1950s
Dinky Duck in IT’S A LIVING
Dinky Duck ends his short cartoon career by resigning and breaking the fourth wall.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 10, 2014 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Surrealism, Cartoons, 1950s
Let’s Make a Sandwich!
Yum!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 08, 2014 -
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Category: Food, PSA’s, Teenagers, 1950s
Soapy the Germ Fighter
"Why...you're a living cake of soap!"
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 27, 2014 -
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Category: Hygiene, PSA’s, Children, 1950s
The Disembodied
If you like the snippet above, featuring the sensuous writhings of Allison Hayes (Attack of the 50-Foot Woman), then watch the full movie below.
Thanks, BMN!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 25, 2014 -
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Category: Movies, Superstition, Sex Symbols, 1950s
Fighting Ministers
Episcopal ministers participating in role-playing exercises in order to learn how to be more assertive and not always be "knuckling under to overbearing parish members." Here they're participating in the hostility exercise, acting out how an argumentative church group might behave. Source: Life - May 19, 1958
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jul 22, 2014 -
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Category: Religion, 1950s
Driverless Cars of Yesteryear
Why can't Google do a fun ad like this for their robot cars?
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 13, 2014 -
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Category: AI, Robots and Other Automatons, 1950s, Cars, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Magic Slacks with Removable Crotch
[Click to enlarge.]
"For personal daintiness."
Original ad here. (Page 51)
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 11, 2014 -
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Category: Fashion, 1950s, Genitals
Threading the RCA Projector
The latest entry in our boredom contest. This guy's voice is particularly deadly--especially when he repeats the same passage!
However, I now want to say "sprung idler" and "snubber roller" over and over, so the film must have worked!
The fact that this skill is extinct does add a certain piquancy to the boredom, though.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 08, 2014 -
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Category: Boredom, Movies, Technology, 1950s
5-Day Deodorant Pads
Do you have to abstain from washing your pits for five days to make this work and get your money's worth? I note this item still exists. Any experience with it among WUvies?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 30, 2014 -
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Category: Body, Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, 1950s
A Case of Censorship
This brief item ran in the UCLA Librarian newsletter (Nov 1, 1957) and seems WU worthy:
Transcribed text:
Under the above heading the British Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of September 21, 1957, records another round in the running battle with the censorious customs officials. "Now I understand that officials recently impounded a work called Rape Round Our Coasts. I don't know what sort of minds these yahoos have but I hope they enjoyed the book. It is about soil erosion!"
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jun 20, 2014 -
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Category: Censorship, Bluenoses, Taboos, Prohibitions and Other Cultural No-No’s, 1950s
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