A few funny short movies I remember seeing on tv as a kid were very memorable, but I'm not sure what the name of the movies are.
1. Channel 21 used to air short movies featuring a guy that always got into accidents like being high on a tree, and upon chopping it down, he fell down.
2. A Boy, His Dog and a frog. This is what being a boy is about. going out with your dog and looking for a frog down by the creek. It's a very funny movie as the boy got muddy and dirty during his attempts to catch the frog. The funny part was seeing him trying to catch the frog, as he leaped away. Seeing frogs hop like that is hilarious. And just when he gave up and went home to take a bath, the frog followed him home and went upstairs to see him. Ribbit.
3. The Lollypop dragon- various film strip stories seen in school, with a tape recorder playing a pre-recorded track for the stories. When I saw the image of the Lollypop dragon during my nostalgic search, the green dragon somehow reminded me of Zak from Dragontales.
4. ZAP! a kids movie seen in school of a kid who gets magical powers by mixing various ingredients together and then reaches his hands out and shouts "Zap!" whenever he wanted to change something.
5. Channel 21 used to air various education short movies, one such I remember was Inside Out.
6. I remember an animated short film, where an young alien creature lands on Earth, and is lost. A little girl is playing and notices the alien and helps him out and shows him around. Later, you hear, her mom call her "Maria." the little girl explains to the alien child that it's her mamma calling, and suddenly hundreds of language translations of Mama was shown on the screen and as the alien cries out for his mama, his mom comes and picks him up.
7. An animated poem about the colors, as a woman narrates it and asks what is black, white, red, etc, and tells a poem of what those colors mean to her.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Old Tv Kid's commercials
Believe it or not, I remember alot of the old tv commercials and announcements to kids back in the 1970's. Back in school I saw the fun live action puppet film featurin Mark Ritt's puppets "For the love of Fred." The puppets were so memorable that they appeared in a variety of commercials from the Junior Consumer Tip of your better business bureau. They taught the importance of saving money, eating right, saving energy. I only wished that I could see that movie again. Channel 11 used to air these animated movie shorts "The Most important person." Like episodes that taught about being lonely, making mistakes, feelings. One other funny commercial featured puppet pills that came out of a pill jar and sung a song about the dangers of taking pills as they're not candy. Back then Saturday Mornings were worth the wait as the're are tons of cool shows to watch.
Sunday, June 24, 2012
nostalgic products
I get nostalgic for tons of things, as they all somehow left my life, and I can't say goodbye to them. Mostly they were products once sold at the supermarket, and such and as time goes by, the products are no longer sold. So sometimes when I watch a movie on tv made in the 1980's or 1970's, they sometimes will show a scene in a grocery store. Sometimes you might get lucky and see a scene of breakfast cereals on display, and you remember them fondly and wished that you can get it again. I saw a movie on tv "Oh God! You Devil." A scene or two at a grocery store brings back memories of the Tic Tac display at the register, as well as a few boxes of cereal.
Talk about getting nostalgic over breakfast cereals, I saw this live action short movie on a tv show called Callioupe. I don't know what the name of it was, but it's about a little boy in a supermarket who has a big imagination and imagines things happening to the people who work there. During a scene of him going down the breakfast isles, and seeing all those nostalgic breakfast cereals as they were made back then, the boy sees a guy with acne on his face as he places the price stickers on the product. The boy wonders how that man got those bumps. He invisions that maybe he went up a tree to a beehive to get fresh honey to sell in the store and he got stung.
One of the breakfast cereals the little boy picked off the shelf was "Dringles" freaturing Dr. Dringles. The little boy looked at the box and thought of the animated commercial advertising the product.
Oh here's another one, "Three Men and a Baby" One of the men goes to get diapers for the baby, and all the diapers there are plastic backed. Talk about nostalgia, but the movie was made in the late 1980's. Sometimes a scene in the movie might take place at a video arcade and you see the classic arcade games all lined up and lit up in all it's glory playing it's music and sounds. Makes you wish you could go there and play those games. Another movie Poltergeist has a scene in the kids bedroom where the original Geoffrey the Giraffe mascot character is scene on his bed sheets, pillow cases. And even in the movie E.T., one of the older kids in the family is wearing a Space Invaders T-shirt. I had one of those, but I always got sunburned as the t-shirt was black, and darket colors absorb heat.
Talk about getting nostalgic over breakfast cereals, I saw this live action short movie on a tv show called Callioupe. I don't know what the name of it was, but it's about a little boy in a supermarket who has a big imagination and imagines things happening to the people who work there. During a scene of him going down the breakfast isles, and seeing all those nostalgic breakfast cereals as they were made back then, the boy sees a guy with acne on his face as he places the price stickers on the product. The boy wonders how that man got those bumps. He invisions that maybe he went up a tree to a beehive to get fresh honey to sell in the store and he got stung.
One of the breakfast cereals the little boy picked off the shelf was "Dringles" freaturing Dr. Dringles. The little boy looked at the box and thought of the animated commercial advertising the product.
