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Oddity Archive: Episode 288.5 – DiscoVision Dead Sides Vol. 5 (+ Annex Post)
🕑 Added 2025-03-19 14:15:48 +0000 UTCWell, Spring is...springing. As such, it's finally getting warm enough to open the windows. Unlike most folks, it's not so much for the fresh air, but to let out all the fumes when I'm uncovering a new (to me) batch of Discovision Dead Sides.
SEMI-SPOILER:
There was one keeper in the bunch. Here's a link: http://youtu.be/Ow4uvAMMwjA
Comments
Jason Haman
Ah, okay - thanks! (I loved M*A*S*H, watched it in daily afternoon syndication about 30 years ago, but not really since.) Watched the keeper; a great save for posterity. I remembered more about those Mopar films I saw years ago on YT - they were filmstrips/slideshows with accompanying records - the early ones 78s IIRC - miraculously saved along with the filmstrips/slides.
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I thought the drawing looked a bit like Hawkeye's homemade distiller on M*A*S*H.
Jason Haman
"Can also be used to distill vodka"... alas, that whooshed right over my head, but I really want to get it... at the risk of ruining the joke, can you explain it? Now, I'm off to watch the keeper... I'm a bit of a gearhead... there used to be a bunch of Mopar dealer mechanic training films like this from the 50s (maybe late 40s) to around the 80s on YT; I haven't seen them pop up on my YT suggestions in years. Some of them covered vehicles that are almost forgotten today. This stuff should really be preserved for posterity - thanks for contributing to that preservation. It's exactly the sort of stuff that gets thrown out and lost forever.
