Back then, even the commercials were great. In one, for instance, there was a guy with a whole bunch of girls approaching him while background singers sang “Brylcreem, a little dab will do ya.

TV Advertising Advertisers saw a potential gold mine when TV debuted in 1941. Television had sound and movement. Print ads, by contrast, were two-dimensional and static.

Hahaha, you thought women couldn’t vote. (Joke’s on us for the first two, I guess?) That’s why I like these Christmas commercials from the 1950s and 1960s so much.

This Saturday, March 26th at 3pm, Asifa-Hollywood is presenting a program of the coolest animated television commercials from the golden age of TV. We will be screening rare 16mm prints and will ...

Some people were watching Sen. Joe McCarthy on television and others were rockin' around the clock with Bill Haley and His Comets during the 1950s. But it seems everyone was shopping in the 1950s ...

1950s: Major moments captured on video From a presidential visit to a strike at the Saint Louis Zoo, KSD was there to tell the stories to its television audience. Brandie Piper ...

If you were a child in Minnesota during the 1950s and 1960s, one of your early memories may be watching a black-and-white cartoon bear in the Hamm’s Beer television commercials.