1961- NBC SPECIAL NEWS REPORT Show Open with GULF COMMERCIALS

[@GinadeRin]

I love this stuff. I wish we can go back to that period of time.

[@Juliaflo]

I had the honor of meeting Edwin Newman many years ago.

[@fromthesidelines]

In the early '60s, yes, Gulf was the sole sponsor, 'jg'. NBC used to sprinkle those 5 minute newscasts throughout their daytime schedule, usually around 10:25am(et) [Edwin Newman, from New York], 12:55pm [Floyd Kalber from Chicago], and 4:25pm [Nancy Dickerson, from Washington, always had that spot, right after "THE MATCH GAME"].

[@RudeCustoms]

For those who call this film, "Propaganda," you wouldn't be able to criticize it without the use of oil. It was oil that assisted in making the computer you work on. It was oil that heated your home so that you're warm to type on that computer (while you're still in your jammies) and it is oil that is powering the companies that run the servers that keep the "Internets" (George Dubya joke quote) running so that you can criticize this "Propaganda" as you call it. But please, respect it.

[@Soulthinker2007]

This is one of my fave intros from the Gulf Oil Company. The last time I had seen the Gulf intro was in 1974.

[@fromthesidelines]

Gulf OIl regularly sponsored "NBC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT"s throughout the '60s, including the Gemini and Apollo space flights (who could forget Chet Huntley, David Brinkley and Frank McGee sitting in front of the desk with the Gulf logo prominently featured in the center?)

[@Soulthinker2007]

I was mistaken. It was a different tune in the Gulf intro I had listened to in the mid 60's.

[@wmbrown6]

@fromthesidelines - I also seem to recall that, until the early '60's, Huntley and Brinkley could not participate in some of the special reports (including space shots) because their "Huntley-Brinkley Report" was sponsored by Texaco until then.

[@JackF99]

Wow infomercials even way back then.

[@joebradio]

I was just mentioned to someone the other day that its seem ironic in light of what's happening on the gulf coast now -- that Gulf Oil used to sponsor a great deal of NBC's special event news coverage (moon shots, political conventions, etc.)

[@brandongaming1049]

60 years later..

[@fromthesidelines]

Texaco sponsored the 15 minute edition of "THE HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT" from 1958 through '63 [several 1962 comnercials, and a custom Texaco opening/closing for the program, can be viewed elsewhere, under "Classic Texaco Commercial", posted by 'Meatpies62']; when it expanded to a half-hour format in the fall of '63, it was sustained by various sponsors {including Gulf?}, and Chet and David began appearing in the "Special Reports" Gulf sustained throughout the '60s...

[@allenjones3130]

I prefer the majestic "Gulf Oil Theme" used in NBC News's special reports later in the 60s.

[@facebook51ify]

NBC news said sponsored by a product long before CBS said sponsored by a product.

[@altfactor]

The music was so pompous. I'm happy NBC changed it a few years later, probably in 1964 when the new Gulf logo was rolled-out. Note that the font of the word "Gulf" on the Gulf tank truck at 2:55 of this clip was the same one that would appear on the new Gulf logo.

[@altfactor]

@jgbennie During the 1960's, NBC carried three five-minute newscasts at 10:25 A.M., 12:55 P.M., and 4:25 P.M. ET/PT.

[@brunobiava4833]

...town closed to Visitors. Creepy, yet Prophetic... You don't need to Close Roads, Eliminate Rail Service or Shudder the Airport... just forget how Important and Interdependent we are to each other and that viral Attitude will spread like a Plague. ... and who wants to Visit a Town Infected with that kind of Plague...or try starting a Business there? It would take more Oil than not just Gulf, but all the Seven Sisters Combined to Grease the Skids enough to move that kind of Mindset one millimeter once it has Infected a Town... and somehow nearly 60 years ago, an Oil Company and a Television Network were already warning us of what might happen if we tried to shut ourselves off from each other. You have to Wonder what Rod Sterling would be thinking if he was still alive. Bruno Biava ⚓

[@musicom67]

Rod would be thinking about his next cigarette :-) Propaganda is quite creepy. But stupid, easily convinced people are even creepier.

