Have you seen recent TV ads in which you have no idea what’s being advertised until a logo or product pops up at the end? Unlike their 1950s and 1960s predecessors, today’s TV ads don’t tell much of a story but rather present a fast-paced montage of...
Movie trailer for the 1964 film The Naked Kiss starring Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, and Michael Dante. It tells the story of Kelly (Towers) who arrives in the small town of Grantville after being run out of the big city by a pimp. After a brief tryst with the...
Movie trailer for the 1968 horror film Rosemary’s Baby, written and directed by Roman Polanski. The movie stars Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Ralph Bellamy, Maurice Evans, Sidney Blackmer and Charles Grodin. It tells the story of Guy and Rosemary...
This classic “On the Road” commercial for Howard Johnson’s promotes the many good eats found there. In 1961, the chain beefed up its restaurants by hiring French chefs Jacque PeĢpin and Pierre Franey from the New York restaurant Le Pavillon to...
This classic commercial for Libby’s Sloppy Joes was written by Thomas Scott Cadden and originally aired in 1966. Featuring a group of teenagers dancing in the kitchen to a groovy jingle, the commercial proclaims “Sloppy Joes are neat!”. It ends with...
