Films for the Humanities and Sciences

Advertising

Some Americans charge that the advertising industry promotes materialism and compels them to buy things they don’t want. However, most are unaware that the TV and radio shows, newspapers, and magazines they enjoy for virtually no cost are paid for almost entirely by the sale of advertising time or space. This program features a historical survey of the methods of advertising in the U.S. Topics include the mass-marketing triumph of Lydia Pinkham’s 19th-century patent medicines; the role of sponsorship in radio and early broadcast television; the application of marketing principles to the 1964 Johnson/Goldwater campaign, which featured the well-known daisy/atom bomb ad; and a step-by-step look at how a Ford Ranger TV spot was made by the J. Walter Thompson agency. The program is a valuable aid in understanding the persuasive, pervasive nature of advertising. (28 minutes)

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Item#: BVL8569
Copyright date: ©1997
VHS ISBN 978-0-7365-0945-9
DVD ISBN 978-0-7365-6069-6

Part of the Series : Media Power


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