VINTAGE COMMERCIAL COMPILATIONS

WE HAVE TAKEN GREAT CARE AND PRIDE IN COMPILING SEVERAL HOURS' WORTH OF RARE TV ADVERTISING FROM NEARLY FORTY-FIVE YEARS OF BROADCASTING. THESE DVDs HIGHLIGHT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TV COMMERCIAL FROM ITS EARLIEST STAGES TO ITS CURRENT STATUS AS A VISUAL ART FORM. YOU'LL FIND THESE DVDs ARE VERY ENTERTAINING AND VERY EDUCATIONAL!

404 VINTAGE COMMERCIALS, I

A full 60 minutes of commercials from the 1950s and 1960s, featuring many animated as well as celebrity stars. See Lucy and Desi, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore, Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, Danny Thomas and Jean Hagen all pitching everything from cereal to appliances. Phil Silvers, Groucho Marx, and Joey Bishop are just a few of the many more in this non-stop presentation of commercials from the days when advertisers could get away with just about anything. See a cigarette company claim how "you'll feel better" and that "coughs due to smoking disappear" when using their product. You've never realized how entertaining an hour of commercials can be! Also included are TV series promos, and a segment hosted by Dave Garroway that features long clips from Gangbusters, The Roy Rogers Show, You Bet Your Life, and many others!

408 VINTAGE COMMERCIALS, II

By popular demand, here's another full hour of classic television commercials from the 1950s and 1960s featuring more celebrities and more outrageous ads! See Buster Keaton, the Three Stooges, Jack Benny, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Louise Lasser, Steve Allen, Jay North, Anita Bryant, Lucie Arnaz, Vivian Vance, Ernie Kovacs, John Cameron Swayze and the missing watch, Jack Somack and his spicy meatballs, Bucky Beaver, and a peanut butter commercial you won't believe (how about spreading some on that baked ham, or put some in that pot of baked beans?!) Also, some foreign commercials, and a special segment from the 1960s featuring Josephine the Plumber, Mr. Whipple, and Mrs. Olson.

417 VINTAGE COMMERCIALS, III

Here we go again with another hour of classic TV commercials, this time with an emphasis on 1950s ads and famous jingles. You'll see Andy Devine, Hilary Brooke, Lucy and Desi, Dwayne Hickman, plus more. Relive those famous jingles "You'll wonder where the yellow went", "Nothin' says lovin' like somethin' from the oven", "You get a lot to like with a Marlboro", and many more. ALSO INCLUDED: A 1939 newsreel depicting America's first glimpse of television at the 1939 New York World's Fair!

432 VINTAGE COMMERCIALS, IV

Another 60-minute assortment of classic commercials from the past, this time including a generous assortment of series promos from the 50s and 60s. You'll also see plenty of celebrity-endorsed products featuring Danny Kaye, Lucy and Desi, Hugh Downs, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Arthur Godfrey, Dick Powell, and more. See everything from cereal to autos to candy to cigarettes to toys being pitched; plus more of those famous jingles: "Ajax, the Blue-Dot Cleanser", "Chewy Chewy Tootsie Roll", "I've Got Snickers", "Captain Action", and much more!

458 VINTAGE COMMERCIALS, V

Here's 60 more minutes of vintage commercial fun. In this volume, we begin with some color spots from the 1960s including car, cigarette, cereal, and toy ads, and products pitched by Bing Crosby, Mel Blanc, Tony Dow, Elizabeth Montgomery, Jimmy Durante, John Wayne, and more. Then, we zip you back to the 1950s and early 1960s for some B&W commercial spots featuring Laurel and Hardy, Bea Benaderet and Edgar Buchanan, Allan Sherman, and others. See the very first Certs commercial (it's 2 mints in one!), the very first Rolaids ad, early Brylcreem spots, plus the famous pizza roll commercial, and a public service commercial for a social disease you just won't believe! To conclude this volume, we've added "FIRE AT THE MINE", a 10-minute promo for the new 1936 Dodge, the amazing supercar that can out-run a speeding train, climb tall mountains without the use of a road, and rescue people from a burning coal mine. It's only appropriate that John Hamilton (Perry White of TV's "Superman") stars in this hilarious piece of propaganda!

485 VINTAGE COMMERCIALS, VI

This volume may be our best one yet! Here's a partial list of what's on this one: Mystery Date, Racko, and Easy Money games, the very first "Jolly Green Giant" spot, the famous Kodak "turn around" ad, a Swinger camera commercial featuring Ali MacGraw, Soaky bubble bath, Funny Face drink mix, Suzy Cute doll with Louis Armstrong appearing and singing the jingle, Secret Sam toy spy kit, plus Dick Van Dyke and the rest of the gang for Kent cigarettes, a very young Mike Wallace for Cheerios, and more! Then there are the famous spots like "Wow! It sure doesn't taste like tomato juice", the coffee commercial where they pour a cup and a half, the one where you guess which one is the mother and which one is the daughter (do you really care?), some incredibly campy spots for spray starch, plus much more!

515 VINTAGE COMMERCIALS, VII

We've spent the last two years compiling this all-new assortment of terrific commercials from the 1950s and 1960s, this time featuring mostly animated spots selling everything from cereal to cars to cigarettes to soft drinks to candy, and much more! We've also included several celebrity spots with folks like Buster Keaton, Lucy and Desi, Mary Tyler Moore, Joe E. Brown, Groucho Marx, and others. You'll hear some familiar catch phrases, and sing along with famous jingles, too! Nothing on this cassette has been previously released in our earlier volumes. We know you'll appreciate the hard work we put into editing this new volume!

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