. It is the NBC peacock logo of the late 1950s and into the early 1960s.
There was also an NBC peacock used in 1962 and after which was different. The NBC Peacock logo and animation were designed in 1956 by John J. Graham and produced through Elektra Films in New York. The original animation http://youtu.be/kPP4qfcEYUk first premiered on the show Your Hit Parade in 1957 and was used for the next five years. In 1962, the animation was changed to a more colorful version http://youtu.be/VE_oHJt_V5M .
Mr. Roselizard also did a version of how it would be seen on a black & white television, like the Zenith set Al and Marge Coyote have.
Fuel was cheap then. And the same size car of the same power in those days did get better fuel mileage than a similar car of the 1970s.
My did had a 1961 Desoto he had bought used. That was basically the same car as a Chrysler, and it had a 300 horse power motor. That car got 19 mpg. I heard of folks who had full size cars that were made in the 1970s with 250 and 300 horse power motors that only got 10 or 12 mpg because of the smog controls.
I had a 1977 full size Dodge pick up which was a heavy duty half ton. It was exempt from 1977 smog controls because of the heavy duty rating (even said so on the engine decal). It had a 360 with a very large 2 bbl carburetor, 727 heavy duty automatic, Dana 60 rear end, and it was a long bed. That truck would take off so quick, the speedometer needle would literally leap off of zero when you punched the gas, and it would get 21 mpg on the highway. Over recent years, most full size pick ups that aren't nearly as powerful as my Dodge was get about 10 mpg.
Back in 1960, smog controls on cars weren't even heard of except for in countries like Sweden.
Fuel was cheap then. And the same size car of the same power in those days did get better fuel milea
About posting images of car models from commercially made kits, IB moderators have already gotten on me on more than occasion about that in the past. I already have a few strikes against me for posting HO scale miniature cars on this site. Inkbunny considers it a copyright issue involving the model manufacturer. They do allow images of real cars though, provided you took the pictures of them yourself and didn't pull it off the internet.
I would still appreciate any photos you post of such models. It's just that with the record of strikes I myself already have for doing that, I would not feel safe posting any more photos of car models in my gallery.
Cool truck. Mine was not a 4x4 though. About posting images of car models from commercially made ki
True. I think the weight to power ratio changed, but that may not be the size thing you mean. Yeah I saw that film "The Nice Guys" (great film and the last I saw at a classic cinema before it closed and turned into apartments) and that was part of the plot the air pollution thing. At that time the science behind it all was being better understood.
True. I think the weight to power ratio changed, but that may not be the size thing you mean. Yeah I
One of my early memories growing up was NBC's unfolding peacock logo, with the statement that the following program was coming to me in living color - especially when it was time to watch Disney's Wonderful World of Color.
Unfortunately, I never got to see any of that in color, until we got our first color TV in the summer of 1969. I was eight years old by then. Luckily, NBC continued to use various versions of the colorful unfolding peacock well into the '70s, and it was so beautiful the first time I saw one in color. It was also good that Disney continued to air almost every week, as those shows always had the most vivid colors.
Gee, this was also back when there were only 8 to 9 minutes of ads per hour, and most of those had catchy cute jingles that weren't annoying. Now most TV programs have 17 to 19 minutes of ads per hour, with most being horrible pharmaceutical and lawyer ads.
One of my early memories growing up was NBC's unfolding peacock logo, with the statement that the fo
Back then, instead of playing ads all night, almost every channel actually went off the air somewhere between 11:30 and 1:30 each night, and come back on usually between 6:00 and 7:00 in the morning. They'd start and end the day with their station ID, frequency, and other info, then play the national anthem. Since I live so close to the Canadian border, my local channels followed the US anthem with the Canadian one. The few Canadian channels I could receive, likewise, did the same - playing the US anthem after their own.
Now we have entire nights of infomercial scams all in a row - that almost no one wants to see. It would be less annoying if they set up a clock, thermometer, barometer and anemometer, then aimed a camera at them all night! Or, just switch to their outdoor security cameras. We'd probably see an empty parking lot all night - but it would surely be better than infomercials! That's actually what our local cable access station used to do. When I turned to that channel in the middle of the night, I'd see the parking lot, cars going by, occasional people walking by, and one time, a truck slamming into a pole - live and unedited!
