Introducing: The wireless remote control

[Bruce Wayne]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BPvBElDZHo&feature=player_embedded[video=youtube;8BPvBElDZHo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BPvBElDZHo&feature=player_embedded[/video]

 

[AtomicEraTom]

My dad had one, it changed channels, brought him supper, and beer. It was called Mom

 

[Lincsong]

Fascinating

 

[Widebrim]

Love the styrofoam star at the beginning, and the way the model carresses the top of the TV set. And, boy, that guy's got an East Coast accent (how many times does he say "cul-luh" for color?). And could those rocker bars set the "natural face tones" for someone like, say, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, or Nat "King" Cole? I suppose, but no need to concern ourselves much with them anyway in 1961...

 

[Tomasso]

Fascinating

I'd say it's more interesting than fascinating.....

 

[scotrace]

I'd say it's more interesting than fascinating.....

Yea. And is that a bong?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Yea. And is that a bong?

I was thinking it was a "I Dream of Jeannie" lamp.

 

[rue]

Fascinating

Her attachment to the side of that TV is a bit unseemly :eeek:

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I wish this TV was in my living room!

 

[Feraud]

Yea. And is that a bong?

Probably more hookah than bong.

 

[rue]

I wish this TV was in my living room!

So do I
I'm surprised you don't have this model Tom.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

They don't give those away for free like the zillion consoles I do own lol

So do I
I'm surprised you don't have this model Tom.

 

[Lincsong]

I'd say it's more interesting than fascinating.....

When this first came out I'd be more fascinated by it than interested.

 

[Lincsong]

Love the styrofoam star at the beginning, and the way the model carresses the top of the TV set. And, boy, that guy's got an East Coast accent (how many times does he say "cul-luh" for color?). And could those rocker bars set the "natural face tones" for someone like, say, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, or Nat "King" Cole? I suppose, but no need to concern ourselves much with them anyway in 1961...

I, myself wonder what those rocker bars would do for Ernest Borgnine and Phyliss Diller????

 

[Stearmen]

Jfk

I would say both fascinating and interesting! I only new one guy in the 60s with a TV remote, a retired Master Sergeant. His would turn the set on and off, and advance through channels, only one catch, you had to go 2 through 13 to watch the three we got at the time! The accent is funny, the commercial looks for all the world to be an Alexander Film Studios production, so it would have been filmed in Colorado Spring, Colorado, not back east. In 61 we had the new president, JFK with a smiler dialect, could be a bit of cashing in on all the optimism of the time, we were going to outer space after all!