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1)
UNION ELECTRIC: for all electric Gold Medallion Homes―when is a kitchen
like a beauty treatment?―a beautiful kitchen will make woman look more
beautiful because she gets so much help with the housework (1968)
2)
UNION ELECTRIC: animated with song for electric home―Reddi Kilowatt
appears (1968)
3)
UNION ELECTRIC: "bold new St. Louis"―Gateweay Arch is visited
(1968)
4)
UNION ELECTRIC: more on bold new St. Louis―Forest Park is highlighted
(1968)
5)
UNION ELECTRIC: electric home―"swingin' places with electric
heat"―song and animated (1968)
6)
UNION ELECTRIC: word game for electricity whose price continues to fall
(1968)
7)
UNION ELECTRIC: the Mississippi river at St. Louis―tugboats and aerial
shots of the river―plugs St. Louis's new growth
(1969)
8)
UNION ELECTRIC: Missouri Botanical Garden (Shaw's Garden) where electricity
works to make perfect environment for plants―bold new St. Louis campaign
(1969)
9)
UNION ELECTRIC: to fight crime, narrator urges you to order electric lights
installed outdoors by the utility company serving St. Louis
(1969)
10)
UNION ELECTRIC: silent billboard―Busch stadium lighted at night
(1969)
11)
UNION ELECTRIC: woman hears scary sounds at night―Dusk-to-Dawn Watchman
lights for outdoors (see No. 9)―pitched at men to "protect her from
concern" (1969)
12)
UNION ELECTRIC: same as No. 11 (1969)
13)
UNION ELECTRIC: 30 second version of No. 11
(1969)
14)
UNION ELECTRIC: same as No. 13 (1969)
15)
UNION ELECTRIC: your electric bills are higher―but that's because you have
bought and used more electrical appliances―places all such appliances on
lawn (1969)
16)
UNION ELECTRIC: clocks illustrate dependability―analogous to Union
Electric dependability (1969)
17)
UNION ELECTRIC: the many uses of electricity outdoors with new
appliances―"all you need is a little outlet"
18)
UNION ELECTRIC: electric heat for cold castle
(1969)
19)
UNION ELECTRIC: electric heat―all family members shown appreciating
it―even the cat with no static because it doesn't dry out the house
(1969)
20)
UNION ELECTRIC: "the switch is on to electric heat"―annual
heating cost for house with six rooms is $123―another is only $109
(1969)
21)
UNION ELECTRIC: man is very satisfied to pay his month electric heating
bill―others testify (1969)
22)
UNION ELECTRIC: more about "the switch is on to electric heat in the St.
Louis area"―more testimonials and annual cost figures
(1969)
23)
UNION ELECTRIC: policemen urge more lights to fight home
crime―dusk-to-dawn lights (1970)
24)
UNION ELECTRIC: more police testimonials for dusk-to-dawn lights (1970)
25)
UNION ELECTRIC: penny rolls―it's the electric penny that buys more than
ten years ago (1970)
26)
UNION ELECTRIC: electric meter―"time machine"
(1970)
27)
UNION ELECTRIC: broken chair―electric heat doesn't dry out the air so
furniture lasts longer (1970)
28)
UNION ELECTRIC: electric wire―simple and long lasting (1970)
29)
UNION ELECTRIC: dust storms inside your house with gas heating―none with
electric heat―movies of dust storms projected on outside wall of the house
(1970)
30)
UNION ELECTRIC: mommy dresses baby―electric heat (1970)
31)
UNION ELECTRIC: man draws on paper to show clean qualities of electric heat
compared to gas heat (1970)
32)
UNION ELECTRIC: microscopic close-up of the dirt pulled into your house by
"old fashioned heating"―total electric living really doesn't
cost more (1970)
33)
UNION ELECTRIC: dollar bills out the chimney with gas heating―no chimney
with electric heat (1970)
34)
UNION ELECTRIC: the incredible shrinking house―costs less to heat that 10
years ago (1970)
35)
UNION ELECTRIC: sun and electric heat compared (1970)
36)
UNION ELECTRIC: mason lays brick to build house―choose electric heat
(1970)
37)
UNION ELECTRIC: montage of electric appliances (1970)
38)
UNION ELECTRIC: warning to avoid fallen electric wires after a storm―man
warns kids
39)
UNION ELECTRIC: electric heat warms in winter―analogous to warm South Seas
spot―"the winter vacation at home heat"―your house is your
yacht
40)
UNION ELECTRIC: 30 second version of No. 39
1)
TELEPHONE COMPANY: 2-minute spot introducing Area Codes by different
stereotypes―lobster for Maine, Mets baseball player for New York
City―from 1967
2)
GENERAL TELEPHONE: man takes a bath and phone rings and he loses $500
sweepstakes call―get an extension phone
3)
SYLVANIA: from late 1968―don't play "blind thy
neighbor"―raising your car brights because driver approaching will
not dim his―so Sylvania has developed a "friendly bright light"
that won't directly blind―1969 model Dodges have it optionally
4)
GENERAL TELEPHONE: young man send love note via carrier pigeon because he needs
an extension and cannot now speak on family phone―no privacy
5)
GENERAL TELEPHONE: vampire rises from coffin―some people have to wait
