This
week at
Flashbak, I remembered the great Leonard Nimoy’s stint as a spokesman for
Magnavox products.
Here’s
a snippet, and the url: (http://flashbak.com/leonard-nimoy-magnavox-brightest-ideas-world-play-48959/)
“William
Shatner is known as a pitchman extraordinaire for products including Promise
Margarine, the Commodore VIC-20, and Priceline.com. His Star Trek (1966-1969) co-star,
Leonard Nimoy also had a career hawking products, however. Most memorably, Mr. Nimoy acted in the early
1980s as the spokesman for Magnavox, manufacturer of TVs and high-tech home
video products.
For
example, Mr. Nimoy hawked the One Star System Color TV sets by Magnavox, which
combined “advanced design concepts, high
technology, and new manufacturing systems to deliver the highest level of
reliability in Magnavox history.”
Mr.
Nimoy also promoted the Magnavox Videodisc player – an early laserdisc player –
which was described by the company as “gourmet
video,” or “video for people who know
and love video.”
Specifically,
Mr. Nimoy starred in a promotional video (actually produced for the video-disc
format), describing how the Magnavox system works.
In
this video, a glowing, colored, translucent alien rock appears in a 1980s
living room, and Nimoy – taking on the dispassionate tones of everybody’s
favorite half-Vulcan, Mr. Spock – explains to it the specifics of the Magnavox
system. The rock only speaks in beeps
and whistles, but Nimoy seems to understand its language, and respond with a lesson
on laser-disc technology.”
Continue
reading at
Flashbak!
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