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November 25, 2007
This is a complete colour Tandaco Prepared Stuffing cinema advertisement from approximately 1941. It begins like a feature film with a title and melodramatic music and cuts to a woman crying as ...
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November 25, 2007
In the kitchen of a small restaurant, while watching over boiling pots of soup, a cheerful singing chef (entertainer Bobby Limb) shares the secret of his delicious evening meals – he uses Nestlé‘s ...
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November 25, 2007
Henry is a bachelor who lives alone in a small apartment. He has a ‘lady help’ who does his cooking and cleaning but will not wash his clothes. Henry is a ‘natty dresser’. But because he can’t get ...
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November 25, 2007
An animated ‘poster man’ arrives at the front of a building on his bicycle – glue tin, paintbrush, ladder and posters in hand – to erect a poster on its facing wall. In a series of clumsy mishaps, ...
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November 25, 2007
Taking a narrative form, this advertisement from 1931 begins with Helen hanging out the clothes. Her daughter, Joan, brings her the mail and she opens an invitation to a bridge night which happens ...
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November 25, 2007
This black-and-white Rinso soap powder cinema advertisement from 1935 shows two young girls dressed in fairy costumes dancing in a lounge room. When they finish, one asks her mother to tell them a ...
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November 25, 2007
This Rinso advertisement from approximately 1940 introduces us to Hilda and Hugh Jones: the ‘wrong kind of wife’ and possibly the ‘right sort of husband’ according to the narrator. Hilda is always ...
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November 25, 2007
An opening credits sequence introducing the stars of Easy Does It is accompanied by a musical soundtrack. The first scene is at a grocery counter where a grocer (Dan Agar) attempts to ...
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November 25, 2007
In their bridal suite, a newly married couple on their honeymoon (Muriel Howard and Albert Chapelle), retell in song the story of how Persil Washing Powder brought them together and transformed a ...
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November 25, 2007
This clip from a silent Magnavox Wireless cinema advertisement shows a group of friends dancing to the music from a Magnavox Wireless at a picnic under a tree. It also shows them taking the ...
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November 25, 2007
To be bright and full of energy in the mornings, it is crucial to get a good night’s rest. A man who has a heavy dinner, reads horror books and tosses and turns all night is the perfect ...
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November 25, 2007
John and his family are introduced through a real life family album. As the pages are turned, the voice-over tells the story of their lives. The first picture is of John as a young boy, followed ...
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November 25, 2007
This is one of the two television advertisements produced to facilitate the change to metric on Australian roads in July 1974.
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November 25, 2007
The villain tries to steal the formula for Life Savers sweets by convincing Betty to take him to her father’s Life Savers factory where she gives him a guided tour. In the meantime, Cudgy, who is ...
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November 25, 2007
Two young boys are hired to polish boots at the Imperial Hotel, London, after their trial goes surprisingly well. The hotel manager exclaims ‘You boys and Kiwi are the goods’! The advertisement ...
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November 25, 2007
A daughter’s voice (Janice Reid) pleads with her mother (Queenie Ashton) to tell her a story about a lady kangaroo. Her mother obliges with a story which is accompanied by cartoons of Lady ...
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November 25, 2007
An injured soldier in the jungles of New Guinea struggles as he runs out of food. A helicopter drops food rations nearby. Meanwhile, back in Australia, two female volunteers package the emergency ...
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November 25, 2007
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November 25, 2007
In close-up a soldier screams ‘fire’ and a barrage of bombing in a nightscape is subtitled with text while voice-over urges the public to contribute to the Fourth Liberty Loan. ‘War costs big ...
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November 25, 2007
In the closing minutes of this advertisement, mannequins and live models appear in Berlei’s figure-hugging foundation garments, the ‘basis for all frocking’. After an elaborate pyramid display of ...
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