until after 7 pm―calls his mama who is a werewolf
6)
PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC: animated gas blob speaks to man at gas
range―he's from brontosaurus age―then an electric spark speaks to
him and explains all he does around the house
7)
SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC & GAS COMPANY: man makes his move on pretty girl on
his couch―she needs the lights
8)
GENERAL TELEPHONE: woman engrossed in TV drama misses phone call―she sits
watching TV set―when she gets back the whodunits is over―she missed
the killer
9)
GAS INDUSTRY: little boy disparages girls and nightly bathing―but new gas
water heater means he has to take a bath each night
10)
GENERAL TELEPHONE: pay phone in the middle of nowhere―maybe never pay for
itself, but it just might help someone someday―and man's car breaks down
outside the booth
11)
GENERAL TELEPHONE AND ELECTRONICS: modern communications systems
12)
GENERAL TELEPHONE: Italian playboy gives his many girlfriends a special phone
"just for the two of us"―one has four special phones from four
special friends
13)
GENERAL TELEPHONE: humorous couple grabs phone―man's mother on other side
has high blood pressure―wife complains husband cares more about mother
than ever toward her―couple argues about his mother coming between them
14)
CON EDISON: leave a light on to stop a thief
15)
RADIO STATION PROMO: "how would you like to spend three hours with
her?"―she's a belly dancer and you can win her for three
hours―send entry to Rick Cimino, KNEW Radio in San Francisco―just
one catch, it has to be both moral and legal―sexist
16)
GAS COMPANY: Modern living calls for gas―B&W spot from Lachlede gas
Co.―late 1950s
18)
PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC: Leslie Nielsen in an 11-part campaign defends PE from
hostile criticism/each spot is 2 minutes long/here Nielsen is in streets of
Philadelphia defending increase in electricity cost
19)
PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC: Nielsen speaks of ugly electric towers in the
countryside/shows how PE is giving land under them to Little Leagues and public
parks
20)
PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC: fear of nuclear reactors in the
neighborhoods/"nuclear power is the great servant, not the destroyer"
Nielsen is at Peachbottom #1/"only fact can destroy fear"
21)
PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC: Nielsen speaks re blackouts and why they happen
22)
PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC: another spot re blackouts/ mentions 1968 East Coast
blackout/shows "control room of a power pool" which mitigates against
regional blackouts/12 power companies share via the grid covering Maryland/New
Jersey/Pennsylvania
23)
PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC: subject is thermal pollution/ cooling towers of PE
counter potential of rising water temperature
24)
PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC: What is a utility?/it's a business and must make a
profit/operates for public good―is a monopoly―and that is good
25)
PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC: no 11 in the series/Nielsen sincere in asserting courage
of PE in providing unpopular answers to tough questions
26)
PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC: Nielsen in helicopter over Philly
―says PE is fulfilling its contract
B&W
SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE commercials dated from 1955 through 1960―ads
for Yellow Pages and extension telephones
1)
UNION ELECTRIC: deserted homes from pioneer days―18 trillion kilowatt
hours used in last 90 years―but by 1980 USA will need more capacity to
generate
electricity―need
to double it―with concern for our natural environment and neighbors (1970)
2)
UNION ELECTRIC: 30 second version of No. 41
3)
UNION ELECTRIC: preservation of our natural resources is one of the biggest
challenges of the 1970s―nature shots
4)
UNION ELECTRIC: mother explains the best points of electric heating (1970)
5)
UNION ELECTRIC: 30 second version of No. 44
6)
UNION ELECTRIC: penguins are not interested in how warm you can keep your
house―old fashioned system might actually please penguins
7)
UNION ELECTRIC: puppies on man's bed―cold morning but warmth of electric
heat makes it easier to get up
8)
UNION ELECTRIC: 30 second version of No. 47
9)
UNION ELECTRIC: St. Louis welcomes Six Flags over Mid-America opens May
1971―"it's the way you'd like the rest of the world to be all of the
time"―it's all electric (1971)
10)
UNION ELECTRIC: 30 second version of No. 49
11)
UNION ELECTRIC: father warns teenage son not to put up TV antenna―get a
pro to install your antenna
12)
UNION ELECTRIC: electrical worker takes boy from tree―warns against
climbing trees because you could touch a wire
