Hello Dolly on Broadway with Ethel Merman; college kids on a world-wide college course-cruise; Japan's World Fair, the Canastas Quints in New Jersey; the war in Vietnam; the Kent State riot and student shootings; an anti-smoking cruise; Nassar dies in Egypt and Sadat takes over, with subsequent attacks on Israel; terrorist kidnappings in Canada; the death of the mini skirt; Solzhenitsyn receiving the Nobel Prize; U.S. Postal workers on strike (6 cents to mail a letter!); the Penn Central train line goes bankrupt; the Boeing 747 is introduced -- along with hot pants!

The Sensational 70's, a ten-part Canadian documentary produced in 1979 by Philip S. Hobel, that looks at the highlights and curious sidelights of that famed decade. I grew up during the 1970s, so many of the people and the events were familiar to me, but you don't have to have lived through the 1970s to enjoy The Sensational 70's. Culled entirely from archival footage, The Sensational 70's largely employs grainy, washed-out 16mm news footage to give the viewer a kaleidoscopic view of each year (I love the disco music intro that sounds like the tracks they played at the drive-in, for the concession stand promos). Produced in 1979 as a summation of the decade, The Sensational 70's itself has become a time capsule; its rough look and its eclectic choices in what to highlight add a heavy nostalgic factor for viewers who remember how 1970s documentaries used to look and sound.

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