{"id":2477,"date":"2018-05-29T13:27:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T17:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.przyborski.com\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:42:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:42:58","slug":"throwback-thursday-tv-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.przyborski.com\/?p=2477","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday TV Spots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Throwback Thursday TV Spots\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/carczcEvSPM?start=18&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A short time ago, I ran into Russ Streiner, an old friend who\u2019s best known as the producer of George Romero\u2019s, \u201cNight of the Living Dead\u201d. He has the unique distinction of being the first person in the film killed by a zombie. Russ was excited about the Blu-ray HD release of this classic horror film. In the 60\u2019s &amp; 70\u2019s, Russ produced dozens of television ad campaigns. Many people are unaware that his business partner, the late George Romero, was a popular director, cinematographer and editor of TV spots before moving on to motion pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Russ asked if I had saved any of the old commercials created by Hartwick-Przyborski Productions. Paul Hartwick (who passed in 2013) and I founded the company in 1975. From 1975 to 1987, \u201cH\/P\u201d produced hundreds of TV commercials for clients and ad agencies across the USA. At one time, we had offices in New York, Chicago and Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>I located several boxes of old 2\u201d and 1\u201d videotape. All these spots were originally shot on 35mm film. In the 70\u2019s &amp; 80\u2019s, commercials were distributed to networks and TV stations, exclusively on videotape.<\/p>\n<p>In no particular running order, I selected 25 commercials. They look and sound so dated when compared to what we do today. Check out the popularity of musical jingles and just how bad electronic title graphics looked 35+ years ago. If you\u2019re over 40, you might remember some of these ads from when they originally aired\u2026<\/p>\n<p>This video is also on Vimeo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/272371561\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/272371561<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 A short time ago, I ran into Russ Streiner, an old friend who\u2019s best known as the producer of George Romero\u2019s, \u201cNight of the Living Dead\u201d. He has the unique distinction of being the first person in the film killed by a zombie. 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