Post 534 - Mixing Media from 1975 - "20 Organic Hits" gets a make-over

This is a commercial spoof I wrote to begin an organic chemistry lab instruction tape.  That tape now exists only as a decomposing fourth-generation dupe.  I salvaged the sound and trimmed out specific commercial and instructor references (the classic text "Morrison and Boyd" figured prominently) and then reconstructed the visuals.  

Again, I used my 10-year outmoded Flash CS5 because, well, because I actually own that software and don't have to pay a monthly Adobe tribute, nor do I need the internet in order to make a film.  I am such a luddite.  But it's sooooooooo much easier than doing the graphics and overlays "live" during the days of linear-only video edits!

It's almost 50 seconds!  Commercials were so much longer in the 70's!  These puns were considered groaners even then...

 This "restoration" is (c) 2023, MMCCIII, by Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary

A blast from 1974

Ev Nienhouse was among the finest instructors to stimulate a frontal cortex - and in the 1970s, when the concept of college video production was something other folks did, he and Gary Nash created a series of instructional tapes that were meant to run in tandem with the Morrison and Boyd textbook in use at Ferris State College.  With laboratory work being somewhat dry (or somewhat explosive, depending on the reagents used), they enlisted some student help to create 'commercials' for the course.  Here is one, back when we all had more hair, and it was mostly one color....