Monday fun: fossil fuel vintage videos

January 18, 2010
by Antonio Pasolini
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Still from Written On The Wind (1956)
Energy Refuge kicks off the week in vintage mood with some fossil fuel advertising, news and film footage of yore. These videos are reminders that fossil fuel really is a thing of the past and the future belongs to renewable energy.

Texaco Gasoline (Jack Benny) advert (1950s)

Trailer for Douglas Sirk’s iconic melodrama Written On The Wind (1956), whose set is set against the backdrop of Texan oil money and a dysfunctional family that rules the area. This feverish movie drills deep into the human psyche!

1973 BP Gas commercial – “Jack Rabbit Starts”

Leslie Nielson (Airplane, Naked Gun) talks about America’s dependency on foreign oil in this 1981 Shell commercial.

Trouble starts to brew … NBC Nightly News coverage (October 1973) of OPEC’s decision to cut exports of oil to the United States along with other nations.

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Antonio Pasolini

London-based, Italo-Brazilian journalist and friend of the earth.

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