Back then, instead of playing ads all night, almost every channel actually went off the air somewher
I remember watching Disney's Wonderful World of Color (and The Wonderful World of Disney) back in the '70s. The program always started with scenes from several Disney movies intertwined with footage of various rides at Disneyland in California. Then after 2 or 3 commercials, the feature title would appear on a background of a fancy pattern filmed through a kaleidoscope. Then we'd see Cinderella's castle with fireworks going off and Tinkerbell flying and firing a "magic shot" with her wand. And sometimes we'd see Walt Disney himself giving a brief description of the feature beforehand.
Of course my earliest memory of the unfolding peacock logo was the comedy show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In...and that show was really colorful, all right, especially the "joke wall" segments. If they have the Decades TV network ( http://www.decades.com ) up where you live, you might gat a chance to see that show. They've even kept the peacock logo in their early shows. They also had a logo featuring the initials interconnected...It was nicknamed "the spider logo". Between '76 and '79, though, NBC replaced the peacock (and the "spider") with a stylized red-and-blue N. Then they brought back the peacock in a more stylized form over the N, and now it's even more stylized and missing the N. I'm just wondering why they couldn't make up their mind.
And as for those infomercials, I never watch them anyway. I never did like those lawyer and pharmaceutical commercials either. And what you said about showing a clock, thermometer, barometer, and anemometer made me think of a special "instructional channel" made just for TV sets in my school district. They'd have one of those mini-cams slowly rotating back and forth showing those little dials and little slideshows of upcoming programs. That would be something nice to show on TV stations again...that or those live security cameras, but have them showing traffic on the freeways.
I remember watching Disney's Wonderful World of Color (and The Wonderful World of Disney) back in th
When I was a kid, NBC alternated between their peacock logos and the older spider logo that usually played their three tones. I never really cared for their red and blue N logo, At least the peacock survives in some form. They also started their Peacock streaming network this year. It uses the colors of the peacock, but without the peacock itself. You can see that on most streaming devices. I have a Roku, and see Peacock that way. It's loaded with many series and movies.
I remember watching Laugh-In in the '70s. I can't get Decades here. I do get plenty of other channels over the air for watching older shows on. I get, MeTV, Antenna TV, H&I, COZI, Grit, Bounce, Laff and Comet, in addition to ABC, NBC, PBS, FOX, CBS, CW, and sometimes Global, CBC, TVO, and CityTV. The Canadian networks aren't reliable here because most of them are 40 to 100 miles away, across a lake from me. I really need to get a good roof antenna installed. There's around 75 channels and sub-channels within around 90 miles of me, but I only get around 25 of those because my antenna is only about 10 feet up on the side of my house. Thankfully, I get four different PBS channels, so lots of nature and science shows, and cartoons. Then there's Comet, which play almost nothing but sci-fi, except during October each year, when it is almost all horror movies instead. It's much better than when I used to have cable, and there was hardly anything worth watching on 250 channels!
Unfortunately, there is one thing I can't often find for free, and that is Disney stuff. I loved all the series and movies they made, especially those from the '60s to around the mid '90s. The wonderful world of Disney used to play what I like, and the Disney channel did as well, up until around 2000. Then it all went over to wanna be a star type shows for mostly teenage girls. They literally pulled almost all their traditional series and movies off their own network. No more Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, or TaleSpin, or Duck Tales, or Mickey Mouse club, or any of their huge vault of classic animated or live action movies. Almost everything on cable went down the toilet like that, which is why I've gone without it for most of the past 20 years. I spent half a month's cable bill on an antenna, and get better quality TV, and no more bills ever again. But I do wish Disney would let some of their older movies circulate so people could actually enjoy them again. Stuff like the old Pete's Dragon, The Boatniks, Charlie the Lonesome Cougar, The Rescuers, The Monkey's Uncle and Herbie the Love Bug. I'd love to watch the original Mickey Mouse Club again, or wake up to Mousercise and TaleSpin! Remember Jungle Cubs, and Goof Troop, or even KidSongs, or the live action fursuited character series, Welcome to Pooh Corner. Good luck ever seeing those again, except on old worn out VHS tapes, if you were lucky enough to tape some of them.
I'm glad NBC is at least sharing loads of their older stuff now, but it looks like they aren't allowed to include their old Disney shows.
When I was a kid, NBC alternated between their peacock logos and the older spider logo that usually
