retro ad: 1980s Polaroid commercial with James Garner and Mariette Hartley
One of the many ads that made people thing Garner and Hartley were actually married to each other…
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White Christmas (retro trailer)
It’s in VistaVision and Technicolor, but they don’t want to spoil the surprise of how awesome it is so they cover up all the pretty pictures with giant text…
retro ad: 1950s Coke Christmas commercial
Damn, I’m gonna have holiday sugarplum nightmares about that scary Santa. I bet he inspired Rod Serling’s creepy Twilight Zone ventriloquist dummy. *shudder*
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (retro trailer)
The general level of just barely contained family animosity and bad will is what makes this a classic…
retro ad: late 80s/early 90s? Folger’s coffee Christmas commercial
No, I just have something in my eye there at the end… I’m fine…
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (retro trailer)
Gotta love Walt Disney himself introducing the seven dwarfs…
retro ad: 1980s Sony Trinitron ad with John Cleese
Can’t get your shirts white enough? You’re probably watching them on the wrong 1980s television…
Adventures in Babysitting (retro trailer)
Who’da thunk the 80s would ever look like a high point in cinema?
retro ad: 1980s Chevy Corvette commercial
Does your commute take you through a postapocalyptic runaway-greenhouse landscape of hellish skies and noxious gases?
