Classic Television Commercials (Part I) (1948)

★★★★★ · Makes Me Wish I Needed a BandAid! · feekie · 2011-05-01

These commercials are so much fun! The only one I vaguely remember is the "look sharp, feel sharp, be sharp" one. The BandAid commercial has such fun bandaids, it makes me wish I had a scraped knee or cut finger right now. The Dodge steel commercial was interesting combining both a commercial for the steel industry and the car. I think that was a 55 or 56 Dodge? Sure were a lot of old men still working at the factory. I hate today's commercials, but the old ones from the 50s and 60s were fun to watch and usually had a cool jingle. Ahhh, the good old days. :)

★★★★ · Pepsodent · Eva Vikstrom · 2006-03-28

In the 50s there was a Swedish Pepsodent commercial for the cinema. It starred the actress Yvonne Lombard who exclaimed: "Gula hinnan borstas bort med Pepsodent!" (Take away the yellow with Pepsodent). The "yellow" was personalized by a man painted and dressed to resemble an American native of a western movie (that might follow the commercials). Pepsodent made him disappear as well. I had expected that the Pepsodent commercial in the Classic Television Commercials would have the same racist theme, but it had not. It might have been an European invention, inspired from the western movies.