Cinema Adverts of the 1960's Part 2 of 2 

This is the wonder of RU-vid. To re-live these moments.

love this,,,, back in the day when there was community

I can tell you the people who probably had the best New Year in 1964 were the Beatles.

Being Canadian, these concession ads are just fascinating, not to mention delicious-looking. Firstly, the fruit drinks came in interesting square, sealed cups. Similar 250 - 300 ml juices over here were in round cups with ridged sides and foil tops. They also depict them as so fresh, as if just-squeezed. I'm thirsty now. The various ice cream cornets and sundaes make me crave some ice cream like little else. Oddly, I think it's due to the narration more so than the models shown. The sheer assortment of Gerry Anderson-inspired Zoom treats would have been irresistible to me as a kid. But one especially for girls? Maybe they prefer coconut flakes on top... Finally, my keen eye has seen a "U" rating logo (universal, like a G rating) on one of the ads, and I saw another on one for a sparkling wine in a similar collection of ads on YT. Rating what are basically commercials? I understand red-band and green-band movie previews, but unless the model in the ad is going to drop her top from pleasure over her soft drink, it seems very weirdly bureaucratic. Now I want some ice cream and lemon-lime juice. Damn.

Wonderful memories to treasure. Thank you so much.

@nuipret Many thanks for kind comments, I'm glad that you like them. I received them in the post on DVD-R from David Rayner to upload them on my channel. David's clips were transfered using a Rank Cintel flying spot telecine (much better than my camera on the screen method). It makes for interesting comparison though.

"An ice lolly Especially made for girls!"

Cinema ads seemed really sophisticated in the 60s because they were in colour when you could only see black and white on your tv at home.

Lyons Maid, Walls , Mothers Pride Bread, they were all made in Southall in the 1950/60s, a few hundered yards from where I used to live..

Priceless

0:33 The Lyons Maid Zoom Ice Cream Lolly Advert Is Appears At The Beginning Of The Original 1987 Channel 5 UK VHS Release Of Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds The Original Series Volume 11 The Impostors And Other Stories. Thanks Mate. X

I’m totally shocked that Fab lollies were “especially for girls”.......I ate loads of them, not realising they weren’t meant for boys and it’s now clear they were the reason I developed manboobs in middle age......

Pearl And Dean . When you knew you were at the pictures .

As I remember it, when they started to use Sellotape joins instead of film cement joins in the 1970s, we had a lot of trouble with the splices and often had to remove them and remake them as film cement joins. The main problem with the Sellotape joins were that they sometimes covered six frames (three on each side of the splice) and the jerk on the image was very noticeable as they went through the projector gate. Film cement joins only covered a quarter of a frame.

Lyons Maid & Walls factories used to be in Southall

Gotta love those old late '60s British prices, like 1/6 [7½p] and 2/- [10p].

How lovely

There were on average only three 15 seconds ice cream adverts shown in cinemas on any one night, The reel shown on here (and on part one) is made up of numerous of these adverts that were shown over a ten year period from 1959 to 1969. These days, I'm told, the adverts go on for twenty minutes or more before the main feature starts (and, of course, there is no supporting feature, cartoons; shorts or a newsreel.

If only the cinemas did the christmas wishes bit now!

well put together all joints blooped no packing-off marks lol.

My father was a Director of Lyons Maid, my mother,sister & I preferred Walls ice cream which we would buy & wrap in a Lyons ice cream wrapper. I don't think that my father ever realized that he was eating Walls!

Faaaabulous! Thanks for the upload

I used to like that Cornish Ice Cream it’s been years since I’ve seen the advert for it, It just had that unique taste unlike other ice creams but they were expensive so I didn’t get one very often, I loved going down to the usherette during the interval to get some sweets or a carton of Orange or a tub of ice cream if I was really lucky...oh or a bag of Butterkist popcorn and I still buy it today one of the few things that has stayed the same.

Strange to think most of the actors are either in their late 70's or dead...

A chocolate Sunday with Charles "suave Blofeld" Gray! Now there's a bizarre fantasy...

These are soooo cool!

Nostalgic v nice thanks. Its funny how teh cinema ads were somehow different in effect than the TV ones. Yes its surely Terry Scott who did the v brief voiceover for the Suncrush ad - although quite a successful performer he was never too proud to do bit parts - probably needed the money like most people.

BRILLIANT!! Well Done!

Thanks for your valid comment. Sadly, 35mm ads are now almost history. RSA (later Carlton) assembled their own reels to be exhibited on alternate weeks. They caused a few problems in latter years. The DP75 did not like their often mis-registered splices: The 180 deg. wrap on the holdback sprocket would 'roll over' a tooth when a faulty join passed over it (8 adverts and your lower loop became 2 frames shorter). One could not assume that a reel of ads (as received) was fit for exhibition.

