Space Dance

Raquel Welch dances in a silver bikini to a jazzed up version of Richard Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" — since Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey forever made that piece synonymous with space travel.

The clip is from Raquel!, a 1970 CBS television special.

Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 04, 2022 - Comments (2)
Category: Futurism, Music, Space Travel, 1970s, Dance

Ivory Snow Equal Time for Fetishists

Disregard the false caption claiming this is a Charmin commercial. Only Ivory Snow is responsible. They can add this to their claim to have used Marilyn Chambers as "the Ivory Snow Girl."

Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 30, 2022 - Comments (2)
Category: Hygiene, Advertising, Fetishes, 1970s

How to smoke fewer cigarettes

This reminds me of the old joke about how to drink fewer glasses of wine a day — get a bigger glass.

"It's wacky, but it works!"

image source: Trinkets & Trash
contemporary source: Photoplay - Nov 1976

Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 26, 2022 - Comments (4)
Category: Advertising, Smoking and Tobacco, 1970s

GI Joe Trouble Shooter

The video is a hoot, what with a deranged bird and the famous "Kung Fu Grip." But I am also intrigued by the descriptions of the control panel buttons. Did the set come with labels so you could change the button names? I suspect not. So..."Washington" is a given. Stay in touch with HQ. "Code X7" is suitably mysterious. But "Jungle" and "Arctic" are ultra-generic, whereas "Burma" and "Tibet" are ultra-specific. Why those two countries anyhow? Commie (Cobra) hotspots?

A page devoted to the toy.

Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 24, 2022 - Comments ()
Category: Animals, Military, Motor Vehicles, Toys, 1970s

Unauthorized Dwellings 25

b'Mudflats Living', b'Robert' b'Fresco' & b'Kris' b'Paterson', provided by the National Film Board of Canada

Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 22, 2022 - Comments ()
Category: Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Unauthorized Dwellings, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1970s, North America

Johnny Corncob

The Wikipedia page.

Did YELLOW SUBMARINE have any imitators? Check out this film, embedded below.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 19, 2022 - Comments ()
Category: Cartoons, Psychedelic, 1970s, Europe

Bill Cosby, on the Right Side of the Law

Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 15, 2022 - Comments ()
Category: Hygiene, Police and Other Law Enforcement, Advertising, Children, 1970s, Comedians

The Hypnotic Powers and/or Memory-wiping Drugs of Cool Whip

Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 10, 2022 - Comments ()
Category: Family, Hypnotism, Mesmerism and Mind Control, Money, Propaganda, Thought Control and Brainwashing, Advertising, Junk Food, 1970s

The Pain Performances of Gina Pane

French artist Gina Pane conducted "pain performances" that involved (as wikipedia puts it) "extreme self-inflicted injury." Some info from an article by Pawel Leszkowicz:


Some of her pain performances:

Non-Anaethestized Climb (1971): Barefoot, she climbed up and down a ladder-like structure whose rungs were studded with sharp metallic shards. She did this until she was bleeding profusely.



Food/TV News/Fire (1971): While watching news footage of the Vietnam War, with a bright light shining in her eyes, she ate raw ground beef, and later threw it up.



Sentimental Action (1973): Dressed in white, she entered the gallery with a bouquet of roses, removed the thorns from them, and pierced her arm with the thorns. She then began cutting herself with a razor blade, allowing the blood to drip onto the roses.



Conditioning (1973): She lay on a metal bedframe position over two rows of burning candles. She later confessed that the pain started right away and was difficult to master. The audience could see the pain she was in by the intense wringing of her hands.



More info: art moderne

Posted By: Alex - Wed Sep 07, 2022 - Comments (2)
Category: Performance Art, 1970s, Pain, Self-inflicted and Otherwise

Here Come the Double-Deckers!

Wikipedia page.

Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 03, 2022 - Comments (1)
Category: Television, Unlikely, Improbable and Counterfactual Phenomena, Children, 1970s