A 1954 commercial for RDX diet pills. Yes, this kind of snake oil also existed in the 1950s.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, Advertising, Advertisement, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Diet Pills, RDX, 1954
An early 1953 commercial for Lucky Strike cigarettes, consisting of a close-up of a woman (Dorothy Collins) pitching the product. (this commercial may have also aired in 1952)
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Topics: Classic TV Commercial, Advertising, Advertisement, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Lucky Strike, 1953
A 1956 commercial for the Kodak Signet 40 camera, which used 35mm film.
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Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 1956, Kodak, Camera
A 1959 commercial for Black Flag "insect bomb" (fly spray). "Black Flag Dead".
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Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, Advertising, Advertisement, Fly Spray, 1959
An amusing and humorous commercial for the now-defunct Fresh deodorant. The commercial spoofs the female stereotypes of the era.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1962, Deodorant, 1960s, 60s, Secretary, Comedy, Female, Gender roles
A 1961 commercial for Sani-Flush, which almost shows a toilet.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1960s, 60s, Sixties, Old, Toilet, Not edible, 1961, Cleaner, Cleaning
A classic commercial for Wheaties. Sound quality is below my usual standards.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, Wheaties
A 1960 commercial for "Off" insect repellent.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1960s, 60s, Sixties, Advertising, Advertisement
Another 1950 commercial for Camel cigarettes. This one features a jingle. It just amazes me that we can watch a commercial from over 60 years ago.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Advertising, Advertisement, 1950
An obnoxious 1962 commercial for Green Mint mouthwash. Helen isn't being invited to parties because she has bad breath...
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Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1960s, 60s, Advertising, Advertisement, Obnoxious, Annoying, Mouthwash, 1962
A 1962 commercial for cancer-causing Salem cigarettes.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, Causes Cancer, 1962, 1960s, Cigarette, Cigarettes
A 1954 commercial for the "big screen" RCA "Master 21" TV set, with a 21-inch screen....for $199.95, which was a lot of money in those days.
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Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, RCA, RCA Victor, Advertising, Advertisement, Television...
A "Live" 1953 commercial for Kix Cereal. This is taken directly from an episode of "Ding Dong School", which can also be downloaded on the internet archive. The host of the show, who to an extent had creative control, insisted that only products that were beneficial to children could be advertised on the program. This is a long commercial, but there were only two commercials during the entire 30-minute broadcast. See complete broadcast here: Ding Dong School
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Topics: Cereal, Food, Edible, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Classic TV Commercial, Classic Television, Live...
An old, classic commercial for Aunt Jemima pancakes from around 1967. With jingle, but has poor color-quality.
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Topics: Classic TV, Television, Commercial, Commercials, Advertising, 60s, 60's, 1960s, 1960's, Sixties,...
Three 1954 commercials for Welch's Family Wine, a "kosher" wine. I don't normally upload live commercials, but due to the rarity of these 3 commercials I decided to upload them as separate files (they come from the sole surviving episode of "On Your Way", which can also be downloaded from the Internet Archive).
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, Classic TV Commercials, Live Commercial, Live Commercials, Old, Wine, Booze,...
A 1950 commercial for a General Electric television set. The model shown is (presumably) the 16T5 model. This is a live commercial, as was typical in the US at the time.
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Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, General Electric, Advertising, Advertisement, Live...
A 1952 commercial for Kellogg's Shredded Wheat.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, Television, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Advertising, Advertisement, 1952
Aired 1957, here's three commercials for the ill-fated Edsel car (1958 model year?), which despite some innovative features ended up being a major commercial failure. The car is considered a sought-after classic today. This was back when a 60-minute show often had less than 10 minutes of commercials, but the commercials were often all for the same company!
Topics: Edsel, Car, Automobile, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Flop, Flops, 1957, 1958, Commercial, Commercials,...
A 1952 commercial for Chesterfield cigarettes. The picture quality is bad.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, Terrible, 1950s, Advertising, Advertisement, Cigarette, Cigarettes, 1952,...
A 1958 commercial for a watch called the Bulova Senator.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, Advertising, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Bulova
A 1959 commercial for Timex watches.
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Topics: Classic TV Commercial, Watch, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Timex
A 1959 commercial for a general cleaning product (walls, floor, etc etc) called "Handy Andy", which the commercial promotes as containing "No smelly kerosene".
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Cleaner, Cleaning, Television
A 1954 commercial for Rybutol vitamins.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Rybutol
A 1956 commercial for a Frigidaire refrigerator.
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Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Refrigorators, Refrigerator, Frigidaire, Advertising,...
A 1960 commercial for King-Size Coca-Cola from "A Sweater for Rick" which can be downloaded elsewhere on the Internet Archive. I'm not a fan of the female singer but overall this is a good commercial.
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Topics: 1960, 1960s, 60s, 1960's, 60's, Sixties, TV, Television, Classic, Commercial, Commercials, Old,...
