Vicks: NyQuil, 1950s-1960s

Genre: Commercial

Year Published: 1950s to 1960s

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

Format: 16mm

Description: Transcription: Man I'm stupid, and you know, I know I have a cold 0:01 and I forget because when I go to bed at night, 0:03 I always forget the tissues. 0:06 My wife, she keeps telling me to go to sleep 0:07 and stop making so much noise, and then it comes the sneeze. 0:09 Wide awake. I'm tired. 0:12 I want to go to sleep, and there it is again, 0:14 but this time it's worse. 0:16 The muscles all kink up and whatever which way I turn, 0:17 I just can't get comfortable and you can't breathe, 0:20 and I never saw a man who can sleep when he can't breathe. 0:23 I mean, could you? 0:25 So it's pretty rough. 0:26 When I found out about NyQuil, 0:28 I had a roaring cold. 0:29 I took this thing full and I sipped it 0:31 and I wasn't sneezing so much. 0:33 I was a little dried up and pain started to go away. 0:35 And what a relief. 0:38 I mean, to get this kind of relief from coughing 0:40 and sneezing and aches and pains. 0:42 You're going to be relaxed enough to go to sleep, you know? 0:44 Narrator NyQuil, powerful new nighttime medicine 0:46 that fights all your worst cold miseries for hours 0:49 so you can get to sleep. 0:52 NyQuil a nightfighter from Vicks. 0:54 It's got everything. 0:57

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