Waiting for the new television sets (1940s)
All but the Tone of the Horn!
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Songbird Irene Bordoni !
(and now I am off to get my hair done! :) queue on! xo xo )
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Artist’s conception of home use of video recording: the entertainment of the future. With a small tape recorder and a portable TV vidicon camera, TV pictures may be recorded on tape for immediate playback on the family picture-frame TV set. From Video Tape Recording by Julian Bernstein (1960.)
Young & Rubicam: Jiminy, a real selling idea in an ad keeps me busier than a flea on a hot griddle!
George Burns and Gracie Allen for Spam, 1940 (via Vintage Ad Browser)
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“The ‘Crave for Candy’ is a call for energy.”
Council on Candy of the National Confectioners’ Association. Printed in Life, March 1947.
Candy’s dandy, keep it handy
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1916 Woodbury Soap ad. These were very popular with ladies as they were pretty and romantic. You could even order your own copy, suitable for framing!
Helen Lansdowne at J Walter Thompson was the main copywriter on this campaign; she later married Stanley Resor and they ran the agency together.
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To get more young people interested in science, GE produced a series of comics. This one from 1953 taught children about electricity.
The business of broadcasting = advertising
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