Subliminal Coffee
An animated television commercial for Instant Butternut Coffee from 1967 with “subliminal” messaging.
MORE ...Oil Heat
Charlotte Rae is featured in a TV commercial on behalf of the National Oil Fuel Institute from 1967.
MORE ...Newports: On the Beach
Newport Menthols: On the Beach – 1967 A banned advertisement for Newport menthol cigarettes from 1967. Lifestyle advertising at its finest, with perhaps subliminal imagery reinforcing the message. Cigarettes are long, smooth, and sexy. Over a million cases of cancer served.
MORE ...American Motors
You never know when you might need to load up the ark. In this delightfully straight-faced 1967 commercial, a bearded modern-day Noah calmly fills his station wagon with an assortment of animals, two by two, as if this were the most practical errand in the world. The message is simple: when the unexpected happens, you’ll […]
MORE ...Anti-War March ’67
In this clip from 1967, newsreel presenter Ed Herlihy narrates the anti-Vietnam War marches which took place in New York City, San Francisco, and across the US. Martin Luther King, Jr. petitions the UN, students burn their draft cards at demonstrations, and anti-anti-Vietnam protesters make their support of the conflict known. Fifty years later, we […]
MORE ...Television Code Seal of Good Practice
In this public service announcement from 1967, Dick Cavett assures television viewers that the channel they are are now watching follows the Television Code of Practice. “Kids are impressionable. That’s why here, at this station, we watch the programs and commercials your child watches carefully. He may see bad guys, but not in the role […]
MORE ...Colt 45 Malt Liquor
Before Colt 45 was associated with Billy Dee Williams and “that dynamite taste,” the famed Malt Liquor was once marketed towards the suburban white-collar middle class alcoholic demographic, a type whom nothing seems to faze. Introduced to the beer drinking public in 1963 by the National Brewing Company, Colt 45 was developed to compete with […]
MORE ...The Smile and The Sword
“I wasn’t going to submit to blackmail. I mean, the chips were down. I would not let my country down.” The Smile and The Sword, produced in 1967 by the US Department of Defense, warns industrialists working on high-end technology to be wary of certain customers who are highly curious but never cut the deal. […]
MORE ...Trip to Where
Trip to Where is a propaganda film produced by the US Navy to warn sailors on shore leave about indulging in psychedelics, which were all the rage in the late 1960’s. The opening sequence, a psychoactive, surreal trip that lasts nearly 8 minutes, is enough to consider this an undiscovered masterpiece of psychedelic cinema. The […]
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