The World We Knew: February 1974
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- A mix of commercials, movie trailers, photos, news items, music and
more from 50 years ago this month. This is the first episode of an ongoing monthly series. 
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I've also seen that Arthur C. Clarke clip numerous times and it still amazes me each time how accurate his prediction was. But he wasn't just guessing; he understood computers, how they were advancing and what they were capable of.
He really was an enigma!
Clarke was a genius, he would have thought that everyone in the US had lost their mind today.
The future didn’t quite turn out how we imagined, eh?
That was like he had a crystal ball and could see the future. One of the giants of science fiction too.
Amazing predictions!
Most of them have.
He was my favourite science fiction writer. The City And The Stars, Childhood's End, etc.
Was 23 years old off the coast of Vietnam, looking forward to the end of my military contract and return home.
Thank you for your service.
Thank you!
Thank you for your service sir.
Thank you for your service. I have two sons serving active duty. ❤🇺🇸
Great memories. I was 17 years old and a senior in high school during this time.
I was eleven and enjoying my childhood to the max. Our Bicentennial was two years away and I wish I could go back to 1974 and have it to look forward to all over again.
I was 10 years old and in the 5th grade. Great time to be a kid.
A lovely blast from the past!
The Nixon thing rings a bell.
He was in a lot of cartoons.
Usually doing a peace sign with both hands and saying, "I'm not a crook.
Compared to what we have PRESENTLY, Mr Nixon was a SAINT!
@@Nunofurdambiznez I really don't know a lot about politics. More of an economics interest. I guess that power plays at that level would be very dirty by necessity.
@@Nunofurdambiznez I saw a 72 Mustang recently with a Nixon bumper sticker from the 72 election. "President Nixon, now more than ever".
Arthur Clark hit the nail on the head. Great memories. I think we need to get back to those and be a lot more happier. Thanks for the video.👍
You're welcome, Mark.
No one owned phones back then! You had to rent them from the one phone company!!
2 things...we had a party line" till 1957...& Long distance was expensive,tiny reduction nites,weekend...👍👍
I turned 14... it feels like it was forever ago
Right? I tuned 11.
3:03 - Punchbuggy, red!
9:48 - Punchbuggy, orange!
Thanks Fred. I was almost 14 and finishing up 8th grade in February of '74. I have good memories and bad of that time, but like most of your viewers I'd like another shot at it. As they say, youth is wasted on the young...
"youth is wasted on the young"
I never heard that saying before but I have to say it's a good one! 🤭
Too bad we didn't appreciate those times. Ernest.
Ahhh 1974, senior year and it still seems like only yesterday. “Life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer to the end you get the faster it goes” - unknown
Thanks Fred, please don't stop making these videos!
I can't, LRP. It gives me something to do in retirement. I've already made a half-year's worth of this series!
@@FredFlix Ok good, is your book still for sale? I would like to by a copy for my mother. she is from the south also, Erwin Tenn.
@@LRogersPhoto My memoir, The Occidental Husband, may still be on Amazon. If not, go direct to the publisher, Evening Post Books. Thanks for your interest and I could use the $2 royalty!
Another invigorating nostalgia blast! I was 13 years old and I remember it all. Thanks so much, Fred!
You're welcome, Dave.
That starting at 4:57... and here we are, reaching out to each other. And that's awesome. 💜🤟
"This is the first episode of an ongoing monthly series."
That's good to hear 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴
Thanks, George.
3 years after this my class was helping a mainframe company try and load test their mainframe.
I was also born in Feb, 1974. I'll be 50 on Valentine's day.
Happy Birthday kid 🎂😁
Ahhhhhh... to be 50 again.. well... truthfully, I probably wouldn't change anything, really, except for my diet.. I was diagnosed as a diabetic the following year, and have been fighting it ever since!
Show off. I was 11.
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Don't feel so bad, I was 14. That's why I called him kid. 😁🙄
The year I was born.
Gratefully.
50 on Monday.
happy birthday, kid 😊
Happy Big Five-Oh rookie! Here's to another 50! 🎂 🙏
Happy Birthday! 🎂🎈🎁
I did not knew that the Punisher character was in that early of a Spiderman comic book and l remember a lot of those commercials .
Thanks Fred 👍
You're welcome, Gary.
Even though it said "Feb", that issue actually came out in November 1973. They always dated the comics 3 months ahead on the covers.
I love your videos! I was six years old Feburary 1974 and attending Northside Church of Christ Kindergarden in Benton Arkansas.
I was 14 soon to be 15. Lots of memories. Oh, yeah. _Zardoz._ Sean Connery turned down _Live and Let Die_ to appear in a red diaper and a Pancho Villa mustache.
A great trip back to yesteryear! 😊 "Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger." - Rush
This is the BEST channel on the internet! So great. Love the memories. Thanks FredFlix...You Rock!!!!😀
Nostalgia!❤
These clips are bitter sweet for me. I was 12 years old and enjoying a carefree life of a kid. So many changes since. I miss my mom, dad and sister. Life will never feel the same.
