Synopsis
Compilation of Viceroy cigarette commercials.
Uploader's description on archive.org
Details
- Running time
- 11 minutes
- Collection
- News & Public Affairs
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- tobacco
- cigarette
- advertising
- television
- filter
- male
- female
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★ · “Good taste never quits” (and bad commercials shouldn’t start) · guyburns · 2013-09-07
Five one-minute commercials (doubled up) in 11 minutes, and one 10-second short. Poor quality video and audio. The video is so badly faded (almost brown) that it would be better to desaturate to B&W before making use of it. The audio sounds as if it has been passed lightly through a phaser. The quality might be acceptable if the ads had some merit, but they don’t. The 10-second animated short is the most interesting. How could it be otherwise when the subject of the ads include: two men talking about a scaled version of a new car; a female learner-driver talking to her instructor; two men…