I know nothing about the stories, but I love these old soap clips. The cardboard sets, the claustrophobic camera work, the foreboding organ music...it's such a departure from 21st century TV. The actors really had to perform, because there was less to distract the viewer.

This was my soap, back in the 70s -86, when I stopped watching, as I folded the clothes. I turned it on, occasionally, after being an every day viewer. I love the commercials!

Thank you for the Guiding Light episode from August, 1960 on CBS-TV. With commercials of the day, no less😁. Love original ads from television's Golden Age. It makes me feel as though I'm watching a live telecast, although this is in kinescope versus video tape (which was in its infancy back then). Not many television stations had the capacity to have videotape machines in those days, but more stations made the switch by the late sixties.

@MoviecraftInc

2 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

I remember that Oxydol commercial. It played for a couple of years. That original Mr. Clean was always the best!

What a gem - thank you for sharing! Robin was a brat back then and morally guilty for the death of Karl. She caused many troubles through the years but I don't understand why they killed her character off in 1966 because she spiced things up and had a lot more potential cause of the history of her ties to the others. Also great to see bert and meta, love all scenes of them together!

@MoviecraftInc

Ай бұрын

You're more than welcome...

@itsalongstory1024

20 күн бұрын

Robin died in 1967.

Great picture and sound quality for a vintage kinescope.

@MoviecraftInc

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for noticing. A direct from film transfer.

I think Beulah Bondi is playing the grandma in the Oxydol commerical.

@MoviecraftInc

4 ай бұрын

Sure is...thanks for your help in identifying her. An actress with phenomenal credits to her name.

@user-il5oq5df6l

3 ай бұрын

Beulah Bondi was a legendary character actress. I chiefly remember her as Ma Bailey in "It's A Wonderful Life".

@caroltenge5147

3 ай бұрын

Mother please... I'd rather do it myself!

The guy at beginning smoking cigar is Milton Selzer, played on Twilight Zone episode The Masks(1959)

I was born in 52, I remember my mom watching this and another that I can't remember right now

My mom watched Search for Tomorrow and The Guiding Light everyday at lunch when they were 15 minutes each

This is when the setting is in California, the doctor says he works at Cedars in Los Angeles. Around 1965/66 the Bauers moved to Springfield. Weren't they lucky to find a Cedars Hospital there also ........ ;)

@colejx78

Ай бұрын

Cedars hospital is like the Cleveland Clinic branches everywhere 😂

I remember these shows, along with the commercials.

@caroltenge5147

3 ай бұрын

did you ever buy any of their stuff?

@robbinredmon7536

Ай бұрын

I loved the commercials back then

@robbinredmon7536

Ай бұрын

I loved the commercials back then. 7:36

Thank you so much for these continued rare soap gems and in such high quality too. I still miss GL. With P&G possibly getting back into soaps I wish they could revive it or at least put out as many old episodes as they have.

@MoviecraftInc

4 ай бұрын

You're welcome. It would be interesting to see if any of the episodes were retained by the producers, but to my knowledge none were archived, at least in the early days.

@kengeorgejones6855

4 ай бұрын

@@MoviecraftInc Yes most were wiped (and some rumors say even those from much later decades are gone). Usually when they had flashbacks in later years they would just have a few clips from the '60s. That's why these finds are such a delight.

@user-il5oq5df6l

3 ай бұрын

I wasn't aware that the folks at Procter & Gamble were considering getting back into soaps. Personally, I😢 believe that soap operas are becoming as extinct as dinosaurs.

@kengeorgejones6855

3 ай бұрын

@@user-il5oq5df6l That has been the case for a long while now, sadly, but they do have some ties to The Gates, which has been picked up by CBS and will debut in January. Hopefully the show will do well enough to last a while and maybe cause other daytime soaps to be created.

Awesome, thank you so much

@MoviecraftInc

3 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

ppl in soap operas dressed so well

@robbinredmon7536

Ай бұрын

Yes they were very well dressed

@robbinredmon7536

Ай бұрын

Yes they did dress well. 6:31

Identifying the names: Meta Bauer (Ellen Demming), Bruce Banning (Les Damon), Bill Bauer (Ed Bryce), Bert Bauer (Charita Bauer), Robin Lang (Abigail Kellogg - I think) Paul Fletcher (Bernard Grant). I think the lawyer may be Philip Sterling but I'm not 100%.

@kengeorgejones6855

4 ай бұрын

Someone also pointed out that the detective is played by Milton Seltzer.

@markngrant9510

Ай бұрын

I can confirm that the lawyer was Philip Sterling. My father was Paul Fletcher.

@kengeorgejones6855

Ай бұрын

@@markngrant9510 Thanks for the confirmation! I wish more of your father's soap work was available but everything from him I have seen has been first-rate.

@markngrant9510

Ай бұрын

@@kengeorgejones6855 Thank you very much. He also appeared on One Life to Live: kzread.info/dash/bejne/oXmupZOoesLdebA.htmlsi=T_Ss_bCBUHzZHgdP

I enjoyed the opening/closing credits with the commercials and the theme song. I'm surprised the theme song was used until 1967/1968.

@MoviecraftInc

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@sexymama1966

4 ай бұрын

​@@MoviecraftIncthank you!

@robbinredmon7536

Ай бұрын

So did I

Odd they never thought of dish washing gloves to prevent this.

Is that Norm Taubman on the organ? He also did the organ for the Edge of Night, was the keyboardist for almost every game show in the 50s and 60s, and also owned his own nightclub in Manhattan, featuring.......himself!

@franksantore2810

4 ай бұрын

I meant PAUL Taubman. Sorry.

@markngrant9510

Ай бұрын

To the best of my knowledge, the organist was John Gart. Gart gave my father a piano version of the Guiding Light theme in his own handwriting and signed by him, which my father gave to me sometime in the early to mid 1960s. I still have it.

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