# @cowmissing on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=yUUwTMpVbhk
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/38579971-cowmissing-youtube
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/a2cb6b94da.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-01-04T17:07:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Cow Missing (@CowMissing) — https://gondola.cc/CowMissing

## Caption

This vintage television commercial showcases the Kodak Instamatic X 15F camera through the eyes of a child visiting the Universal Studios Tour (Universal Studios Hollywood). Throughout the spot, the camera captures iconic sights across the park, including the Six Points Texas Western street set, Prop Plaza (Hollywood Terrace), featuring the Phantom of the Opera, and scenes aboard the Studio Tour Tram at the Jaws attraction.

The commercial also features Diff'rent Strokes actor Todd Bridges, tying together Hollywood television and theme park history in a single snapshot of the era. This ad illustrates how Universal Studios was marketed as both a working film studio and a family-friendly destination in the late twentieth century.

Preserved from the original broadcast, this commercial serves as a visual time capsule of Universal Studios Tour locations, classic Kodak consumer photography, and television culture of the period.

"And for less than $15.00! The most inexpensive Kodak camera you can give."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, June 10, 1978.

About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The Museum of Classic Chicago Television, also known as MCCTv and FuzzyMemoriesTV, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to preserving and showcasing off-air early home videotape recordings, primarily from the 1970s through the early 1980s. These recordings, captured initially from television broadcasts in Chicago and other cities, are at risk of being lost forever if not located and digitally preserved. If you have videotapes from the 1970s recorded off television, or would like to help support this preservation effort by donating or lending tapes for digital conversion, please contact [tapes@fuzzy.tv](mailto:tapes@fuzzy.tv). Your support is vital to preserving television history for future generations. For more information, visit [www.FuzzyMemories.TV](http://www.FuzzyMemories.TV).

© 1978 Eastman Kodak Company. All Rights Reserved.

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## Stats

- **Views:** 479
- **Likes:** 13
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## Tags

kodak, classictelevision, jaws, universalstudioshollywood, photographyhistory, filmhistory, cowmissing, vintagecommercial, universalstudiostour, diffrentstrokes, themeparkhistory, toddbridges, televisionarchives, studiotour, kodakinstamatic, retrotv

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