Sound Advice
Worst. Advice. Ever. An early cinema ad for tobacco.
What's up doc? Although it has sound, the advice in this early cinema advert is anything but. Bombie Comber - described in a contemporary newsreel as a 'famous radio, variety and gramophone artist' - plays an irritable husband suffering from abject depression. Against all good medical sense his dodgy doc prescribes pipe tobacco, and peace descends on his home and marriage. WARNING - smoking does not prevent you from being a cantankerous old s*d.
Advertising film: a doctor recommends an irritable patient to smoke classic "Curly Cut" pipe tobacco to soothe his nerves. With Bobbie Comber.
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Pioneers of Screen Advertising
Almost from the dawn of film, advertising was a part of the filmgoing experience. This collection showcases some of screen advertising's earliest steps, as companies learnt to mimic the evolving forms of film comedy, drama, documentary and animation with the careful addition of their product as co-star.
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16 videos in this collection
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Rudge-Whitworth - Britain's Best Bicycle
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Girls Packing Soap
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Changing Hues
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Trojan Car Advert
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Mr.........Goes Motoring
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Cinema Commercial - Candy Cushions
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The Tale of the Amp-lion
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The Boy Who Wanted to Make Pictures
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Looking Ahead
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Does Your Wife Know?
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Ransomes Trolley Buses
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Barbara's Secret
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Transporting Loads - With or without Roads
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Sound Advice
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