives makes Christmas appeal for Salvation Army

12) Gene Hackman (young and wearing wig) pitches Christmas Seals and their importance in fighting air pollution diseases―tuberculosis, emphysema

13) Buddy Ebsen for boating safety―from U.S. Coast Guard

14) Pearl Bailey re high blood pressure―get your checkup―black

15) Robert Mitchum for National Alliance of Businessmen urging the hiring of the disadvantaged―run-down neighborhoods―Help America Work

16) John Wayne speaks against California Proposition 18―circa 1970―which he considers the wrong anti-pornography bill to combat filth in the movies

17) Adlai Stevenson pitches for CARE (60 seconds)

18) Jerry Lewis for Muscular Dystrophy Association [MDA]

19) Tommy Rettig and Jan Clayton in PSA for "beware of strange dogs"

20) Phil Silvers for MDA

21) Jerry Lewis with crippled child to pitch for MDA (60 secs.)

22) Walt Disney for National Wildlife Week, March 17-23, 1957

23) Linda Bensinger of Chicago for National Brotherhood Week, February 20-27, 1955

24) George Burns for Brotherhood Week, February 20-27, 1955

25) Lou "The Toe" Groza for Brotherhood Week, February 20-27, 1955

26) Don McCarty of Chicago AFTRA for Brotherhood Week; Officer Snyder of Chicago Police Department for    Brotherhood Week; Jackie Robinson gives anti-Communist angle to an appeal for Brotherhood Week―black baseball sports

27) Danny Kaye for UNICEF

28) Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey pitch for Sister Kenny Foundation and its fight against polio (circa 1955)

29) Zachary Scott for the Sister Kenny Foundation

30) Florian Zabach for Red Cross

31) President Gerald Ford for National Father's Day Committee―just named Father of the Year―he endorses Fatherhood and The Family―"cornerstone of the nation"

32) ONE-A-DAY VITAMINS: Dave Garroway with astronaut dummy―speaks of foods and vitamins―plugs vitamins―NOT a PSA

33) Mary Tyler Moore just after Bagladesh War―Emergency Relief Fund for Bengali children―just 33 cents a day feeds a child

34) Lloyd Bridges for same Bangladesh charity―Bengali children―Emergency Relief Fund

35) Gregory Peck speaks of assisting poor children to education and socialization―for President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty―Project Headstart

36) Gregory Peck for Project Headstart―same as No. 33

37) Carol Burnett for retarded children through Easter Seals

38) PSA: today's National Guardsmen are today's Minute Men NO CELEBRITY HERE

39) Billie Jean King and Jonas Salk for Multiple Sclerosis

40) Fess Parker of U.S. Savings Bonds

41) Walter Brennen for U.S. Savings Bonds

42) Shirley Booth for U.S. Savings Bonds

 

8.2  Public Service Announcements

1) U.S. NAVY: "be someone special"

2) PSA: worn tires/"wear bars"

3) U.S. NAVY: another "be someone special"/The new Navy

4) U.S. COAST GUARD: pitched at high school graduates

5) PSA: Jack Sharkey pitches for respect for the elderly/ American Chiropractic Association/sports

6) PSA: for Veterans Administration/voluntary association

7) PSA: Robert Vaughn for right air pressure in your tires

8) PSA: illiteracy/Right to Read

9) PSA: for Tire Industry Safety Association

10) MINNESOTA TOURISM: winter vacations

11) PSA: "the new USO" for "the new military"

12) U.S. NAVY: be someone special

13) U.S. MARINES: mechanical-electrical personnel sought

14) PSA: high blood pressure/"do it for the loved ones in your life?

15) PSA: handicapped children/not just labels, but people

16) PSA: do not allow children in discarded refrigerators

17) PSA: do not give medicine in the dark/turn on lights

18) PSA: follow directions on medicine bottles

19) U.S. MARINES: looking for aircraft maintenance ordinance

20) PSA: pollution is a dirty word

21) PSA: kids and dangerous products

22) U.S. NAVY: technical school and electronics pitch

23) U.S. NAVY: small business operator learned his skills in the Navy

24) PSA:  National Audubon Society/blackbirds necessary  so tolerate the blackbirds

25) U.S. NAVY: the new Navy again

26) U.S. NAVY: will put you through college Navy ROTC

27) PSA: payroll savings plan for bonds

28) U.S. NAVY: ROTC on college campuses

29) PSA: ghetto child/RIF = Reading Is Fun

30) PSA: savings bonds/man gets phone call from his future

31) U.S. ARMY: Army ROTC/Hispanic, woman, black pitch

32) U.S. AIR FORCE: pitch for Air Force Academy admissions, pitched at blacks with Lou Rawls voice over

