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Interesting Classic TV Clips on YouTube

KeithE4 said:
Ultimajock said:
...WBAL stole the idea from WITI/6 Milwaukee, where meteorologists Ward Albert and Jeffrey Skilling had been joined by Jack DuBlon's Albert the Alleycat (the puppet host of WITI's morning cartoon show -- http://www.toontracker.com/milwaukee/dublon.htm) since the mid-'60s...
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Shouldn't that be Ward Allen & Tom Skilling? Jeffery was the infamous Enron executive and is Tom's brother. Ward Allen was the guy who was paired up with the puppet for most of the time, from what I remember.
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...yes, it should. That'll teach me to post on an empty stomach ;-) ...Ward Allen was teamed with the puppet for about 13 years, but after Allen (and Skilling) left, Albert the Alleycat was shifted over to the sports beat and contributed a quiz item to Earl Gillespie's sports report for a couple of years...
 
WMAQ, Chicago, 1967, the beginning of blizzard coverage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IghLZJcFIZM

CNN's 10 AM news, 1981:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbCV0j3Z65o

CNN's Newsnight from 1983, reporting on Korean Air Lines Flight 007, which was shot down by the Soviet Union:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D94M8ZomcB4

TVQ-O, Brisbane, Australia (yes there was a channel 0 VHF allocation in Australia at the time; the station later moved to channel 10), Eyewitness News, 1987 open:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNzbTC_yJAk

From 1991, here's British regional TV station TVS (then the owner of MTM Enterprises in the US) reporting that it has just lost its license to broadcast (as a result of the 1991 ITV franchise round and in part because of the financial burden of the MTM acquisition):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYBHzww6qZI

TVNZ, New Zealand, 1987 sign-off (at midnight!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIJp_v8yk58
 
ABC's coverage of the 1984 election, with Peter Jennings and David Brinkley:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh95GHiYD4o
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Lcft0vLUw
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev_9YcM-HNI
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHHkKaeWUHM

CBS's coverage of the 1984 election at the moment Reagan was declared president:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e4t1qKGFao

CBS's coverage of the 1980 election with Walter Cronkite:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNqMu6JoozQ
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7LWS7CMvXg
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3OMrIRMZWM

The first minutes of the BBC's coverage of the 1997 election, which brought Labour and Tony Blair into power:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSZOvJQaeCA
 
As much as I enjoy seeing old classic TV clips on You Tube is it realy wise to make public the link to the clip so everyone can see it ? I would think a private email or instant message would be better. This way one can count on actually seeing the clip next week or next month and those who uploaded the clip dont have to worry about some third party reporting to You Tube, Viacom, WLS-TV or whoever because of jealousy and presto...clip is removed !!

It does get a bit boring seeing these links then when you click on the link rather than Classic TV one sees a message from You Tube saying the clip was removed for "copyright violation". A good friend of mine had over 500 classic commercials on You Tube. She posted a link to her collection on one of those public retail sites. Some joker saw the link and called up Sears and Sears not only had their clip removed but they also got ads for JC Penney, Wal-Mart, Target, even Robert Hall Clothes ( who went out of business in 1976 BTW ), well they got them removed too.

On the old tvnewstalk.net they featured a section of nothing but links to classic TV clips such as old news openings. Within 8 months every single one of those clips was removed by You Tube. So much classic TV..lost !!


Guess some never learn...same site afer being redone..they are still doing it.
 
TVWorldwide said:
NBC's Plymouth News Caravan with John Cameron Swayze (includes a report by David Brinkley and sponsored "news" reports), 1950:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5680481900192555220
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Was watching that the other evening....Wasn't there also a "Camel News Caravan" back then?

Also some kinescope clips of the old "Hullabaloo" series that ran in 1965-66.

NBC News was surely primative back then ...pre-Huntley Brinkley in glorious black and white kinescope and the "creepy chimes" (kinephoto disclaimer) at the end.

