1959 17 inch Sylvania Dualette from the Vintage TV Museum
Very high design for 1959… would look good in any home today!
1966 Christmas Gifts Ad, General Electric, with Characters from “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer” by Classic Film
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<br />Vintage 1960s Christmas electronics and appliances advertisement, General Electric, featuring characters from the stop-action holiday classic "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer" TV special, 1966.
General Electric was the original sponsor of the Christmas favorite, and the holiday special first aired on television on NBC in December 1964. The show was produced by Rankin-Bass Productions, Videocraft International Productions.
More trivia about the Christmas show, provided by IMDb website: During the original network TV airing, commercials for General Electric featured Santa’s elves from the show.
Rudolph was to have been delivered to Donner and his wife by stork, but when General Electric brought in Burl Ives as the narrator, the scene was scrapped and never filmed, so that it now appears that Rudolph was born naturally.
Original puppets of Santa and young Rudolph from the 1964 production went on tour in November 2007. When purchased by their new owner, both were in poor condition–Santa had mold under his beard and half of his mustache was gone, while Rudolph’s nose was gone. The owner took them to stop-motion animation studio Screen Novelties International, who restored them “as a labor of love” for expenses only-$4000. The puppets originally cost $5000 each in 1964.
In the original TV version of the show, Rudolph, Hermey the elf, and Yukon Cornelius visit the Island of Misfit Toys and promise to help them, but the Misfits are never mentioned again. After it was shown, the producers were inundated with letters from children complaining that nothing had been done to help the Misfit Toys. In response, Rankin-Bass produced a new short scene at the end of the show in which Santa and his reindeer, led by Rudolph, land on the Island and pick up all the toys to find homes for them, which has ever since been the standard version of the show run during the holidays.
Published in Family Circle, Dec. 1966, Vol. 69 No. 6.
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