I fondly remember these ads when I was a little boy back in the day. I remember going around the house repeating the line "People start pollution. People can stop it!" It drove my mother nuts. LOL.

I started working at age 9, back in the USA, and I remember this ad very well. My first jobs were walking along the highways, picking up aluminum (and tin) cans, putting them in a big garbage bag, and hauling it back home on my back. My father would take me and the bags to the recycling center every few months so I could get my few $$ of "pay" for my efforts. I also collected old newspapers from neighbors all over the neighborhood, and took them to recycling, too. That is how I paid for my first mountain bike. I remember when America was covered in litter....it is truly so much more beautiful today, because ads like this made a huge difference.

I loved these commercials as a kid. They need to bring them back again.

This and the canoe ad hit this girl hard. I vowed to never ever litter..I’ve kept that vow to this day.

@chadweidner3232

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for doing the research & Thank you to Iron Eyes Cody for representing Keeping America Beautiful And what a great Job he did and is sadly & greatly missed by many! I remember these commercials very well and promote them in many environmental things that I do. I have seen that video where he and his wife had been interviewed and what a great video that was. What an awesome couple and family they were!

@chadweidner3232

3 жыл бұрын

As a kid I was inspired by these ads.

Wow...William Conrad narrating. Classic!

I actually met this guy. I was working in a photo lab,years ago,and this little old man walks in a wants a picture of an indian in a headress copied. I told him it looked like the indian in the old commercial and he said it was and that it was him.Think he said he grew up in Jersey City!? Cool guy, cooler stories.

This makes my heart feel closer to my heritage, and sad for their land.

A lot of effort were put into music in the 70’s from your average radio songs to the television commercials. Even television shows had theme songs that were more profound than music in 2018. Interesting.

this one was my favorite one of these when I was a kid. it's still a good one even though Iron Eyes Cody is really Sicilian

William Conrad is the voice. He was Cannon on TV.

This was my 2nd favorite Iron Eyes Cody Anti-Pollution Ad, It actually @ first looked like a trailer for a good movie Narrated by Great Late! William Conrad! The Canoe River Scene was the best Ad one. Cody Fooled Me! I would of Guessed him to be 100% Native American instead of 100% Italian!

@paulsiegfried6337

3 жыл бұрын

I at first thought it was James Earl Jones. Wow cool

This guy came to speak at my grade school in 1973. Arbor Park, Oak Forest Illinois. He was fascinating. He told us that Oak Forest Hospital was build on a native american burial site, desecrating the burials. -Shawn Adamson

The music is gorgeous!

Did we listen? Where are we now?

@chadweidner3232

3 жыл бұрын

We listened a bit. But the next decade is essential.

I never saw this one, I only saw the first one where he's in a canoe.

@Birdman884

6 жыл бұрын

star trek for me, this one was played over and over.

@sstritmatter2158

4 жыл бұрын

For me was the other way around

Awww so sad

What year was this commercial? I believe early 70s!

@chadweidner3232

3 жыл бұрын

Early 70s. They began on Earth Day in 1971.

Is that James Earl Jones narrating? Sure sounds like it

Is that William Conrad? It sound like Orson Wells to me...

@maribethspence2141

7 жыл бұрын

MWolverine1969 yeah I think you're right. it don't sound like Conrad to me anyways.

@freemanz4051

7 жыл бұрын

Lorne Green. Former Canadian Broadcasting announcer turned American actor. Star of "Bonanza."

@MooPotPie

4 жыл бұрын

Conrad narrated the first "crying Indian" ad (with the canoe). The voice here does resemble Welles, but I think Freeman Z is correct that it's Lorne Greene.

@bravobravoh1344

4 жыл бұрын

It's William Conrad. Their voices are 'similar' in tonal quality but distinct from one another enough to notice the difference.

All you need to do is hand all national parks over to the native Indian tribes and America will be beautiful.

@chadweidner3232

3 жыл бұрын

We still have not dealt with our conflicted and very problematic relationship with Native Americans. We have a long way to go.