VHS Finds - 80's Australian TV Commercials - Sydney
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Taken from a VHS home recording of 'The Spy Who Loved Me' aired on Sydney's TEN-10 found in a Sydney junk shop, November 2018.
Going by an ad for then PM Malcom Fraser (05:31), this tape was made some time in early Feb 1983.
It's funny how we always skip through ad's, but are now happy to sit down and watch 20 minutes of them in a row ; )
too right hahahahaahahahah
Yeah absolutely!!! I'm addicted to watching old 1980's Aussie ads, I need them and I find them so therapeutic and enjoyable to watch! They just make me feel good and happy an overall positive to them unlike ads in 2020. It's amazing what they can do but I guess I'm trying to find a timeline that flowed by that I never really got to enjoy as a child lolz.
Yep agreed the memories though 80s was just classic especially since the Rona is running riot kinda reminds me of happier times
I no it’s crazy hehe.
Todd Lynch good on ya
Toddy. My daughter was born 93 had her 27th yesterday. She and a lot of her mates love the 80s. Her boyfriend just loves and always plays 80s music. I love it lol 😂 . He recons he was born in the wrong decade lol . But saying that. Being brought up in the 70s/80s Mum & dad brain washed me with 1950s60s movies and music. Which were the Pioneers so we can thank them I guess for the 80s perfecting a unique decade of the best music 🎧..
I’m having a really big problem in which the world is heading and hence why I adore these old nostalgic ads and other footage from the past.
The ads are so cheery and simple. marketing now seems cynical and snarky today by comparison.
All the ads seemed to be full of smiles, optimism and catchy jingles back then. I miss that.
This brought back so many happy moments spent with my family, and more importantly the Australia I want to remember, not the current one that wants to cancel it.
Chin up dude, it's up to us to preserve it
Huh?
Well Said. Woke aholes ruining our culture
Left wing crims.
Yes, this was peak Australia.
Glad I experienced it and left in '96 for good.
Look what it has become .... sad
Holy fuuu...how different was the tone and feel of advertising. No wonder everyone now is depressed. Makes you perk up a bit watching all again. Great content thanks for sharing.
The makers of those commercials may have been born in 1930 or 1940 -- were educated very differently from young people today -- their teachers and parents may have been born before the First World War. All of the makers of those commercials -- and a large part of the adult wage earning population -- had been brought-up on the popular classics-- including popular classical essays in social commentary. The subject matter of the popular classics is very different from that of todays popular television dramas -- The popular classics develop sophisticated emotions at an early age -- the popular classics offer a refined moral sense -- they are not moralistic. It is for these reasons that the subject matter of common conversation was so much more SINCERE and mature and 'up-beat'.
The advertising jingles and voice overs were certainly more persuasive back then.
@@victorsauvage1890 Absolutely, Victor. Great analysis.
Well said.
people don't watch TV these days.
I still say "Arugh Chum - it's so chunky you can carve it" Haha
My Glaswegian mum used to feed it to us, she said it was Haggis
Mouth-watering1
always
As an 80s kid I really thought my adult hood would involve more windsurfing and Sara Lee. I don’t think I’ve experienced either!
Looking at a simpler time through experienced eyes. wow. Brings back emotions and feelings of the day. Many older people i knew were still young then and now gone.
A little window into what was a more innocent, happier and more hopeful time.
Happier for whom?
more innocent? people got away with sex crimes in these days. drugs ran rampant, CCTV didn't exist, racism was rife.
maybe more hopeful, but you're clearly looking at the 80's with rose tinted shades. more fucking innocent give me a break. these old days were rough.
@@dedpxl such a modern day comment.. full of critical negative drama filled crap.
Those days were superior by far, you can pick it apart all you like.
I agree but I remember as a teenager in the 1980s overhearing the owner of the newsagent I went to in the early 1990s saying to a customer that the 1960s was a gentler, more innocent and more elegant time.
Thanks. This ought to be screened in a museum exhibit, put in a time capsule; to be opened in 50 years...
