1001 Classic Commercials
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Actor: VariousDirector: Various
Brand: MILL CREEK ENT. (UNDER DIGITAL
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 960 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-07-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: MV50720
Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
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- Tons of fun for the whole family is in store with this comprehensive collection of the most unforgettable, exceptional and memorable commercials to hit the small screen. This is an entire history of American pop culture in its most eloquently simple and straight-forward form. Enjoy reminiscing about years gone by while watching all of your favorite commericals from the past! Includes legendary fav
DVD Reviews of 1001 Classic Commercials
DVD Review: Too Much Hard Sell, Not Enough Off The Wall!
Summary: 3 Stars
This is, perhaps, the best collection of its kind since, on all three of these disks, so much time is given over to really mining the available vaults for some of the rarest of the various advertising libraries, but my desire for collections of this kind leans more toward the classic "anti-commercial", that is, the ultimate CLASSIC COMMERCIALS collection for those of us who hate commercials. Also, I was indeed searching for some TV ads that were omnipresent in my youth of too much TV watching, like the many, many Jay Ward animated ads, the CHOO CHOO CHARLIE ads for Good 'N' Plenty candy, the bizarre and frenetic Mazola Corn Oil ad that follows a woman dashing wildly with a shopping cart, seeking out the ingredients for herself, with the hand-held camera following her every step as the announcer inquires, "what if you had to search for all the good ingredients found in one bottle of Mazola Corn Oil?..." It is a little-known ad, now, but it was shown a lot on daytime TV, but it now seems to be so difficult to find. This collection is also missing some real treats that I'd seen in private collections, like the cereal ads created by Jay Ward or even those around "LINUS THE LION-HEARTED" which was technically the very first cartoon show that came off as a half-hour info-mercial for kids. And one other minor thing that rather put me off about this set is that it seems to dip its toe into political ads of our distant past, but stops at a handful of ads for Eisenhower/Nixon. Why not explore just about every political party ad in America over the past 50 years? There have been network and cable TV specials aimed at unintended comedy in classic commercials, but this set seems to sometimes take itself seriously, as more a lesson in advertising instead of allowing us to laugh at ourselves as seen in classic TV ads. However, this set does give a bit of a peak into all that pop culture, with celebrities hocking all kinds of products, but those vaults are quite deep, and this company really could continue its mining of those vaults like it has mined public domain cartoons. Either that, or someone please start a zany website aimed at exhausting that library of classic ads for us curious types that would like to visit some of the wildest ads of our youth, some which featured subliminal messages unintended as such and featuring very beautiful women. I know that filmmakers could learn from some of the camera tricks in the classic ads of which I speak. The afore-mentioned Mazola ad was very much like it were shot for an old silent comedy with the violent and fast music accompanying the woman's stumbling around and diggging up vast real estate and crop to gather, greedily, the items that she needs. It is almost like something out of a classic animated cartoon. If anyone reading this knows where I could find this ad, please let me know. There were other such ads that have been avoided, like the Goodyear "Tiger Paws" tire commercials narrated by the golden voice of Ken Nordine or the yodeling Levi's jeans ad which is an incredible stop motion work of art in the mid-1970's. Most of these types of ads did make sense and left an indellible image in our minds, but the ads now seem to be gone forever, and it is hard to mine the amounts of DVD's on the market in order to find this stuff, even though most such collections aren't really all that expensive. Surely, someone must know where the best array of such ads are, outside of the various Museums of Television and Radio broadcasts. I'd last seen the Ken Nordine "Tiger Paws" ads at the Manhattan Museum of Television & Radio, as part of a network airing of an episode of "VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA". Maybe some of the video companies could be persuaded to do what was done with the "HONEY WEST" DVD set, include a handful of classic TV ads as special feature on each of the DVD's surrounding the classic TV show in question. That might be another way of mining those vaults, and these could include the network ads announcing the creation of the TV show being spotlighted.
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