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Special
Edition - Over 18 hours!
20 DVD Commercials and Advertisement Box Set
Disc I & II of XX: Classic
Funny Commercials & Ads 2 DVD Set 
  
  
  
   
Brief Synopsis of DVD: These are the best commercials of the
past anthologized into the ultimate 2 DVD collection with over 2 full hours of your favorite funny classic TV
commercials. Do you love funny commercials? Well these are some of the best
classic commercials available from the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s all compiled onto
2 discs. We've preserved these great TV commercials so you can see the old
golden era of television commercial advertising at its monopolistic peak, before
the age of cable TV advertising.
These classic funny TV commercials also
have a lot of educational value and can be used by any educator or scholar
needing real historical visual documentation to further their study of the
history of television or advertising. But despite its great educational value,
what strikes most viewers about these DVDs is how funny these classic
commercials really are. Students will love it so much they won't know they are
learning! It's refreshing to see the wholesome, funny advertising techniques
from the past, which relied more on timeless comedy and shtick than the shock
and awe, invasive psychological television advertising practices of the current
times. Buy this 2 DVD set and see over 2 hours of classic funny commercials and
vintage funny ads.
Table of Contents:
Band Aid (Two commercials)
Gillette two commercials
Remington Electrical Shaver
Mum deodorant
Pepsodent
Chevy (Four commercials...one
has only partial video but all the audio)
Renault
Delco Batteries
Speedway Gasoline '79
Esso Gasoline
Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Muriel cigars
Kool Cigarettes
Marlboro Cigarette
Robert Burns cigars
Winston Cigarette
Ajax Cleaner
SOS Cleaning Pads
Raid Insect Killer
Tide Detergeant
Maxwell House Coffee two
commercials
Tea Council Inc.
Hamm's Beer
Carling Black Label Beer
Rheingold Beer (only partial
commercial)
Budweiser Beer
Ballantine Beer
Gallo Wine
Lipton Soups
Ritz Crackers
Skippy Peanut Butter
EZ Pop Popcorn
Jell-o instant pudding two
commercials
Kroger Grcocery Store
Pet Evaporated Milk
Maypo Cereal
Anderson Soups
Butter Nut Coffee
Potato chip Commercial
Cracker Jacks
Bufferin Aspirin
Volkswagen
Shell Gasoline
Goodyear Tires
Hertz
Dreyfus Financial Fund
Sunbeam Bread three commercials
J.C. Pennys Toys
Newport
Crest (begining there is no video only
audio)
Country Corn Flakes
Alka Seltzer (three commercials)
Dristan Sinus Medicine
Amoco Gasoline
Luslre Crème Shampoo (two commercials)
Goodyear Tires
Coca-Cola
Colt 45 Malt liquor (two commercials)
Volkswagen
Print Dresses Explosion
Bactine Medicated Skin Creme
Noxzema Shaving
Marlboro
American Motors Rambler Dealer
Heinz Pickles
Shearson Hamill Financial
Oil Heat
Visit St. Louis
Telephone History Add
Chevrolet (no sound)
Polaroid
Frigidaire
Disc III of of XX: Driver Safety
Propaganda & Tire Ads
  
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD:
Historic
auto industry films promoting driver safety through education, and by buying new
cars and tires too. These films try to scare the general public into buying a particular
product. Watch the beginning of consumer fear auto advertising in all its
glory.
Title #1:
Chance You Take Running Time: 8 minutes Brief Description:
General Motors sponsored short film that uses fear to sell their tires.
Title #2: Knights on the Highway Production Date:
1938 Running Time: 9 minutes Brief Description:
Chevrolet sponsored night time driving safety film.
Title #3: Safest Place, The Production Date:
1935 Running Time: 6 minutes Brief Description:
Outrageous Chevrolet propaganda film that tries to prove that being in
automobile is "the safest place."
Title #4: Wreckless Production Date:
1935 Running Time: 18 minutes Brief Description: Chevy sponsored film promoting new car
designs and there improved safety for passengers.
Title #5:
Your Permit To Drive Production Date:
1951 Running Time: 9 minutes Brief Description:
Odd General Motors photographic driver education film. This silly film is
narrated by a talking driver's license.
Title #6:
How To Avoid An Accident Running Time: 9 minutes Brief Description:
General Tires film about new high quality tires that contains some interesting
footage of car crashes.
Discs IV of XX: Classic
Tobacco & Cigarette Films
  
