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A lovely Cold War ad with a hint of "blame the victim" or perhaps a cautionary tale for our times...  The text is the star of this ad, even with the great artwork (her EYEBROWS at him) on either side.  Read it aloud for best effect.

"But, come to think of it, many of those oppressed people used to have Freedoms too. They got careless, though, and ( Read more... )

21-23 Friday - Sunday Weekend EventS: Cologne/Perfume and Fear mongering.

Ads for cologne/perfume

AND ads depicting fear mongering

The below ad, from 1926, is real. This ad might have planted the seed for Kodak's "Death Campaign" of 1932. The Death Campaign was designed, photos taken, but never completed or published. It's sometimes alluded to as having actually been ran, but it wasn't and the remnants of it aren't in the Kodak archives. It's at the Hartman Center for ( Read more... )

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[okay this is just awful, so bear with me]

Narrator: "Now her conscience speaks up."

"The bathrobes - not soft enough."

"But I -"

"The whole wash could be whiter too."

"But I wash so carefully!"

"It's not enough.  You must use Lenor."

Narrator: Exactly.  Lenor belongs in last rinse cycle.

"WHIIIIITE!!!  Like never before."

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