UK TV Adverts 1969 x 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBTipAqCMxI
Pretty good set of late-60s ads with star power. How about the much lusted after George Best starring in a commercial for "Fore" aftershave? Or Alf Garnett(Warren Mitchell) moaning about Findus Fish Fingers not being real fish? We also have the late and great Dusty Springfield sounding a little raggamuffin here (she did have soul mind you) for "Mother's Pride" loaves, coming down your humble bricks-and-mortar street. And the now laughable and nonsensical slogan for Trebor Mints, "Trebor Mints are a Minty Bit Stronger"(?). Good set of ads though.
Showing posts with label 1969. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1969. Show all posts
Friday, 12 March 2010
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Son, Get Yourself up that Attic and Fix that Water Leakage, Then You'll Know How I Felt Working in the Loom Mills Boy!
Pipe Bursts (1969) - UK Public Information Film
Late-sixties Public Information Film addressing how a family should check up on any burst water pipes in their home. A rather feeble matter, but still awe-strikingly important in an age drinking stale milk could've become a Public Information Film. We first see a family having a spot of Breakfast to some nice, soothing Elevator music, when all of a sudden water pours from the ceiling onto the father's bespectacled face, and no, the Eric Morecombe similarity is not not lost on me. Although the film promotes public safety in a way, a more modern concoction wouldn't show the kid -despite looking the eldest- on his own, fixing a pipe in the attic! Lazy dad.
Just when you think this is quite genteel for a PIF, the well-spoken voiceover gives the family a verbal slapping of the wrist, for not checking water leakage beforehand, and the creepyness factor is restored, the usual and sometimes effective mood of PIF's of the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, when the family are just staring and smiling at the camera in pure unadulterated silence, after the announcer's bitter tone of words!
Late-sixties Public Information Film addressing how a family should check up on any burst water pipes in their home. A rather feeble matter, but still awe-strikingly important in an age drinking stale milk could've become a Public Information Film. We first see a family having a spot of Breakfast to some nice, soothing Elevator music, when all of a sudden water pours from the ceiling onto the father's bespectacled face, and no, the Eric Morecombe similarity is not not lost on me. Although the film promotes public safety in a way, a more modern concoction wouldn't show the kid -despite looking the eldest- on his own, fixing a pipe in the attic! Lazy dad.
Just when you think this is quite genteel for a PIF, the well-spoken voiceover gives the family a verbal slapping of the wrist, for not checking water leakage beforehand, and the creepyness factor is restored, the usual and sometimes effective mood of PIF's of the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, when the family are just staring and smiling at the camera in pure unadulterated silence, after the announcer's bitter tone of words!
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Foil-top Milk Bottles are No Good for Harsh Winters!
UK Public Information Film - Frost Warning (1969)
With the harsh winter we're having, almost to Russian standards, this seems a good time, to compare how the 1960's braced themselves for a winter chill, with this animated small clip of a PIF. The milkman was a cultural icon back then, so milk bottles are focused on, to send home the message, as they are vulnerable to the cold, with the foil-top milk bottles.
With the harsh winter we're having, almost to Russian standards, this seems a good time, to compare how the 1960's braced themselves for a winter chill, with this animated small clip of a PIF. The milkman was a cultural icon back then, so milk bottles are focused on, to send home the message, as they are vulnerable to the cold, with the foil-top milk bottles.
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