Chevrolet Screen Ads (1955)

★★★★★ · Rare and Fantastic · Rollin' Danny · 2002-12-07

Hello erverybody This is a pleasure for every fan of fifties cars. A fine collection of advertising films about the epoch-making 55' Chevrolet. Enjoy this fantastic movie material ........... 50's Advertising at his best ! Rollin' Danny / germany

★★★★★ · THE car to drive in '55! · finfan59 · 2003-02-05

Nice site..what can be said about the '55 Chevy, that hasn't already be said? Considered to be one of the cleanest, most tasteful styles ever introduced by any North American auto maker, they have a "timeless look" I enjoyed the video clip. I had a '56 Bel Air sport sedan...it was a fantastic car, but the "tri-fives" all began in '55......ahhhh

★★★★★ · Jam Handy & Chevrolet--What a Combo! · Educational Archive Fan · 2005-02-01

After viewing these film shorts, I was impressed by the vivid color and photography used in the detail of each Chevrolet vehicle. As the producer of past Chevy "propaganda" films, Jam Handy has once again created a selling technique that captures your interest in Chevys. Advertising in the 1950's was used to explain and convey to the consumer the suggested product through technicoloresque colors and creative narrative. Afterwhich, the consumer would purchase the product, at the local market or whatever the case would be. This is why Chevy was and still is the champ in marketing, selling and…

★★★★ · I want that red and white Bel Air convertible! · Venckman · 2005-08-10

After watching these ads, who could possibly have resisted these gorgeous cars, with their apartment sized, seatbelt free interiors? They can even parallel park, provided they're given about 47 feet of maneuvering space! This is a wonderful clip, and it's interesting to compare them to the car ads of today. Where current ads deluge you with about 75 different shots in 30 seconds, these mostly showed the cars driving around (very slowly), and even threw in some nice scenery, so that your mind could soak up every musical syllable of narration, which is extremely content-heavy. This is great…

★★★★ · It's Motoramic! · Dodsworth the Cat · 2025-11-08

The '55 Chev seemed to be ubiquitous on the road when I was a kid in the '60s. The car was longer and eliminated the dome roof of the earlier models. Whether these commercials convinced people to buy one is a guess, but the spots are well put together. No other cars on the road to get in the way. We get close-ups of stopped cars, views of Chevys tooling along, and point-of-view shots from inside a car. And a boy taking groceries out of a store and into a car trunk for a customer. Those days have been gone for a while. Sam Benavie (I suspect) has come with an arrangement of "See the USA in…

★★★ · Car Marketing Video Production · VideoAgora.com · 2016-02-11

Great advert. The Chevrolet was a great American car (big and a gas guzzler...). Hyperbole language in the script to say the least: "New touchdown overdrive"...