A 1954 commercial for Dixie Cups Paper Cups. This commercial aired live and features Mary Hartline. The complete telecast can also be found on IA here http://www.archive.org/details/1954circus
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Topics: 1954, TV, Television, 1950s, 50s, 1950's, 50's, Fifties, Dixie Cups, Paper Cups, Kinescope, Mary...
A classic 1956 commercial for the Sunbeam mixmaster. Typical of Sunbeam commercials of 1956. It also promotes other Sunbeam products.
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Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Sunbeam, Sunbeam Mixmaster, Mixer, Mixmaster, 1956
A 1959 commercial for Quaker Oats.
Topics: 1959, 1950s, 50s, Quaker Oats, Food, Edible, Advertising, Advertisement, Classic TV Commercial,...
A collection of 1958 commercials for Alka-Seltzer with Buster Keaton (no, he was not an ingrediant in Alka-Seltzer, but he appears in the commercials).
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Topics: Alka-Seltzer, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Buster Keaton, Old, Classic TV Commercial, Classic TV...
A commercial for Post Raisin bran. This commercial promotes a competition to win a Plymouth.
Topics: Classic TV, Television, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Classic TV Commercial, Advertising, Advertisement
A classic commercial for "Instant Quaker Oatmeal" from 1967. The commercial features Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York, playing their characters from the sitcom "Bewitched", the commercial was also filmed on the shows kitchen set. Please forgive the badly-faded color-quality.
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Topics: Classic TV, Television, 60s, 60's, 1960s, 1960's, Sixties, Commercial, Quaker Oats, Vintage, Food,...
A 1954 commercial for Camel cigarettes.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, Advertising, Advertisement, 1950s, 50s, Fifties
From a 1957 daytime broadcast, here are two commercials Wisk laundry detergent. According to Wikipedia, Wisk was launched in 1956 as the first liquid laundry detergent. So the product was still pretty new at the time these aired!
Topics: Classic TV, TV, Television, Classic TV Commercial, Classic Commercials, Classic Commercial, 1950s,...
A classic 1955 commercial for Chef Boyardee Spaghetti Sauce with Meat. This was a daytime commercial, hence the low budget and slow pacing. FYI, Chef Boyardee was a real person, real name Ettore Boiardi.
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Topics: Classic TV, Television, Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Chef Boyardee, Food, Edible,...
A 1959 commercial for the powdered drink known as "Tang".
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Topics: Classic TV, Television, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Classic TV Commercial, Fabulous Fifties, Advertising,...
Another commercial. Exactly how many commercials were made in the 1950s, anyway?
Topics: Classic TV, Television, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Classic Television, Jell-O, Edible, Classic TV...
A 1954 commercial for Colgate Toothpaste ("Dental Cream"), promoting the fact that it contains "Gardol" (which sounds like a villain in a comic book to me). Please forgive the bad picture quality.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Television, Advertising, Advertisement, Old, Colgate,...
A 1950 commercial for Camel cigarettes. It amazes me that we can watch a commercial that is over 60 years old.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, Advertising, Advertising, Advertisement, 1950s, Fifties, Tobacco, 1950
A *live* commercial for Old Gold filter cigarettes.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, Television, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Kinescope, 1955, Live commercial
A 1959 commercial for Ivory soap, featuring a woman in a bathtub.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Advertising, Advertisement, Soap, Not edible, Ivory...
Cars promoted include the 1957 Plymouth, Dodge, DeSoto, Chrysler, and Imperial. Back when one could buy a Chrysler that's as big as a whale...(this is from an hour-long program, which contained only 3 ads)
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Plymouth, Dodge, DeSoto, Chrysler, Imperial, Old,...
A somewhat worrying 1950 commercial for Lysol disinfectant. Yes, 1950, notice the lack of an "s". Partially animated. It's not out-of-sync, it just has bad animation.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, TV, Television, Lysol, Old, Clean, Cleaning
From April 1956, a commercial for the range of Chevrolet station wagons. Back in the days when commercials were often long, but only made up a small portion of the hour-long running time.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, Advertising, 1956, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Chevrolet, Station wagon, Car, Cars,...
Here are three semi-classic commercials for Betty Crocker cake mix. These aired in the decade usually (but not always) known as the 1950s. Features the message "Just add fresh eggs". One of these also features a closing credits.
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Topics: Classic TV, TV, Television, Classic Television, 50s, 50's, 1950s, 1950's, Fifties, Betty Crocker,...
A 1959 commercial for Prell shampoo, aiming the product at women.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Advertising, Advertisement, 1959
A low budget classic television commercial for Pepto-Bimsol. Aired June 1956 or so. In black and white.
