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Tons of fun for the whole family is in store with this comprehensive collection of the most unforgettable, exceptional, and memorable commercials to hit the small-screen! This is an entire history of American pop culture in its most eloquently simple and straight-forward form. Enjoy reminiscing about years gone by while watching all of your favorite commercials from the past!
Includes legendary favorites from some of the most well-know household brands like Speedy from Alka-Seltzer, The Jolly Green Giant, Barbie, Marlboro, Chevy and more!
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178 of 182 people found the following review helpful
By Iconophoric
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I've been buying disks and tapes of old commercials for about a decade now. This three disk set will likely contain a fair number of the ads that regulars to public domain and retro media sites already have bought before now. But one nice plus this collection has, which the others I have had definitely do not, is a chapter break for each commercial. It's not a complete index of every commercial. It's the ability to hit your remote's chapter advance button and move to the next commercial, one ad at a time, through each disk. This makes cueing specific ads up, or skipping items of less interest to you, much easier than any other collection I've seen. (Most disks on the market seem to be made up of bulk transfers of old ads in 30 to 50 commercial chunks. Much of this material came straight from an online archive of public domain material in this form, and until now, no one has troubled to break it up for easier use.)
The video quality is of a very wide range, and some of the images are a mess. But anyone with a passing-to-serious interest in old commercials, or pop culture from the 50s to the 70s, should pick one of these up for general purposes. It pretty much "retires" about half the commercial sets I have bought up until now.
Note: There's also a section of Drive-In movie promotional films ("Come by our snack bar..."; "Enjoy our mouthwatering hot buttered popcorn...") at the end of the third disk. That was a pleasant surprise.
The video quality is of a very wide range, and some of the images are a mess. But anyone with a passing-to-serious interest in old commercials, or pop culture from the 50s to the 70s, should pick one of these up for general purposes. It pretty much "retires" about half the commercial sets I have bought up until now.
Note: There's also a section of Drive-In movie promotional films ("Come by our snack bar..."; "Enjoy our mouthwatering hot buttered popcorn...") at the end of the third disk. That was a pleasant surprise.
83 of 88 people found the following review helpful
By S. L. Swayze
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Exactly what I was expecting, over 16 hours of old television commercials from the '50s, '60s & '70s . I would have given this product 5 stars but the picture quality on many of the commercials isn't that good-- I guess that's to be expected. Nothing here has even remotely been digitalized or enhanced in any way. These commercials have been sitting on dusty shelves in a basement somewhere since the last time we saw them, some over 50 years old. For the price it's definately worth it. I bought another series of old commercials last month and paid $25 for only 3 hours. Those exact same commercials are on these DVDs PLUS 13 MORE HOURS!!! One bit of advice if you buy this product...buy two sets. If you lend this out to a baby boomer you'll never see it again.
46 of 49 people found the following review helpful
By Nick Denife
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
The commercials on this disc are of varying quality, but that's to be expected - no one ever thought there'd be a demand for old commercials when they were made, so I imagine they weren't archived very well. Still, there are hundreds of commercials on this disc that'll transport you back to your childhood and make you point at the screen while shouting, "Hey! I remember that!!!" A lot of fun, but best taken in small doses.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Nostalgic Commercials From Your Childhood!
This is another amazing collection from Mill Creek Entertainment! It really does feature 1001 commercials, none made after 1980, and many of them will make you remember your... Read more
Published 2 months ago by April Smagata
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great collection.
Go back in time when you watch all the forgotten commercials of yesteryear! Be prepared to smile. You will need several sittings to watch all of them.
Published 2 months ago by MG Berger
5.0 out of 5 stars
Have not yet talem tp watc one yet but sure it wll be fine.
If these are not s expected I wlil contact you. Otherwise you will know it is fine..
Thank hou for your product.
Thank hou for your product.
Published 3 months ago by Carol Pritchett
2.0 out of 5 stars
Runs out of steam - fast
Now - for the price, not bad - pretty cheap and yes, it does run very long - but the first bad news is the quality of the film, lots of eye-strain here and I understand that they... Read more
Published 3 months ago by S. Banzhaf
5.0 out of 5 stars
Purchased for my neighbor
I've got a neighbor who goes out of his way to help me in many ways. I got this DVD for him, because he likes retro things. He is always telling me how wonderful the DVD is. Read more
Published 3 months ago by jhnesunshine
3.0 out of 5 stars
Amusing, but a bit repetitive.
What's here is good....but, maybe too much of a good thing. Example, the same 'Newport' commercial, with the same jingle, over and over about twenty times. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Michael Sean
4.0 out of 5 stars
Love The Old Commercials
My 14 yr old boy likes them too so I bought this for his enjoyment. It's great to see how different products were advertised over the years. I still remember a lot of them! Read more
Published 3 months ago by DLynK46
1.0 out of 5 stars
1001 Classic Commercials
Awful, awful, awful. Horrible quality videos.
Some are of the commercials are okay but for the short time
I watched they were bad. Read more
Some are of the commercials are okay but for the short time
I watched they were bad. Read more
Published 3 months ago by TV Child
1.0 out of 5 stars
Too Repetitive
Apparently baby boomers only played with twenty different brands of the EXACT SAME toys. All of the commercials are the same. They get very repetitive and very boring quickly.
Published 4 months ago by Teresa Key
1.0 out of 5 stars
1001 Classic Commercials
Thank god I didn't pay much for this - there were way too many blah commercials and some that went on forever - like they were the ones that weren't edited yet. Read more
Published 4 months ago by LAM