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD:
This historic film collection is an amazing
look at the cigarette and tobacco industry from the perspective of an
increasingly cancer conscious mid-century America. Early groundbreaking films
that first discuss the health effects of tobacco and cigarette smoking are
showcased here. Most smoking videos from this era in history were typically just
tobacco industry advertising and marketing propaganda, designed to make the
viewers smoke more or build a healthy mental association with cigarette brand
recognition. That's what makes this DVD collection so unique: it features the
best of the best early anti-smoking films, which were bravely dedicated to
communicating the negative effects of smoking and nicotine, as well as the
dangers of tobacco, to unwary consumers.
Apart from the fantastic content available
in these movies, of great note to viewers is the breathtaking (no pun intended!)
footage and pictures of cigarette smoking, tobacco advertising, tobacco
products, tobacco use and smoking effects. There has always been a lot of money
backing both the pro tobacco industry video productions and the anti tobacco
industry video productions. I think the time and money put into these films
really shows up in the quality of the videos. Ironically, showing video clips of
people smoking cigarettes in these anti smoking films probably continues the
mental nicotine cravings for many addicted consumers. Cigarette smokers will be
the first to tell you that watching someone else smoke usually leads to inner
cravings ... similar to watching another person yawn and then finding yourself
unconsciously yawning. Such is the double-edged sword of the mental addiction
brought on by the addictive additives in tobacco products. The chemicals and
hedonistic drive to consume them continues in the brain, even after recognizing
and understanding the atrocious health effects of smoking. Running time 58
minutes.
Title #1: Up In
Smoke
Production Date:1960
Running Time: 21
minutes
Brief Description:
A greedy tobacco company tries to exploit their customers, risking the health of
the American people for the company's own monetary gain. Sound pretty typical of
the tobacco industry? Watch this film, produced by BYU in the early 1960s, and draw your own conclusions about the
ethical issues at stake.
Title #2: Tobacco and the Human
Body
Production Date:
1954
Running Time: 15
minutes
Brief Description:
Made in 1954, this early "effects of smoking" film shows the
dangers of smoking cigarettes from a medical point of view. This is one of the
first antismoking movies made.
Title #3: You are the Switchman
Production Date:
1951
Running Time: 12
minutes
Brief Description:
A film about noticing the warning signs of
cancer and taking appropriate preventative action, You Are the Switchman
was a groundbreaking video because it was released two years before the link
between smoking cigarettes and cancer was officially out in the open.
Title #4: The Sixth Sense
Production Date:1949
Running Time: 10
minutes
Brief Description:
This film about quality control in the manufacture of cigarettes includes
frightful sections about the "chemical labs" cigarette companies were using to
develop "better" products for consumers. This is an amazingly candid look at the
unbridled production of tobacco products before cigarette industry health
concerns were open forum in America and tobacco companies were forced to account
for what harmful additives they were loading into their products.
Disc V of XX: Automobile
Engineering & Design Films
  
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD: This is an interesting look at the American automobile engineering
industry of the early to mid 20th century. Many of the films discuss the
marvels and importance of American engineering across the board and often make
reference to hydro power as another great American engineering accomplishment.
Strong emphasis on how engineering creates a more efficient productive and
happier America.
Topics Include:
American Automobile Engineering
Early
Car Stylist & Designers
American Engineering & The Economy
Title #1:
American Engineer Production Date:
1956 Running Time: 27 minutes Brief Description:
Film takes a look at, "Engineers, men of energy, masters of dynamics."
Discusses advancements in American engineering such as hydro power, automobile
engineering, precision volume manufacturing and much more.
Title #2:
American Look Production Date:
1958 Running Time:
28 minutes Brief Description:
How an engineer goes through many layers of refinement improvement and revision
to produce new sleek more efficient productive and beautiful designs.
Shows some of the work of early American auto engineers.
Title #3:
Styling & The Experimental Car Production Date:
1960's Running Time:
16 minutes Brief Description:
How the concept of the modern car was born out of the work of stylist and
engineers in the 1920's. Takes a very in depth look at how engineers and
stylist gain inspiration and how they design and style functional and beautiful
automobiles. "The contemporary stylist is part artist, part architect,
part sculpture and product designer.
Title #4:
This Nations Power Production Date:
1940 Running Time:
8 minutes Brief Description:
Strong propaganda film about how engine power fuels Americas industry and how
Americas strength lies within its engineers. After all, America is "a
nation built on industry and power."
Title #5:
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