ABC News: Top stories from Aug 18th 1970 (state-of-the-art graphics 1970 style)

[hadrons]

Run time: 00:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_8unq_JwZU   Posted on YouTube: January 03, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: January 03, 2009 By DU Member: hadrons Views on DU: 1485

 
This is the only clip I have (though the full broadcast can be purchased from Vanderbilt University in B&W and timecoded for $150.00 ... YIKES!!! But I do believe Vanderbilt University students and faultily get a big discount) ... check out those state-of-the-art graphs (the extract was a little-off, but he says that pot smoking is "epidemic" among soliders in Vietnam)

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that all being done mechanically back then?

Regardless, they did the best they could with what they had at the time, and at least it wasn't in black-and-white! :)

I still - vaguely - remember watching evening TV with my dad in the very early 70s before he became ill. Everything was way primitive compared to now but a lot of it was still fun to watch.

[hadrons]

9. I believe it was mechanical ....

I have a clip of the breaking news of the death of LBJ (I youtubed it) and Cronkite uses a phone (with a cord of all things) to gather the info.

[Dawgs]

2. Thanks, now I feel even older. I was born in October of 1970.

:hi:

[Johnny Noshoes]

4. Hey Dawgs...

You feel old? Try January 1954 on for size :hi:

[dw]

5. Ha! I've got you both beat...

I was on my way home from Vietnam that day.

[jimmil]

7. I was already home from VN and out of the hospital!

Now I feel really old. I'm retired and everything.

[Johnny Noshoes]

11. Ha, well okay then

y'all got me beat - don't feel quite so "old" now :toast: I was a junior in HS in October 1970. My draft desgination was 1H in 72 and I missed VN because my number was high and it was winding down before I might have been called. My older brother's number was 1 - yeah that's right 1. He said it was the only lottery he ever won. He went down to the Navy recruiter next day and spent 20+ years in the Navy - he lucked out and didn't get sent to the war.

[kas125]

10. I'm a month older than you are. and Happy Birthday!

[Johnny Noshoes]

12. Its not 'til the end of the month

but thanks :hi:

[jjrack]

6. It was my first year of college

I always liked Howard K. Smith. He was on ABC back then, which was a distant third behind CBS and NBC. They used to joke that ABC stood for the "Almost Broadcasting Company". "Uncle" Walter Cronkite was on CBS news, with Chet Huntley(a pompous ass)and David Brinkley on NBC news. Since those days the nightly news has gone to shit, fancy digital graphics non withstanding.

[BeatleBoot]

3. It's also fun to watch Classic Football games from the early 70's

Those Nebraska games when they ran the Wishbone.

Those Michigan games when they ran the Option.

And the graphics look really archaic now.

[hadrons]

8. I have a few 1970's NFL games ....

A 1977 Rams/Eagles one with Joe Namath QBing for the Rams was pretty entertaining, but I didn't care much for the others ... I believe the Colts ran the wishbone in the early 1980's - no wonder Elway didn't want to play there - and the Chiefs a few years earlier under Marv Levy

[summer borealis]

13. Ah, 1970 ...

when the Detroit Lions were 10-4.
10-4.
10-4.

[Merlot]

14. I kinda like it. Now the news shows look like Entertainment Tonight

Ok, they are a little "sparce" but really, the news was "serious" back then. Now it's all about quick edits and flashy graphics because gawd forbid someones attentions span is tested,