Thank you Ira Gallen at TV Days.com!
 
bk77 said:
As much as I enjoy seeing old classic TV clips on You Tube is it realy wise to make public the link to the clip so everyone can see it ? I would think a private email or instant message would be better. This way one can count on actually seeing the clip next week or next month and those who uploaded the clip dont have to worry about some third party reporting to You Tube, Viacom, WLS-TV or whoever because of jealousy and presto...clip is removed !!
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Here's how I see it: All of the clips I posted in this thread are already public. They do not need to be mentioned in some forum in order to receive hundreds or even thousands of views. I would argue that considerably more people find these clips randomly by following the "related videos" links on YouTube or looking up individual stations directly, than they do by visiting threads like this one.

Yes, clips that are mentioned in public forums do get deleted, but that's also the case with clips that are not posted anywhere. I simply don't see any evidence to support your argument that such posts cause deletions.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, if a clip is put on YouTube but no-one sees it becuase it's kept a virtual secret out of fear that it could get deleted, then what good does it do? What's the point of having clips on YouTube if they are not shared with other people?
 
TVWorldwide said:
bk77 said:
As much as I enjoy seeing old classic TV clips on You Tube is it realy wise to make public the link to the clip so everyone can see it ? I would think a private email or instant message would be better. This way one can count on actually seeing the clip next week or next month and those who uploaded the clip dont have to worry about some third party reporting to You Tube, Viacom, WLS-TV or whoever because of jealousy and presto...clip is removed !!
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Here's how I see it: All of the clips I posted in this thread are already public. They do not need to be mentioned in some forum in order to receive hundreds or even thousands of views. I would argue that considerably more people find these clips randomly by following the "related videos" links on YouTube or looking up individual stations directly, than they do by visiting threads like this one.

Yes, clips that are mentioned in public forums do get deleted, but that's also the case with clips that are not posted anywhere. I simply don't see any evidence to support your argument that such posts cause deletions.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, if a clip is put on YouTube but no-one sees it becuase it's kept a virtual secret out of fear that it could get deleted, then what good does it do? What's the point of having clips on YouTube if they are not shared with other people?
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I get what you are saying but I still think its a shame at how so much classic television that appeared on You Tube and due to one reason or another got yanked off the site.

But its not just You Tube..Archive.org recently pulled a bunch of old television commercials ( mainly those for cigarettes )
for example. So much for the "..why its free advertising why would they object? !!" opinion.

Then there was something I heard on the radio a few weeks about about how a bunch of TV stations in some market ( I would like to say Cleveland or maybe Denver ) were very jealous that some guy who they didn't know had so much classic video of their stations ( video even they didn't have ). Rather than working with the guy in question and perhaps exchanging the classic TV, some of those stations got together and went after You Tube to have this guy's account shut down which they did.

One thing about You Tube I have noticed lately. Many of these people who uploaded many of these clips are now adding this statement or something similar to their profiles "...if you hold the copyright to this clip please contact me through email rather that You Tube and I will take it down." At first thought it makes sense but then it becomes laughable. Do these people really expect to get a private email say from Viacom or FOX asking them to take down the clip? I could be wrong but I don't think the big guys like CBS or Disney for example, their lawyers will allow them to contact those who uploaded their clips directly. They can only contact You Tube.

Maybe its just me but all of this sounds like the early days of the VCR when so many people for so many different reasons were scared of them.
 
kirkiefan said:
TVWorldwide said:
NBC's Plymouth News Caravan with John Cameron Swayze (includes a report by David Brinkley and sponsored "news" reports), 1950:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5680481900192555220
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Was watching that the other evening....Wasn't there also a "Camel News Caravan" back then?



NBC News was surely primative back then ...pre-Huntley Brinkley in glorious black and white kinescope and the "creepy chimes" (kinephoto disclaimer) at the end.

