60s Television Commercials 66 ads

More product ads from sponsors of the 1965-1966 season of ABC's "Honey West" series. These are: Sucrets, Carnation Instant Breakfast, Coffee-Mate creamer, Cover Girl, Sylvania flash cubes, and cigarette ads for Pall Mall and Tareyton. The Pall Mall ad is the most interesting for its blatant snob appeal. A group of elite, rich, white people take a break from their fancy hobby (re-enacting a Revolutionary War battle) for a cigarette. But only the highest quality smoke will do. Their snooty attitude towards those "other" brands is quite telling, and amusing. By contrast, the down-to-earth Tareyton ad goes for humor and nostalgia using cliches from silent movie melodramas. The Sylvania ad introduces the new flash cube (allowing one to snap four flash photos at a clip) as though it were a miracle of technology. In the '60s just about everyone had an Instamatic camera and a supply of those flash cubes that caused temporary blindness. (I can almost still see that lingering blue dot swirling before my eyes.)