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Commercial for that classic 1970s boardgame that no one remembers.

He’s gonna make her switch.

An “NBC Saturday Morning” promo from early 1989, featuring the likes of Alvin and the Chipmunks, It’s Punky Brewster!, Alf Tales, Fat Albert, The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley, The Smurfs, and The Gummi Bears.

Here is a classic song from the 1980s from the Buggles called “Video Killed the Radio Star” when video was just coming in. It’s just like today when internet is slowly taking over TV!

A commercial from 1961 for a remote control TV.

Two guys paly tennis and argue over who has the better teeth.

Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celetano was made in 1972 and is considered by many to be the first instance of a rap/hip hop song

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I loved drinking ice wateer after eating one of these, totally cool!! Great commercial from the 80’s. Very retro, I remember most of them, What do you think?

Eddie Money – Take Me Home Tonight – vintage retro video

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Alice in Wonderland (1903) – vintage retro video

The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll’s tale has recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight years after the birth of cinema, the adaptation was directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, and was based on Sir John Tenniel’s original illustrations. In an act that was to echo more than 100 years later, Hepworth cast his wife as the Red Queen, and he himself appears as the Frog Footman. Even the Cheshire cat is played by a family pet.

With a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive), Alice in Wonderland was the longest film produced in England at that time. Film archivists have been able to restore the film’s original colours for the first time in over 100 years.

To find out more about the film, visit http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/974410/