TV Ads: Our Mini Myths

Duration: 800 ft.

Creator: ge

Complete Record: “The following commercials were selected from over 500 winners of Clio Awards from 1966 to 1977.” General Electric: “Progress for People.” Thomas Edison (old man with white hair in black suit) in his study (old fashioned lamps, dark furniture, stained-glass windows) talking to camera about commercial research lab he founded in Menlo Park, New Jersey in 1928. Airplanes, men in front of airplane with ford truck under it. Plane coming in for landing, Red and white Ford truck parachutes out of it! Many shots of this car stunt from different angles. Plaroid. Family (blond boy and girl, mom, dad) says goodbye to grandpa (plaid shirt, red suspenders, and bule work pants) and drive off in old blue station wagon. Old man waves good-bye. Shots of farm: horses in field, sleeping DOG. Old man shuts gate. Old man looking through polaroids of couple, grandchildren, than a shot of grandpa looking sadly at a polaroid. He laughs. Coca-cola. “It’s the real thing.” Black man walks out of brownstone, gathers up a bunch of kids, shoots hoops with kids at outdoor basketball court, looks on as kids play chess, sips Coca-Cola. Puts arm around young boy as they sit against chain link fence enjoying cokes. Ultra Brite. Blonde lady pro golfer signs autographs on green, shots of ultra bright toothpaste. Old lady sighs, brunette woman in front of product. ‘Help Unsell the War.’ Uncle Sam serves up pie to a group of mixed age and race around table. Military man gets most of the pie and eats it greedily. Volkswagen, Karmann-Ghia. Car driving in desert, tries to drive through white sheet and can’t. Old Home Hamburger buns. Truck driving. CU of fuel on empty. Pulls up to gas station. Driver seated at counter, Waitress chats him up. He winks at waitress. She puts hamburger on counter, ad for buns. Cadbury’s Whole Nuts candy bar. Rich young woman with boa reclining. Man comes up to her. With candy bar. CU of woman holding up cadbury chocolate bar beside her, still frame on her scrunched up face. Trygg Hansa Insurance. Letterbox of woman walking down cobblestone. Man drops flowerpot above her it misses the old lady as she wals by. Barrel rolls, misses her. Finally she sees a close call and gets frightened, runs away through tunnel. ‘Eventually everyone needs insurance.’ La Mode Rope. ? Photographer’s studio. Woman in front of black and white photos of models, in front of screen. Talks to man. Poses in full makeup for shoot with gowns she fans out grandly. Count Pushkin Vodka. Animation of Russia, train, man and woman traveling on train. Man rides horse in snow in front of train has to get out of way. Red carpet rolls out. People toasting, a toast to Count PushkinVodka! Levis with Dacron Polyester. Really cool animation of man in vividly colored plaid pants and psychedelic head, walking through a street of black and white people, With a wave of his arms he paints everybody else in very loud Levis pants.