33) PSA: fire extinguishers for stove grease fire

34) PSA: drowning as National Parks accident

35) U.S. ARMY: tanks and boys

36) PSA: Ron Masek for rotating your tires

37) 3 MINUTE BRAND OATS: oatmeal

38) PSA: protect your eyes/prevent blindness

39) PSA: for bicycle safety/boy checks safety as if he were an airplane pilot

40) PSA: National Rifle Association (NRA) is 102 years old/rifles

41) PSA: Lung Association for asthma

43) PSA: savings bonds

44) PSA: for CARE w/ children's drawings

45) PSA: CARE for sharing with the needy

46) WISCONSIN NATIONAL GUARD: tornado destruction of 1972 and Guard response

47) U.S. COAST GUARD: fishing in New Bedford

48) U.S. COAST GUARD: same as No. 47

49) PSA: for Foster Parents/sponsor boy in Peru

50) PSA: Jim Jordan (Fibber McGee) goes to his closet/for American Assn of Retired People consumer guide

51) PSA: fire in high rise/plan for fire

52) JESUS STORY: Jesus and adultress/Methodists-Presbyterians

53) PSA: payroll savings plan/shorter version of No. 27

54) PSA: be a Girl Scout leader

55) PSA: for home canning proper procedures

56) PSA: savings bonds/kid get first haircut and plans for college

57) PSA: for dangerous home products

58) U.S. COAST GUARD:  same as No. 47

59) U.S. ARMY: ROTC a 2-year program for Juniors and Seniors

 

8.3   Public Service Announcements

1) PSA: National Epilepsy Foundation

2) U.S. ARMY: pitched at small-town Southern white boys

3) PSA: savings bonds/money to travel when kids have grown

4) PSA: high blood-pressure w/ hang-gliding/motorcycling/ hiking

5) PSA: multiple sclerosis

6) PSA: be careful, use common sense in National Parks

7) U.S. NAVY: same as PSA 8C, No. 28

8) USAF: Air Force is a great way of life/young people pitched

9) USAF: basic training w/ Southern folk music/"community college of the Air Force"

10) USAF: a great way of life

11) U.S. NAVY: ROTC/"It's not just a job, it's an adventure"

12) USAF: great way of life

13) U.S. ARMY RESERVE: keyboard man in the rock band is in Army Reserves

14) PSA: Minnesota State Service for the Blind

15) U.S. COAST GUARD: help others/help yourself

16) PSA: Soil Conservation Service of the USDA

17) PSA: savings bonds nostalgia at the drive-in

18) PSA: tips on driving carefully in the fog

19) PSA: drive slowly in national parks/don't hit deer

20) PSA: Madeline Ruhe on saving energy during the 1970s energy crisis/set thermostat low in winter, high in summer

21) PSA: lead poisoning/in Spanish/child in hospital

22) PSA: John Denver on saving energy by driving 55 MPH/ in same campaign as No. 20

23) PSA: save the wild turkey/patriotism theme/National Wild Turkey Federation   1976

24) PSA: park your car and get into nature/walk in National Parks/John Doremus does v.o.

25) PSA: Campaign for Human Development focus on American Indians

26) PSA: "Don't Be Fuelish" re saving energy features Jim Ryan jogging

27) PSA: Paul Newman for the peregrin falcon from U.S. Fish and Wildlife

28) PSA: prenatal care to fight infant mortality/March of Dimes

29) PSA: for fish and shellfish eating/from fisherman

30) PSA: odd piece has Xmas gift labeled PEACE

31) PSA: Billy Kilmer for handicapped children from White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals

32) PSA: Hank Aaron for United Negro College Fund

33) PSA: "gray liberation" from National Council on Aging

34) PSA: hand puppets to say that weed killers can be poisonous to people/pesticide safety from USDA

35) PSA: for safe driving has headstone saying "OOPS"

36) PSA: George C. Scott on energy conservation/"Don't Be Fuelish"

37) PSA: dummies in auto crash/buckle seat belts―from American Seat Belt Council

38) PSA: Olympic high diving Gold medallist Mickie King plugs the metric system―other adults testify to its simplicity

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40) U.S. NAVY: urges reenlistment

41) PSA: Audubon Society with pickup sticks to illustrate the interrelatedness of ecological concerns

