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.
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.
"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.
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.
"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.
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."
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.
