Here are 10 commercials from the 1940's, the first entry in my new series covering commercials from the 40s all the way to the 2000s! Purely for entertainment purposes obviously i don't own anything, besides this video of course
@@GiozRockin Of course they were trying to trick you. That's what commercials do, lol. Now we just have more access to marketing techniques using our senses, like using color and sound.
Most of these are from the early-to-mid 1950s: Band-Aid Super Stick @1954, Gillette @1956, Sunbeam Bread @1953-1957, Camel Cigarettes @1950-1951 (although this "Doctors Love Smoking" campaign began on radio and print in 1946), Keds @1958, RCA Victor @1954, Hasbro Mr/Mrs Potato Head @1953. However, the three that aren't from the 1950s: Coca-Cola @ 1941 (probably shown in theaters before the feature, not on television), Scotty's Magic Oval @1960-1962, and Whiz Candy Bar (Party Magic promo) @1938 (again, probably shown in theaters before the feature, not on television).
World War II, with its freeze on commercial television and general technology shortages, delayed the rise of the medium. Before 1947, only a few thousand American homes owned television sets. Just five years later, that number jumped to 12 million. By 1955, half of American homes had a TV set
@@bobdobb9017 yeah, as in the 40s the tv was only for really for rich people (they also existed in the late 20s and 30s but those were not for the public) but it wasn’t until the 50s that it became a normal thing in a home as everyone had one like today
I work at a vintage icecream shop where the owner has been collecting and displaying old artifacts and popular items from many different timeframes, the most popular being the coca cola pieces. He has one of the coke carts just like in the first commercial sitting right in his shop across from the icecream counter. I love watching these old simple commercials, and I think it's even cooler that I can see some of these items still preserved today every time I go into work
Hahaha! I was half expecting the announcer to mention something like “Also, try our new Maybelene cover up for those days when you don’t get the roast in on time, yet need to go shopping the next day without those pesky black eyes...”
@@Hana-gz7bu no she's most likely a great grandma to some little girl that age now five or six years of age my grandparents were born in 1930s and 1940s they were probably that age and I am 37 and I have a 5 year old and my grandmother is a boat 80
I was one of the first children to receive a Mr. Potato Head "kit" as a gift for Christmas, in 1952 when I was twelve. This was before they came out with the version of the toy that included a plastic brown head with holes in it. The original iteration of MPT was simply a box of plastic, feet, ears, noses, eyes, hat, bow tie, etc. The child had to stick these into a real potato. My maternal grandfather Liam had emigrated from Ireland as a baby in 1849 to escape the Great Famine and he was still around in 1952. He ultimately lived to 105, eventually expiring while participating in an amateur boxing match in 1954 when a fellow railroad locomotive coal tender from his union he was fighting landed a solid right hook. Both of them had just returned that afternoon from working the New York to Chicago run for the past thirty days. and they'd gotten drunk and shared a hooker before the bout. Grandfather gave 87 years of his life to that railroad, having started when he was a teenager with a seventh grade education (a year before he formally took up drinking on a daily basis). All throughout Christmas Day, the more the old man drank the more he cursed the Hasbro Toy Company for making "a blasted toy out of the damnable spud, a feckin' bag of which would have kept me and me dear brothers and sisters off that stinking ship and home and abidin' in Muckholligam, Galway, where we belonged. - working our peat bog and attending mass. Colleen wouldtna ended up a Haarrr and Fintan woulda entered the priesthood, instead of makin' barrels all his lousy life and sellin'' 'em cut rate in Boston. " Eventually, after throwing the Mr. Potato Head kit into the fireplace, and pretty much losing his ability to stand up, or keep from wetting his pants, he moved on to his favorite joke... "Pretend yer walking up to me boyo in front the church. Ask me if mass is out yet." So, I'd ask him..."Is mass out yet." He'd start cackling, take a big slug from his bottle of Jameson's and chortle "No, but it's only a matter of time you feckin' idjeeit, seein' s how the flap on yer Guddamnable britches is undone." He always told this same joke every Christmas, and oddly it always signified, without fail, that he was about to finally shut up and pass out for a few hours. By then, in '52 , my new Mr. Potato Head kit had been completely incinerated - head feet, eyes, nose, mustache - all gone. I still have the cardboard box however. on the mantle of my fireplace. I keep Grandpa's ashes in it, purely out of spite. He wanted to be buried back in Ireland, but as executor of his "estate," I was able to make other arrangements. 😁
@MrRKWright What a story!! I could almost believe it, but couldn't quite buy that your grandfather was still "haarrring" and fighting at age 105... 😲 Rather, I believe you kissed the Blarney Stone - and have the soul of a writer. I do believe you probably had an Irish grandfather who was quite the (possibly annoying, if not infuriating,) character, though.
