ONE HOUR of Vintage Commercials from the 70s IN 4K | Part 1
Over an hour of classic commercials captured from broadcast television across the 1970s. These vintage advertisements are a time-capsule back in time and a glance at how life was lived in the 1970s across America.
From McDonalds to Coca-Cola to President Ford, this compilation is a great slice of cultural life from the past! Enjoy with your parents, your grandparents, your kids or by yourself.
Section 1: 00:00
Section 2: 10:43
Section 3: 20:15
Section 4: 30:27
Section 5: 40:26
Section 6: 49:47
#Vintage #1970sCommercials #BestCommercials
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VIEWER NOTE:
These commercials where recording to VHS which have been digitized. These files where upresed to 4K resolution using Video2X, a open-sourced software for improving image quality without the lost of image fidelity. Due to the VHS source with various resolutions, the quality may not be true 4K.
'Classic Commercial Archives' does not own any of these commercials and does not except to be monetized. We are a historical organization committed to capturing and archiving obscure media destined to be lost to annals of time.
I love having this in the background on my tv and pretending I’m in the 70s. It’s so cozy and comforting especially with how muffled and hushed the audio sounds back then.
Me too. Lol it's so comforting.never thought I'd say that about commercials lol
I do too! And i watch johnny carson weeknites on antenna tv.
@@GROOVYJOJO me too. It's all way better than garbage on TV nowadays.
SAME ! LOL
Me to you are so correct
Us Gen Xers are happily reminiscing about these times just like our grandparents did when we were kids. Getting old SUCKS 😊
Amen to that! 🎯👍
I find this comforting. Born in '69.
It's better than the alternative !
My grandparents didn't happily reminisce about the Great Depression.
We're not old Yet!!!😂
If I could relive one decade in my life, it would be the 70s.
Groovy 🕺
Me too! That was the best time of my life❤
Several decades: 60s-80s
I’m jealous you even got to live in that decade. My parents were in their twenties and when they talk about the disco days I just get so jealous lolll
@@buttercup141312 Disco aside, things were pretty stable back then. You could by a house with relative ease. Your outlook on the future was better. Things were more affordable, and jobs were more stable. It was a comfortable time.
I’m 62 years old and I remember all of those commercials thanks for the memories!!!
Ditto
Yea, and they weren’t in 10 minute duration, 20 commercials long either.
boy you just don't know how much this brings back memories of the seventies when I was a kid
I never thought I'd be sitting here watching adds for over an hour😅
It's nice to listen to commercials again that don't blast your ears off your head. The decibal level of many of today's commercials sounds like a heavy metal concert.
Coincidentally, while I was reading this comment the Honda commercial with the marching band came on. Haha. Trying to make a liar of you. But I agree. Today I usually mute the commercials the few times I actually watch modern TV.
This is very, very hard to watch. Life was SO so good in the 1970s in America. Everything was better. People were better. What happened? Dang man. I wish I had a time machine, big time. I would never come back.
I have to agree!!!
Agree completely
I couldn't agree even more I'm in my early 30s and living in hell in today's world, I'd give anything to be in my 30s in the 70s or even 80s.. I'd be thriving alot more..
Reagan happened.
Better in the 70s? Every car was a gas guzzler. Catalytic converters were not required on the cars till the middle of a decade. And air pollution was significantly worse than it is now… Just try to Google that. Water pollution was off the charts. In the second half of the 70s the unemployment rate was around 10% as were mortgage rates. The president in the early part of the 70s was on the verge of being removed because he was a crook and just barely had enough class and a sense of shame to resign… gee was that 1974 or 2019? Public schools all across the nation were still segregated… Which I guess was fine if you were a white kid like me… But not so much if you were a person of color. Yeah, those 1970s were awesome weren’t they?
I'm 59 and I remember all of these commercials especially the food and beverage commercials down here in Oklahoma during the 70's and they really bring back memories of the 70's today especially the food and beverage ones thanks.🇺🇲📺📺🇺🇲
Finally a presentation about the 70's that's not a put down to the decade. I get so sick of the 70's bashing!
When you’re stoned out of your mind and you’re done swimming, lay on a rock with your purse and don’t forget to put a tiny Coke in your purse before laying on the rock after swimming while stoned. Thank you so much for posting these great commercials. That had to have been a serious effort to seamlessly present them in such excellent video and audio quality.
Notice that there aren’t constant prescription drug ads. I know a Swede who came here for the first time and he found it odd that our commercials have so many of them. He said that if you’re interested in medicine shouldn’t you ask your doctor for it? True.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s and I remember a lot of these. The prices were certainly different back then.
Why do i feel so nostalgic for a time I wasn't even alive for?