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Topics: Low Budget, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Commercial, TV, Television, classic tv commercial, animated
"Does she or Doesn't she" - 1957 Commercial for Clairol hair color.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Advertising, Advertisement, Clairol, 1957
A pathetic 1955 commercial for Palmolive soap. The sad part is...some of the same ideas are still used.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Palmolive, Soap
A 1952 commercial for "Fab" detergent. Complete with cliched 1950s housewives. May actually be from 1951. Picture quality leaves much to be desired.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Advertising, Advertisement, Laundry Detergent, 1952,...
A *live* 1956 commercial for Kent cigarettes.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, Advertising, Advertisement, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Tobacco, Cigarettes, 1956,...
A 1954 commercial for Pall Mall cigarettes.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Pall Mall, Causes Cancer, Tobacco, Cigarette,...
A 1956 *live* commercial for Pillsbury Cake Mix, promoting a competition.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, Television, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Advertising, Advertisement, Live commercial
A very corny commercial featuring a very corny family. I might be wrong on the year.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Kellogg's, Food, Edible, Corny
A 1952 commercial for Kellogg's All-Bran.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, Fifties, Food, Edible, Breakfast
A classic 1957 TV commercial for Lux Liquid Detergent taken from a daytime TV show (which, as expected, had less minutes advertising than many modern-day United States daytime TV series). The commercial may best be called a "novelty".
Topics: 1957, 50s, 1950s, Fifties, Commercial, Commercials, Advertising, Daytime, Liquid Detergent, Classic...
A product promoted as making it easier to shave with an electric shaver. I have no idea why I uploaded this monotony. (I presume this was a live commercial).
Topics: Monotony, Classic TV Commercial, Boring, Dull, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, TV, Television, Advertising
A mediocre commercial for Crest toothpaste from 1956.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Advertising, Advertisement, Toothpaste
A 1959 commercial for Ken-L Meal dog food, which I believe is no longer sold.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Dog food, 1959, Cute
Personally, I find 1960s laxative commercials to be kinda depressing. That includes this one.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1960s, 60s, Sixties, Advertising, Advertisement, Old, 1963
A classic 1959 commercial for Cheerios cereal. Promotes the fact that it is made from oats. (note: as this was taken directly from a 1959 TV episode, it has noticeable distortion in the corners of the image)
Topics: Classic TV, Television, Classic TV Commercial, Cheerios, Food, Edible, Cereal, Breakfast, Breakfast...
The commercial promotes a competition being held at the time, and features Art Linkletter.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Advertising
This copy is off-center, please forgive that. A commercial for Gleem Toothpaste, from late 1959.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Advertising, Advertisement, 1959, Toothpaste
A 1954 commercial for Calometric weight loss pills. Not a good commercial.
Topics: Television, Classic TV commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties
Another 1954 commercial for "Lucky Strike Cigarettes". This one features several people of note. I wonder how many of the people featured in this advertisement died of cancer.
Topics: Classic TV, Television, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Lucky Strike, Cigarettes, Tobacco Industry, Smoking,...
A 1955 commercial for Aunt Jemima pancake mix.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 1955, Aunt Jemima, Advertising, Advertisement
A 1965 commercial for Pepto-Bismol tablets. Not a great commercial, though.
Topics: 1960s, Sixties, Classic TV Commercial, Pepto-Bismol, 1965
This commercial for S&H Green Stamps promotes "gifts" that one can get for 2 books or less. This is a complete commercial break.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, Advertising, S&H Green Stamps, 1960s, 1963, Advertisement, Advertising
An animated 1958 public service announcement for the Red Cross.
Topics: Classic TV, Classic PSA, Classic TV commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, 1958, Public Service...
Another 1953 commercial for Saran-Wrap.
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Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Advertising, Advertisement, 1953
Kinda unusual commercial for Skippy Peanut Butter.
Topics: Skippy Peanut Butter, Peanut Butter, Food, Edible, 1950s, Fifties
Another 1950s commercial for Winston cigarettes. Not sure of the exact year, though. "Winston Tastes Good - Like a Cigarette Should". Back when you could still smoke on airplanes.
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Topics: 1950s, 50s, Fifties, TV, Television, Classic TV Commercial, Smoking, Cigarette, Cigarettes,...
Another classic U.S. commercial.
Topics: Classic TV, Television, 1960s, 60s, Sixties, Classic TV Commercial, Advertising, Advertisement
An interesting commercial by Alcoa, for Wear-Ever cooking foil.
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, Alcoa, Cooking, 1951, 1950s
A brief PSA for "The United Way". The announcers voice sounds very familiar, I'm certain I've heard him do the voice-over of other things I've uploaded.
Topics: Classic PSA, PSA, Public Service Announcement
"Mama" was a popular and award-winning drama/comedy show in the 1950s, but somebody had to pay the bills. The show was usually sponsored by Maxwell House Coffee, and this commercial features the cast (and aired after the main story was finished). It is followed by a mention that the show would be taking a summer break, and then by a promo for "Pantomime Quiz".
Topics: Classic TV Commercial, 1950s, 50s, Fifties, Coffee, Edible, Beverage