[@brunobiava4833]

I Agree... say, you wouldn't happen to have a Light, would ya?

[@toddmiller5884]

Again, think Cumberland, MD and Shelby, NC.

[@tomservo56954]

These are the commercials, not the news report.

[@musicom67]

Correct. "Show Open" with Gulf Commercials...

[@DTD110865]

" How does "running out of oil," cause a Newstand to lose all of its newspapers?" Large printing presses that actually print those newspapers were often run by diesel engines. I suspect they still are.

[@duncantalksalot]

wasn't ink in the 60s a petroleum based product?

[@DTD110865]

Duncan Guarino Ahh, good point.

[@ronniewatkins]

Diesels need oil to run

[@clemsonbloke]

This was supposed to be "Special News" no it's Propaganda big time, not to mention a veiled advertisement to get you to buy their gas.

[@choptanktuxent2]

That town looks straight out of Back to the Future! All that's missing is Doc Brown and his Delorean.

[@steveprestegard5151]

The open looks just like the CBS ID if you replaced the spinning globe with the big eye.

[@henrybass7021]

Steve Prestegard I Think of the Universal logo.

[@michaelchapman8399]

Me 2

[@patmix]

gr8 modern science fiction clip not bad for commercial yeah gr8

[@RudeCustoms]

I know, huh? How does "running out of oil," cause a Newstand to lose all of its newspapers? Maybe all the people freaked out when the Gas Station said they ran out of gas. So, if this happened now, I guess we'd see iPhones & iPad littered on the streets!

[@waswestkan]

The fact the plastic in the keyboard I'm using is oil based doesn't change the fact that this is basic propaganda. Just as overt as the propaganda from BP of late. Those have facts to counter the BP Gulf recovery propaganda can't afford the airtime as BP can.

[@moosmuszynskk]

Who threw all the newspapers all around the ground?

[@jamesslick4790]

COMMUNISTS! 😜

[@irish89055]

Objectivity.. what's that? 😕

[@rightondude]

What? They're not supposed to advertise? It's not like it's political.

[@ozzyscruggs1]

Praise "Bob!" 1:30

[@inkey2]

@Darkboy4085 unions were (are) a double edged sword. Certainly the unions saved the common worker from slavery but the pendulum has now gone so far in the other direction it drove manufacturers out of the USA

[@idesofmarchUNIAEA]

2:40 Not if Iran blocks the straits of hormuz

[@carsearch2001]

Man look at that old ass oil rig equipment, today's rigs are computerized and vastly safer.

[@dadadruma]

@JRF1961 i bet Teddy is turning in his grave knowing what happend to the great powerful human empire he was a major player in. so sickend to think how things were not such a long time ago

[@eddie054]

Let's be competitive and volunteer to work for 40 cents an hour.

[@samuellees5648]

the fantasy you have just seen will come to pass if Mitt Romney becomes President!

[@faklempt1]

(this)...could never happen, huh? Here we are 50 years later wondering when the eastern seabord will be blown to smithereens!

[@toddmiller5884]

This could never happen? Look at towns like Cumberland, MD and Shelby, NC. It has happened! How? Simple. Isolation.

[@citizenterryk]

@jiveonion just a clue for you, son...........YOU HAVE NO CHANCE OF NAILING SARAH PALIN!!!!

[@altfactor]

The opening theme music was very pompous.

[@ApartmentKing66]

As was a lot of production music in those days...ever watch "Victory at Sea?"

[@joninpgh]

The first half is Obama's energy plan. LOL!

[@BeingOStupid]

This will be the United States in 2016 if Obama gets a 2nd Term.

[@EnergeticWaves]

BeingOStupid thank gawd for trump

[@toddmiller5884]

That would have been his third term which he was banned from by the Constitution.

[@MrMKH2010]

This was before the unions became greedy and demanded wages that were so high that companies had to ship jobs overseas just to stay competetive.

[@irish89055]

Show the show dummy...