Summary

DIAMANT COLLECTION REEL 2

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Title: DIAMANT COLLECTION REEL 2
File Number: VTM-22BN Beta SP; NET-442 Beta SP (at 01:00:00:00); DigiBeta
Color: B W
Type: Television Commercial
Year: 01/01/1950
Description: B W 1950s Television commercials, 18 of them, mostly from the 1950s There's an excellent live commercial blooper, and some good car commercials Focus is soft throughout (many of these are kinescopes) 00:00:00:00 B W 1950s Speedway 79 Octane Fuel Animation stick-figure man drives a car 00:01:18:00 B W 1950s Esso Fuel Animation simple graphics and words 00:02:19:00 B W 1950s Chevron Supreme Gasoline Animation sqiggly cartoon man drives car 00:03:25:00 B W 1950s Bank of America Jittery cartoon man goes to bank, gets a loan 00:03:51:00 B W 1950s Yellow Pages Simple animated graphics 00:04:55:00 B W 1950s Robert Hall Family Clothes Animation family of birds singing on telephone wire 00:05:20:00 B W 1950s Keds shoes Cartoon clown sings 00:06:20:00 B W 1950s Chemstrand Corporation Still photos of fashion model 00:07:30:00 B W 1950s RCA Victor Portable Radios Two radios of different brands are dropped from a ladder one breaks, the other doesn't 00:08:38:00 B W 1950s Bulova watches Wrist watch is dropped over Niagara Falls 00:09:35:00 B W 1950s Westinghouse Live commercial for refrigerator Woman demonstrates the fine points of a modern refrigerator, but the door handle is stuck and she can't get the door to open - a blooper She's a smoothie, though, and some offscreen assistant opens the stuck door when the CAM zooms into her face 00:12:30:00 B W 1950s Westinghouse Live commercial featuring Betty Furness and four housewives conducting a test of different brands of washers Three leave towels dirty, the last leaves them snow white! 00:19:00:00 B W 1950s Dodge cars Excellent montage of car factory, assembly line 00:21:11:00 B W 1950s Chevrolet trucks from 1957 Trucks driving at night, on dirt roads, mountain roads 00:25:00:00 B W 1950s Renault Dauphine car Man on roller skates sped-up footage of car driving 00:26:05:00 B W 1950s 1959 Chevrolet Dinah Shore and Pat Boone sing and dance on a set of Chevrolet logos Takeoff on subliminal advertising 00:28:00:00 B W 1950s 1958 Chevrolet Impala Stylish commercial Dad relents and lets son borrow the convertible for his prom date 00:30:21:00 B W 1950s 1959 Chevrolet Stylish commercial family in the car showroom
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