Here's 3 of them!
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B70356AF5526BAE7&search_query=flintstones+cigarette
Soooo entertaining but such a questionable marketing ploy.
On a different note, anyone know how pre-VCR recordings were done?
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Here's 3 of them!
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B70356AF5526BAE7&search_query=flintstones+cigarette
Soooo entertaining but such a questionable marketing ploy.
On a different note, anyone know how pre-VCR recordings were done?
It was a different era, time, and mindset. Smoking was everywhere and not questioned.
Usually something like an 8mm Movie cameras pointed at the television (or something like a 16mm at a projector screen showing the tape sent out by the network, if done at a local TV station for broadcast).
When my dad was in high school (early 1950's), they had a student smoking lounge. No foolin'.
That's not so bad; at least it wasn't in actual class, where you had no choice. Was that in a tobacco state -- perhaps Vahginya or Noth Calina? Gawd, I remember one morning when we lived in Richmond, waking up and the whole city smelled like an ash tray. They'd had a fire at one of the tobacco warehouses down in Shockoe Slip.
In one of those "Hollywood Babylon" books, there's a photo of Shatner, in full Kirk uniform, enjoying a smoke.
Funny to see that Polaroid commercial about true colors on film . . . and everything's green!
I always wondered why no one ever smokes Viceroys anymore. My grandfather smoked Pall Mall red and he's the only one I ever saw smoke those.
Yes, it took a special kind of man to smoke Viceroys and Pall Malls! (read: World War II vets who were much tougher than the subsequent generations)
Oh, and was Lucky Strike green K.I.A. in WWII? Because the packs remained white after the war. (Lucky's slogan at the time was "Lucky Strike green has gone to war." Must've "bought it" at Tarawa or some other Pacific hellzone)
It's amazing how much time has passed. I still remember the jingle to Winchester's "little cigars": "Winchester's something else!" And, no kidding, I was 4 when they banned cigarette commercials!
Good grief. My Dad smoked Pall Mall, and my Grandmother was a Viceroy smoker. All the adults I knew smoked all the time, and I suspected that when I turned 12 or so I'd be expected to light up. But Dad and Garndma knew what was going on, and quit well before it became fashionable.
I should note that The Flintstones was advertised as "TV's first adult cartoon series." (In those days, "adult" didn't quite mean "pornographic." Not yet.) Not that kids (like me) didn't watch it; but they could have argued that it wasn't aimed at us.
I've seen old commercials with Lucy and Desi, as well as Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore pitching cigs. Amazing in retrospect.
I've seen old commercials with Lucy and Desi, as well as Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore pitching cigs. Amazing in retrospect.
Yeah, mine quit--cold turkey-- in the early eighties and never looked back; they lived another twenty five years, too. But oh my word, they had all the smoking paraphernalia from the 1950s-60s: table lighters, decorative boxes of matches, large glass ashtrays, ashtrays that stood alongside an easy chair...smoking was intertwined throughout the whole culture. Don't get me started on the booze accoutrements...
My dad got the habit during WWII, like a lot of others. My mom told the little story that happened around the time they got married in 1947; she said he was sitting in the living room one day, put the cigarette out and proclaimed it the last one he'd ever smoke. And it was. She used this example whenever she wanted to employ a testament to his will power. 
Everybody carried cigarettes ad matches, it seemed. They were begged, offered, borrowed, given, without a second thought. Bars, restaurants and bowling alleys had them in vending machines.
In the early 1960s, my uncles used to take me to hockey games at the Chicago Stadium, and everybody smoked all through the game. A huge cloud of smoke would collect by the overhead lights by the time the third period began. Amazing, in retrospect.
In the early 1960s, my uncles used to take me to hockey games at the Chicago Stadium, and everybody smoked all through the game. A huge cloud of smoke would collect by the overhead lights by the time the third period began. Amazing, in retrospect.
RobertScorpio
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The "Geritol" commercial is great - the stuff certainly made people feel better, as (in those days at least) a significant portion of it was alcohol.
That's the only way I could get through an hour of "Lawence Welk"!
LOL..I agree. Larwence Welk, followed by HE HAW, was mandatory viewing at my grand parent's house..
Rob
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