Ah yes, the good' 'ol days. I was a 70's and 80's kid. I remember all these ads. Kinda trippy seeing these again after so long. In my brain these memories are associated with the anxiety of not doing my school homework lol.
That's an interesting one for me as well,
when I find something from my past (clothing, ect) I get weird sensations from memories, so what I do now if I throw something out (when I can be bothered doing so) is to take a photo of it. Digital photography enables this little quirk.
Might even prevent dementia?!
I remember all these. Man, I feel old.
you're not alone
@@omercan71 Darling you are not old. You are beautifully vintage.
Not old, a survivor 😁
Marketing was so different back then. Drinks were targeted for young adults by always having them at a beach or out door event in large groups. Food was targeted for families by using a farm setting and etc. Very cliche and simple but I love it
I miss this australia so much.
5:12 Good old Ron E. Sparx. I used to listen to him deliver the entire Top 40 every Sunday evening on 2UW when I was a kid.
I miss Bazz and Pilko
WOW !!!!!....Great to watch these adds without a MOBILE PHONE to be seen !!
Oh wow, all this went to air in Sydney back in February 1983. This is just so mesmerizing, right in the heart of my childhood. I would give everything to jump inside my monitor, and go back to the time these ads aired, the world back in February 1983 was such a wonderful place. Even hearing all those old voice overs like Mike Grayson and Holger Brockmen when they were much younger is an absolute intense flashback, oh how nice it was to be 14 years old back then. Lots of laughs, good times, lots of adventures, lots of pretty girls and hormones.
Brings back a lot of memories, I was 8 that year.
@@tefllife2024 so was l!
I was 21 just married with a kid working 3 jobs trying to make ends meet. life so expensive then
It wasn't that great back then as a 13 year old gay boy I can tell ya...Anybody gay for that matter. So no. I probably would not want to go back to that time thanks so much.
nah
Look at all of the things celebrated in these loveable old commercials: happy family life, beach culture, farms and farming, sports, heterosexual males who aren't made to feel ashamed because they're white, homemakers who are enjoying their families, kind mothers in the kitchen, garden and laundry, people who look clean, with normal hair styles and no tattoos, Australian culture that used to provide inspiration, a sense of having a future and something to look forward to. Yes, even the ads have a sense of joy and hope in them that is now GONE, to be replaced with depression and hopelessness, and a sense that heterosexuality and family life is somehow "embarrassing", in a culture that forces everyday people to embrace ideologies that don't help them to live their best life in a happy, unified society.
Spot on 💯
At least you have a park bench to complain upon.
Meh, the 80s weren't what you think they are. These ads are aiming for the demographic they want to sell to. They're a fantasy that you're still falling for forty years later. 🙄
This was at a time if you watched telly you would expect only three or four ads during an ad break. Fast forward to 2000's and you can get up when the ad break starts, have a shower, get changed and make yourself a cup of tea or coffee, then sit down just in time for the show to start again. Seriously, who would watch free to air today and sit through 12 to 15 ads?
This is why I haven’t watched commercial ‘free to air’ television for the past 20 years.
I miss that old Australian accent...
It's refreshing to see commercials that aren't about life/death insurance and bloody lawyers.
Exactly.
Fantastic! I was 6 years old and remember many of these clearly!
5:56 joke is on liberal party Bob Hawke became prime minister
The only ad i remember from the 80's was the 'Ants Pants' , sick em rex commercial.
Toneya Bird!
@@beardymcbeardface69 Ooh yeah !
That ad was a crack up 🤣🤣🤣
What about: "What's your dental health secret, Crocodile?" **growly voiced croc:** "Thorough brushing and flossing every day. I've got fluoride toothpaste." **Dentist:** "That's the only way." **Croc:** "I visit my dentist regularly and I watch what I eat." Proceeds to eat dentist in one gulp. "No little snackies!"
It was antist.
I was a paper boy back then and used to get complained about because there were never any mirror bingo cards in the papers.
