Half hour compilation featuring television commercials that aired during daytime TV shows in the 1960s (and a couple from 1959), including ads for films like Pollyanna with Hayley Mills. Products include Ballantyne beer, Bulova watches, GE Filter Flow washers, Raleigh and Bel-Air cigarettes, Peter Pan peanut butter, Lavoris, Clearasil, Stay-Press Levi's, PF Flyer, Liquid Prell, Total cereal, Lucky Charms, Lysol spray, Pride wax, DermaFresh hand lotion, Dentyne gum, One-A-Day vitamins, Alka-Seltzer on the rocks, Van Heusen shirts, Elgin watches, and Tussy deodorant. Celebrity endorsements include Peter Marshall for Kellogg's variety packs, Red Barber for Gulf gas, and Alfred from the Batman TV show pitches superhero posters from Fact Toothpaste. Plus, a cartoon Tony the Tiger meets a live action judo kid in a Frosted Flakes ad, there's a song about Esquire shoe polish, and a cartoon song for Mars candy.
The BetaGems channel also has "1960s daytime television commercials 1 hour," "60s primetime TV commercials 45 minutes," "1956-1960 primetime television commercials 23 minutes," "1959-1961 primetime television commercials 12 minutes," "1960s primetime television commercials 37 minutes," "60s/70s TV commercials: Louise Lasser, John Wayne, Cybill Shepherd, more," "1959-1960 primetime television commercials 10 minutes," "1961 Twilight Zone commercials that aired during original broadcasts," "1960s Saturday morning TV commercials 12 minutes," "1960s Saturday morning TV commercials 23 minutes," "1960s Saturday morning TV ads 29 minutes," "1950s/1960s Saturday morning TV commercials 8 minutes," "1960s Saturday morning TV commercials 30 minutes," "1960s/1970s Saturday morning TV commercials 28 minutes," "1959 & 1960 Saturday morning TV commercials 25 minutes," "1972 & 1973 Saturday morning TV commercials 23 minutes," "1972 & 1973 Saturday morning TV commercials 6 minutes," "Stoner TV commercials: Screaming Yellow Zonkers, more," "1950s Ovaltine sports star ads Florence Chadwick, more," "1971 Ovaltine: Friend For Life ad agency film, Screaming Yellow Zonkers," "1992 TV's Funniest Commercials, Patrick Duffy host," "TV's Greatest Commercials 1989 Tim Conway & Ed McMahon," "TV's Greatest Commercials II 1989 celebrity edition, Ed McMahon," "1990 Foreign TV Commercials compilation 30 minutes," "1990 World's Best Commercials: David Leisure," "Phil Hartman: Word From Our Sponsor celeb ads," "We'll Be Right Back ad comp hosted by Mr. Whipple, Madge 1989," "1995 Greatest Commercials Ever Made, John Ritter host," "Marx Bros TV ads: Pepsi, Prom Cream, De Soto/Plymouth," and an entire playlist of rare TV ads going back to the 40s in a playlist called "Rare and Lost TV Commercials."
BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded from 1983 into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, and other material that doesn't seem to be anywhere else on KZread or online. Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo - the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads.
In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we're only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper monitored nightly for several years. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area. This upload features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners. To be used for research and archive purposes only, no commercial reproduction allowed.