13)
UNION ELECTRIC: mother and children
return home in dark ―dusk-to-dawn lighting plugged
14)
UNION ELECTRIC: parody of All in the Family―Edith and Archie
look-alikes for electric heating
15)
UNION ELECTRIC: another All in the Family take-off for electric heat
16)
UNION ELECTRIC: Archie Bunker look-alike is told the facts about the low cost of
electric heat
17-40)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE: commercials dated from 1961 through 1964 urging
extension phones, Yellow Pages and urging Direct Distance Dialing
1)
YELLOW PAGES: business owner talks to Yellow Pages salesman about an
ad―1957
2)
YELLOW PAGES: man in workshop uses phone book―1957
3)
YELLOW PAGES: woman sewing uses phone book―1957
4)
YELLOW PAGES: man arrives at drugstore at closing time―1957
5)
YELLOW PAGES: woman water skier falls because she didn't take lessons―1957
6)
YELLOW PAGES: man stuck on highway uses phone book in phone booth―1957
7)
YELLOW PAGES: a plumber, baker, stewardess and other service individuals await
customers' calls―1957
8)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: woman talks on extension phone―1957
9)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: after redecorating the house woman adds colored extension
phones―1957
10)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: a "Teenage Princess" has a personal extension phone
that teenagers need―1957
11)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: extension phones talk
12)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: repeat of 11 in color
13)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: similar to 11
14)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: similar to 11
15-18)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: woman demonstrates how to make a long distance call by direct
dialing―1957
19)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: young girl calls mom long distance by direct
dialing―1957
20)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: woman calls husband direct
21)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: repeat of 15
22)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: teenage girl receives call from boyfriend at
college―1957
23)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: businessman makes direct call
24)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: girlfriends talk long distance
25)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: mother receives call from daughter
26)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: little boy calls grandmother
27)
BELL SYSTEM: woman teaches viewers to use phone book and avoid embarrassment of
dialing wrong numbers
28-32)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: cartoon of man urging viewers to use area codes
33)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: repeat of 22
34)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: repeat of 23
35)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: repeat of 24
36)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: repeat of 25
37)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: repeat of 26
38)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: man in front of map of United States tells viewers that long
distant rates are as cheap all day Sunday as they are in the late evening
hours―1957
39)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: woman wants to call long distance during daytime but doesn't
want high cost, so she will now call anytime Sunday
40)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: similar to 39
41)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: repeat of 38
42)
YELLOW PAGES: astronaut often goes for days without using Yellow
Pages―space
43)
YELLOW PAGES: man marooned on island doesn't use Yellow Pages
44)
YELLOW PAGES: woman balloonist doesn't use Yellow Pages
45)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: man tells viewers that direct distance dialing is as easy as
ABC
46)
SOUTHWESTERN BELL: similar to 45
47)
YELLOW PAGES: cartoon of man who uses phone book
48)
YELLOW PAGES: cartoon of crook who used phone book
49)
YELLOW PAGES: Bill Dana is casting director who uses "Jell-O Pages"
50)
YELLOW PAGES: Bill Dana is safari bwana who uses phone
book
51)
YELLOW PAGES: Bill Dana as "Speedy Jose" who is dressed as sheik and
uses "Jell-O pages"―racist
52)
YELLOW PAGES: Bill Dana as "Speedy Jose" who uses phone
book
53)
YELLOW PAGES: Bill Dana as karate student
54)
YELLOW PAGES: Bill Dana as Jose the Chiropodist
55)
YELLOW PAGES: Bill Dana as archaeologist
56)
YELLOW PAGES: Bill Dana as pianist
57)
YELLOW PAGES: Bill Dana as judge
58)
YELLOW PAGES: repeat of 55
59)
YELLOW PAGES: Bill Dana as circus performer
60)
YELLOW PAGES: Bill Dana as lawyer
61)