There "were" but somehow they found their way to my home.😂. My mum never could understand why " "people didn't want their bingo cards" 😉😉 . Obviously I never told her they never had a choice 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
The St George lady, more iconic than the dragon. Lol
Great clip! So important from an historic perspective to save these old ads....a snapshot of the 80s:)
that vhs vcr for $769 in today's money it would be $2500
Over three grand , I think . Not many had them when I bought one in '86
I remember my dad buying a VHS recorder in 1983. The prices had started to come down a little, but it was still over $600. Crazy to think that electronics used to cost that much.
Back in the days before China started knocking out cheap electronics. But yep it's unbelievable they were so expensive!
Yes, and after a few years you would have to take it to the repair shop to be fixed when it started chewing tapes or the tracking couldn’t be adjusted. They were too expensive to just buy a new one like do today
My folks owned them from 1987. I wouldn't have realised the expense.
I remember EVERY one of those ads that had a jingle! 😹
This is better than the so called entertainment dished up to us now by the tv networks! :)
Everyone looks so young and fresh. You don't appreciate what you have until it's gone forever. Whatever you do, just keep them coming.
Well done finding the tape. Old TV recordings are worth their weight in gold. Thanks for sharing. February 1983 would be just under two years after I moved from Sydney to Melbourne. I actually remember seeing TEN 10 Sydney first come to air way back in 1965.
13% on term deposits
I love the chum scoooootlund add. Chum, so chunky you can carve it.
The jingles omg
When the banks paid up to 13% interest rate P/A in savings accounts those days :-D
Love the 80s.
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
The only thing that doesn’t date is nostalgia. That ice-cream ad with the whistling old bloke works just as well in 2021 as in 1980, or 1930 even. Same with the Sara Lee ad.
Thanks for putting this up its really good. Took me back. It’s amazing how much has changed. The prices of those video recorders was so expensive hehe.
OMG ! !
12% interest on deposited money ! !
Now they were the good ol' days !
$800 for a VCR, no wonder we were the last kids on the block to own one
Inflation scared us but we could buy a house.
In 1984 I bought an Akai VCR for about $800 from my first tax refund cheque. In those days the first working tax year you got all your tax paid back as a refund.
Notice how happy the ads where back then .I can't think of one happy ad today ?😴😝🤤🤔
The 80's was the last 'great decade' IMO. Everything since is a cheap knock-off.
I miss these catchy advertising jingles.
Wow man after seeing this I feel so happy, calm and carefree almost?! You feel it just after watching all of this...The old Australia that I miss so much, not a day that I don't long and pine for this but I was only a child back then...What's happened to this Australia, it seemed to all disappear then less than over 30 years ago...This was the Australia that was self sufficient, somewhat nationalist or maybe even isolationist and free from the world's problems. All until the early 90's all of this would be undone and we end a part of the Globalist elite which would cost us our identity and way of life back then....Sigh very sad...
Ain't that the truth!
Funny you should mention this, had a lot of nostalgic feelings watching this and miss this era.
Murdoch and NewsCorp started getting into everything.
I think it would've happened eventually either way. With increasing technology and a more global outreach, globalisation will always supercede isolationism.
I’m a Seppo. Same thing happened in the States. I love the use of the Australian flag in all these old commercials. Advance Australia Fair!!!
Brings back memories of the good days . Thanks 👍🍻
Judging by the movie Nightshift:-
Australia/Night Shift/Release date
30 December 1982
- Australia
Back in the days where we had drive-in’s all around the place
that made me recall the country I grew up in. What have we done to it ?
Made it better.
It's funny, haven't seen a lot of these ads for 40 years and yet was singing along as if it was only yesterday.
14:30 Finally one I know and then the unforgettable, the legendary Chum. I was only 11 in 1983 and my parents mostly watched the ABC.
Same -11 back in '83.Great times !👍
TX Date: 20 February 1983 (Source: Sydney Morning Herald Archives)
Wow Ansett...
I always Loved the chum ad, i still use that line today, so chumpy you could carve it 😄
OMG - Malcolm Fraser & Bob Hawke.... that takes me back.