It is 2023, and it’s so crazy to see old commercials of companies and restaurants still running to this day, or those that ran it’s course however peaking during this era. It’s fascinating, really!
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For sure
Facts
Love these commercials! The 70s were the best times... if only i could go back and stay in that era but it goes against the universe 😢
Worrrd!
Hate to say this, but the demographics in these commercials is startlingly obvious and life looks so serene and peaceful. So sad what has happened to disrupt our world. Look at commercials today versus these and you’ll know what I mean. What a difference.
Truth
I have to say I strongly agree and not afraid to say it…… Look at what neighborhoods u feel very safe in, what are the demographics??? Look at where the crime is lowest and crime is highest!!! Look at the demographics of the safest states in the country, what’s the common denominator??
I miss the good old days . These are awesome thank you for the memories!!!!
Fact that the early 1970s was 50 years ago legitimately terrifies me...
Best time of my life
There will never be time like the 70's
I love going to sleep to this, I fell asleep by the tv a lot in the 70's!!
This was my entire childhood. The Ultimate Bubble, Bubblishous!! OMG.
I remember drinking Kool-Aid and staying out late with my friends when I was a kid in the 70's.
That nbc Saturday night at the movies theme song has stuck in my head since childhood. I just didn't know what it was! Reunite on ice! Love it! These commercials are making me miss my parents so much.
44:23 ...wow what an ad.
i wish i was alive during this time. it seems so nice and cozy
My son used to asked me why was everybody smiling on American bandstand or soultrain? Its because everyones happy. Plane and simple people were happier.😊
Trust me, it wasn’t this ideal. There were a lot of problems in the 70’s
A special Thank You to all of those on KZhead for preserving and providing these special moments of our childhood and teens years. I've spent a lifetime of collecting items such as those in these commercials. My house is like a museum of the 60s and 70s. My logic is that the day will come when Dementia or Alzheimer's will strike. Having this memorabilia around will hopefully slow down the loss of memory and to also remind of when life was oh, so much more innocent. I wish the past few generations didn't have to deal with all the insanity going on in this country. We were very fourtunate. Lets find a way to keep the innocence alive for future generations. Love to our special Baby Boomers.
You said it 😊
I get the distinct impression that Lucasfilms really didn't know how big their Star Wars franchise was going to be, based off the very general, no frills adverts on TV
Movie trailers and TV spots weren't an art form in the 1970s like they are now. They just gave some basic information about a film and that was it.
If you weren’t in the 70s you missed it all
The people that weren't in the 70's doesn't missed "all" because the time don't ended in the 70's, the time continues, and they will live more things that when they become old they will remember it like you remember the 70's.
@@Ehecatl-A2083I lived in the 70s. And you are correct. I actually miss the 90s more anyway
@@peartist2I miss the 80s. 90s were bland.
80s were not better than 70s or 90s. Music and fashion sucked in the 80s.
Well I caught it all I'm so glad I was born in 69 👍💯
A four-slice toaster for less than $20?! HOW DO THEY DO IT?!?!
Everything was cheaper back then.
Does anybody remember a commercial with an old lady driving a model T car crashing through a barn from one end then coming out the other chasing someone and haystacks flying everywhere? Its a memory stuck for years😢
Thank you Classic Commercial Archives for allowing me to "time travel".
When fast food restaurants used to cook their food on a grill or fryer. Now the food is flash cooked in quick microwave type ovens. 😝 I remember these commercials thanks for posting.
When there are literally billions more hungry people on the earth to feed we have to evolve a little bit. Cook your own food.
@@carrrie_lynnn~Those flash cooking ovens are just high powered convection ovens with microwave settings and infared technology, just like the ones you can buy for home use, lol 😮.
Cooking Burgers hasn't really changed that much...The mom n' pop independent burger restaurants still use grills, griddles and deep fryers.... 🍔 🍟McDonald's® still use fryers for their fries 🍟....Air Fryer and infra-red technology has been out for a little while now... Fast food places will, at some point, start utilizing this tech more, as consumer expectations increase, and demand for healthier cooking methods are developed...
If you want high-end burger. Go to a steakhouse not a fast food place.
A different timeline. I am proud to been born in the 70s. We are currently in a new dimension.
I was born in 62, and this time was my childhood. It was great and people were still good. Products were still good. Burger King was actually flame broiled and Cokes were still made with real Sugar.
Tell me about it that's why I'm glad I was born in 69 I caught all of the 70s from the beginning to the end!