YELLOW PAGES: Bill Dana as normal person
62)
YELLOW PAGES: still photos of active people
63)
YELLOW PAGES: repeat of 62
SOUTHWESTERN
BELL TELEPHONE: 45 minutes hour of YELLOW PAGES from 1970s
12.7
UTILITIES
1)
BELL OF PENNSYLVANIA: Arnold Stang is cartoon bee who talks to housewife in
garden
2)
YELLOW PAGES: factory floor fills up with machinery as equipment is ordered
through phone book
3)
PSA FOR NATURAL GAS: gas companies are seeking ways to locate and produce gas,
and it will take government cooperation―energy
4)
BELL OF PENNSYLVANIA: the phone is such a bargain to use that it's nickname
should be "telebargain"
5)
PEOPLE'S GAS: ways to conserve energy
6)
MAGIC CHEF STOVE: Julia Meade urges viewers to cook with gas
7)
COMMONWEALTH EDISON: man and woman eat sumptuous $40 dinner which is equal to
the price difference between a gas and and an electric drier costs
8)
YELLOW PAGES: it is easy to find home improvement workers through the Yellow
Pages
9)
MAIDENFORM BRAS: Lauren Hutton demonstrates how stretchy this new bra
is―celebrity
10)
C & P TELEPHONE: Edward Hermann makes call from phone booth―celebrity
11)
COMMONWEALTH EDISON: energy saving cooking tips
12)
COMMONWEALTH EDISON: how to install a window air conditioner; "Concern for
your total environment"
13)
COMMONWEALTH EDISON: Com Ed and the City of Chicago are tying to obtain energy
from burning garbage, which will save 100,000 tons of coal yearly
14)
CHICAGO'S YELLOW PAGES: stock footage of old Chicago, with photos of items that
can be bought through Yellow Pages
15)
CHICAGO'S YELLOW PAGES: cartoon of two kinds of Yellow Pages, "B" for
customers, "C" for commercial
16)
CHICAGO'S YELLOW PAGES: two young boys tell audience about how easy it is to use
the Yellow Pages
17)
YELLOW PAGES: shot of woman on elevated train traveling around to find service
companies
18)
YELLOW PAGES: cartoon of cowboy searching for services in large city
19)
YELLOW PAGES: cartoon of man running from store to store
20)
GENERAL TELEPHONE: egg burns while woman talks on phone in other room; she needs
an extension phone
21)
COMMONWEALTH EDISON: demonstration of how timer lights work while someone is on
vacation
22)
CHICAGOLAND YELLOW PAGES: vacuum cleaner sucks wigs off plastic heads
23)
YELLOW PAGES: vacuum cleaner sucks keys off pegboard
24)
YELLOW PAGES: vacuum cleaner sucks suit off man
25)
WHIRLPOOL DRIER: buzzer reminds husband that load of clothes is dry
26)
MAGIC CHEF: woman demonstrates how easy it is to clean this gas stove
27)
PEOPLE'S GAS: energy saving tips
28)
PSA FOR GAS HEAT: baby walks around in only a diaper even though it is January
29)
PEOPLE'S GAS: woman enters kitchen and smells a leak, while narrator says that
this special smell helps prevent accidents
30)
ILLINOIS BELL: construction worker won't cut underground cable because Illinois
Bell told him where it was located
31)
BELL TELEPHONE: family is moving away but neighbors vow to stay in touch by
telephone
32)
ILLINOIS BELL: shot of damaged outdoor phone with narrator asking viewers to
call 611 for repairs
33)
ILLINOIS BELL: Mariette Hartley asks people not to use directory assistance
without looking in the book first
34)
ILLINOIS BELL: repeat of 32
35)
COMMONWEALTH EDISON: energy saving tips
36)
COMMONWEALTH EDISON: energy saving tips
37)
COMMONWEALTH EDISON: energy saving tips
38)
COMMONWEALTH EDISON: energy saving tips
39)
COMMONWEALTH EDISON: energy saving tips
40)
COMMONWEALTH EDISON: energy saving tips
41)
COMMONWEALTH EDISON: energy saving tips
42)
COMMONWEALTH EDISON: energy saving tips
43)
COMMONWEALTH EDISON: energy saving tips
44)
COMMONWEALTH EDISON: engineer explains how falling water creates electricity
45)
COMMONWEALTH EDISON: engineer explains how emergencies are handled
46)
COMMONWEALTH EDISON: engineer explains equipment reclamation
47)
COMMONWEALTH EDISON: energy saving tips
48)
PEOPLE'S GAS: man explains budget payment plan
1)
ST. LOUIS UNION ELECTRIC: 45 minutes of electricity and electrical-products
commercials
1)
ILLINOIS BELL EXTENSION PHONE: Man watching Ball game and wife comes in they
fight over volume―he misses game
2)
TELEX: Instant Dial-and-Type message machine from Canadian National Canadian
Pacific Telecommunications
3)
MEDALLION HOME SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON: Change over time since before
electricity
4)
TV PROMO―CBS―Thursday Night Movies
5)
FTD FLORIST: Man gives girlfriend flowers―"you don't need a reason to
send flowers"
6)
FTD FLORIST: Tall man sends mom flowers for no reason at all―because
"you don't need a reason to send flowers"
7)
GT&E: Parts are made all over the world―Iran and Belgium India
featured―in over 90 countries
8)
STANLEY POWER TOOLS: A power drill motor running a Ferris Wheel to prove it's
power―"Who says they don't make tools like they used to
anymore?"
