Posts tagged with ‘1960s’

IHC After Dark short films: “The Alphabet” by David Lynch (1968)

An early, bizarre and absurdist short film by David Lynch that explores the world of one woman’s nightmares.

Promo film for GM’s Futurama ride at the 1964 World’s Fair

General Motors promotional film follows a young boy as he rides the Futurama 2 ride at the 1964- 65 New York World’s Fair.

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In 1967, Walter Cronkite shows the home office of the 21st century

It’s a decent setup, but it would be impossible to predict in the 1960s that everyone would have all of that in a device in their pocket, and they’ll use it to look at videos of cats falling off furniture.

Why it would have been impossible to fake the moon landing in 1969

With incredibly high quality special effects now at the fingertips at almost anyone with a laptop, it’s easy to imagine that it’s always been as easy to fake something like a moon landing. But this incredible argument is the end all be all of the Apollo hoax. Why? Because in 1969, we absolutely had the technology to put people on the moon, but we DID NOT have the film and video technology to fake a realistic moon landing hoax.

IHC After Dark: Rare Pink Floyd performance with Syd Barrett from 1967

This is a video of Pink Floyd performing one of the very 1st songs that rocketed them into fame. No David Gilmore in this video. It is a performance in the late 1960’s, when Syd Barrett was still the defining force of the psychedelic sounds of Pink Floyd.

IHC After Dark: “Meat Love” by Jan Svankmajer

Just a little bit of 1960s Czech film surrealism. About meat.

Musician Ravi Shankar died yesterday at the age of 92

Here he is at Monterey Pop in 1967. 

Morning music: Otis Redding “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long”

Otis Redding, anybody?

The Flintstone’s Fred and Barney selling Busch beer from 1967

Fred and Barney were not only big fans of Winston cigarettes, they were also big on Busch beer. 

Salvador Dali’s bikini line from 1965

I’m pretty sure Dali should have designed all kinds of clothing, all humans should have adopted it, from now until the end of time.

In 1962, this is what some thought space-age hairdos of the future would look like

Atomic shampoo and space hair OF THE FUTURE

The Snogometer, a device invented by a British teen in the 1960s to test the voltage of two people kissing

The Snogometer was a kiss measuring device created by British tinkerer Malcolm Pickard in 1965 (he was 16 years old at the time). The device was a bit of a sensation in the UK when it debuted and was the subject of this British Pathé newsreel clip. In a 2010 interview with the BBC, Pickard says he created the device to combine his interest in electronics with his interest in kissing girls. He also noted that the device was probably dangerous and left a coppery taste in the mouths of its test subjects.

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