I was on archive.org and I came across this two hour long video made by an art professor doing a video diary talking about his daily life from October 1971 to January of 1972. Most amateur home footage from this era was done on silent 8MM film, so to find videotape footage with sound from the early 1970s even though its in black in white, is pretty interesting. Would anyone consider this to be somewhat of a "proto-vlog?"

https://archive.org/details/XFR_2013-08-15_2A_02

Here's some more early videotaped home movies from the 1970s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lmKUAyDtsg&frags=pl%2Cwn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTUjAqjQOYo&frags=pl%2Cwn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvCCPHer288&frags=pl%2Cwn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gm3QKVg7co&frags=pl%2Cwn

LOL - Late Boomer here.  I watched a few minutes of the 2 hour video (I might watch more later).  Something that jumped out at me quickly was his coffee cup, as we used to use coffee cups like that when I was a pre-teen/teenager (70's) and they have gone out of fashion; I haven't seen one of them for years.  It was basically a hard plastic "holder" and then disposable plastic "inserts" where you would use a new one every day.  It was called "SOLO Cozy Cup".

I found an image on Google:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/83/82/ab/8382abe48632fee3689d42dedca994c1.jpg

In regards to his overall "look", nothing unusual about it.    8)

LOL - Late Boomer here.  I watched a few minutes of the 2 hour video (I might watch more later).  Something that jumped out at me quickly was his coffee cup, as we used to use coffee cups like that when I was a pre-teen/teenager (70's) and they have gone out of fashion; I haven't seen one of them for years.  It was basically a hard plastic "holder" and then disposable plastic "inserts" where you would use a new one every day.  It was called "SOLO Cozy Cup".

I found an image on Google:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/83/82/ab/8382abe48632fee3689d42dedca994c1.jpg

In regards to his overall "look", nothing unusual about it.    8)


Yup. I asked my dad about those cups and he knows all about them too.

Some more 1970s early videotape home movies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU8SQMFzopc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqABvuLEHJA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30PD1WZBr4M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8I-F6YnD8c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B6ZKSXw48A

LOL - Late Boomer here.  I watched a few minutes of the 2 hour video (I might watch more later).  Something that jumped out at me quickly was his coffee cup, as we used to use coffee cups like that when I was a pre-teen/teenager (70's) and they have gone out of fashion; I haven't seen one of them for years.  It was basically a hard plastic "holder" and then disposable plastic "inserts" where you would use a new one every day.  It was called "SOLO Cozy Cup".

I found an image on Google:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/83/82/ab/8382abe48632fee3689d42dedca994c1.jpg

In regards to his overall "look", nothing unusual about it.    8)


I remember those cups well! A job I had in the 70s and 80s used them for the coffee they provided to the employees. It was quite a task at the end of the shift to gather all the cup bottoms up from the various desks and put them back at the coffee station. The cup part was usually already discarded in the trash, but the reusable bottoms had a way of getting scattered all over. This type of cup was seldom use for home use, it was generally for offices and other places that might be providing coffee to the public. Some cafeterias had them also.