1970 - Happy New Year! 40 years ago as seen on TV.

1970 - Happy New Year! Start of new decade as seen on TV 40 years ago. The decade of the 60's was finally over - it took a loooong time to end. Of course it seemed like a long time because I was younger then. Now decades just pop by quickly.

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Travel & Events

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• 1970
• NewYears
• KRON

[WilliamNoack]

Made with my Super 8 camera (which had no sound in those days) on a tripod facing the TV - a camera-copy of live TV. I did the same thing on the first moon landings and other things. That was the only way we could duplicate TV shows in the old days before the miraculous invention of the VCR in the late 70's. I also made camera copies of Star Trek and Doctor Who just in case they never showed up on TV again ever. Boy was I wrong!

[WilliamNoack]

Yes, it is '69 turning into '70... the exciting new number at the start of a new decade, a "seven!" Ten years after that it was another exciting change of the '70's to 1980... saw Blondie on TV for the first time at midnight. 20 years after that was the exciting change from 1999 to 2000 watching about 26 hours of TV as Peter Jennings hosted the Millennium change in all time zones on live TV. I wish I had taped all of that. If anyone has videos of all 26 hours, please let me know!

[WilliamNoack]

Thanks. I made a note on his video upload. His copy is OK with me, but he should have given me attribution. Yes, they didn't have sound Super 8 cameras back when I bought my first 2 Super 8 cameras. Sound came in later. I didn't start making sound films until I got my first Video camera, about 10 years later.

[GhostlyGravestones]

Wow! That's amazing. I actually remember this. Me, my girlfriend, my best buddy, and his date watched this very scene on TV. I remember the "1970" flashing on the screen.

[james65508]

my parents were born in 1977 trying to imagen how that was. I was like dam thats a long time.

[bidox3]

i was blood 

[mishelly38]

Born on Nov.22 1967 i was 2!!

[777justinlover]

I was still a spurm

[formerbritneyfan]

i was two and a half years old when the ball came down that year and read "1970 ",im sure i was sound asleep as well, i wasent allowed up past 8:00 at night back then ,pretty willd.

[altfactor]

KRON was at the time an NBC affiliate, so I suspect this was a live (on the East Coast; this was probably seen at 12 Midnight PST) cut-in on a special edition of "The Tonight Show".

[heine71]

How did you make this?

[ralphh56]

I was 5 going on 6