Advertising
Little Baby’s Creepy Ice Cream Ads
Little Baby's existed as an ice cream company from 2011 to 2019. Their ads won them publicity, but I doubt they made many people want to try their product.More info: Wikipedia
The director explains how the ads were shot:
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jul 11, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Advertising
Follies of the Madmen #482
A kind of housewife voodoo.
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Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 10, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Appliances, 1950s, Christmas
Cranberry Candles
Make mayonnaise candles a holiday tradition...
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 03, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Advertising, 1960s
Sack O’ Sauce
I'm sure the product tasted fine, but the name would give me pause.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jun 30, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Advertising, 1950s
Forty Commercial Minutes from 1969
An absolutely fascinating time capsule of absurdity, sincerity and mendacity in a vanished era.Note how much pop culture had infiltrated advertising, such as the YELLOW SUBMARINE-style animation in several cases.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 28, 2020 -
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Category: Advertising, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #481
Isn't it the offending husband who is usually the spouse assigned to sleep in the tub?
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Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 26, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Domestic, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Husbands, Wives, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #480
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 18, 2020 -
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Category: Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Deliberate Obscurity, Business, Advertising, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Fashion, 1940s
Follies of the Madmen #479
UPDATED: the source.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 12, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Emotions, Underwear, 1960s
Take a good look
Take a good look at the gratuitous image of a scantily clad model, and then consider if you need an air raid warning system.
The American City - Oct 1954
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jun 11, 2020 -
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Category: Advertising, 1950s
Novel Device for Stopping a Runaway Horse
If you read the words on the "counterweight," they say, "Recommendations for Reichenbach's Tile Drains." So this is a humorous advertisement rather than an actual patent. But I would not be surprised if someone somewhere had come up with such an idea.
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Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 07, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Humor, Nineteenth Century
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