Commercials from 1961
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- A series of non-GE commercials produced in 1961. These were part of a reel containing one of the Mister Magoo GE commercials. Posted because ... well, because why not?
Includes commercials for:
Borateen from Borax
Maxwell Coffee
TV Guide
Firebird Gasoline
Contac Cold Medicine
Studebaker Lark
Handi-Wrap
STP Oil - Krátké a kreslené filmy
When a leaking pickle was a disaster! Just got back from shopping with my gloves, mask, sanitizer in this pandemic. Wish I was living in 1961 please.
my grandma was born in '61...lord do i wish i could've grown up with this fashion!! 60s-70s culture is criminally underrated
This is the year I was born...the world has changed so ,much!!! I remember some of these, but obviously not all were still around by the time I was old enough to be aware of commercials.
That TV Guide is the 27 October 1962 issue. It features Richard Rust and Edmond O'Brien of "Sam Benedict," which only lasted on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963.
Handi-Wrap- brought to you by the family- minded folks at Dow Chemical Co. Ah Napalm anyone?
100 foot roll
I am as old as Handi-Wrap and I think I was conceived in a Studebaker....
The Borateem commercial was regularly seen on "DEATH VALLEY DAYS", sponsored by U.S. Borax in first-run syndication [Hank Simms is the announcer]; "THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW" [CBS, 1957-'64] was sponsored by General Foods- in the early '60s, Maxwell House was the brand "pitched" by Danny and his cast at the end of the proogram, and this short 1962 "pitch" is an example; the TV GUIDE ad promotes the October 27-November 2, 1962 issue [Edmond O'Brien & Richard Rust of "SAM BENEDICT" are on the cover].
Nice to see Connie Hines on the Mr. Ed set doing a Studebaker commercial.
The Lark's top isn't the only thing that goes down on Lovers Leap.
Maybe if they had gone with that slogan, Studebaker would still be around.
Fascinating to examine the evolution of the fine art of tv salesmanship!
You mean the "evolution of the fine art of TV bulls--t. It's gotten more sophisticated and technical but it's the same old same old...everyone is trying to sell you something.
If Maxwell houses instant coffee is good enough for Danny Thomas then it's good enough for me
Thanks for the memories ! I was 6 in 1961
Me too!
Nice to see Danny Thomas in the Maxwell House ad.
And years later he was the spokesman for norelco drip coffeemakers! I bought 2 of them
What a variety of products!
I was a child in 1961. Wow, a long time ago!
I missed the good old times, especally the 1950's and 1960-62
The 60s weren't really free of the 50s until 1964
@@leonotarianni2604 'the British Invasion'
Back when commercials were commercials. Much better than today's lousy ads
"Hundreds of tiny time pills" - I still remember that phrase.
You are probably my age or older.
yes, really catchy phrase.
Yeah, me too--and you notice, you don't hear it anymore?
Maybe because it was all a bogus (or semi-bogus) come-on that worked on the minds of TV viewers in the 60's, but doesn't work these days?
If the "tiny time pills" were an innovation that was really ALL THAT, then I have to believe it would still be around.
Contac cold medicine still exists, but I don't think the tiny time pills still do.
I remember them from when I was a kid, also. When I got out of college I worked at the ad agency Avrett, Free & Ginsberg in NYC. Jack Avrett conceived the Tiny Time Pills campaign when he was at Foote, Cone & Belding. One of the nicest men I have ever worked with, Jack was a true Southern gentleman.
Bruno56
Later!
( Just kiddin’...and no, I doubt the tiny time pills had a whole lot to do with the hippies. They didn’t need any extra help or encouragement when it came to substance use/abuse. They had that one covered!)
I was a small kid in the 1960s, I never saw any Lark commercials, where are the potato chip commercials? They used to show a cartoon Indian commercial, Wampun corn chips. Yes, the Granny Goose potato chip ones were funny.
Just remembered the name Borateem after decades! I was born in '63, so these aired slightly before my time. I think Pure (1:55) is now Union76.
Gary Kerns there still is a pure oil gas station in a few areas including 0ne in Winston-Salem.