42) U.S. NAVY: be a woman officer in the Navy

43) PSA: mental health

44) PSA: food nutrition for children  (15 sec)

45) U.S. NAVY: college scholarships  (15 sec)

46) U.S. NAVY: submarines (15 sec)

47) PSA: savings bonds/on-the-street interviews (15 sec)

48) PSA: savings bonds/wedding  (15 sec)

49) U.S. NAVY: jet takes off  (15 sec)

50) U.S. NAVY: same as No. 46

51) PSA: save the wild turkey/another one from 1976/see above No. #23

52) PSA: avoid buying a home with legal problems/have a title search made

53) MINNESOTA TOURISM: winter tourism

54) U.S. NAVY: be a nurse in Navy

54) PSA: Cub Scouts teaches nutrition and fitness

55) PSA: electricity crucial to society―from U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

56) PSA: professor in classroom strumming guitar―for Veterans Administration and G.I. Bill

57) PSA: Closer Look is for handicapped kids―William Conrad does voice-over

58) PSA: Reading is Fundamental (RIF) shows black child in New York ghetto

59) PSA: Automatic is a Maryland group to stop smoking―shows lots of lighted cigarette butts

60) PSA: John Forsyth practices his heart-to-heart talk to his drug-abusing daughter―chair is empty―for the National Drug Abuse Prevention Program

61) PSA: black student closes his locker―for Basic Educational Opportunity Grants

62) PSA: EPA commuter―hectic experiences of commuter going to work   Tim Conway  celebrity

63) PSA: he won't smoke when he's an adult―anti-smoking spot from Your Lung Association―animated―same campaign as #'s 72 and 73

64) PSA: 77-year old man in Japan arm-wrestling/Maryknoll Missionaries

65) PSA: anti-smoking spot features Russ Soffles "The Arizona Kid" as a Gabby Hayes-type―urges smokers to respect non-smokers's right―go outside to smoke or put out your cigarette

66) PSA: food safety and salmonella―Jack Klugman and Tony Randall as The Odd Couple   celebrity

67) PSA: teens at play eat good food/U.S. Department of Agriculture

68) PSA: man cannot get his cigarette lighted―gorilla in background (as in monkey on his back) from Your Lung Association

69) PSA: American Osteopathic Association warns people over 50 about pneumonia and vaccine against it

70) PSA: get your children immunized―from American Medical Association

71) PSA: Henry Fonda for Closer Look hospital for retarded people who can be taught something

72) PSA: Your Lung Association―animated little black girl―this is an anti-smoking spot similar to #63 above

73) PSA: animated spot for Your Lung Association―same campaign as #'s 63 and 72

 

8.4   Public Service Announcements

1) PSA: high blood-pressure/John Wilson  (from Aetna)

2) PSA:  Minnesota State Services for the Blind

3) U.S. NAVY: sells boys on Navy with electronics and sex

4) NATIONAL GUARD: for Guard with actualities from WW I

5) PSA: energy conservation theme re lowering heat/mimes do skit/worries about faulty heating mechanism

6) PSA: USDA patriotic bit re your "food day," and why in USA it is lowest in world...the time you must work to feed yourself with farm produce

7) PSA: call ahead and make hotel reservations

8) PSA: "I'm your future" phone call for savings bonds

9) PSA: get the booklet "A Working Economy" which rich people don't like because it gives away their secrets

10) JESUS STORY: Jesus and the adulteress

11) USAF: Air Force, a great way of life

12) PSA: plant trees

13) JESUS STORY: Jesus and the rich man

14) PSA: warns against insurance fraud

15) PSA: Dick Cavett does voice-over for FDA spot urging people to read labels

16) PSA: what you can do to prevent burglary/from Chiefs of Police

17) PSA: the Smithsonian Institution circa 1975

18) PSA: prenatal care for March of Dimes

19) JESUS STORY: same as No. 10

20) PSA: campaign for Human Development focus on Buckeye-Woodlawn Community/black woman and her kids

21) PSA: Wisconsin State Technical Education

22) PSA: prenatal care March of Dimes/"man from the March of Dimes"   color kine

23) U.S. NAVY: young woman is hanging on to her boyfriend who has joined the Navy...good propaganda piece

24) USAF: a great way of life

25) PSA: Guideposts magazine re nurse in war zone

26) USAF: Glen Campbell sings for great life in Air Force

27) PSA: impaired hearing/protect yourself from noise damage

28) PSA: older people taking pills can get old-fashioned caps from their druggists

29) PSA: Edison's home to pitch electricity

30) ARMY NATIONAL GUARD: the new Minutemen 1976

31) PSA: Franciscans spot with boy asking helpful older man in a hurry, "Are you God?"

