Intermission Ads:  An Abandoned Artform











Artforms are not eternal. Sonnets don't get written much anymore. And certainly the Golden Age of the intermission advertisement is, lamentably, long gone.

     Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 12, 2012
     Category: Art | Food | Movies | Advertising | 1950s | 1960s





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I don't remember any intermission ads (or intermission for that matter) at the drive ins. My girl had a Nash Rambler!
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 11/12/12 at 10:43 AM
"The management regrets that it will not be showing a feature film this evening as it eats into the profits."

-- Monty Python
Posted by John Armstrong on 11/12/12 at 10:54 AM
I remember the intermission fillers. The family would go to the local drive-in fifty years ago and I learned my first lesson about advertising: no matter how bad the food looked on the screen, the real stuff was even worse. Hamburgers the size of a dime for $1.25 and pizza which was no more than a ten inch round of grease slathered cardboard for $5.00 and soft drinks which were 90% filled with stale tasting ice. Not much has changed between then and now, except for the prices. Though the cartoons of dancing food were kind of funny. 😊
Posted by KDP on 11/12/12 at 04:59 PM
Some more here and good side links to others:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNs-a2P8IIU
Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 11/12/12 at 05:12 PM
I remember the drive in when I was a kid! Mom took me and several of my friends to the drive in for my 13th birthday. It was so much fun. It was a double feature. Grand Theft Auto with Ron Howard was the second show but I cannot remember what the main feature was anymore. Well, it was 35 years ago.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/12/12 at 09:23 PM
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