Watch History of Advertising - Automobiles

From the Actor Do you harken back to a simple time when cars were works of art and television was just making its way into the American home? Then you need to own The History of Advertising - Automobiles 1940 to 1950 on Video today! This historic Video has tons of the best footage ever compiled of automobile advertisements from the 1940s. For any advertising student this disk is a must have - you get to see how the first television advertisements ever were assembled. This Video depicts classic advertisement films and examples of automobile centric stories. It includes classic "Capitalistic Realist" dramas showing the manufacture of cars from foundry to finished vehicle. Also features examples of a day in the life of automobile workers in the U.S. while attempting to convince them that their own fortunes were inexorably linked to the fortunes of the company. Included here among others you will find a theatrical screen advertisement for one of the last pre World War II automobiles emphasising Oldsmobile's adaptability under wartime conditions and a series of theatrical commercials hawking the "B-44" line of "handsomer, huskier, heavier" Oldsmobiles. A few of those films were designed to promote corporate citizenship rather than any specific model of automobile. While it forcefully demonstrates how central automobile manufacturing was to the American economy it even more strikingly shows the effects of the automobile on our landscape. As any serious student of advertising or fil...