32) USAF: ROTC is gateway to a great way of life/pitched to women with song "Your love's put me on top of the world."

33) PSA: Guideposts magazine re gossiping...gossip likes feathers in a pillow, spread everywhere and cannot be fully regathered

34) PSA: AARP spots re aging/apple fair w/ folk music  1976

35) PSA: protect your CB radio in your car/from Aetna

36) PSA: re drug abuse w/ Steve Allen, David Janssen, Andy Griffith

37) U.S. NAVY: nuclear submarine service―USS Spadefish

38) JESUS STORY: same as Nos. 10, 20

39) PSA: for wildlife management from Fish and Wildlife agencies

40) PSA: heart troubles has fat man eating all the wrong foods

41) PSA: for ski patrol men

42) PSA: for new USO for the voluntary military

 

8.5   Public Servi ce Announcements

1) PSA: AARP has 67-year old architect (Richard Croder?)

2) PSA: EPA spot re organizing to stop pollution

3) U.S. NAVY: "Navy man's pretty girl"/young man with lure of chicks

4) JESUS STORY: Jesus and rich man

5) PSA: Johnny Ray re deafness

6) PSA: vision problems/get an eye exam

7) PSA: another spot re vision problems/eye exam

8) PSA: Sierra Club spot re lady bugs eating aphids and the chain of life

9) USAF: country music re basic training/for Southern white boys

10) PSA: "Did you say God?"/Religion in American Life

11) PSA: Sierra Club spot re the need to leave some "wild water" and not dam it all

12) PSA: man from the March of Dimes talks to black woman re prenatal―urges women to take less medicine

13) PSA: operation of fire extinguishers from UL

14) JESUS STORY: same as No. 4

15) PSA: Wildlife Federation spot re saving the bald eagle is the same one later used to pitch work habits by Whirlpool Corp

16) PSA: for re-treading your tires rather than getting new ones/linked to the energy crisis of 1970s   (Tire Retread Information Bureau)

17) PSA: teenage girls need to eat healthy foods

18) PSA: Sierra Club has Jack Lemmon pitching environmental concerns during energy crisis of 1970s

19) PSA: U.S. Dept. of Commerce has booklet "The American Economic System"

20) USAF: ROTC pitched at women

21) PSA: Robert Stack for state Wildlife agencies and U.S. Fish and Game management

22) PSA: re alcoholism with middle-class white woman

23) PSA: dentistry for children  1976

24) USAF: Air Force Academy

25) USAF: Lou Rawls pitches the Academy to black cadets

26) USAF: B.J. Thomas re "come in out of the rain" and join USAF with more chicks

27) PSA: Salvation Army cares about teenagers

28) PSA: Thomas Jefferson questioned about the payroll savings plan

29) PSA: man wants to kill himself/stopped "in God's name" ―-from religious group

30) PSA: Jean Shepard v.o. for savings bonds with nostalgia at the drive-in (not exactly the same as earlier spot on PSA No. 8C, No. 17

31) PSA: noise pollution and what communities can do

32) PSA: age of abundant energy is over/has revolving globe (stresses need for alternative energy sources―coal, solar, wind, and especially nuclear energy or else might be facing "the Dark Ages of the 70s") from American Nuclear Society

33) PSA: to be young is a feeling not an age...get periodic spinal exams...American Chiropractic Association 1 min

34) PSA: 30 sec version of No. 33

35) PSA: diabetes/treat your body as well as your car

36) PSA: St. Lawrence Seaway

37) PSA: children with cancer from St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital

38) PSA: be careful with gasoline containers from UL

39) PSA: Minnesota wetlands are in danger save them

40) PSA: energy crisis so set thermometer for 55 to 65 to save energy―pitched in terms of jobs saved

41) PSA: hire the handicapped for hard workers/from Veterans Administration

42) PSA: Minnesota wildlife and man-made changes

43) PSA: conservation-minded farmers/from Soil Conservation office of USDA

44) PSA: Social security w/ The Great Sardoni, mentalist

45) PSA: loneliness and family values from Religion in American Life

46) USAF: Shirley Jones v.o. for Air Force ROTC

47) USAF: Air Force Reserve is animated spot

48) PSA: recycle aluminum cans

49) PSA: savings bonds/money doesn't grow on trees

50) PSA: re glaucoma with Bob Barker for National Society for the Prevention of Blindness