@@foobarmaximus3506yeah all the food back in the 70s was still organic that's what I miss just everything in the 70s was different oh and a little hint do you remember when they used to say that Coca-Cola had a little bit of cocaine in it that's why people were so addicted to it back then LOL I know my grandmother was highly addictive to Coca-Cola back in the seventies lol
Oh wow thanks for posting these old commercials so cool ❤love the oldies 60s and 70s are people were much easier going and calmer no stress like today and they dressed up to go out lol thanks for the memories❤so relaxing watching the whole video lol. Keep them coming …
I was a teenager in the 70s and I remember most of these commercials.
Aw!! The gorgeous Kim Basinger washing her hair with Beer on Tap shampoo. Wow!!
I was born in '95 but these feel comforting to me
It was a great time !!!
19:51 That looks like Doug Llewelyn from The Peoples Court!
That's him. Thanks I couldn't quite place him
If anyone wants to know WHY America was better back then, just watch these commercials. The products were better, and the people were better. Friendly. More honest. Just better. I miss these days so so much. It was the last of the good times in America.
Before reganomics destroyed the country.
I love seeing ads for old technology. It makes you realize just how far things have come.
Awesome 1970's vintage commercials!!
When jingles were jingles!😊
I had forgotten all about ILGWU’s “Look for the union label” song.
what wonderful memories im 56 and remember all of them groovy
Thank you SO much for this wonderful collection.
I was born in 98 but this makes me feel happy❤
Wait... McDonald's had Banana shakes? 😋 😮 wow they need to seriously bring that back
It must have been for a limited time because I honestly don't remember McDonald's having banana shakes.
I like these 70s commercials I,m an 80s baby
15.02😮 the kosher hotdog commercial was trying to warn us ahead of time. You’ll never see a commercial like that today.
This is worth saving for Dorothy Hamill!😊
So many famous people of that decade. The food commercials brought back memories. I remember drinking Labrusco. The chocolate cow cereal. But the ring around the collar and high karati commercials, I remember were very popular! This was awesome!
It’s fun seeing all the soon to be celebrities that started their career in commercials. So far I see Kim Basinger and Steve Guttenberg lol
Love it! Commercials are so different now. I remember a lot of these. Appreciate you.
Now you dont even know what the heck is being advertised, LOL
@@tisenhow the commercials today has me thinking .. who is the target audience? Sometimes the space is just filled with a still add with digital music of nothing but a loop a random sound .
The California Compact girl stoned for sure😂
And Shirley Jones!
The 70s was classic. Growing into my teens was rough and so we’re a lot of these commercials. Lol. Great memories though.
we put a little blue jean in everything we make! that's right folks it's the gambler, Kenny, Rogers!
When he was so gorgeous and uncarved...😥
The degree of mental disruption that happens when 'today's' youtube commercials pop into this vintage commercial space is huge! The sound, visuals and cadence is bonkers by comparison to the rather playful, whimsical, jaunty vibe of the classics. I am biased for being born in 1970 but still ... thanks for the upload!
Man, we had so fewer products back then!! My favorite commercials ever were the Ktel compilation series.
Back when employees didn't have a nasty attitude at McDonald's.
A glass of milk with 2 teaspoons of Nestle's Quik - 4 tablespoons when my mum wasn't looking - was how I started my day as a kid.
1:01 Peter Thomas for Coke. 46:29 Janet Carroll, who played the mom in the movie "Risky Business." 18:45 Fred Holliday, one of the all-time great commercial actors.
2:33 Kim Basinger. “ Batman” 1989, “L.A. Confidential” and “ 8 Mile.” Body on tap commercial. As a kid I remember that shampoo with beer in it. I wondered back then if you could drink it. Haha
Awesome, I love risky business
@@jessepinkman7349 she’s so gorgeous in that commercial 😍
“Why’s grandma eating off the ironing board?”
You missed the announcer for original peoples court, lol
Love those times
Mary Tyler Moore and Bob New Hart, I loved those shows as a young teen.
SNL did a spoof of the textile/clothing union commercial in 1970s but the workers were growing weed instead of making garments.
Loves baby soft, Mercury Zephyr z7. And Doug Leuwellin then Magnavox with Odyssey!
summer 1977
2:33 Kim Basinger. “ Batman” 1989, “L.A. Confidential” and “ 8 Mile.” Body on tap commercial. As a kid I remember that shampoo with beer in it. I wondered back then if you could drink it. Haha
Back then there were probably a lot of people dumb enough or desperate enough to have tried drinking Body on Tap.
Just subbed to you. Excellent job on this video. I so wanted to be a content creator. Except mine was all about Hot Wheels. But my health issues derailed all my hopes and then Covid-19 shattered them more. I do understand how much work entails this type of video. Great job sir! I'll be watching for you. I grew up in the 70's and 80's so these commercials are perfect for me. So many memories! Thanks again!
