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List Price: $29.95Amazon.com's Price: $19.99 You Save: $9.96 (33%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780976523901
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0976523906
Label: Other Cinema
Manufacturer: Other Cinema
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Other Cinema
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 28, 2005
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 17077
Studio: Other Cinema
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Editorial Review:
Description:
From the classic iconography of the Marlboro Man to the absurd pitches for Jack LaLanne's "Glamour Stretchers", this outrageously retro review of funky, clunky clips offers more than campy fun. In fact, it allows us precious insight into a lost, impossibly innocent world of fondly remembered looks, styles, and attitudes, from way back in the good ol' 20th Century.
Amazon.com:
Far more entertaining than it conceivably should be, The 70s Dimension is a compilation of 1970s TV commercials and public service announcements scavenged from the dumpster behind a Portland TV station. Half the disc is devoted to these hilarious artifacts of media history. The other half has experimental filmmakers Matt McCormick, Thad Povey, and others twisting these raw materials into whimsical and psychedelic found-film shorts. While entertaining in their own right, these "remixed" films don't match the absurd beauty of the original material. The commercials themselves are a riot. One ad for Tab cola, clearly designed to exploit women's insecurities, claims that a woman who drinks tab will be able to keep in shape and be a "mind sticker" in her man's mind. In apparent reaction to consumer alarm over what goes into a hot dog, Oscar Mayer released a couple public service announcements praising the safety precautions that go into making a healthy weiner; in case you still harbored doubts, rest assured that men in lab coats and hard hats with incredibly serious expressions watched an assembly line. The budget for a commercial for the US Marine Corp apparently didn't provide for any footage of actual combat, but plenty for a muscle car and a woman in a bikini. If you were tempted to "shoot dope" in the '70s, a public service announcement by a member of the band Chicago surely would have rescued you from addiction. Those who watched TV in the '70s will wonder how they had ever been brainwashed into thinking these kinds of commercials represented anything in the neighborhood of reality. Viewers who came of age after the me-decade will find ample opportunity to ridicule the fashions, products, and media of generations that preceded them. --Ryan Boudinot
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Not all the commercials are from the 1970's (Crisco ad looks like it was from the early 60's), but it's a fun watch for (with the exception of 1 or 2 commercials, i.e. the VD commercial) the whole family. It's amazing what psychology was used to sell products in the pre-cynical age from which these ads were culled. I bought this as a gift for somebody else, but after having viewed it, I may have to buy it for myself. The 3 short films, especially "Thine Inward-Looking Eyes", are genius, weirdly ... Read More
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Filmmakers Matt McCormick and Morgan Currie should have returned to the dumpster behind that Portland, Oregon television station where they found this collection to see if the station dumped more material from LATER in the 70's as well. A better titling here would have been The Early 70s Dimension.
This collection, fascinating as it is, appears to date mostly from about 1973. The 70's really weren't the 70's until at LEAST 1976 or so. From then on, the Me Decade was in full swing, and ... Read More
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The "70s Remix" part of this DVD gets my vote for 'Best' Picture of the year. "Thine Inward Looking Eyes" invokes suspense, humor, pathos and satisfaction without a hint of dialogue. The cleverly-edited short subjects, such as "Mark Roth" and "Toastem Pop-Ups" display more creative versatility than "Walk the Line," "Brokeback Mountain" and "Crash" put together. For those of us who appreciate film as art, "The 70s Dimension" delivers, in a spectrum of browns, ochres and avocado greens, a delightful ... Read More
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First of all, this is an excellent quality DVD, considering these commercials were scavenged from a dumpster at Portland's ABC affiliate. But over 90% of these appear to be from 1971-1973. The ABC fall announcement of Starsky and Hutch and Charlie's Angel's advertising the Schick Speed Styler appear to be from about 1976, and several others such as Crisco shortening, the Color Crossfire Antena, and Jacobsen Lawn Mower appear to be from the mid-1960's. Nice selection for sure, but too Nixon era, before ... Read More
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Finally somebody is not only wise enough, but has the resources (meaning the actual footage) to release this cannon of 70's commercials and PSA's. This is by no means the authoratative history of television commercials in the 1970's, but it is a really good start. It's really great how the producers of this disc separated the commercials into general categories (appliances, furniture, health & beauty, etc.) to select from on the DVD menu. There are many random and insignificant commercials and PSA's ... Read More
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