This 16mm reel transports me right back to the sights, the sounds, and the smells of the Supermarket of 1976. This reel has lost most all of its Cyan layer but It's still watchable. Interesting what people were saying back then about what they were eating, particularly the disdain for processed and junk foods. You know young people today comment that back in the 60's and 70's people were so lean? Yep. People really thought about food very differently back then. I transferred this reel from my archive with my Eiki Telecine. Enjoy!
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I love the intro to this segment – that you, isn't it Fran? YouTubers that use original music tickle me to death.
These glimpses of recent history are always fun and interesting to watch.
Looks like the average person in the 70s had a bit more aptitude on subjects than the average person in the new 20s …. Devolution I suppose
I take it this is a school film…1976 was my last year if junior high. I might have seen this film in school, but I'm not 100% sure.
You mean Spaghetti O's, Count Chocula , Easy Cheese, and Big Red soda aren't food groups?
Handy Easy Cheese tip .. don't put a stopped up can if Easy Cheese into a pan of boiling water to unclog it. I have a cousin you can ask about this.
I also remember learning how to calculate unit pricing when I was in elementary school.
I hope the nutrition wisdom people had in the 1970s makes a resurgence. So many people have malnutrition-induced diseases nowadays and don't even realise it. They go to the docs, get put on symptom-control meds for years, covering up the main causes while new diseases start popping up as a result of improper treatment. Makes me so sad to see people taking things like synthetic thyroid hormones that are so expensive, allowing their thyroid to die slowly due to a lack of iodine, which is much cheaper to supplement in comparison. Just one example of a sick health "care" system.
This was fun, thanks Fran.
I’ve designed Retail Store franchises, including grocery stores, for 30 years. They purposely re-set the stores to increase confusion and impulse buying.
Sale items are moved out of their normal department to end caps or promotional displays, adding to the confusion.
Then there’s lighting, Muzak, pharmacy location, bathroom location, clearance location…
I remember being taught this kind of stuff in school. My guess they don't teach kids this any more ☹️
This was from before they introduced barcodes on products, neat!
This is like a neat little time capsule for me. Since it's my birth year. And I really like these kinds of educational videos from the past. Both entertaining and informative.
I keep expecting the film to melt and launch into a Clash song. 😂
I don't know where you find this stuff, Fran, but it is fun to watch.
1976: the time before high fructose corn syrup was put into almost everything, before video games were in every home, before Nutra-Sweet, before cable TV was everywhere. Yes, folks were mostly thinner back then. This is also pre-Reagan, when the corporations really started to take over the government during his tenure. It is the time when the Powell Memo was taken to heart in corporate boardrooms and Wall Street. Earth Day had been celebrated for a few years by 1976. Also, the gas shortages and energy crunch of the mid-'70's. And, of course, The Bicentennial celebrations.
Interesting, Fran, especially for those studying nutritional science. Notice how much more slim and slender people were in those days. In this movie, it can clearly be seen and heard that it was still the early stages of the fat-phobia craze (1969, McGovern committee) which has resulted in today's malnourished, hungry yet obese persons.
Hi Fran, Sorry if this has been asked before; What happened to your drone video of Philly? Seems to be missing now.
You don’t have to buy what they are selling!
You can use your judgement.
Don’t blame the supermarkets they only stock what people want to buy!
Blame the education system in schools first, they are governed by the government not nutritionists.