Summary

Classic Television Commercials (Group 2)

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Title: Classic Television Commercials (Group 2)
File Number: PA-1815 1 inch; IMS-786 Beta SP
Color: N A
Type: Television Commercial
Description: Classic Television Commercials (Group 2) PA 1815 02:29:00:26 ROBERT HALL FAMILY CLOTHES B W Three cartoon crows, a man, woman, and small crow, all sing together on a wire 02:29:24:26 KEDS products of United States Rubber B W Kedso, the cartoon clown, pops out of a tennis shoe and invites the kids to sing along with him He plays some baseball and asks some film boys why they wear Keds Then they appear wearing champawards 02:30:25:22 RCA VICTOR'S PORTABLE RADIO IN NON-BREAKABLE IMPACT CASE B W Betsy displays two portable radios and then drops them off of a ladder Man bangs the radio on a table, as he presents their durability and their 5-year warranty shot through glass above to woman dropping radios off of a ladder CU of them breaking and impacting on the glass Radios on mechanical turntable display 02:31:31:26 BULOVA CLIPPER CONQUERS NIAGARA FALLS B W A watch is attached to a large rubber ball and sent over Niagara Falls and still is ticking A newsman presents the Bulova Clipper watch 02:32:28:27 WESTINGHOUSE STUDIO ONE REVOLVING AGITATOR ELECTRIC WASHER You can be sure if it's Westinghouse B W Four New York Club women stand next to automatic washers three are standing by center post agitator washers One by one they each pull out the towels which after washing are still full of dirt and sand except for the Westinghouse Revolving Agitator automatic washer CU of folded white towels, two cups of dirty sand and one cup of detergent CU shots of dirty wet towels crumpled in a heap 02:38:53:00 MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TASTES AS GOOD AS IT SMELLS B W Inviting the viewers of this commercial to look, taste, hear andSmell the honest coffee smell, smell it!, this Maxwell House ad focuses on the coffee percolator and the percolator theme song CU shots of a coffee pot percolating CU of a cup of coffee being lifted towards the camera 02:39:54:01 INSTANT BUTTER-NUT COFFEE B W A cartoon character, with a late-show presentation, warns the viewers that the ad will employ techniques of subliminal advertising so that he can get all the attention His story is quickly drowned out by fireworks, can-can girls, and marching elephants advertising Butter-Nut Coffee 02:40:56:10 LAURA SCUDDER'S POTATO CHIPS B W An old woman, Laura Scudder, sits in a rocking chair, eating chips that have the wrong sound when she bites into them She decides to make her own chips and researches the perfect potatoes, vegetable oil and salt for her product, all while staying in her rocking chair Eventually she has the perfect potato chip and bites into it, the ceiling falls in around her and she looks pleased 02:41:57:08 CRACKER JACK B W Silent except for some narration at the end, an older man is seen stealing the Cracker Jacks of a sleeping boy next to him on a train When the child wakes up and stares the man in the eye, the narrator says, When it comes to Cracker Jack, some kids never grow up 02:43:00:00 BUFFERIN B W Serious in tone, images shot in close range and shown to the continuous sound of a heart-beat, this Bufferin ad is matter-of-fact about its product being the Modern Drug for pain Darkened screen, sound of a heartbeat ECU pupil of a human eye, slow pan outwards CU of the palm of a hand holding two Bufferin CU of a hand holding an open pocket watch Pan along the chain of a pocket watch 02:44:01:07 VOLKSWAGEN BUG B W A Volkswagen is never changed to make it look different Only to make it work better An Italian designer must decide what changes should be made to the Volkswagen Bug He can find no faults with it, but recommends that starting with the 1958 model, the rear window should be expanded a Volkswagen Bug driving in Milano Italian executives conversing 02:45:32:20 SUPER SHELL GASOLINE B W Ten cars drive in a line across the Mojave Desert The five black cars have regular gasoline, the five white cars have Super Shell gasoline with Platformate A matter-of-fact reporter narrates the guidelines of the experiment while we watch the progress of the cars until the black cars fall behind -- proof of the better mileage for the cars that used Platformate gasoline 02:46:38:09 GOODYEAR b w When snow says No! GO GO GO GOODYEAR! MORE GRIP! Beginning with a snappy drum beat, this fast-paced commercial shows cuts of a man driving in the snow, a train speeding, and the minutes flashing past Suddenly the tire is spinning out in the snow, the horns are belting out a catchy tune, the treads of the tires grip and the GO GOODYEAR text starts flashing on the screen to the music 02:47:48:12 HERTZ RENT A CAR B W Let Hertz put you in the drivers seat A happy couple are adventurously ocean fishing , catch a very large fish and get in a convertible automobile in some very touristy vacation spot where they stop for open passenger trains, drive into a marching band in a street parade, the woman stops and gets her portrait painted, and they get tossed to the shore by a soft ocean wave Finally the couple is seen suspended in the air, happy and holding hands, they gently descend into a convertible driving down an open road 02:48:48:19 THE DREYFUS FUND, INC B W A lion with a full mane casually saunters out of the Wall St subway terminal, walks past a street vendor and a traffic cop unnoticed and slowly enters an executive building to stand on the Dreyfus Fund Inc sign 02:50:14:05 CAMEL CIGARETTES COMEDY CARAVAN B W Directed by Ralph Levy Produced by Harlan Thompson Written by Hal Kanter, Leo Solomon, Caman Jacobs Musical Direction Bud Gluskin Fashions by W Robinson Co CBS Camel Cigarettes sponsor a stage show The curtain opens to another panel with the writing,Camel Cigarettes present Ed Wynn There is a large image of the comedian with a hole for the mouth from which smoke is pouring out The Three Stooges come out on stage during Ed Wynn's act The Camel Movie is an animation sequence with a lion and a trainer and the singing of a jingle See how mild a cigarette can be Then the stage show resumes with a garden setting and the comedy act with The Three Stooges and Helen Forest sings a torch song Bill Foley makes a surprise appearance Make the Camel Thirty Day Mildness Test text revolving around a pack of cigarettes Noted throat specialists reported among those people smoking Camels, NOT ONE SINGLE CASE OF THROAT IRRITATION DUE TO SMOKING CAMELS text appears superimposed on a line of filterless cigarettes CU of a woman smoking a cigarette