Movies: Advertising

In this highly anticipated sequel to his groundbreaking, ADVERTISING AND THE END OF THE WORLD, media scholar Sut Jhally explores the devastating personal and environmental fallout from advertising, commercial culture, and rampant American consumerism...

In another early advertisement of her's, Greta and a group of friends have tea on the rooftop terrace of the Strand Hôtel and later have a picnic in the park....

It's a busy day at the office, and the stenographer is exhausted from trying to keep up with the demands on her skills. Even when she stays late, she cannot catch up with all of the work. But then a man comes into the office to demonstrate the many a...

The art of the "pitch" and its role in society, as told by many of the pitch industry's greatest salesmen, including Arnold Morris, Sandy Mason, Lester Morris, Wally Nash and Ed McMahon as well as a look at the Popeil family....

Maria Fernanda (Julia Testoni), a young entrepreneur with bipolar disorder, ends her partnership with her friend Sandra at their advertising agency. Through their phone conversations, we discover that the real reason involves a crime they committed a...

A battalion, preceded by three riders and a military marching band, parades in front of the crowd. A man is manoeuvring a handcart bearing the inscription "Sunlight Soap" in the foreground....

Hollywood movies are rapidly becoming vehicles for the ulterior marketing and advertising motives of studios and their owners, rather than entertainment in their own right. Behind the Screens explores this trend toward "hypercommercialism" through p...

Mr Munnings is printing some posters advertising the Fire Brigade band's forthcoming concert. Captain Flack tells his men to put the posters up around town but where can they put them? Nick Fisher the bill poster helps them out....

Mr and Mrs Stockholm visit the Paul U. Bergström (PUB) department store to buy a new wardrobe after their home had previously been destroyed by a fire. They visit different departments, where the future Greta Garbo is one of the models showing outfit...

In 1957, Peter Kubelka was hired to make a short commercial for Schwechater beer. The beer company undoubtedly thought they were commissioning a film that would help them sell their beers; Kubelka had other ideas. He shot his film with a camera that ...

A short film advertising the newspaper Sztandar Młodych (The Banner of Youth), noteworthy for its abstract elements painted directly onto film stock. An attempt at showing the complexity of the world in a capsule, the film reflects the new policy of ...

Glaxo Wellcome Anti-Tobacco Commissioned Film. (23 Sec. )...

Lotte Reiniger applies her charming cutout animation technique to this early advertisement for the Nivea skin care company....

No Measure of Health profiles Kyle Magee, an anti-advertising activist from Melbourne, Australia, who for the past 10 years has been going out into public spaces and covering over for-profit advertising in various ways. The film is a snapshot of his ...

A modern couple from a typical advertisement: young, attractive, and brand-conscious. As they use the products on their breakfast table they begin to quote lines from the relevant advertisemnet. Soon their behavior departs from the accepted advertisi...

A series of visual paradoxes between the names of the streets of Madrid and those of the shops located in them....

A travelogue through the diverse neighborhoods of Madrid, its picturesque streets and its history; and an approach, with a sense of humor, to the lighted signs and advertising slogans of the shops: an unusual portrait of the city and its people....

Featuring interviews with Sir John Hegarty, Lord Tim Bell and Robert E. Jacoby, The Real Saatchis: Masters of Illusion chronicles the rise and fall of Britain's largest advertising agency,...

Part of a triptych of fashion films edited from Erwin Blumenfeld's original footage by filmmaker Adam Mufti and sound designer Olivier Alary. This film examines the concept of 'Adertising & Layout' in Blumenfeld's motion image work....

Focusing directly on the world of commercial images, Sut Jhally asks some basic questions about the cultural messages emanating from this market-based view of the world: Do our present arrangements deliver what they claim -- happiness and satisfactio...