OK< thanks for telling me!
Still use Borateam. Greatest stuff.
I smoked larks while driving my lark.
'61 "MISTER ED" Studebaker sponsor I.D. (immediately following the opening title), followed by Lark ad; and more sponsor I.D.'s and ads from that period. The last commercial was originally produced on videotape, and transferred to kinescope, 'agile'.
Rex May, gotta love that name! Rex May....sell you a Studebaker Lark!!
More ads- Pure Oil's "Firebird" gasoline was not available in all areas (certainly not in New Jersey!); Contac, from Menley & James Laboratories [now GlaxoSmithKline].....
Connie Hines! Carol Post on the "Mr. Ed" show. What a doll! Studebaker sponsored the Mr Ed show.
I’m gonna get me one of those Larks!
Thank you.
Connie Hines was gorgeous!
Even Mr Ed says so.
Is that who it is in the ooen ad? She was cute!@!
The Psychotronic Film Festival put on by radio station KFJC several times a year at Foothill College, Los Altos, CA runs commercials like this between films. good stuff.
Ahh to be 11 again and memorizing just about every commercial!
I guess you were born in 1950.
I took Contact in the 60s and I felt fantastic. I think the ingredients were used for Meth. I always stopped as soon as the cold symptoms went away which was pretty quickly.
I'm pretty sure the station wagon pictured is a Chevy II, which did not debut until 1962... if you're keeping score.
I thought the same thing!
I took Contac and Allerest for my allergies in the 60's. I saw objects that were not there on those drugs. I don't know what was in them but I felt high on them.
In those days, Contac had Belladonna in it... you WERE high ;)
Contac worked almost too well. My nose felt like a desert. Yep, and they'd last exactly 12 hours, no lie.
The TV Guide commercial was from the mid '60s.
"Integrated" commercial from "MISTER ED", whose primary sponsor [through 1963] was Studebaker- the cast often appeared at the end of the show to promote their latest models: Connie Hines {"Carol Post"} does her part in this early '61 Lark "spiel"; a closing sponsor I.D. follows; 1961 sponsor I.D. [Dick Tufeld, announcer], followed by Handi-Wrap ad; today, "STP" is all that remains of the Studebaker legacy these days- Art Baker was also Chevrolet's announcer on "BONANZA" at the time...
Studebaker also owned Gravely, which is also still around. I had thought they had gone out of business but they have new commercials this year.
Boy could we use Borateem today.
No, in the 1960s we used White King D, and certain sizes of it gave you either washcloths, dishcloths, but I don't think we ever got the king size one that would've given us a bath towel.
I remember adding STP to my oil in a '71 Mustang. I guess they got me to want it.
I was too busy pooping in my cloth diapers in 1961 to have paid attention to commercials.
You too, huh?
Yeah, guess there were quite a few of us...
I'll bet those roll-back tops on them there Studes' leaked like Hell after a while!
Damn, I think they want me to buy a Lark lol
Studebaker Lark ... i'm from south bend indiana. Cool
I wasn't born until 1972 so never got to ride in a Studebaker but they were beautiful cars
The beautiful harmonious safe friendly Caucasian world we're throwing away. I remember it well -- millennials, zoomers at al can only glimpse it through old cultural remnants.
We had a Studebaker Lark when I was a kid. We had to run an extension cord out to the carport and put a light blub under the hood when it was cold, or it wouldn’t start the next day.
Studebaker got a reprieve from death when it had the good fortune to be making the Lark when a substantial number of Americans got annoyed with the oversized and gaudy Big 3 automakers' products and shifted to compacts. This was a very brief reprieve, though, since those same Big 3 companies quickly put out their own compacts in the fall of 1959 - and Studebaker then only had a few years left.
Gaudy...hmmm, the '58 Buicks and Olds were incredible chrome machines. The must've weighed a couple tons. I rarely ever saw any on the road. That was alot of metal and chrome to just pick up a six pack at the local market.
My brother had a '61 Ford Falcon (bought it used in the Fall of '63)
Small 6 cylinder (85 hp).