I can taste the Ki-ora now! That plastic aftertaste . . .

Great snippet of a Bossa Nova tune accompanying Cornish Ice cream ad... wish it went on longer...the girl's voice was nice and in tune... anyone remember Barbara Moore?

OH MY GOD cornish ice cream, i loved that still do, i miss that so much since moving to canada, and i remember zoom ice lollies loved collecting the cards.

To Alex Cockell. Yes, Suncrush was a Kia-Ora product.

That's very sad news. Thank you for sharing!

I went to the cinema most weeks in the 1960's, we has three in the local area, you could take your own food and stay all day back then.

6:05: Only the suave and patrician voice of Charles Gray could have seduced us into even considering paying two bloody shillings for an ice cream back in the 1960s!

Did I spot Jenny Handley from Magpie? I think it was her.

ice creams looked so nice back then, and such variety. everything comes on a stick these days, usually with stupid salted caramel.

I don't know why, but I can't get the video to play past the 'Suncrush' commercial. It always freezes at that point.

even the packaging on the ice creams , ice lollies and the orangeade drinks were more eyecatching . may have had more e numbers in them but by crikey those fabs zooms and mivi's tasted better than nowadays . plus they were bigger too , mind the sun always shone and everything was big in those chidhood days!

I've not operated a Ross GC3 but seem to recall that they had two pad rollers on the feed sprocket. I can see how it could happen. Removing the first roller might be the solution (I doubt it would have any adverse effect). Racks were rare though I do clearly remember a reel with an ad inserted reversed head to tail. It was a fish riding a bike (Guinness I seem to recall). It might have been much more interesting had I screened it as received!

the days when men were men & women were women & it was ok for men to think women were sexy & for women to feel & be sexy etc unlike now

How nice was 1/6

I like the advert with the volleyball who is stranded on the island with the man and he called him Wilson..😄😄😄😐

Yeah the same happened on the ross gc3, the top loop had to be a little bit longer to avoid this, even it is a flat gate machine, so we ran ads/trls on the second machine to start, then run the feature starting with the first machine, and pray in the intermission, sometimes they were made-up with a rack in them,so you had to checkm this was my job---teaboy to do, wheeere is he now...on the roof lol.

Jenny Hanley at 2:48 - this was from 1969 - she did some later ads for Old Spice and Daz and I found an early b&w one from around 1965 - when she was just 18 - for Macleans Toothpaste.

fantastic - funny how these days ice cream adverts don't boast of how many eggs are in there!

You paid your money and you still got bloody adverts. Less has changed at the cinema than I thought.

Very sad. It's the end of an era. It really makes my 35mm reel of adverts (seen above and in part one) obsolete now. When my time comes, I think I shall leave my reel to the media studies department of Staffordshire University in Stoke-on-Trent.

Cinema Adverts of the 1960's Part 2 of 2

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@Ampex196 Pretty cool he did that, best to go the professional route if you can afford it anyway.

Boy, the volume to these British cinema ads are a bit strong, aren't they! 😕

How much is 9d? 6d is 2 and a half new pence and 1/- is 5p. Is it abou 3 and a half?

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Did cinema goers eat nothing but ice cream in the 60s?

Good job I'm a girl, then. I bloody love Fabs. :)

Was SunCrush a similar brand to Kia-Ora - as they used the same packaging...

@kaferere I got a shock when I saw this. I must have been subconsciously getting in touch with my female side. I only remember the sensuous "hundreds and thousands", but if my mum had owned any stilettos I'm sure I'd have enjoyed tapping around in them.

"Dipped in CHALK" - ??

I don't remember kiora tasting of fruit, but a nasty plastic flavour!

Jenny Hanley...bang tidy!!

Mmmm Butterkist......

I loved Fab iced lollies. Guess I'm a girl!😀

@consul1957 Not arf!

Why do they call it sundaes if they're all on sticks?

How much was 1/6

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How cheap the ice creams were to now and they do not taste the same as they used to. They ruin everything..

2:42 You can’t say that when the FBI’s around

David Bowie made a Lyon's Maid tv commercial

"Cornish dairy ice-cream made with eggs and butter". No thanks!

Delicious Jenny Hanley 02:50 - 03:12

...Or the liberals, competing to be just as drama-queen offended on the Muslims' behalf! (And that's some competition.) I'd rather no ads at the cinema at all. That's one reason I don't go.