The "Now Explosion" first aired in Atlanta on Channel 36 in 1970. It was a Top 40 music program which, along with airing the current songs of the day, showed images to go with the music, all to the patter of an unseen DJ. Images came from promotional films and videotapes from the bands' management, but the show's producer, Bob Whitney, also created in-studio and on-location film and tape images to play with the songs. He created psychedelic visual effects over the images, producing rapid zooms, shapes morphing on top of images, multiple colors and images. The show is a very good depiction of the music, cultural imagery, and clothing styles of the late 1960s and early 1970s. For more detailed information on the creation of the show, please see show producer Bob Whitney's webpage as well as an article about the show which appeared in the Atlanta Journal Constitution on November 4, 2000.

The archives of this program consist of 1" original videotape, 2" original videotape, 16mm original film, BetaSP preservation masters, and VHS viewing copies. Programs may be viewed on site in the Libraries Media Department. For licensing information, contact the Media Department Head. Please be aware that complex underlying rights in the music depicted and played on the program will restrict reuse.

An inventory of demo tapes, sample reels, and program tapes is available in the Media Department. Contact Archivist Margie Compton at margie@uga.edu

16mm film productions in the collection which were made by Whitney and his staff to go with songs aired include the following titles:
25 or 6 to 4
A-B-C
All in the Game
All Right Now
Amazing Grace
American Woman
Be My Baby
Bojangles
Born to Wander
Candida
Cecelia
Celebrate
Close to You
Closer to Home
Cracklin' Rosie
Easy Rider
Engine #9
Everybody's Leavin' Town
Everything is Beautiful
Fire and Rain
For the Love of Him
Funny Little Clown
Georgie Girl
Grazin' in the Grass
Green Eyed Lady
Groovy Situation
Heaven Help Us All
House of the Rising Sun
I Think I Love You
I Want to Be Free
I Who Have Nothing
I'll Be There
If You Could Read My Mind
In the Summertime
In the Year 2525
Indiana Wants Me
Instant Karma
It's Only Make Believe
Julie Do You Love Me
Knock 3 Times
Leavin' on a Jet Plane
Let it Be
Little Green Bag
Long Lonesome Highway
Love is Blue
Love Me or Let Me Be Lonely
Love on a Two-Way Street
Make it With You
Make Your Own Kind of Music
My Baby Loves Love
My Sweet Lord
Next Stop Love
No Time
Oh Happy Day
One Bad Apple
Only Make Believe
Our House
Out in the Country
Peace Will Come
Potpourri
Reach Out
See Me, Feel Me
Share the Land
She's a Woman
Shilo
Signs
Sit Yourself Down
Solitary Man
Somebody's Been Sleeping
Somethin's Burnin'
Spirit in the Sky
Tears of a Clown
Tell it All, Brother
The Love You Save
Those Were the Days
Toast and Marmalade
Up Around the Bend
Vehicle
Watching Scotty Grow
We've Only Just Begun
Which Way Billy