Thank you Ira Gallen at TV Days.com!
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Camel and Plymouth alternated sponsorship from around 1954 to 1956,
when Huntley and Brinkley replaced Swayze. Camel sponsored on Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday; Plymouth on Tuesday and Thursday.
 
Walter Cronkite, CBS News, anchoring coverage of the California primary, 1968:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3qQUM124Uw

CBS News coverage of Martin Luther King's assassination, 1968:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ6DPFXfpVI
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBMfyraHP0k
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kY4XjYZXyQ

Anyone remember the Independent Network News, produced by WPIX in New York? Here's the open from 1980:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVKwhRHdjP4

From CBC in Canada, here's The National from 30 years ago (1978):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOZUKj51pOw

Here's the news from SABC in Apartheid-era South Africa (1985) (NBC News used the same title graphics in the early '80s):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8t1lFaGn4s

From the same year, here's what a typical week's viewing in South Africa looked like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BUxO41QX7E

And here's South African news from 1988, still in the Apartheid era (the promo is in Afrikaans, the news is in English):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE88pgMP5wI
 
CNN International is CNN's news service for viewers outside North America. After sharing facilities with CNN's domestic service for several years, CNN International moved into a new facility in 1994. Here's the first newscast from the new facility (includes a brief behind-the-scenes tour):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ1hKhrswcE

Also from 1994, here's a promo featuring CNN International's new studios (Joie Chen is now a CBS News reporter):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohog94cuVLI

Moving to the other side of the globe, here's TVNZ in New Zealand from 1987 (commercial, promo, ID, news):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYMWtdKHMx4

Earlier in this thread we've seen what happened when British regional station TVS lost its franchise (license to broadcast); TSW was another ITV station that experienced the same fate. Here's TSW's news from that same day in 1991:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epm56iyVSH0
 
CBS Morning News with Phyllis George and Bill Kurtis (1985):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcMoSvTxESs

Here's a bit of CBS's coverage of the 1956 Democratic National Convention w/ a vintage Westinghouse commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYGJVhalPT8

CBS Nightwatch -- the 1982 version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zdx-gfprJk

CBS Nightwatch -- the 1984 version (w/ Charlie Rose):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTJIPlsR0-Q

From 1953, here's a news promo for WTVJ in Miami:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jkWD65sG64

From 1977, here's Bob Schieffer anchoring an edition of the CBS Evening News that went very wrong:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llhPSwG4xmY

A clip of NBC News' widely-acclaimed Overnight from 1982:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJtku6ABZRk

Various clips of CBS News from the late 1970s / early 1980s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Trl_Colec
 
In a dramatic bit of television, Walter Cronkite learns live on the air that former President Johnson has died:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcA9yJBWnnE

From 1986, here's the launch of expanded local and regional news on France's FR3 (now France 3):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSiRm8Em59g
The clip includes a quick look at the Eiffel Tower ENG facilities (beginning at 1:15). You can find a lot more by reading Scott Fybush's excellent overview of the these transmission facilities:
http://www.fybush.com/site-020717.html
 
TVWorldwide said:
Walter Cronkite, CBS News, anchoring coverage of the California primary, 1968:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3qQUM124Uw

CBS News coverage of Martin Luther King's assassination, 1968:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ6DPFXfpVI
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBMfyraHP0k
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kY4XjYZXyQ

Anyone remember the Independent Network News, produced by WPIX in New York? Here's the open from 1980:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVKwhRHdjP4

From CBC in Canada, here's The National from 30 years ago (1978):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOZUKj51pOw

Here's the news from SABC in Apartheid-era South Africa (1985) (NBC News used the same title graphics in the early '80s):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8t1lFaGn4s

From the same year, here's what a typical week's viewing in South Africa looked like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BUxO41QX7E

And here's South African news from 1988, still in the Apartheid era (the promo is in Afrikaans, the news is in English):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE88pgMP5wI
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The first two SABC clips have been removed, I wonder if it was copyright or poltical?
 
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