OLD NASA TV PROMOS (70'S)???

Anyone else remember those way cool NASA promos that various tv stations
would air in the 70's, with the funky 70's-style NASA animation and sounds,
reviewing things like Apollo, Skylab, ASTP, Viking, and the upcoming Space
Shuttle?
Does anyone know where I could get my hands on some of these?

"Joseph S. Powell, III" wrote in message ...
Anyone else remember those way cool NASA promos that various tv stations
would air in the 70's, with the funky 70's-style NASA animation and sounds,
reviewing things like Apollo, Skylab, ASTP, Viking, and the upcoming Space
Shuttle?
Does anyone know where I could get my hands on some of these?

Wish I did. I saw one on the shuttle last weekend. I think the
History Channel throws them on occasionally for filler between shows.
Even the music sounds all out of kilter. This one of course spoke of
two week turnaround times and used a pic of Ed White during his EVA
superimposed in the cargo bay to illustrate a shuttle spacewalk.

"Joseph S. Powell, III" wrote in message
...
Anyone else remember those way cool NASA promos that various tv stations
would air in the 70's, with the funky 70's-style NASA animation and
sounds,
reviewing things like Apollo, Skylab, ASTP, Viking, and the upcoming Space
Shuttle?
Does anyone know where I could get my hands on some of these?

Actually I miss the Gulf Oil commercials (at least on NBC) in 1965 and 1966
during the Gemini launches .. showing the building
of Pad 39A and Vehicle Assembly building. Music and narrative was a bit
frightening for an morning and afternoon
launches. Of course there were the train sets for rendezvous show -- with
Frank McGee and Frank Blair almost like kids at
Christmas showing how it was done.

GB

"Joseph S. Powell, III" wrote in message ...
Anyone else remember those way cool NASA promos that various tv stations
would air in the 70's, with the funky 70's-style NASA animation and sounds,
reviewing things like Apollo, Skylab, ASTP, Viking, and the upcoming Space
Shuttle?
Does anyone know where I could get my hands on some of these?

Nasa TV runs them every now and then. Lately they have been running
ones from the late '50s for NASA's 40th anniversary.

Gene

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"Joseph S. Powell, III" wrote in message
...
Anyone else remember those way cool NASA promos that various tv stations
would air in the 70's, with the funky 70's-style NASA animation and
sounds,
reviewing things like Apollo, Skylab, ASTP, Viking, and the upcoming
Space
Shuttle?
Does anyone know where I could get my hands on some of these?

Nasa TV runs them every now and then. Lately they have been running
ones from the late '50s for NASA's 40th anniversary.

Gene

My brother gets NASA TV on his Dish network - wish I had it.
While visiting him I saw a film from the 50's talking about America's space
exploration, and the music sounded "hauntingly familiar".
Then it dawned on me - it was the same music used in the soundtrack of the
original Night of the Living Dead, lol!
Seems George Romero was on such a shoestring budget that he had to use some
"canned" music instead of having an original score produced, so he took it
from this old NASA film!

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"Joseph S. Powell, III" wrote in message
...
Anyone else remember those way cool NASA promos that various tv stations
would air in the 70's, with the funky 70's-style NASA animation and
sounds,
reviewing things like Apollo, Skylab, ASTP, Viking, and the upcoming Space
Shuttle?
Does anyone know where I could get my hands on some of these?

Actually I miss the Gulf Oil commercials (at least on NBC) in 1965 and 1966
during the Gemini launches .. showing the building
of Pad 39A and Vehicle Assembly building. Music and narrative was a bit
frightening for an morning and afternoon
launches. Of course there were the train sets for rendezvous show -- with
Frank McGee and Frank Blair almost like kids at
Christmas showing how it was done.


Gulf Oil also had commercials during the Gemini spaceflights showing
"Brutus" the world's largest strip mining power-shovel.
They would say something like, "It can load four railroad
cars with one scoop!"

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/KSWESbrutus.html

http://www.asme.org/history/brochures/h127.pdf

http://www.bigbrutus.org/index.html

"Get Extra Kick, Go Gulf!" - Remember the plastic orange horse shoes
for the back of your car? ;-)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ategory=13 29

Now all the oil companies show are butterflies and elk.


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Joseph S. Powell, III wrote:

Anyone else remember those way cool NASA promos that various tv stations
would air in the 70's, with the funky 70's-style NASA animation and sounds,
reviewing things like Apollo, Skylab, ASTP, Viking, and the upcoming Space
Shuttle?
Does anyone know where I could get my hands on some of these?




They run them all the time on NASA TV.

Pat

I don't have NASA TV, though several posters say that's where they can be
seen often.

Only thing I can offer is, try asking your local science museum. They may
have those and similar stuff on old 16mm film reels moldering in storage
somewhere. I used to work at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
and we had a whole shelf full of various NASA films in one of our massive
back rooms full of assorted junk. That was back in the 1980s, and last time
I checked last year they were still there. I seriously doubt they've been
viewed recently or even transferred onto video, given the nature of budgets
and all. But it can't hurt to ask. But staff members come and go and
today's museum workers may not be aware of everything they have.