Tuesday 29 December 2020

Surreally-earnest instructional videos from the 40s, 50s, 60s

What retro-fresh hell is this? Old TV Time is a YouTube channel dedicated to cultural and industrial instruction videos from the 1940s and 50s (and also some from the 60s and 70s).

From advice on dating (directed at boys), properly behaving at a restaurant (directed at girls), and how to suppress "strong feelings" so that you don't end up in "wrong behavior" and "miss your chance at love" (also direct at girls) to setting up disaster hospitals, the miracles of cotton, and community health. — Read the rest