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 ...This moral decay weakens our resistance to the onslaught of the Communist masters of deceit — George Putnam, narrator, Perversion for Profit Now, you might ask yourself ‘Why this sudden concern? Pornography and sex deviation have always been with mankind.’ This is true. But, now, consider another fact: never in the history of the world have […]
MORE ...Is it any wonder that the first alternative comic book artists like R. Crumb and Kim Deitch give immense credit to Max Fleischer, animator of Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Bimbo the Dog, Popeye, and Superman? Fleischer’s cartoons definitely have a surreal feel about them, lending themselves to psychedelic inspiration.
MORE ...Dwain Esper’s 1936 scare film Marihuana, written by his wife Hildagarde Stadie, an obvious expert on the subject.
MORE ...From murky underwater caverns ooze monstrous aqua-beasts! Hungering for human victims! “Attack of the Giant Leeches.” Then, out of the swamp’s depths, again appears horrifying, mysterious creatures thirsting for lovers’ blood. What are these giant mutations whose attack on people sends the whole countryside on an endless search? And then, brings them back to life […]
MORE ...This is a humorous gag trailer for a horror movie night that a local US theater ran in the 1950’s, Bug-O-Rama … “Your skin will crawl, your flesh will creep, after you’ve seen our Bug-O-Rama. It’s the show to recommend to your enemies. The unbearable terror may drive them MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD. A licensed […]
MORE ...Amazing to think that professional people got paid to cook up masterpieces such as Gothic American Cornflakes. But are times really different today, forty years later? The recipe is quite simple, really. Take one part cornflakes, one part current youth culture cliche, throw in a little General Mills dough, then marinade in Madison Avenue saccharin and […]
MORE ...What happens when one roommate borrows another roommate’s silk mini-robe without permission.
MORE ...What’s to eat? What’s to drink? Good food galore … Quick as a wink … Ice cream bars! It’s the handy way to enjoy smooth, rich, creamy ice cream. Get some!
MORE ...[Paraphrased] A hunter turns to his friend and says, ‘These menthols suck.’ The other hunter explains the reason. Satisfaction is only available to guys like them by choosing Newports. If the world only knew …
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