60s TV Commercials: cigarettes, Cover Girl, Sylvania etc.

More product ads from sponsors of the 1965-1966 season of ABC's "Honey West" series. These are: Sucrets, Carnation Instant Breakfast, Coffee-Mate creamer, Cover Girl, Sylvania flash cubes (for Instamatic cameras), and cigarette ads for Pall Mall and Tareyton.

The Pall Mall ad is the most interesting for its blatant snob appeal. A group of elite, rich, white people take a break from their fancy hobby (re-enacting a Revolutionary War battle) for a cigarette. But only the finest smoke will do. Their snooty attitude towards those "other" brands is quite telling, and amusing. By contrast, the down-to-earth Tareyton ad goes for humor and nostalgia using cliches from silent movie melodramas.

Sylvania introduces the new flash cube (allowing one to snap four flash photos at a clip) as though it were a miracle of technology. In the '60s just about everyone had one of those Instamatic cameras and a supply of cubes -- which induced temporary blindness. I can still see that blue dot afterburn hovering before my eyes.

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Film & Animation

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• 1960s
• advertisements
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• ABC
• ads
• classic
• vintage
• television
• promos 1965 1966

[pannoni1]

The Seventeen magazine shown is the August 1963 issue here. What disheartens me is that it sold for $30 last month showing how valuable those magazines have become (National Geographics on the otherhand are only worth about a buck from that decade, many people saved those unlike the flavor-of-the-month fashion mags).

[jlovebirch]

@pannoni1 - You can still get good eBay deals on old magazines from those who sell in lot bids -- usually with not much description. Many people lump mags together to get rid of them, not knowing that some may be valuable when sold separately. I got many 60s TV Guides this way, kept the ones I wanted and sold the rest one by one and made about $150 profit.

[TheCatgirl6]

Oh, I know it's a product that does horrible things to human health, but I miss cigarette commercials, I can't help it. Those ads were so amusing and the jingles and tag lines often so memorable. And I remember those flash cubes being all over the house... everybody's house seemed like :-)

[6828Lu]

The flashcube really *was* a miracle of technology. Before the flashcube, you had to change the flash bulb with every shot.

[fromthesidelines]

Pall Mall's "Be Particular" campaign was originally introduced in the fall of '64. It continued into 1966, as did Tareyton's "Us Tareyton Smokers Would Rather Fight Than Switch!" slogan.