Shippam's Guide to Opera
Charming fish paste cinema ad
What makes a more fitting pairing than meat paste and opera?
Everyone knows that nothing goes better with opera than a smearing of meat paste. But it took the innovative Larkins animation studio to bring the pairing to life: a chorus of chickens dancing in front of the jars they will soon be ground into; a duet between a pilchard and a tomato. The creative duo behind the ad, Vera Linnecar and Nancy Hanna, were an equally fine pairing. After working together at Pearl & Dean they joined Biographic studio with Bob Godfrey in 1957, forming a trio with co-founder Keith Learner after Bob left and working into the 1980s.
Cinema Advertising Comes of Age
The 1930s saw screen advertising find its voice. That wasn't just down to the arrival of the 'talkies', but to the increasing professionalism of ad agencies and production companies.
Through WWII and the postwar austerity years and into the 'never had it so good' 1950s - when it had to compete with the new commercial television service - cinema advertising offered a bigger bang for your advertising buck.
31 videos in this collection
Music Hath Charms
The Warning (Gibbs S.R. Toothpaste)
Every Man His Own Housewife (Persil Advert)
Let's Ask the Ladies
Murder in the Air
Bee Wise!
Sketchbook of Fashion (Knights Castile Advert)
Aladdin and the Junior Genie
Signs of the Times No.3
Fable of the Fabrics
It all Depends Which Way You Look at It (Solidox Advert)
Signs of the Times No 196
A Thief in the Night
Change for the Better
Little Miss Muddlehead (Rinso Advert)
What's Missing from this Picture?
Signs of the Times
Signs of the Times
Mousewife's Choice
Mrs Mopp's Birthday
The Trawl in Action
Signs of the Times No.2
Molar Mischief (Solidox Advert)
Shippam's Guide to Opera
Put Una Money for There
Signs of the Times No.58
Says Sirdani
Thief in the Night (Persil Advert)
Changing Hues
