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Follies of the Madmen #374
Advertising trumps Nature every time!
From The American Legion Magazine for June 1947.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 14, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Nature, 1940s, Alcohol
Follies of the Madmen #373
Somehow, anti-knock engine supplement conflated with performing saintly miracles.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 07, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Motor Vehicles, Religion, 1930s
The CGI of 1985
1985 Clio Award winning Television commercial done for Canned Foods Information Council by San Francisco ad agency of Ketchum Communications. [This] spot, "Brilliance," won in Computer Animation category and featured a voice-over by motion picture star, Kathleen Turner.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 06, 2018 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Business, Advertising, Food, Robots, Computers, Special Effects, 1980s
Follies of the Madmen #372
Sentient cigarette fulfills its duties as matchmaker, despite dying an excruciating fiery death.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 30, 2018 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Tobacco and Smoking, 1930s
Follies of the Madmen #371
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 25, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, 1950s, Head
Follies of the Madmen #370
Continuing our intermittent series: I ALWAYS TAKE SHOPPING ADVICE FROM PUPPETS
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 20, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Motor Vehicles, Puppets and Automatons, 1940s
Follies of the Madmen #369
Not the kind of iconography that would be favored in today's ads.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 16, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Stereotypes and Cliches, Tobacco and Smoking, 1970s
World Trade Week Queen
...World Trade Week, which begins May 18 and winds up on Harbor Day, following Sunday. Princess Los Angeles will be Miss World Trade Week, the queen. Other girls her honor court. Chosen by Junior Chamber of Commerce of various cities. Left to right: Eloise Koch, World Trade Week Queen, of Los Angeles; Princes Bianca Detert, standing, San Pedro; Jane Stevenson, Princess Wilmington, and Joyce Niederberger, Princess Long Beach.
"The Princess of Los Angeles" or "The Princess of Long Beach" would make great movie titles.
Original photo here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 14, 2018 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Business, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Regionalism, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #368
Cigarettes tied to alarming increase in skirt flareups!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 09, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Tobacco and Smoking, 1990s
Follies of the Madmen #367
Godzilla-sized soap bar terrorizes city.
Original ad here (page 258).
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 04, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Hygiene, 1910s
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