@@donaldtrumpstoenail8261 Even if the mistake isnt even that serious and is really small it doesn't even matter you should just leave it how it is. Get used to it ive seen worse grammar but doesnt mean I tell them to fix it, and at the end they edited their comment to fix it on their own. So just let it be. You sound like my ELA teacher.
I was born in 1945 and grew up in the 50's . I remember these commercials so well. Great being a kid and growing up back then. Everything was new and exciting ! I loved my MR. POTATO HEAD and my DOCTOR KIT !We always had "Sunbeam" bread in the house. I remember getting my first Transistor portable radio once for my birthday. Mine was a Zenith. All chrome front with an imitation leather case. It was so cool ! The cigarette commercials were all over TV. Little did we know how we were lied to. My gym shoes were always KEDS. There was no NIKE back then ! It sure was great growing up as a kid back then ! I loved every minute of it ! Now, I look back after just turning 78 and feel so fortunate !
Many people below a certain age don't realize that Mr PotatoHead didn't have a plastic potato included, or that radio was a bigger medium than television.
Black Sheep That’s true because a nurse put my new born baby’s foot and another nurse try to take it off and couldn’t get it off it was a nightmare my little girl’s foot got peeled off.
I'm so accustomed to seeing "Mr. Potatohead" coming with his own plastic potato, that it never occurred to me that the original toy would have been meant to be put on an ACTUAL potato. Wow, the original looks so much more whimsical!
Why is it so pleasing to watch these ads? No annoying music, no super fast shot changes, no annoying acting, no intrusive hard sounds, no weird mobile shitty games, a clear message instead of an ad of which nobody understands what the actual message is, no unfunny jokes, no micro transactions in a free advertised game.
Right, and what else is unique about these commercials? 100% white people. Almost like a homogeneous white society yields more trust than a "diverse" society...
When i first learned about doctors use to smoke,i was in shook too,like why would doctors smoke something that's not healthy-turned out that the cigarette companies kept that info hidden so doctors really thought it was healthy,my mind was also blowned when i learned this
That is funny but enriched bread was pretty important, especially due to rationing during and after the war. www.chicagomag.com/city-life/March-2014/How-Wonder-Bread-Became-the-Healthand-then-the-Ill-Healthof-the-State/
Scotties magic oval had me wheezing 😂 It seems so obvious that they’re put in oval boxes, but I assume it wasn’t that way back then. Very interesting video!
@Maxx Marino F ing A Doctors and Camels. DDT used for killing mosquitoes 1975 gas crisis. “ we’re running out of oil “ Skylab falling George Bush and Sadam Hussein Agent Orange Covid ( how many people die of the Flu/ pneumonia each year? Have you checked the statistics of the last 20 years?) Roundup Fluoride in bottled infant drinking water
yeah that's a gasser. People knew ages ago smoking was bad for you. Heard an old song on the Doctor Demento radio program, in which one of the lines goes If the Fatimas don't get you, the Camels must.Fatima was a brand of cigarettes of the early 1900s.
I was 19 in 1945, I remember watching all these commercials back then, I was a typewriter author back in the 60's, I retired in 1989, now I am a healthy 95 year old, I am still learning to adapt with modern technology, hope I make to be one of the oldest individuals in the planet, Thank you!
"Junior hasn't got energy enough for fun." Good thing he ate that bread so he could finally get off that bench walk 2 steps and sit on the plastic horse
Well, they used to add proteins and vitamins to bread. The commercial wanted to show that you’ll get energy from eating it. If this was a real life situation, I’d assume Junior is horrid lazy.
While everyone else was being all impressed by the new Scotties tissue box, my grandma and papo were being sprayed with a fire hose before they had the dogs sicked on them. 2 sides to each story
I remember those old chest Coke coolers. A few of them lingered into the early 1980s in my home town in West Virginia. Nothing was better on a hot summer day than a glass bottle of Coke so cold it almost burned to swallow.
