Kodak Christmas 1976 Times of Your Life TV commercial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- A simply beautiful longer-form 1976 Christmas commercial for Kodak Film, featuring the Paul Anka song "Times Of Your Life'. Unfortunately the source material has a few brief instances of volume drop in the audio, but it won't prevent you from being able to enjoy this classic holiday commercial.
What happened to our world? We've lost something over the decades. Something important.
How I wish I could bring back those days again, every holiday that passes by there seems to be more empty chairs around the dinner table. Only memories of those precious loved ones left in our minds!
We’ve lost family members and then added new arrivals, but the generation of children we raised don’t have the same connection with their grandparents as they used to, sad but families don’t seem have the same bond they use to
@@kevinkidder8524 You are exactly right my friend👍✌️
Check out Hayes Carril “ I’m Grateful For Christmas This Year.”
I try not to torture myself by thinking back to those days, but I always do.
I miss the 70's
That's it! I remember the commercial... the young man who was going to cut the tree down and bring it into his home to decorate at Christmastime...but he remembered planting it when he was little...So now he and his family decorate it--still stuck in the ground...I broke down and cried just now, seeing the commercial on TH-cam!
Oh My God! This commercial has me crying. What great memories it brought back.
And now we got 📱
Same!!
Me too
😔
Why😭😭 did I click on this?! The memories.❤😭😭😭
I know! 😢😥😖😫😢
@@lindabaron4584 ditto...and I just came here to pick up chicks.🥲
@@gigyoung7181 seems like a good plan to me 🙄
The lyrics make me so nostalgic.
I remember this commercial 42 years ago, I use to watch it and cry, just like im doing now. The song was so pretty then and now, and both mama and daddy, were both alive. Time was so much simplier then, and those camera's, everybody had one. (tearing up now) Kodak xoxo
Precious memories of this ad slogan!
New Downey commercial made me go to you tube to find song. Now breaking down in tears. Memories.
So many loved ones who were with us then.....watching this brings them back for a moment.
My family had lots of great memories with Kodak. Those were the yesteryears, decades ago. Gave so much happiness.
WHAT a breath of fresh air!! It's not even conceivable that we could ever see a commercial like this today, now exclusively about bombarding the senses with irreverence and hip-intended quick cuts of shlock&smut pushing agenda as much as product... Very cool to hear different lyrics from the actual song, though still sung by Mr Anka. Thank you so much for this! Made my day! 😁
נוסטלגיה במיטבה...
Really fit the emotions of the picture.
@@diklabarmatz344 I really wish I could understand your words, are you able to interpret for me?
@Julian Vega Thank you Julian!
I completely agree. Commercials back then could actually be enjoyable to watch. Today, I have to mute every one of them.
When Kodak was HUGE here in Rochester a lot of people here were employed now a ghost town
This song made me think of my father who has been gone since 2014. He loved the holidays because we were all together as family. The holidays will never be the same without him.
When loved one pass away, Life just never seems the same again. My mom passed this year and I don't know how this year's Christmas is going to be anything to look forward to.
@@stevehoffman9052 me too. My Mom passed this July.
@shanetrimble9265
I'm so sorry to hear that,very sad,My Condolences to you and your family, I lost my dad too 8 months ago. Hang in there
@@stevehoffman9052
I'm so sorry to hear about your mom,my Condolences to you.
@@stephanteboul598 Thank you for your kind thoughts.
Remember taking your film back for development and not knowing what shots you got until you got your prints back? We couldn't wait until we got home to look at them. I started printing out photos from my phone for this reason. Not exactly the same but close. Much better to share than passing your phone around.
Amazing . I remember seeing this commercial as a young kid . Recently heard this song . Immediately thought of Kodak
I’m here because today NPR radio played a small clip of Paul Anka singing this. I had forgotten all about this song.
It may be a Downey commercial today, but I remember loving the song in Kodak’s 1975 commercial. I was happy when Paul Anka later released his full version recording. Beautiful song. 😊
Thank you I knew someone would remember who sang it!
Beutiful song and still brings tears to my eyes after all these years. Apparently the verse, You get the yearning now and then to bring the moments back again, remember..Paul Anka sings in this commercial was only for the commercial. I have not not heard it in any of the recorded versions of the song that were released.
Paul Anka did record it as a full song and perform it in concert. Check TH-cam.
I noticed the same thing. In recordings of the full song, which were made after this ad campaign began, the line you quoted is replaced with, "The good times and the bad you've seen and all the others in between." I think I understand why it was changed. The line from the commercial really drives home the message to get some Kodak film and take pictures so you can preserve and remember the times of your life. But it's really not appropriate for the full song, which is simply a sentimental reflection on life.
THE PHILIPPINE VERSION WAS SAME SONG SAME PRODUCT KODAK, I was watching womder woman, When Kodak commercial played was a great story line I was moved, surprised shocked,cried and all kinds of emotions came out. I was 13 years old, the song was 3 mins long I think it was Tuesday night, around 9pm. FOR ME IT WAS A MASTER PIECE OF ART. i only saw it one time. CANT FIND IT the phil version OH WELL
Well I’m not crying like most commenters ,never been like that....still this is a great commercial. Today companies think the best way to get you to buy their product is to annoy the piss out of you. Every car insurance ad..Flo, Limu Emu,etc. Terrible.