2 speed Fordamatic transmission.
Zero to sixty in two days.
Right everyone golfed in 1961. Instant coffee
60 years ago... :(
I want a Lark now. Think my Studebaker dealer still has them?
Nick Turnbull I'm thinking your Studebaker dealer is dead.
Yep, I'd think so, too.
Believe it not, the Lark was a somewhat popular car, during the time of big, long gas guzzlers the Studebaker Lark had only one detriment, the name Studebaker. Other than that it was dorky, cars for professors and squares, but there was something about it that got one's attention.
Studebaker Hawk--Frank Zappa.
I remember seeing people drive the Lark around the late 60's. It's styling actually held up pretty well, but it was super cheap for people then and hopelessly square for the times.
3:00 - 3:30: Connie Hines was my first crush on a TV actress; I was about 10 years old!
A underrated beauty
At 3:00, I am surprised they did not shoot the ad with Connie Hines looking at the car in profile . They seemed to shoot her in the Mr Ed series in profile a lot. . Showing best side.
Ladies ditch your husbands if they don't buy you the car. How prophetic from Wilbur's wife on Mr Ed.
well I don't know why that surprises you because she was cold she tried to make her husband get rid of Mr. Edd.
Connie Hines, what a gal. They don't make 'em like THAT anymore, no sir-ree.
the last clip (with the fact book offer) seems to have been a Kinescope, (film from TV) as there is Orthocon Halo effect.
I want the lawn mower, tiller, snowblower, plowed all in one.
Gravely by Studebaker. They were awesome machines!
My CCD teacher drove a Studebaker Lark.
Almost all of it still looks 50s
Went to my local dealership and they were out of '61 Larks. :(
Love 61
Thanks I wish we still chemical could make handiwipes again
ThAt was that was the year I was born 1961. Jerry phillips
Lark was popular.
Thes bring back thegood old days I was bpfj
Commercials were more straightforward because the product was obviously mentioned. These days the ads are less direct.
They certainly weren't subtle--most of them some middle-aged white guy in a skinny tie giving viewers his spiel.
I was five years old in 1961, and as soon as that Handi-Wrap ad came on, I could still tell you what was going to happen. Nowadays we have a worldwide plastic disposal problem, and plastic film is some of the worst of it.
l was in second grade in 61' and there was a guy who had a talk show in the morning. His name was Arthur Godfrey. He always talked like he had a head cold ! Anyway my grandmother watched the show and l remember her saying that he said, if you ever have time on your hands and absolutely have nothing to do ,go in the kitchen and grab your roll of Saran Wrap and try to find the beginning of it ! ! !
@@MrEdwin57 Ha ha ha! It's STILL true today!
' contains tiny time pills that sets off like a clock: .... lol
"Folks who go, go, go need not offend"
Can I test drive the handy wrap lady?...
1961
Igonorace in the first degree
The best part of the 50s happened 1960-63 😂
"Brought to you by Dow Chemical, we make napalm!"
thnx, Connie Hines fan-
I was a baby in 1961
Okay, so in the first commercial, the Borateem commercial, what model CAR and model YEAR is the station wagon that's parked in the driveway that the family gets out of?
Now, it's going to take a bonafide "car guy" to evaluate my statement--but that car looks like a car from a model year at least a couple of years LATER THAN 1961--DOES IT NOT??
And by the way, since this video was so top-heavy on Lark commercials, I definitely DO NOT believe that it's a '61 Lark!
Take a close look at the '61 Lark wagon at the end of the video.
The lines in the body and the chrome are different!
And besides, this is a Borateem commercial--not a Lark commercial like the rest of the commercials on the video.
(And thank you very much for bringing us the '61 Lark, Mr. Ed.
Or should I be thanking Studebaker for bringing us Mr. Ed??.....)
Just from the shot that we are given, WITHOUT being able to see the whole thing, I would say that the car in the driveway in the Borateem commercial looks a lot like a mid-60's Chevy Malibu wagon.
I'm just saying, it LOOKS kind of like one.
I'm not saying that's what it is--bit if it ISN'T, then WHAT IS IT?
