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1950 - What Makes a Good Party Posted by: stantonz
Video duration: 632 seconds 1950s educational video about what, infact, makes a "good" party. Related: 1950s, camp, campy, films, hygiene, instructional, kitsch, party, prelinger, propaganda, school, teens |
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What to Do On a Date - 1950 Posted by: stantonz
Video duration: 645 seconds A 1950s instructional film telling teens what they should do on a date. Related: 1950s, date, films, hygiene, instructional, prelinger, propaganda, school, teens |
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1960 - Wonderful New World of Ford Posted by: stantonz
Video duration: 181 seconds A wonderful promotional video for Ford Motors' new cars in 1960: The Galaxy, The Thunderbird, and The Falcon. This ad is a great throwback to the early 1960s and JFK era of innocence. Featuring an empty field with just the three cars and a horde of men and women in their ballroom best, the ad is awash in kitschy elegance. Related: 1950s, 1960s, advertising, automobiles, campy, cars, falcon, ford, galaxy, jfk, kitsch, mcnamara, thunderbird |
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Reg Kehoe and His Marimba Queens Posted by: stantonz
Video duration: 143 seconds Enjoy the exuberant song stylings of 1940s act Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens. Featuring bizarre, kitschy showmanship - particularly on the part of the bass player, who goes wild about halfway through the video. Related: 1940s, bass, campy, esquivel, kitschy, marimba, offbeat, percussion, prelinger, weird, xylophone |
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1948 - Lucky Strike Marching Cigarettes Ad Posted by: stantonz
Video duration: 60 seconds From 1948, this stop-motion animation ad shows Lucky Strike Cigarettes marching military-style. L.S/M.F.T. = Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco Related: 1940s, 1950s, ad, advertising, camp, cigarettes, kitsch, lucky, strike, tobacco |
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1950s Skippy Peanut Butter Ad Posted by: stantonz
Video duration: 94 seconds "Fifty to sixty years ago, people were introduced to peanut butter to the first time," begins this 1950s ad for Skippy peanut butter. Following a brief history of peanut butter (though no mention of George Washington Carver), we are told that while children enjoyed peanut butter, adults hated it - until, of course, the advent of Skippy. Related: 1950s, 1960s, ads, butter, camp, campy, children, classic, jelly, jif, kids, kitsch, pb&j, peanut, skippy |
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1950s Budweiser Ad Posted by: stantonz
Video duration: 63 seconds From the 1950s and 1960s, this is a Budweiser ad featuring a beach, a woman listening to a sea shell, jazz music from a flute, and "the most inviting glass of beer you've ever tasted." Related: 1950s, 1960s, alcohol, beer, budweiser, camp, campy, flute, jazz, kitsch, prelinger, seashell |
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1950s Rheingold Beer Ad Posted by: stantonz
Video duration: 51 seconds Bottles and cans of Rheingold beer march in a stop-motion New York street parade. Some of the bottles play instruments, others carry flags, pull a street organ made of cans of Rheingold. Others yet ride in a Rheingold train across a bridge, and we close with the image of a keg floating through the sky like a blimp. Related: 1940s, 1950s, advertisement, animation, beer, campy, kitsch, manhattan, motion, parade, rheingold, stop, stop-motion |
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1940 - Your Town: A Story of America Posted by: stantonz
Video duration: 656 seconds Produced by the National Association of Manufacturers in 1940, this film offers a rebuke to communism. Teenage Jerry has been wooed by the anti-capitalists down at the plant, so Grampa Robinson gives Jerry a long talk about the history of the town, which has been built - just like America - on capitalism. Related: 1940s, 1950s, america, capitalism, economics, manufacturing, patriotism, plant, propaganda, small, town, unions |
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Labour Party PEB Political Ad 2005 Posted by: stantonz
Video duration: 280 seconds The first Labour PEB of the 2005 UK elections, featuring Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and directed by Anthony Minghella Related: 2005, ad, blair, brown, campaign, gordon, labour, peb, political, politics, tony, uk |
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1960 - Your Name Here Posted by: stantonz
Video duration: 608 seconds "Your Name Here" shows the form of promotional videos, and where a corporation or organization could easily place their name in such a formulaic video. Related: 1950s, 1960s, advertising, corporations, formulas |
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Stonehenge - Papa Baba Ganush and the Kabob All-Stars Posted by: stantonz
Video duration: 291 seconds Papa Baba Ganush and the Kabob All-Stars cover the song "Stonehenge" by Spinal Tap. Related: music, spinal, stongehenge, tap |
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Crest Toothpaste "Tennis" Posted by: stantonz
Video duration: 40 seconds In a 1960s television ad for Crest toothpaste, two teenage boys play tennis. One, Bill, is clearly the better athlete, causing the other boy to lament, "I never beat Bill. Except once, in a toothpaste test." The moral, of course, is though Bill is the better athlete, he uses an inferior toothpaste, and will get more cavities than our Crest-using friend. Related: 1950s, 1960s, ads, advertising, campy, cavities, classic, colgate, crest, dental, dentist, high, hygiene, kitsch, school, teeth |
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1960s - Miami Go-Go! Jet National Posted by: stantonz
Video duration: 59 seconds An ad from the 1960s for Jet National, advertising vacations to Miami with exciting young adults dancing to hip go-go music. "It's Miami at a 'go-go' price. ... Have yourself a go-go vacation at America's riviera!" Related: 1950s, 1960s, advertisement, airplane, campy, culture, dancing, go-go, hip, hipster, jet, kitsch, miami, pop, travel, traveling, youth |
