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It is what it says it is
Madacy, the people who made this DVD title, make titles that probobly do not draw a lot of attention. This is probobly why not a lot of money is spent cleaning up content or doing extras. We are talking small Canadian Company, not Walt Disney Home Video here folks. I have seen other Classic Commercial montages before, and this one is not bad. Granted, there really is no special features on this two disc set, but what do you expect for 10 bucks. On most of these commercials, it looks as if the original source has long been gone, and these are copies of the commercials that were inserted in shows before they were sent out to the tv stations. I have read complaints about the editing, but only saw this ture on one or two clips. It looks like some filters WERE used, because several of these commercials I have seen in other compilations, and this is by far the best quality I have seen. Also, remember that the early days of television did not have the best of picture or sound quality. Just looking at an old episode of The Honeymooners should prove that.

In all, this product delivers exactly what it advertises, over 3 and a half hours of non-stop classic commercials. You will see cigarete commercials, Hamms Beer Commercials (From The Land of Sky Blue Waters), toothpaste commercials, Mountain Dew commercials, etc. For 10 bucks, I would like you to show me a Commercial set that pumps in more features for this price.

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You all missed the point...
The people who complain about 'poor audio/video quality' remind me of people who won't watch silent movies because they look scratchy, the action is 'jumpy' and of course, no sound. These commercials were probably discarded after being shown the nunber of times they'd originally been paid for. For all we know they were taken from various vaults, garages, broom closets, etc. Just as tens of thousands of educational films are already lost, imagine what becomes of a commercial after its been shown and then tossed out...

Having said that, this is a fun collection. My personal fav. is the 'V.D.' Public Service Announcement, as imagining that playing now is...unimaginable! Also seeing older characters such as Rosie and Mr Whipple is always good. Some ads are downright bizarre, like the Kool Aid ad with 3 of the Monkees, and Bugs Bunny thrown in for no reason. Having been born in 1974, I can't imagine a time when cigarettes were advertised on TV, but here's the proof!

Also interesting to note how Crest toothpaste busts into the 70's head first, featuring african americans as college professors, etc. Try finding that even now!

Hopefully there will be more of this. Come on! Where's the Kal Kan 'disappearing vitamin' ad? Or Kool-Aid's 'Oh Yeah!' pitcher guy? Bring them on! I'll gladly fork over another 10 bucks for it hehehe.

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From The Ad Tycoons Of Yesteryear!
I want to add my nod of approval to those of the other reviewers who found this collection worthwhile.

Yes, this looks like, as Johnny Legend would say, "a below Low-Budget but just a step above No-Budget masterpiece!" Simple but pleasing cover design, minimal printed info inside, but a well categorized collection of classic TV ads swept from Americana's memories and possibly "this close" to being tossed into the fires of video-tape extinction.

Many of the the ads here look like bad 3rd generation transfers from neanderthol VCRs, but the fact that these survive on VHS & DVD at all is just plain cool. You can find TV Ad compilations out there with clean video copy for a select few of the bigtime sponsors from yesteryear. What is harder to come across is the plethora of lesser known commercials. The prime example, from the annals my 1970s youth, are the "Not Another Hamburger!" ads by Der Weinerschnitzel, the coolest being Dracula rising out of his coffin, looking up, and gasping in horror, crying "NO! NO! Anything but that....NOT ANOTHER HAMBURGER!" I honestly thought I was the only TV obsessed adult who still had that catch-phrase imprinted in my pop-culture memory bank.

You get a detailed look at TV commercial past with the now outlawed cigarette ads, the most mind-bending and hysterical being the spot for Winston Cigarettes featuring..... The Flintsones! If you have not seen this ad where Fred and Barney sneak into the backyard for a Winston break, then you must pick up this DVD. The Flintsones peddling tobacco on its own is worth the price for Classic Commercials!

As many commercials that are featured on this DVD, I can't help but thinking... how many more commercials--- advertising national as well as regional products--- are lying dormant in video vaults, missed, forgotten, overlooked by everybody from DVD producers to pop-culture historians? There are some hep companies, most notably "Something Weird Video," who have revived multitudes of forgotten B-Movie classics and public service films from the video graveyards, and given them a new lustre. I hope more commercials like the ones in this "Classic Commercials" collection, whether the video quality is clean or thrashed, surface on DVD.