It doesn't seem to have the snazzy lines of a '61 or earlier mid-sized station wagon, which would be more reminiscent of the tailfin era, which the '61 model year was still a part of. (We were slowly approaching the tail end of the "raised tailfin" era in '61--but they persisted for a few more years on some models.)
Take a look at the '61 Chrysler Imperial (ANY Chrysler, actually), and the '61 Cadillac if you want to argue the point that '61 was still a tailfin year. I'm not saying it was the PEAK year for fins; I think we were a couple of years past the peak by then, but we were still reveling in that particular brand of styling in 1961. Things had not evolved entirely away from fins yet.That eventuality would take a few more years.
To those who couldn't care less, this is probably a lot of meaningless banter.
To a real "car guy", it's usually all very relevant to look back and acknowledge what was happening with the styling during whatever model year is being discussed.
Chevy and Ford had toned down the fins by '61--but "toned down" does not mean "did away with entirely". They were still there, to varying degrees.
Suffice it to say, the American car companies and their respective divisions still MOSTLY had SOME incarnation of the fins and the traditional snazzy lines that went along with them going on in '61--again, to varying degrees.
I'm just saying, cars were still in a gradual process of styling away from fins in '61, and some cars still had them. This is all relevant to my question about the car in the driveway, because there was a gradual, yet dramatic shift AWAY from "raised" tailfins and all of the ACCOMPANYING STYLING that went along with them by the mid-60's, by around 1965--but that hadn't happened YET in 1961!!
Even lines of mid-sized station wagons were exaggerated, curved, protruded, etc., during the tailfin era.
It was a model year or three later (AFTER '61) that cars' lines really began getting more subdued, flattened, and cars became much more "boxy"-looking, while anything resembling fins and their accompanying curvy lines that wrapped around the entire body all but vanished. The '65 Malibu wagon would be a prime example of the type of toned-down, more boxy-looking body style that I'm talking about--and again, the car in the driveway kind of looks like one to me.
So, what the heck is that car?
Who can DEFINITIVELY identify it?
(There must be some irrefutable visual evidence there somewhere--e.g., the hubcaps, the chrome, an emblem, etc........
SOMETHING!!)
We need an EXPERT OPINION on this one!
Where's the girl from MY COUSIN VINNY?........
Even before I saw your comment, I was thinking that car was a 62 to 64 Chevy Nova. My parents had one. Edited to add that I just looked up the 62 to 64 Chevy II Nova, and the 62 came out in the summer of 61, so it's possible that the commercial is from that year.
@@beltrams
Awesome!!
Thanks for that input.
I think you nailed it!
I'm pretty sure it's:
PROBLEM SOLVED.....
Now, (this is for the benefit of anyone else who might be paying attention; I think BandM gets it)
I know that people who don't know much or care much about cars might not understand what the big fuss is all about, and why the model year of the car in the commercial is important--but it's all about being consistent with reality, and to a "car guy", there's nothing more annoying or absurd than a commercial or TV program showing a car that could not have possibly existed--and did NOT in fact EXIST--within the time frame that the show or commercial is claiming that what's being shown took place. I do not claim to be the world's biggest car guy--but I come from a family of car guys who are REALLY BIG on this sort of thing--and when I saw the car in the driveway in the commercial, I knew I had to get to the bottom of things here.
Since these commercials claim to be from 1961, the car in the driveway would HAD TO HAVE BEEN FROM NO LATER THAN THE '62 MODEL YEAR, or the commercial could not possibly have been made in 1961.
(A new car's model year usually began several months into the previous year's calendar year back then--which is a practice that continues to this day, give or take a few months--so all the brand new 1962 cars were released in the summer or fall of 1961).
After reading BandM's reply, I googled:
"1962 Chevy Nova wagon images", and was then immediately acquainted with all of the photos I needed to help make this determination.
I minimized to half-screen one of the sideview photos of the '62 Nova wagon (the photo I chose was one showing the same side of the car as the car shown in the commercial, which was the driver's side), and I then also minimized to half-screen a PAUSED photo of the commercial with car in the driveway, and upon close inspection--comparing the two cars, side by side--the two cars seemed to pretty much be a perfect match.
