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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    Whenever I see the word "organic" on food packaging, I always thing, "Well, that just means it contains no petroleum products." I've since learned otherwise.
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    I seem to recall in the movie "Driving Miss Daisy," that the chauffeur comes in one cold morning after the maid had died with cups of coffee from Krispy Kreme (or some other recognizable place) and it seemed very natural, although given the time frame of the movie it may have been anachronistic...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I never owned a car until after I got out of the army. I never put as much a five miles on my parents car or truck.
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    Interesting comments. I can only imagine a television production that takes about a week to do before it's time to do the next episode. And some of them are filmed (or taped, I guess) before a live audience. My son works in Hollywood, though not for any major studio and not in front of the...
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    Adding A little Patina To An Aero Flight Jacket

    Supposedly Amelia Earhart went to some trouble to take the newness out of her flying clothing.
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    Well, somebody gave him credit for it besides me. Who wrote it, then? There is a claim that serious deliberation disappeared from congress when snuff went out of fashion.
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    I've heard that about radio (and presumably television as well) about the sponsors. I suppose it's completely understandable. With movies, though, the connection isn't so close but there may be one. But radio and television shows were continuous for at least a few years whereas a motion picture...
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    I thought I'd add here the experience of working at a place that maintained two lunch rooms. One for smokers and one for non-smokers. That was about 20 years ago before indoor smoking became generally banned in businesses. In the room for the non-smokers, it was always quiet with everyone with...
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    All of this has been common knowledge for a long time, even though tobacco companies denied it. Remember the song, "Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette?" It was written by Willie Nelson. But I think specific product placement is relatively recent, although anything after 1970 seems relatively...
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    One of the things that makes radio drama (and comedy) work is the sound effects and they're still used, both artificial (real sound effects) or natural. But sometimes it comes out a little funny, as in the way those long PBS news articles seem to have the sound of people walking on gravel or...
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    I haven't made my mind up yet but I've whittled down the selection quite a bit. In one video of Casablanca, there are some pre-"action" bits and one of them shows a crewman blowing extra smoke into the scene using a kind of rubber syringe. I suppose that was the effect the director wanted but I...
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    Oh, it became popular 300 years before then. Bob Newhart did a hilarious routine in which he was talking on the phone to Sir Walter Raleigh, who was describing tobacco and smoking to him. The idiocy of the habit becomes even more obvious with the routine. But remember, more doctors smoke Camels...
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    Anyone Else Stuck in the Early 1930's ?

    If you want a proper old-style home, you absolutely have to have copious numbers of lace doilies around the house. On the armrests and backs of easy chairs and sofas and on end tables under lamps and whatnots, all stiffly starched. And on the windows, you want lace see-through curtains that have...
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    There are a remarkable number of photos of soldiers in WWII from all sides under all conditions shown with a cigarette, even posing for a formal studio photo or standing in formation. I don't smoke but I guess smokers get something from tobacco. But given the possibility of a gruesome death in...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Everyone was young in the 1980s.
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    Anyone Else Stuck in the Early 1930's ?

    It might be said that the house where I grew up was stuck in the 1920s. I was born in 1946. We moved away in 1960, so those were my formative years. The gas furnace was barely five years old when I was born. We used an icebox and a wringer washing machine. The icebox was replaced at some point...
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    MA-1 Flight jacket

    If you are interested in M1 flight jackets, you understand fashion well enough.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Are there still tea dances with dance cards and a live band?
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    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    Another visual twist in some of the old Western movies, all of them, too, was the location. While some movies were made on location, most Westerns were made in the hills somewhere north of L.A. or up Big Bear way. That goes back to the silent era. They were wonderful locations and all those...
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    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    Well, let me see. The heroes in the horse operas were the good guys, you know, and their fans were adolescent boys for the most part. They usually never killed anyone, the didn't smoke or drink, never kissed a girl and of course they never swore. The bad guys did all of those things in the...

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