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1950s Skippy Peanut Butter Ad

"Fifty to sixty years ago, people were introduced to peanut butter to the first time," begins this 1950s ad for Skippy peanut butter. Following a brief history of peanut butter (though no mention o...  
 
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fromthesidelines (3 months ago) Show Hide
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This is a stock music cue, 'teletubetodd'. Once heard it during one of Ray Harryhausen's "home movie shorts", "Mother Goose Revue".
carlsperr (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Longer commericials gave people more time to go to the can without missing anything-remember there were no VCRs/DVRs or pausing. Most people never watched the ads they all headed of to the frig or the can.
teletubetodd (4 months ago) Show Hide
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Great music! Can anyone identify the composer? Sounds like Prokofiev.
JealousBtchesStlEnvy (5 months ago) Show Hide
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Jif is gross it's bitter
blabblab1212 (9 months ago) Show Hide
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Personally, I prefer a shrimp salad with fresh tomatos and croutons over beanut putter, but that is just me.
utuberaptor (9 months ago) Show Hide
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They didn't mention George Washington Carver because he didn't incent peanut butter.
JPMartin5 (6 months ago) Show Hide
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Nobody mentions you because you don't exist.
beefr123321q (6 months ago) Show Hide
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yea abe lincoln did
martinaee (10 months ago) Show Hide
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Wow.. advertising sure has sped up in the last 60 years. The info they got across in that ad would be told in a ten second commercial nowadays.
JPMartin5 (6 months ago) Show Hide
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I know.  It was painful to watch almost for me because I live the fiber-optic information age lifestyle. It's kind of humbling.

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