I'm pretty sure Bob actually won.
BadWebDiver
Bob won alright. Held the Americas cup aloft soon after.
The best Prime Minister ever- even held a Guinness world record for drinking a yard glass of beer - stone the flaming crows, that’s how Aussie we were back then.
🤯 This is doing my bloody head In 🤣 TIME CAPSULE much!
Crazy to remember all these relics haha $770 vcr 😮🤣🤣🤣 childhood right there in all these ads. Paper notes too! 1812 overture army reserves! No wonder I got into classical music !
Don't forget the $30.00 discount !!!! massive
You had to be rich to have a vcr
Over 700 in early 80s dollarydoos. Nuts.
I grew up in Qld but remember heaps of these. Such different times!
I rang every phone number in this compilation and no one answered! Who am I going to give my money to now?
Sadly, I have to admit to doing the post work on a few of those ! (@VTC Sydney)
I won’t say which ones, but suffice to say, the tools were less advanced than they are today !
It was a blast, and we had fun working, not just a job.
Can't imagine what the graphix machine were like back then. Not desktop computers with Windows I guess...
@@BadWebDiver we started out with some crass DOS 3D software which worked but was incredibly labor intensive & slow!
For non rendered stuff, we had some clever hardware based rotation, scaling & perspective tools.
Remembering that most of the layering etc was done in analog SD !
Later 1sr gen digital tools (abekas etc) opened a floodgate of technology. When Avid non-linear tools arrived, it was a letdown, that wasn’t really fixed until the next generation (Quantel etc) arrived.
@@laustinspeiss QANTEL! :) I operated an early QANTEL business computer back in the late 70's. 32k of memory and a disk the size of a car tyre. Memory was around $10,000 per 8k if recall correctly...
@@snowflakesue3986 * QUANTEL ! 😃
@@laustinspeiss OMG, I'm confusing my QANTAS with my QUANTEL! Excuse me, I'm getting old LOL - and the only truth is QIC-BASIC :)
I remember these some of these TV commercials.
Milky way 20c, that was so good days
that was the good old days
If they put these ads on TV, I will watch it.
I cant drink Pepsi, eat white bread, drink full cream milk, or look at red meat. But I love these old ads.
excelent great stuff post more..brings back so many memories
It’s amazing how many of the junk food and drink ads were full of young and slim actors. We were so gullible back then.
Give me a time machine to go back to the 80s when interest rates were the best for investing your money. 2021 sucks.
Have you heard of something called inflation? It was RAMPANT in the 1980s
Earning 11% when inflation was 10%, is the same as earning 2% when inflation is 1%
@@baysidelad1
I think you hate the 80s. If so why are you subscribing to this channel.
@@vickidianacoghlan8946 Just calling you out for an incorrect statement, get over it....clearly you never studied economics
bought some juicy fruit the other day, packet has barely changed!
But how about the size and taste?
The handsome guy on the right is Mark Conroy. I went to art school with him and briefly shared a house with him.
@@mikekaraoke Yes i think it is smaller but the taste is still great!
@@AUSSIEMADMATT Well that is the main thing!
0:34 that song ohh good it is just amazing love these 80s commercials
LOL I remember that Nescafe ad with the vet helping horse owner giving birth to foal 🥰😍 (11:26)
Blimey almost $800 for a basic VHS. You can get an entire, basic, HTPC for that now, or even a smart TV and forget the physical recording medium.
And that was serious money back then. The average salary was like 15k a year 😳
We had that exact Sharp VCR. Expensive, bought it from Norman Ross Penrith.
@@charleyfarley9366 nice 👍👌
Wow and Wow this really gave me a real kick. Man I remember most of these old adds and australia was good then.
For who?
@@Rage_Harder_Then_Relax for everyone fucktard
@@Djr67 The only fuck head here is you
@@Rage_Harder_Then_Relax I apologize for my comment
Love the MBF ad with the Valiant
Yep , it wasn't the health care costs that got the old Regal out of sorts but the torsion bar front end on a winding road 😂🤣😂🤣
6:48 you could win a WB Statesman Caprice.
