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Meanwhile, back in the land of fun fan videos, we take mouse in hand to steal access a cheerful little winner circulated by David J. Schow, a stop-motion Ray Harryhausen tribute by ‘artguy53’, or John Jordan. It’s half Gumby-fun, half cute video manipulations, and very ambitious:

The Beast from 10,000 Fathoms. 

→ Just to be a good sport about filching column items from David, here’s a link to what I think is his latest film book, a follow-up to his famed reference tome, the OOP Outer Limits Companion:

David J. Schow’s   The Outer Limits at 60,  from just one year ago. 

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And this is wildly off-topic, but contributor Michael McQuarrie came up with an oddball winner…

…. an Internet Archive posting of 16 different

Sixties Coca-Cola Commercials

from 1965-1969. They’re credited as coming from radio airchecks; the compiler might be named Bobby Curtola. Apparently Coca-Cola commissioned scads of these things, from name talent; the selection here includes B.J. Thomas,  The Box Tops,  The Drifters,  Aretha Franklin and  The Bee Gees. The jingles aren’t all masterpieces … The Bee Gees’ melancholy take plays as a parody. The lyric that got me was this winner from B.J. Thomas:

“Crackers and Cheese — let me have a napkin, please!”

The tracks are apparently from a Record Album which may or not be OOP … it lists more tracks from  The Moody Blues,  Los Bravos,  Petula Clark,  Tom Jones,  Lulu,  The Box Tops,  The Troggs,  Leslie Gore,  The Supremes,  Marvin Gaye … the list goes on.

Yes, I know — the French ad is from 2016, not the ’60s.

 

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson