Nordby Commercial Compilation Reel

Year Published: 1960

Creator: Oddball Reel

Complete Record: NONE OF THESE HAVE RAW FOOTAGE 1) Shots of Chevron automobiles from the 1960s. Voice over narrator personifies the cars as frisky lovers. The two cars exchange car-related sexual innuendo until the “male” car gets his tank filled with gasoline. 2) No audio, image only. Shots of various parts and components of a United Airplane’s exterior. Shot of the airplane taking off. 3) No audio, image only. People in medieval period costumes (knights, peasants, Templars) dance around gleefully with large anthropomorphic mice. 4). No audio, image only. Bald man in collared shirt makes hand gestures and looks off screen. 5) Young women dressed as birds spin around gracefully in a jaunt of ballet. Children in “turn-of-the-century” period costume hold hands and dance. 6). Advertisement for SEGO diet food - a liquid protein shake. Shots of a grandfather clock’s pendulum oscillating slowly. Shots of SEGO being poured into a glass -- young woman drinks the liquid meal. 7). Men in suits stand around factory workers at work on assembling a Ford automobile engine. 8). Shots from the interior of a space program’s control room. 9) People riding on tandem bicycles peddle along an oblong track. Children play soccer in the middle of the track. 10) People caring for an injured and fallen female cyclist. 11) Shot of an unmanned military helicopter taking off. Men with binoculars and remote controls observe the helicopter in motion. 12). Shots of the construction and preparation of the New York World’s Fair’s spectacles in Flushing Meadows. 13) National Horse Show in Madison Square Gardens. Jockeys atop horse guided their horse through a series of obstacles and feats. Shots of horse jumping over barriers and posing. Shots of men with 8 inch top hats observing the performance. 14) Shots of giant missiles carried by flatbed trucks. Shot of rocket taking off. Shots from the moon’s surface. 15) Advertisement for TV Guide Magazine. 16). Shots of stand still traffic on the George Washington Bridge. Shots of traffic in downtown New York. Shots of a futuristic metro train. Shots of men at work on 1950s IBM style computers. Typewriters, robotics, science, microscopes/ Shots of a NASA rocket lifting off the ground with powerful force. 17) Shots of caged chickens being removed from cages to be processed. Man breaks chicken’s wings and weighs chicken. 18). Astronaut John Glenn gives his support to the boy scouts of America. 19) Shot-reverse-shots of two men playing tennis. Tennis player goes to locker room and lathers his hair with Vitalis hair gel. 20). Advertisement for a children’s puppet show theater. Renco Showboat (TM) 21). Shots of men at work atop a shipping boat. Shots of molten steel pouring into a mold, Shots of workers at a steel factory. 22). Informational / Promotional video of how Pacific Telephone telephone poles carry broadcast from TV cameras at a football game into “your” home. 23) Advert for Kodak Instamatic cameras. Demonstration of camera’s use. 24) Advert for the Joey Bishop Show.