“Is cancer such big business, that we can’t afford to cure it? 39:16
Absolutely!
Yes
Haven't you watched the pink lie. Not real name but a documentary claiming they've had a cure for a long time but it makes them so much money all the way down to a tiny pink ribbon keychain.
The 70s. Very interesting.
I'm 58 I remember a lot of these
Aldo Cella! Oh my! I haven't seen that in soooo long! I love these although i don't remember them all. Commercials used to try to entertain you while selling you something, and that often worked well. I'm not sure what they're trying to do with commercials now except drive you crazy. Those 5 minute pharmaceutical commercials! Ugh! Thanks very much for posting this.
I still enjoy the McDonald's fish sandwich it's the only item on the menu I eat 😊.
The McDonald's fish sandwich and the french fries were a great combination.
5:34 Steve Gutenberg for Honda
You wouldnt be able to call Campbell soup the manhandler in this day and age they would be protesting outside the company's headquarters. Our world has gone stupid!
One of the best differences from then is there were no pharmaceutical company ads! The world was much better then, or at least it seemed to be.
With 5 minutes of horrible side affects 😮 I don’t even usually have the TV on anymore. I can’t stand the commercials. They are awful!
4295$ for brand new car? Sign me up!
Back when commercials were actually an art, and as a Gen X'er it hits home with me (especially those in the late 70s and into the 80s). Now commercials today are garbage like "reality" TV. Fun fact. The Bubblicious commercial was created at Lisberger Studios. Who were they? This was the studio that Steven Lisberger put together. So who was Steven? He was the director/creator of Disney's Tron and was a Producer as well as a character in Tron Legacy. Early on Steven and his team at Lisberger Studios did many of the animated commercials and worked on of Sesame Street's animation. He's also known for Animal-lympics that was played during the Winter Olympics in the 80s.
No prescription drug ads with the hundreds of side effects!
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No scantily clad, legs spread, orgasm emulating burger eating model commercials, everything advertised, marketed and produced IN American factories. Just wholesome portrayals of things for which the only thing people complained about was how loud they came blaring on during a movie or show😂
23:25 Ah...the good old days when men were men 😆
When there was only gay stright bi=sexal. And man and women. Not this weird crap ( I adenfy as a toaster and crazy sh#t.
If I could turn back time 😢
People were just so much better back then, watching these and then looking at our society today is really sad
I like the sound of tape hist 😊
I miss all the cheesy singing and sometimes dancing, in those old commercials. They have must had one hell of a budget, to do all that. When was the last you heard a singing jingle, that wasn't a well know sampled recording?
Watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show on Hulu and I've been muting the ads and watching this video instead. Works so well.
Aldo is the man.
This is marvelous! What software was used to upscale to 4k?
Haha Pepto bismaol lady reminded me of Edith bunker advertising ant acid
I love this
0:32- The late Bill Saluga, as "Raymond J. Johnson".
I was born in 2000, but wow. So much less insulting on consumer intelligence and so much less obnoxious with no annoying gimicks
Sally has her rainbow colors in the right order
ROY G BIV ! 👍
Steve Guttenberg @5:30 did this commercial before he was a Toronto police officer.
Yes indeed life was better and people too I agree it's sad how this world has changed 😢
22:50 My gosh. that girl in the milk commercial was so pretty!
Agreed
You people who grew up in the Boston area like I did in the '60s and '70s will remember that man fly fishing in the stream in the "I Love New York" ad at 5:03 - that's Rex Trailer, the host of the long-running Boston area kids show Boomtown. The woman at 20:54 in the Love's Baby Soft commercial is Julia Montgomery from Revenge of the Nerds. At 27:07 and 27:21 respectively in that One-a-Day vitamins commercial, that's Dee Wallace Stone (Elliott's mom in E.T.) and Barrie Youngfellow (It's a Living). And at 33:26 in the Right Guard ad, it's Kene Holliday from Carter Country and Matlock. In the Sammy Davis Jr. Alka-Seltzer spot at 34:28, the guy who answers the door is Dan Resin, who was Dr. Beeper in Caddyshack. At 52:19 in the Purina Cat Chow ad, the voice of the "97 ounce weakling" is Marvin Kaplan, who was the voice of Choo Choo on Top Cat, and was also Henry the plumber on Alice. I love how Jim Fixx is the spokesman in that ad for American Express, and in the commercial they show him running. For those too young to remember him, he was the famous marathon runner who died of a massive heart attack while he was out...running. SNL parodied that Mercury Monarch commercial, only instead of a diamond cutter they had a rabbi performing a bris (ouch!).
Reggie Bar best candy bar ever!
Awesome 💯 ❤️ 👌
I never would have believed someone would just sit around and just record commercials!