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There was a good series of 3 documentaries back in the late 80s on BBC2 called `Whiter than White`. It showed many adverts from the 50s, 60s, & 70s, together with the contemporary advertising people from that era who created them. Remember the disastrous `You`re never alone with a Strand`, from 1960? Great ad, with memorable music.
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And who could forget the Hamlet cigar ad's or the Milk Tray man
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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I recall the jolly green giant(ho ho ho green giant, remember that?) recently amended and making a comeback.
then all those fairy liqued adverts, blimey were they false!!!!
a mars a day keeps the doctor away? helps you work rest and play?
what about the cadburys smash adverts(series)
Oh yes and the ongoing saga of the AH Bisto, as the family grew up.
did it make me buy any of the products? a big NO but funny to watch looking back.
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Interesting Keith, I can work people`s ages out from their past advert memories. Back in the 60s, the ads were as good to watch as the programmes, with all those catchy tunes to go with them. Whatabout that mellow saxaphone on the `Consulate` cigarette advert, cool as a mountain stream.
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I ignore or fast forward through all the adverts apart from the Lloyds TSB ones with the trains. Absolute works of art and a feast for the eye and the ear. A tribute to the imagination and expertise of the creators. Tends to be the banks that have the money to pay for this sort of extravaganza but at least Lloyds have soft-pedalled their sales pitch. Southeastern would do well to do something similar for the High Speed Train service, shades of the British Rail inter-city adverts of yesteryear. Here is a compilation of several Lloyds adverts with most of the advertising spiel removed:
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The perfect complementary accompanying music is Eliza's Aria by the talented Russian-born Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin.
Talking of intercity, the German high speed train service has the anglicized description Inter City Express (ICE) and Deutsche Bahn is being criticised for using so many English words. And how about this one: In Germany, a mobile phone is called a Handy and there is a chain of shops selling used mobiles which they have named Second Handy!
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well colin
we aint getting any younger, to prove it, do you recall when they used to show clippets from adverts about to be produced, i used to watch that!!
not all of them reached the screen.
milky way adverts go back some way to
it was called nestles then not the new term.
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Milky Way, `the sweet you can eat without ruining your appetite`. They`d have to prove that today Keith in our politically correct world.
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Hamlet cigar ads with music by Bach, played brilliantly by the Jacques Loussier Trio. Wonderful.
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The Hamlet video is great Sid, and the music, though I haven`t viewed it for some years. Don`t forget that Christmas Tom Thumb cigars ad.
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The Milky BAr Kid!!!!!!!!!!
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Are the milky bars on you Bern?
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I also liked the Guinness white horses, with music by Leftfield. rRilliant advert.
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What about the 'Don't forget to tell Sid' British Gas ads and 'Watch out there's a Humphrey about' and Tufty the squirrel on the Green Cross Code!
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I don't actually remember that Green Cross Code one but I do remember the other two!!
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A favourite of mine for you Jeane is the ghost in the Hamlet ad carrying his chopped off head with the cigar in it.
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Yes Colin, I do recall that one!
I just feel sorry for the poor woman in the shake n vac commercials. It will be with her forever!
She was interviewed not too long ago and said she was very proud of those ads. They have made her famous in a way.