51) PSA: government will plant trees on empty farm lands

 

8.6  Public Service Announcements

1) PSA: Helen Hayes for the American-Korean Foundation, now is the American Kor-Asian Foundation―after 24 years

2) NAVY-MARINE ROTC: father talks about his son in ROTC

3) PSA: seer Mohammed Bey in comic spot for the Social Security Administration

4) USAF: great way of life/young people testify to Air Force being good way of life

5) PSA: "man does not live by development alone"  (from the Wilderness Society) little boy had secret places in the woods

6) PSA: little boy on the beach has the Right to Read

7) PSA: runaway young girls..."running away is no answer" re Youth Agency...from HEW

8) PSA: Guideposts magazine in touching ad about little orphan girl who only wants to be loved

9) PSA: "walk, get in touch with your feeling" is from the Sole Leather Council

10) PSA: dirty old man tries to sell drugs to kids... "Why do you think they call it dope?"  from HEW

11) PSA: use the right tools for the right job...from Consumer Council of the U.S. government

12) USAF: a great way of life...repeat

13) PSA: from the Franciscans w/ Victor Jory and heavy surf and prayer

14) U.S. NAVY: small town white boy is lured into the Navy

15) PSA: pro-pesticides this one tells you how good pesticides are for you...dinner party spoiled by grubs in the salad...saves $20 billion in food costs annually  from National Agricultural Chemicals Association

16) PSA: re air pollution from Lung Association  (15 sec)

17) PSA: motorcycle safety spot

18) PSA: re drunkenness and hard liquor w/ CEO of Hiram Walker speaking against public drunkenness/alcohol

19) PSA: from Red Cross, "the good neighbor" that comes through in times of need

20) PSA: Presidential Environmental awareness...PEMAP from the EPA

21) PSA: "get off your rocking chair for gray liberation" repeat of earlier spot

22) PSA: Hal Holbrook stresses that drug laws in other countries can get you in much trouble

23) PSA: Jennifer O'Neill w/ daughter for breast self-examination

24) U.S. NAVY: "Port of Call: South Pacific"/"It's not just a job, it's an adventure."

25) PSA: Russell Train speaks for retreading tires as recycling

26) PSA: walk for fitness

27) U.S. NAVY: "you can be someone special" re nuclear energy training in Navy

28) PSA: from Campaign for Human Development...has beautiful shot of Earth from the heavens, then narrows focus into a poor Hispanic woman living in a tenement

29) 3 MINUTE BRAND OATS: repeat of earlier spot

30) PSA: w/ Amanda Wright warns against con-men who bilk elderly out of their money

31) PSA: repeat of No. 21 "gray liberation" spot

32) PSA: design buildings with handicapped in mind/"barrier free society" for Easter Seals

33) PSA: The Great Sardoni repeat for Social Security

34) USAF: repeat of No. 4

35) PSA: teach your kids about electrical appliances

36) PSA: do work you are proud of

37) PSA: same as Cardoni in No. 33

38) U.S. NAVY: "Dawn Launch: Sea of Japan" same campaign as No. 25 "it's an adventure"...see Nos. 41, 51

39) U.S. NAVY ROTC: repeat of earlier spot No. 2

40) PSA: cancer and children/St. Jude's Hospital

41) U.S. NAVY: "Homeward Bound: The Coast of New England" "it's an adventure" campaign as with Nos. 25, 38

42) PSA: bonds w/ impractical couple

43) PSA: International Woman's Year w/ Donna Fargo (1975)

44) PSA: fix up your credit problems/black couple having financial problems

45) PSA: little girl has arthritis

46) U.S. Navy: small town white boy recruited for Navy

47) PSA: re hog cholera from USDA

48) U.S. NAVY: boys like Marty do know what to do with their lives, bored, going nowhere

49) PSA: re checking blood pressure

50) PSA: re regular dental visits for children

54) U.S. NAVY: "Liberty Ports: Pacific" another glamorous pitch for USN/"...it's an adventure"

 

8.66       Public Service Announcements

 Civil Rights promotional spots produced by Time-Life Television and United Church Women of the National Council of Churches, Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, and National Council of Catholic Men CIRCA 1963

1)        President John F. Kennedy:

2)        President John F. Kennedy:

3)        President John F. Kennedy:

4)        President John F. Kennedy:

5)        President John F. Kennedy: