Twink Dyes: Changing Hues
Pretty in Pink 1920s style: an innovatively hand-coloured cinema advert for Twink dye.
Long before the Brat Pack, here is a 1920s version of Pretty in Pink. Jean Millar plays 'The Only Girl', told by her artist lover and widowed father that her clothes are too grey. This cinema ad for Twink dye takes the innovative approach of hand-colouring the black-and-white print to recreate the dyeing process, with added rainbow flourishes.
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