9)
BELL SYSTEM: Football player calling Green Bay to say they can't use his ball if
he can't play
10)
TV PROMO: The Early Show
11)
COMMONWEALTH EDISON'S ELECTRIC HEAT: Making Chicago the most Progressive
City―model of Chicago being built
12)
UNION GAS: Natural Gas 'The Friendly Fuel
13)
NATURAL GAS: cars, trains, boats, kitchens all are affected by gas―'Gas
Makes the Big Difference and Costs Less Too'
14)
YELLOW PAGES: the ostrich is a strange bird, it runs here or there, we use the
Yellow Pages so we don't have to.
15)
WORLD JOURNAL TRIBUNE: All the News that hasn't happened yet
16)
TIME MAGAZINE: Through the Beatles Rock and Roll has become an art form
17)
TV PROMO - NBC NEWS: The Huntley Brinkley Report: Pictures of the Berlin Wall
getting to the station
18)
BELL SYSTEM: Astronaut calling Houston won't be getting back because he can't
get o the bus with that suit
19)
BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEMS: Making miracles happen with technology and the people
that bring them to you―animated stills describing stories
20)
GT&E: Boy left alone at home is scared until he gets a phone call―new
technologies shown
21)
THE BOSTON GLOBE: Wherever news happens they get it from 12 different newspaper
wire services
22)
BELL TELEPHONE: new area codes―different types of people from different
places with their own area codes
23)
MOVIE PROMO: The Man With the Golden Arm with Frank Sinatra―No footage
24)
TV GUIDE: Fall Preview 1966-67
25)
UNITED STATES STEEL: From New York World's Fair―research developments in
steel―Space exploration
26)
TIME MAGAZINE: Finding and Inventing new words to describe things―The more
you need to know, the more you need Time
27)
ROOSEVELT RACEWAY: B&W scenes from the race track in New York
28)
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Business men in a hurdle race cause you need a head start
29)
THE ELECTRIC COMPANY PEOPLE: Woman hears baby at night and gives him milk
30)
FTD FLORIST: Same as No.6
31)
ALCOA ALUMINUM: New ring pull beer can opener, twist top for
bottles―'Change for the Better'
32)
BELL SYSTEM: 1974―New wall hanging phone with dial on handle and hang up
button―nine different colors―Twilight Zone motif
33)
SHERATON HOTELS & MOTOR INNS―The Best Place to Stay B&W
34)
THE WORLD JOURNAL NEWS―Women's section for the housewife to get the
lowdown in New York City
35)
ROOSEVELT RACEWAY: B&W―Off to the Races―There's nothing like
being there in person
36)
LONG DISTANCE PHONE CALLS: Still photos of smiling family members―'Make
someone happy '(One Black man)
37)
WORLD JOURNAL TRIBUNE: Special Report on LSD, the Hippies in San Francisco and
Dr. Timothy Leary-The High Priest of the East are all featured
38)
ALCOA: Kids in band take a break from playing for a soft drink―one black
kid aluminum cans
39)
BONUS GIFTS: Trading Stamps for food―Ladies singing down the isles of
market―(One Black Woman included) 40)
ALLIED VAN LINES: 'We Move Families, Not Just Furniture'―kid getting used
to new house 41)
GAS COMPANY― animated―color―Hamilton, Jackson, Grant and
Franklin singing about families who saved with Gas―Gas Heat Gives You a
Better Deal 42)
THE BIG 'A' (AQUEDUCT) RACE TRACK: footage of racers and horses―New York 43) FOSTER GRANT SUNGLASSES―Confusion of Blonde with sunglasses gets two blind dates mixed up―they trade
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