Oh my God! I found an old Stick Up air freshener in a box on my shed a few weeks ago!
That Prima advert is very wholesome.
People in 2050s will look back on our ads today like how we look back in these 1980s ads
Hardly. They are boring insurance ads.
7.30 - Those interest rates for savers !!
Used to get upset at seeing all of these lovey, happy, “nuclear family” type of TV commercials, ostensibly because my family were nothing like those depicted.
Man that coke ad was quite inspirational 😄
These ads are very well written, and are just good. The ads that we see on the internet are bad
Look at these ads, just trying to show how good the product is. This all changed by the time I was watching TV in the late 90's and early 00's.
(They changed to wanting to entertain you while vaguely mentioning the product, or they even tried to freak you out just to get attention)
Brought back from wnderful memories, is Angus and Coote still around?
I wasn’t born till the 90’s but I feel like I knew some off these adds 😂
Both the Chum and the Mercantile Mutual ads ran for years and were probably remade and ran into the late 90's.
I remember taking a Prima for school. What happenned to them?
Saying to myself, this cant be that old - I remember them too well.
wow VCRs were so expensive. and tvs so small!
Yet, we were just as happy without smartphones and hi tech.....probably happier I reckon.
and just imagine, the population has almost DOUBLED again since then…
12:25 tell him to wash his own damn clothes then!
Haha yes.
Yes, we all used to enjoy role playing.
I was a 13 year old schoolgirl when this ad came out. I am a 52 year old wife/mother today. Hasn't changed a lot.
Maybe he is the only worker and is supplying all the money for the house payments, food, bills and the financial support for their child. She may be doing her part too, which includes washing and is completely fine for it. No they should stand there arguing instead about who should wash what instead.
This ad for Fraser's Libs is a master class in what not to do.
My sister was a Prima girl. I was a Fruit Box girl! My poor mum had to buy both!
Aussies are the most beautiful people on the planet! 💁🏼👨🏻👱🏻
Maybe use to be 😕
Hilarious. What a trip.
Thanks.
The good old days when positive marketing was alive and kicking this was another reason why my childhood was so colourful there are too many pathetic regulations with advertising every single product now these days!
Name one.
Soo many memories.
Seinfeld has a bit on the coke ad: “soda, soda we have soda! Laughing jumping flying through the air!
“Maybe I need ice in mine?”
Is that Moyra Fraser in the fish finger ad (3rd ad from the beginning). Sure looks like her. She played “Aunt Penny” in “As Time Goes By” with Judy Dench.
Wow, when you got 11 to 12% on your savings.
2019: lucky to get 1%.
Yep, Baby boomers reckon we have it easy today
@@mitchellcooper4633 I'm a generation x aged 44. Life isn't getting any easier that's for sure.
Central bank money printing is a bitch.
11% on savings... 20% on mortgages!
@@dantellewisham133 but the houses were dirt cheap.
14:19 "If you can't see the fir sign, it means it went out of business 38 years ago."
Shout out to Kilner Mason and Simon White !
A better time.
Back before Australians were Chinese and Indians and the term "cultural identity" was outlawed.
Thats right, Australia was basically Anglo, Italian, German, Greek, Yugoslav or Maltese. White Europeans only.
@@BruceKent00 "New Australians" :)
@@BruceKent00 my dad was jugoslav but he was a proud Aussie I can tell you. He held a barbie at our place every week for our neighbours and invited everyone. He was buried with a Canterbury Bankstown jersey on. 🤣 No idea how he got into nrl.
@@BruceKent00 shouldve stayed that way , nothing but trouble since
Yes and small minded pervy racists.
Yes, in those heady days of the early 80’s there was 1 haircut for men, and 1 for women which was the same, but about 2 inches longer.
The very early 80's .. the last of the best era in my books, from mid 80's onwards there was a slightly negative social change was creeping in 😢
I did over 50 featured adds. and I haven't seen one yet or maybe i did and didn't regognised myself.