The commercials today will never be uploaded on You Tube like this one has been. Who would want to reminisce about Flo or those awful Liberty Mutual commercials?
I still have my Kodak Instamatic X15 camera in its original box with Flash cubes. MY gift from Santa in 74. I was 13 & Boy, that camera was top notch back then . What Memories😂
That was such a great ad campaign.
Im in the beginning of my shift in the hospital.Stumbled on this video during my break and now Im sappy as hell for those times gone by,of people that came and went in my journey to adulthood.I miss those times..
i cry watching this
When I was a kid we had a couple of Evergreens in the front yard that had been my folks' Christmas trees a few years before I was born. We did decorate them a few times, usually with popcorn!
Awww those sweet camera commercials.
fabulous
A great commercial, I do remember this from my childhood.
And, oh how I love this commercial!
My eyes are watery and its not my contacts either!
Cutting onions? Lol, I know what you mean, this song always got to me, more so as I am older now, you have a good heart is why the tears👍✌️
@@kennyhuskisson2684 Hey Kenny. I’m still crying!
Today's kids will never know the thrill of having to wait for a picture to be developed....when the instamatic camera came out it was the biggest thing!! The film was very expensive back then and you tried to not touch it while it was drying and developing....magical times and memories!!🎄🎃🎂🎊🎇👨👩👧👦🙏
SO true, part of a bigger truth, that so many younger people today don't even have a clue about any form of delayed gratification, as parents are apt to cave in immediately to every demand, if it's even feasible.
Oh yeah, it was truly an exciting thing to go down to the Photo Mat to buy my set of pictures I waited 5 days to have developed from my Kodak pocket camera back in the day! Always a great thrill leafing through them...
Today’s kids will never know the anticipation of having to wait for a picture to be developed…and the heartache of finding out that a once in a lifetime moment with their friends wasn’t captured on film because they made a mistake, something that they would have caught using a digital camera or a smartphone. And then having the opportunity to retake the shot again and again until it was perfect. No more red eyes in photos, ever.
I seem to have something in my eye...excuse me!
I have the same thing in mine.
Onion ninjas at work!!
My goodness I was five years old then!
when i want to torture myself with nostalgia and regret i play songs like this
I remember this
What came first-- the single or the commercial? The commercial, believe it or not.
2024 yes still crying
Memories of great times, when cares were fewer.
Yessss
Crying is the word
I cant even begin to express how commercials irritate me these days...so much so that i have thought of smashing the television numerous times. I purposely look away from the tv during commercials. I dont know if advertising agencies have thought about how many viewers they have turned off...but i guarantee you that if your commercials irritate me you have no chance in selling me a brand
the 19080s...
Kodak: digital camera lol what a stupid idea!
2000s...
Kodak: //singing Times of your life...
Back when Kodak was Kodak not the kodak that is making drugs to cure cv19
And what a Kodak moment that was when it soared.
Congrats to you if you owned a few thousand shares when Kodak took off.
Now buy some (alot) of RLFTF and HTBX.
Such great original music in commercials back then. Now original music in commercials is just crappy electronic crap.
Crying
Severance brought me here
70s in Miami north Miami .
There until song again on commercial 2021
Its like John Lennon narrating the line.
Unfortunately Kodak shot themseives in the foot. They didn't think that the digital camera revolution would amount to anything! Thats too bad. By the time they wanted to get on the train, it had already left the station and they were left out into the cold! Too bad! They even had an instant camera for awhile called Color Burst that was actually much better than Polaroid. I had one. I got it for free when I bought a pair of Levi's jeans at Macy's in the early 80s. Polaroid held the patent, took Kodak to court and won. Kodak had to stop production of the camera and the film. Polaroid was then asked if they would make film for the Color Burst cameras. Their reply was short and simple. "NO!" That was the beginning of the end for Eastman Kodak. They were a giant. Back then you could get your pictures developed at the Fotomat or K Mart. Now Rochester, New York's claim to fame is the garbage plate.🤢 Gone, gone, gone. Remember yesterday? 🎼🎵🎶
Pre-Michael Landon
Love it but the onscreen lyrics are all wrong
The 83 All StarGame to the baseball legends with this song a lot better than this
Barry Manilow???? I know he wrote commercial ditties (remember VSM at his concerts?)...
The description says Paul Anka.
Rochester NY it was our life with Kodak everyone knew someone who worked there
Nice but why would you want to go back? Bleah! People have more rights today and Science is more advanced. Leave the past behind.
We can have all of that, but why not also have better ads than the junk we have today?
No no. Something is missing. There's a cloud. Our culture is horrible.
We can still have the science and better human rights but keep the simplicity of how family life used to be.
LOL. So why were even here? And I'll make my own decisions, thank you very much. Because freedom is one of those rights you speak of. If I don't want to leave past behind, I won't.