retro trailer: ‘Halloween’
This trailer is as boring as the actual film, but at least it’s shorter.
1970s
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: 1970s Ginsu knife ad
One of the great mysteries of life remains: Who needs to cut a tin can with a knife?
watch it: 1970s Atari commercial
Ah, remember when…?
watch it: 1970s Oscar Mayer bologna commercial
Oscar Mayer, 1970s, advertising, retro
retro trailer: ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother’
Enjoy Gene Wilder as a consulting detective who is even smarter than Sherlock Holmes, but somewhat more emotional…
watch it: 1970s Mean Joe Green Coca-Cola ad
Perhaps the most classic of classic ads:
retro trailer: ‘1776’
Take a look back at an old trailer… Happy Fourth of July to my readers in the U.S. (To everyone else, happy Sunday.) It’s as disgusting in Philadelphia today — and in New York, too — as it was on this same day 234 years ago, as they all sing about here (well, in the … more…
retro trailer: ‘Dracula vs. Frankenstein’
Take a look back at an old trailer… Apparently there’s some sort of vampire movie opening this week. I figured that while we wait for that, we might enjoy another vampire story. Alas that this trailer is rather confusing: Dracula and Frankenstein (by which, it appears, they mean Frankenstein’s monster, not poor Victor himself) join … more…
watch it: 1970s MushMouth commercial
Yes, this is fake, from Canadian comedy troupe The Imponderables.
