Benton & Bowles: Sample Clips, 1950s-1960s

Genre: Commercial

Year Published: 1950s to 1960s

Creator: Benton & Bowles D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B)

Format: 16mm

Description: Transcription: (cheerful music) 0:01 ♪ Smoke these, smoke full, smoke fresh ♪ 0:04 ♪ Pick Paxton for pleasure ♪ 0:08 ♪ Lively menthol blended with back to back ♪ 0:10 ♪ Fresher pleasure in a plastic pack ♪ 0:14 ♪ Smoke these, smoke full, smoke fresh ♪ 0:18 ♪ Smoke Paxton cigarettes ♪ 0:21 Narrator A Post Grape-Nuts breakfast. 0:25 It fills you up, but not out. 0:27 - I am a dog catcher. 0:29 Shall I catch that door? 0:31 - Of course not, he's gentle. 0:33 - That boy named his dog, Gentle, 0:35 after Charmin bathroom tissue. 0:38 - It may astound you to know 0:40 that I had 57 shaves out of one Pisonna blade. 0:41 Now with the (beep) stainless, I got four shaves. 0:47 (exciting music) 0:51 Narrator Start with fresh corn flavor. 0:52 Start your day a little bit better 0:57 with Post Toasties Cornflakes. 0:59 ♪ Oh, what lather ♪ 1:02 ♪ Sharable lather ♪ 1:06 - Imagine, a soap that lathers like shampoo. 1:09 - I'm so particular about my coffee, our cook says, 1:13 "Make it yourself." 1:15 And so I do. 1:17 Let me show you how. 1:18 I make it a new way, by the pot, using instant coffee. 1:20 Not any instant. 1:23 This one, Instant Maxwell House. 1:24 I do it my way, see. 1:27 You'll like it. 1:30 - After three years, 1:32 my group had 21% fewer cavities with Crest. 1:32 - Just spray and dust. 1:35 Johnson's Pledge gives wax-beauty instantly 1:38 as your dust. 1:41 - Hey, they're making a dog food commercial in studio B. 1:42 - I'm starved. 1:45 - Let's go! - Look, it's Gravy Train. 1:47 The one that makes its own gravy. 1:49 - Yeah, right in the bowl. 1:51 - Let's eat. - Won't the dog mind? 1:53 - What dog? Narrator After dinner. 1:57 - Cream? 2:00 - Please. 2:02 Narrator One never serves the coffee 2:04 without the cream. 2:07 Harvey's Bristol Cream, 2:09 one of nine imported Harvey's wines. 2:10 (woman gasping) 2:14 - Did it break? 2:15 - My shampoo? It's a tube, silly. 2:16 (carefree music) 2:18 - Isn't it time for a new twist in flavor? 2:19 Here it is. 2:21 New Beechnut Candy Cane gum. 2:23 Narrator Coffee beans that cost more. 2:26 They are the reason Yuban costs more, 2:28 a little more than other coffees. 2:30 Narrator The baby food that caters 2:32 to your baby's taste. 2:34 In Beechnuts wide variety, everything tastes so good, 2:36 one nourishing spoonful leads to another. 2:41 Spokesperson Drop a pearl into this shampoo. 2:44 Drop a pearl into extra rich liquid Prell. 2:46 (ethereal music) 2:49 It drifts through great luxury than ever before. 2:50 Luxury that goes to your head. 2:55 - Kids, my cereal is now 2:59 in the new Post compact box, Post Crispy Critters. 3:01 ♪ The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals ♪ 3:04 - Hi Susie, my surprise came. 3:08 - What'd you get? 3:11 - A baby brother. 3:12 I wanted a bike. 3:14 - Oh. - I've gotta cook his bottles, 3:17 and save his diapers in a pal, 3:19 and wash 'em in that. 3:22 - That? - No, silly, that. 3:24 Ivory Snow. 3:26 Narrator Here's a leading alkalizer, 3:28 dissolved in water as directed. 3:29 A plain antacid tablet, dissolved in water. 3:31 And here's Pepto-Bismol. 3:33 Now watch for the coating action. 3:35 No protective coating here. 3:37 None here, but Pepto-Bismol has protective-coating action. 3:39 ♪ You can take your car to ♪ 3:43 ♪ The man who wears the star ♪ 3:45 ♪ The big, bright, Texaco star ♪ 3:46