I'm a little older than you, but not much. In 1972 I still had both my parents, both my brothers, and all my grandparents and most all of my aunts and uncles. Of all those people the only one left is one of my brothers. 1974 was a long time ago...
I turned 17 in February 1974 and was a junior in high school. Great times with great friends.
My middle older brother was born in February 1974.
Love these compilation videos from the 1970s. Thanks!!
I had forgotten about that song by Frank Sinatra and I liked it. Memories need jogging sometimes. When I first saw the title of this video, I thought of Stevie Wonder, 'What Happened to the world we knew'. Yester Me, Yester You, Yesterday. And the Pepsi song at the end I remembered so clearly but it was hiding in the farthest recesses of my memory. These videos of yours have a really good 'feel' to them; thank you.
You're welcome, festidious. Glad you're enjoying them.
Einstein was right about time. As we go faster, time slows down.
That all wasn’t 50 years ago; it was 5 minutes ago.
He also said time can be manipulated.
Nice job again, Fred!
2:02 - I've never seen "Blazing Saddles" before, but I did once watch the campfire scene on YT. I laughed so hard I had trouble breathing. I'm not sure when I'll dare to watch it again.
As I mentioned in a post to another video, my biggest memory specifically of Feb. 1974 was McFebruary. I was in 3rd grade then, and my teacher, very tough at the time, saved me from complete slackerhood later on.
But your life won't be complete without a complete viewing of Blazing, Jon!!!
Thanks for the upload ...again, and again :)
You're welcome, Marc.
As always a great video😊
Thanks, l j.
The year I graduated high school. Of course, I remember little of this. In 74, I was in my own world. On second thought, I do remember these events 😂.
I loved the great music they had then and the fact that they had cartoons on Saturday mornings that were worth watching.
My senior year of high school half gone. What a time 1974 was.
I ❤❤❤ this..amazing Fred thank you
You're welcome, friend Brenda. Second installment coming March 1.
An ongoing monthly series? Awesome and thank you!! I watch a video gaming Channel that's about to do february 1994.. and I run a Facebook page posting all local photos from our towns newspaper 1957-1979... so this is fantastic entertainment news for me that you're doing this
Glad to hear it, MLaker.
50 years ago wow. I was 12 😮
You can't get away with a movie like Blazing Saddles these days! 😅
Keep those memories rolling, FredFlix! 😁
Will do, Luis.
WOW I remember a LOT of that stuff!! Maybe not the cartoons so much, but certainly a lot of the other segments! Excellent presentation, as usual, Fred!
Thank you, Nunetc.
Once again you put a smile on my face with this fun look back!!! I feel so blessed to have found your channel Fred, thank you from the bottom of my heart
That's very nice of you to say, Bridget.
My Dad loved the 🌎 News, and anything pertaining to the government especially, so even as a young kid, I remember hearing Watergate and Patty Hearst on what seemed like a constant, never ending basis at the time. The gentleman in the clip discussing the probable progression of the 🖥️, were right on target!
Blazing Saddles! I love the misdirection at the beginning, that of it being a straight western. Frankie Laine thought it WAS a straight western, and sang it as such. It wasn't until later that he found out what it really was :) Love Arthur C. Clarke's prescience about computers and the Internet.
Ahh, 1974, I remember it like it was yesterday, maybe a little better than yesterday lol. The year I started high school 😁 As a proud member of the Pepsi generation, I thank you for this one. 👍👍👍But, Zardoz??!! I thought I knew my B movies, but I don't remember that one at all! Learn something new every day with Fred Flix! 👍👍👍😁
I saw it at the theater, Robert, at age 19 and thought it was awful. Gave it another chance recently and liked it better perhaps because I understood it more.
@@FredFlix
I'll have to Google it.
The animated star trek was great!!
You are the best at this Fred, a fellow Fred also from Charleston (North Charleston and James Island) salutes you! I was 9 years old this year and it was one of my favorite years of my life, I was at the height of my powers!
Almost everything I loved at age 9 I seem to still love, Fred. I don't know if that's good or bad. One of those things I loved was James Island itself...before all the traffic!
Thanks,Fred.
You're welcome, Fred.
How was this half a century ago?! Feels like yesterday, and my how the world has changed!
Love this thank you
You're welcome, Sean.
I remember seeing Blazing Saddle at the drive in. Age 7
Thanks Fred 👍
You're welcome, sonnytoo.
I go away for a few days and I miss a FredFlix production. I was 8 in February 1974, so much adult stuff I don't remember. But I can tell you this......I LOVE ZARDOZ!! I even have an original movie poster from it. For years the film made no sense to me, because it was so heavily edited for TV. Then I got to see it on cable. Barely made any sense even then, but who cares? It's ZARDOZ!! Thanks Fred.
