Seconded! If there were a feeling I could summon about the turn of the 70s and 80s as a child, it was the uncomfortable cringe of being forced to watch things l

Seconded! If there were a feeling I could summon about the turn of the 70s and 80s as a child, it was the uncomfortable cringe of being forced to watch things like these Moog dancers and other bizarre "arts" content. Perhaps it was my upbringing, but if you asked me to describe the late 1970s in Toronto, it would be that adults of that era just seemed creepy and irresponsible. 1970s TV was a bunch of turtleneck and beret wearing, moustached, communist acid heads working for public broadcasters trying to subvert American dominance. The "film strips" I watched as a child in classrooms from Canada's National Film Board were dementedly surreal. The electronic band Boards of Canada were apparently directly inspired by them. I have been tempted to pitch a netflix series set in a public broadcaster making decisions about film funding and distributing those things to elementary schools, and how absolutely insane these people must have been. Chainsmoking theorists and Quebecois nationalists with government expense accounts trying to create a post-national global society through conceptual art during the hangover from the Montreal Expo. Americans in the 1970s had rock music. Canada had something else. You have no idea how weird this place was. A kind of greater soviet Wisconsin run by small town French pseudointellectuals. That whole era was just gross.