Retromercial: Sunlight (1898)

[frednora]

The 90's were so awesome!

[battou66488]

CONSEQUENTLY IN THE 1990s in the philippines, there was a detergent called, Sunlight

[DisneyBlackJet]

1898?! WOAH!!!

[ReidOphone]

It would be a soap, not a detergent. Detergents were yet to be invented.

[MrTennisnet2002]

LOL there were something called projectors in 1898 obviously. tv at that time was not around but there were silent movies of course.

[Corleone2239]

hahahahaahahaahahahahaahahah lolololoolololololoolololololo­loololololo There was no televisions in the 1890's they didn't come until the late 1920's into the 1930's so i don't know where the hell you got that at but i don't believe do you have proof.

[SNESIvan]

@Corleone2239 Do you know something called cinemas? This played on movie theaters. 

[sk8inman12345]

this fucking creeps me out i duno y lol

[Sikhindu]

No! They were already doing ads then in moving pictures? I must have been asleep when they mentioned that. I am shocked.

[danicadb1]

I am looking for a Sunlight commercial that may have been done in the 90's, it was a very upbeat song, no one seems to have it, can anyone find it?

Ty for posting this:)

[wawawis]

@danicadb1 Well, this one was done in the "90". LOL

[wawawis]

@danicadb1 Well, this one was done in the "90's". LOL

[ImmortalBiscuit]

That is amazing! *forwards it to ALL my friends*

[Kottagegirl]

Yes, they had commercials before the big invention, television..they were shown along with the flickers ..now called flicks or movies (the film would 'flicker' against the projector ); They also showed the news, sports and other world events at the movie houses...as they were called then. Thanks for the film footage..very interesting!

[likedcalico]

I didn't know they had commercials before TV days.

[rexsanchez21]

wow! is this very old?

[nineteen99]

there are still some people alive today that would have been a little older than the baby in this old film. The world's oldest known living person, Edna Parker is 115 and was born on April 20th, 1893!

[ketchupmanor]

@nineteen99 Edna died.

[murielsartre]

Aw... The three-year-old keeps looking back at someone after getting the cloth. She probably had no idea what was going on.

"Non, ma cherie, donne-le à ta soeur! À ta soeur! Zut...! "

[shithappens17]

that baby prlly died like 30 yrs. ago

[LittleLulu62]

Washing clothes back than had to be a total pain in the ass! O_O

[longfade]

I wonder what ever happened to that little kid.

[LittleLulu62]

She grew up, got old and died. :(

[psari]

Sunlight soap is an English company from Merseyside,the Lumiere brothers, pioneers in the film industry placed Lever Sunlight Soap into some of their films in the 1890's , hence the birth of soap operas that we have today. Good stuff.

[nlpnt]

49-second clip, the actual 1898 commercial starts at 00:13. Interesting that about half a minute was considered the "right" length for a commercial here at its' birth, and has remained the standard ever since. The fact that the only words are "Sunlight" and "Fin" is a sharp contrast to most 1890's print ads, too.

[Andregrindle]

It was the first commcerical-understanding 19'th century psychology means that the producers likely figure showing people using the Sunlight product would entice people to buy it.

[Fairia]

My guess is that at the time when it was decided to advertise in a theater, they wanted the public to view it as a very very short film and didn't come up with the concept of the commercials of today and different from print advertisement.

[chao1987]

THATS VERY OLD!

[rainydaywoman43]

looks like just an old, old, film of woman doing wash. where is the commercial aspect. its neat, i wonder who those people were.

[jcice2]

Now that's what I call a soft-sell!

[cufnc]

coool

[Tiff0202]

That was cool. :)

[gregorkrause]

WOW THAT'S OLD

[Usagi1992]

Hmm...not exciting, but still, it's a nice piece of history