(I also did the same with "1965 Chevy Malibu wagon", and was quickly able to rule that model OUT as matching the car in the driveway just by taking a close look at some of the the car's lines, styling features, the chrome strip down the side, etc..)
So, I think the '62 Chevy II Nova IS the car in question--and it actually was a bit ahead of its time in terms of styling, IMO--but in REVERSE of what one might expect. It wasn't revolutionary in design; it was actually counter-revolutionary in design, if you ask me (which for the time, kind of DID make it revolutionary, in an odd sort of way. See what I said in my first comment about cars in 1961 still having "swoopy-doopy" styling.)
It was VERY boxy and toned-down-looking for a car from the "tailfin era", I think. We are talking about an era when style points were still selling cars--but the '62 Nova pretty much had NONE of the styling reminiscent of most cars from that era that I can see. Maybe Chevy was trying to appeal to a different crowd that was slowly beginning to emerge; that is, maybe they were trying to provide a simple commuter car that got better mileage than all the luxo-barges that dominated the highways back then--so other factors apart from fancy styling were beginning to emerge and take hold by around the 1962 model year--particularly in what was considered at the time to be a compact car. (The Chevy II Nova was actually considered a COMPACT back in its day! A car of its bulk would definitely be considered full-sized these days.)
I guess the Nova WAGON was for families just like the one depicted in the commercial--who were living the American dream, but who wanted something smaller to drive while still having plenty of cargo area in the rear. (Can you see the wife being given the keys to the Nova sta-way to use to buy groceries, etc., as soon as the husband is able to afford to move on up to something nicer to drive?.....)
It is a 1962 Chevy II ...(Nova name coming later on upscale versions of the car...Chevy II name dropped altogether in 1968).
The 1962 to 1967's are my all time favorite GM car. It was built well - plain and simple with the 6 cyl 194 cu in engine (first GM 6 cyl to have 7 main bearings engine block that was cast with higher content of nickel cast iron for improved wear /durability. (Chrysler followed later high nickel content cast iron alloy 318 V8 engine blocks.)
The Chevy II 194 engine was no high performance racer....but it lasted FOREVER! My Chevy II got 25 mpg (3 speed manual transmission). Compared to my 1996 Honda (193.4 cu in V6) gets .....25 mpg!
I would think with all the hi-tech fuel injection etc etc the Honda do much better.
I wish I had a 1960's Chevy II now...very dependable car. 👍
Think hard. What do all these products have in common.
Yes LOL but they were all made here in the USA
They are all obsolete, K
They all get hyped instead of the individual who will potentially consume the product. Today’s ads are about the individual and the individual’s self affirmation around the product and not about the product itself.
Yeh baby!
Why does Borateam need a team of 20 mules to make your clothes smell cleaner? I would think that the mules would make them smell like mule poop.
No, no, no - the many mules had been used in days of the old west to pull wagonloads of borax out of Death Valley, or something like that. That’s what they told us when these ads ran during the “Death Valley Days” program. And nowadays you can find the same useful borax in fine products like Borateem and Boraxo hand soap. The latter was probably in most school bathrooms back then in the black & white metal canister that deposited a small mound of gritty white powder in your hand when you pushed up on the metal bar underneath.
@0:13 youngster not using a safety belt.. @1:36 no more TV Guide today..
3:00 this looks cute
I don't see Cuba on the globe shown in this video.
61 lark y do not see that car at the Flat 12
WAS A BIG FAN OF MR ED YES CONNIE HINES WAS PRETTY KENNETHO
I was born in 1946
Ahh 6th grade!
Studebaker went out of business.
20 mules keep your clothes smelling better. Go figure!
Studebaker cars from the 1950's , look like a lizzard!.
couldn't make it through all the repetitive Studebaker ads
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no wait I was 5 not 6 sorry
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According to these commercials there was literally no black people in America. Or Asians. Or anyone like them. 😅😅
The larks were ugly looking cars,I'd rather have a Chevy nova II