Oh here's another one, "Three Men and a Baby" One of the men goes to get diapers for the baby, and all the diapers there are plastic backed. Talk about nostalgia, but the movie was made in the late 1980's. Sometimes a scene in the movie might take place at a video arcade and you see the classic arcade games all lined up and lit up in all it's glory playing it's music and sounds. Makes you wish you could go there and play those games. Another movie Poltergeist has a scene in the kids bedroom where the original Geoffrey the Giraffe mascot character is scene on his bed sheets, pillow cases. And even in the movie E.T., one of the older kids in the family is wearing a Space Invaders T-shirt. I had one of those, but I always got sunburned as the t-shirt was black, and darket colors absorb heat.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Christmas Bells
When Christmas time came, I always listened to my Christmas tapes. Mostly they are of Organ and Chimes and handbell choirs which I love to listen to but are very rare to find. Well as you know, tapes don't really last very long, and even upon making a back up, it just doubles the problem. So one day upon cleaning up my apartment and getting rid of old things, I got rid of all my tapes as they were very old and probably were worn out. One of my all time favorite Christmas tapes that I threw out was called Christmas Bells which was seen on an infomercial in the 1990's by The home Shopp inc. I had loved it as the bells were of an orchestrated hand bell choir and sometimes mixed in with a concert and singing choir. I had a few all time favorite songs like Jesu Bambino. But knowing that transfering tapes to cd was illegal, I tore up any attempts I had done to transfer it to Cd. I had remembered that there was a Cd version of it as shown on the infomercial, but I didn't have a cd player back then as it was a new media.
So I had regreted throwing it out and missed it dearly, so I had searched the internet for a year or so trying to find the cd version which is out of print. Then one day, I got lucky and found it on Ebay, and I bought it on the spot without any competition. I was soo happy and it only costed me about $6.00 or so. I was eternally grateful as my Christmas will be merry as the Christmas bells shall ring once again. Now the only other ones I have to try and find are "Robert Rhimes Christmas Organ and Chimes, Berkshire's Bellringers, and the old tradtional Christmas Organ and Chimes ( the one that somehow reminds me of a nursing home for some reason) But they are all great to listen to even as background music while opening the Christmas presents.
So I had regreted throwing it out and missed it dearly, so I had searched the internet for a year or so trying to find the cd version which is out of print. Then one day, I got lucky and found it on Ebay, and I bought it on the spot without any competition. I was soo happy and it only costed me about $6.00 or so. I was eternally grateful as my Christmas will be merry as the Christmas bells shall ring once again. Now the only other ones I have to try and find are "Robert Rhimes Christmas Organ and Chimes, Berkshire's Bellringers, and the old tradtional Christmas Organ and Chimes ( the one that somehow reminds me of a nursing home for some reason) But they are all great to listen to even as background music while opening the Christmas presents.
The Bedtime Prayer Reminder card with glowing cross
I had gotten one of these back in the 1970's when I went to a church with our neighboor Ms. Bect and her son Joey. I don't exactly remember the name of the church we went to, but I do remember seeing some old bridge we went over that overlooked a small brook. The church was very historic and huge as parts of it were made of old stones. I remember I was still angry and upset as my mom had divorced my biological father. I was attending some kind of school program there. After we attended church service up stairs, we went downstairs to their basement to sing songs, pray, and we even got a snack of juice and those sandwich cookies. I remember that the door downstairs was huge, and heavy and made of wood with those metal pointy bar designs on the side of the door. Anyway, after one day at this school, our teacher gave us these bedtime prayer reminder cards that had an image of Jesus knocking at someone's door on the top half of the card. Then on the bottom half there was a dark blue shield that had a soft texture. And inside that shield was a special cross that glowed in the dark upon it being exposed to light.
I remember seeing this hanging on the wall in my bedroom, as I enjoyed it's pleasant glow.
One day, I guess I threw it out as it had lost it's glow. Our neighboor Ms. Becht remembered this and I had asked her about it many times. She remembered what it was and told me that she will look for it.
Then one day, when I came to her house for her garage sale, she found one and gave it to me. It was a very nice thing for her to do. I continued to hang onto it and enjoyed it's pleasant glow. Sadly, the cross had lost it's glow again, and I may have thrown it out again. I know that I sometimes get nostalgic for something long ago, and go crazy in finding it, and when I get it, I throw it out because something's wrong with it. But sometimes I regret what I had done and go crazy searching the internet for it. This time I lucked out and found a similar image of what it was, but it featured a picture of a little girl holding a sheep. The bottom of the picture reads "Bedtime Prayer Reminder" And on the bottom is a larger red heard with the same glowing cross in it. On the very bottom it says "Jesus Cares" It's very similar to what I had and it may lead to another comeback of a lost item.
The company that made it was The Borrowed Timers and it was printed and distributed by Warner Press in 1943. I had attempted to contact the company for info and hope that they have a few leftover, even if it's been out of print. But you never know.
I remember seeing this hanging on the wall in my bedroom, as I enjoyed it's pleasant glow.
One day, I guess I threw it out as it had lost it's glow. Our neighboor Ms. Becht remembered this and I had asked her about it many times. She remembered what it was and told me that she will look for it.
Then one day, when I came to her house for her garage sale, she found one and gave it to me. It was a very nice thing for her to do. I continued to hang onto it and enjoyed it's pleasant glow. Sadly, the cross had lost it's glow again, and I may have thrown it out again. I know that I sometimes get nostalgic for something long ago, and go crazy in finding it, and when I get it, I throw it out because something's wrong with it. But sometimes I regret what I had done and go crazy searching the internet for it. This time I lucked out and found a similar image of what it was, but it featured a picture of a little girl holding a sheep. The bottom of the picture reads "Bedtime Prayer Reminder" And on the bottom is a larger red heard with the same glowing cross in it. On the very bottom it says "Jesus Cares" It's very similar to what I had and it may lead to another comeback of a lost item.
The company that made it was The Borrowed Timers and it was printed and distributed by Warner Press in 1943. I had attempted to contact the company for info and hope that they have a few leftover, even if it's been out of print. But you never know.
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