Some of these are 50s. The clear pan in the Bandaid ad is Pyrex Flameware, that style didn't come about until the 50s. Scotties wasn't invented until then. Gillette - Zimmer didn't enter MLB til 49, Campanella 48, so that one's likely 50s as well. Hasbro Potato head is 1950s.
"How about a bottle of Coca Cola?" "Oh, thank you Mr. Tompkins." "How about some candy?" "Oh, thank you Mr. Tompkins." "How about a ride in my windowless van?"
Well most toys sell for $10-20 currently and $1 in the 50s is equivalent to $10-20 (I'm not exactly sure the exact amount). So really, it's not all that different.
In those type of machines, in the 1960's you put a dime in the slot. Then you navigated your 8 oz bottle of coke through a labyrinth until at the end was sort of a valve. You pulled the bottle up through the valve.
My father had one of those Coke coolers in his donut shop. You actually just take the drink out of the cooler and pay for it at the counter. But, in this case, the man is the owner of the grocery store. The beginning of the commercial shows the store name, S.J. Tompkins & Son, and the girl calls him Mr. Tompkins. :)
70 - 80 years from now people are going to marvel at the gecko with an English accent and Flo from Progressive along with T-Mobile commercials showing "archaic" cellphones.
"Hey doc, what you researching?" Doctor in the 40s: "Researching lung cancer, trying to figure out the cause of it..." *smokes* "Oh I'm sure you'll figure it out soon"
Doctor in 40s: researching lung cancer Doctor in 2000s: researching cures for lung cancer Kids in 2019: did you say Juul People of 2030: lung cancer, kids with deformities 2050: 🚬 💀 😵 💊 💵 💰
Yeah - kinda funny how people without a cig or near second hand get lung cancer and all sorts of cancers. Seems they were smarter then. Cigs calm people down and help with focus - addictive yes but breakable if you want to quit. Kinda funny huh. What are they gonna blame it on when no one smokes? I wonder.
@@northmeister Seems they were smarter because, like us, they recognized likeliness of cancer outside of smoking? Lmao mate I think all the weed when you were 11 melted yer brain. That or the meth addiction
"Red Ball" sneakers was IT in my days. In the days of the Original "Mr. Potato Head" YOU supplied the potato. It was much later when a plastic potato head was included. I guess too many rotting vegetables had turned up in the toy chest?
Mr. Potato Head was a kitchen table toy. We were taught to throw the potatoes in the trash, clean the pieces, and put them away. Yes, we took out and put away our own toys ;)
Pain tolerance has gone way down since the 50's. You used to have to rip band aids off quickly to minimize the pain of removal. They would leave a nice red patch where the band aid used to be. Now days kids/people would pass out from such an experience. Modern band aids remove themselves.
What I remember about those Olde Pop (refrigerated water) machines was the track I had to slide the bottle along to the "release" gate that would not operate unless the Nickle was put in first. That child reminds me of the Pepsi Girl from ads 30 or 40 years later. "Feel Sharp, Be Sharp with Gillette." I had my (got it in the mail) Gillette Razor handle for over 40 years. Used to have "Wonder Bread" with all its holes, then I tried "Sunbeam", with No Holes. Now I use "Stop & Shop"/"Wal*Mart" bread for 1USD per loaf. Cigarettes when I was a sodajerk, 25¢ (standard, 5 minute break).
Nah, my mom was a little kid back in the 50's. She's 71 now and healthy as ever; so the kids pictured here are most likely still alive and in their 80's (I'm getting up there in the years myself. I'm 47, with two kids of my own). The years go by so quickly. 😉 Cheers!
As far as I know, my philosophy teacher told me that when he did Gillette, the owner put the prices high and promised a good product. People complained and the founder of Gillette lowered the prices, the quality and said 'you won't pay for one product at a time with a good quality that will last you a very long time, but instead, you'll pay me for the rest of your life in small amounts to change the blades that are not as qualitative as they were intially'. Now I don't know if this is 100% true but my teacher was a pretty clever guy who enjoyed reading a hella lot.
With that band-aid commercial I love how the “slow motion” was just them doing it slower instead of playing the original one slower 😂idk why I find it so funny