Doug, I didn't like or get Zardoz when I saw it in the theater. Then about 30 years later I watched it and for some reason it appealed to me enough to place it on my 1,000-movie "box," or external hard drive. So that's saying something.
When you're young; you have no idea of what you've really been granted, and by the time you're old, it's too late to take advantage of that knowledge....
Sean Connery got better with age.
Thanks Fred, that was fun.
You're welcome, maybee.
Nixon! Dude can spin the old wind song with the best of them! Don’t really know what he said there, but I bought it! Lol! Fortrell, I it well! I had some pants and even wet snow wouldn’t stick to them! Great for the boy playing outside that was me at 13 and 74!
I was ten years old, a great time!
In Feb 1974 I was turning 5. Already a dancer I danced to Jimmy osmonds "long haired lover from Liverpool". Cute song but not one of my better performances! LoL! Thanks Fred! Just got out of hospital so will have to see if I missed any vids!
Hope you will be OK, Chantelle!
Gig Young was slated to play the Waco Kid in Blazing Saddles but was dropped ironically because he showed up drunk to the set too often. He was replaced by Gene Wilder of course. I can’t think of anyone but Gene in that role
By that time Gig would have had to be called the Waco Grandfather.
Gig young was from MN...end of his life was sad... murdered his wife ,shot himself...
If I recall correctly, Blazing Saddles definitely IS playing soon at some of the Marcus Theaters as part of a classic movies series.
I get memories of summer days in the 60s outside on the Air Force Base in North Bay, Ontario and my mom and dad and siblings and friends are there. Someone might say what are the memories but all I would be able to come up with would be a few fuzzy scenes (although I do have some clear ones). It's more of an intense feeling. Sometimes those memories well up inside me and they bring out a longing for those times again and it's almost painful. The clearest skies we've ever seen are in Seattle. I find that your videos are giving those kinds of feelings and I hope you keep it up and stay creative, Fred. @FredFlix
I'll try, festidious, and thanks for your sweet comment.
Tough, tough times for our family. We were on Rent Strike.
Zardoz, man what a wild movie
I was 19, soon to meet a very ... uh... rambunctious girl who I 'rambuncted' with a lot from late April until Fall. She loved 'rambuncting' as much as I did!
Should have married that girl.
Thanks, Fredflix!
The year I graduated high school
'75 for me.
Watershed year for me.Greetings all time travelers.
I’m in the midst of doing a blog/podcast of the 50th anniversary of the school year of 1973-1974 when I was an 8 year-old 2nd grader growing up in my hometown in Wisconsin. To begin with remembering five decades ago in February, 1974, I was enjoying my Wacky Packages, building MPC 1/25 scale ‘74 model cars, and I always felt horrible and sad about Patty Hearst. She was always an innocent victim from day 1, or night one when she was kidnapped on the night of Monday, February 4 from her Berkeley apartment south of the UC-Berkeley Campus.
No way, no how blazing saddles could be made in 2024. Rip Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder. 😊
2:57 Nope, Sorry... a Zippo is Volkswagen.
A top five hit was the remake of Mockingbird. We were living in Texas at the time. It's the official state bird
Cool 😎
Thanks, MC.
Thx 🇺🇸📺
You're welcome, Lance.
February of 1974, that is when I moved when I was 8
Arthur Clarke was so correct. That would be cool if this is your dad or grandpa or something. If only he saw what we have now.
Zardoz…”Love the Gun”.
Good one xilFderF. 🏆
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Heckuva time to be an 11 month old baby, as I was at the time.
Just turned 13 two months earlier.
Could've done without the Barbara Streisand, the rest was great...
Thanks Fred for reminding us of that crappy movie Zardoz. Director John Boorman went from Deliverance to that. However even crappy 70s movies are still better than today's crapfest.
You said it, gittes98.
Cronkite was the last real journalist
Fred ,in light of current trends and concerns,Clarke was on target.
Eerily so, Eli.
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Thanks again FredFlix for a wonderful journey back in time. Now I have a question for you and all your viewers. Was Zardoz the worst movie ever made or was it Abraxas?
Haven't seen Abraxas. I suppose that's a good thing.
I thought it was plan 9 from outer space
@@markcornish2519 That one certainly is in the top five worst ever made.
RMN...STILL A PEACEMAKER
Does anyone know who the actress is in the salt commercial?
Patti Deutsch or sandy Duncan maybe
@@markcornish2519 No
Pretty girls!
Is that Larry Hankin at 7:00?
Good catch. Hesseman worked with Hankin in the improv group “The Committee,” which also included members of “The Celanese Players,” the sponsor of this ad.
Tom WHO? Must be my GRANDPA'S generation....
Welcome Back Kotter?
Did not start until September, 1975
It didn't start until Sept. of '75.
duh
3rd Grade
The year I graduated from Hamilton High West High School in NJ
See we drank all of that soda in the 60's 70's and 80's now we're all diabetic!