watch it: 1950s/1960s Bounty paper towel commercial
Imagine, if you can, a time when paper towels did not exist, and had to be invented, and then sold to harried housewives with misbehaving dogs and children…
1960s
Secretariat (review)
It starts out all sad music at momma’s funeral and we gots to sell the horse farm, but dang if nobody can keep Diane Lane down.
watch it: 1960s Pepsi ad
Gee willikers, everyone knows that only old fogies drink Coke!
retro trailer: ‘Help!’
In honor to what would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday today, a look back at one of the silliest movies ever made. And I mean that as a compliment.
watch it: 1960s Lucky Strike commercial
This ad wasn’t made by Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, but it could have been. Before they lost the Lucky Strike account, that is.
watch it: 1960s Newport cigarette commercial
Ah, no! The happy beach smokers are jumping out of the TV!
watch it: retro 1960s Mattel V-rroom! commercial
Did Mattel make a big-boy vroom for when the training wheels came off?
retro trailer: ‘Children of the Damned’
Those darn damned kids: they’ve learned to blend in and look like any ol’ ordinary Earth kids, all the better to zap our brains and stuff.
retro trailer: ‘The Village of the Damned’
Ah, it was the beginning of the subgenre of horror movies about demonic children that would enjoy a solid run in the 1960s and 70…
watch it: 1960’s Hai Karate commercial
Ah. I always knew Hai Karate was kind of a joke, but now I understand why: It was the Axe body spray of my father’s generation.
