Benton & Bowles: Sample Clips, 1950s-1960s
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| (cheerful music) | 0:01 | |
| ♪ Smoke these, smoke full, smoke fresh ♪ | 0:04 | |
| ♪ Pick Paxton for pleasure ♪ | 0:08 | |
| ♪ Lively menthol blended with back to back ♪ | 0:10 | |
| ♪ Fresher pleasure in a plastic pack ♪ | 0:14 | |
| ♪ Smoke these, smoke full, smoke fresh ♪ | 0:18 | |
| ♪ Smoke Paxton cigarettes ♪ | 0:21 | |
| Narrator | A Post Grape-Nuts breakfast. | 0:25 |
| It fills you up, but not out. | 0:27 | |
| - | I am a dog catcher. | 0:29 |
| Shall I catch that door? | 0:31 | |
| - | Of course not, he's gentle. | 0:33 |
| - | That boy named his dog, Gentle, | 0:35 |
| after Charmin bathroom tissue. | 0:38 | |
| - | It may astound you to know | 0:40 |
| that I had 57 shaves out of one Pisonna blade. | 0:41 | |
| Now with the (beep) stainless, I got four shaves. | 0:47 | |
| (exciting music) | 0:51 | |
| Narrator | Start with fresh corn flavor. | 0:52 |
| Start your day a little bit better | 0:57 | |
| with Post Toasties Cornflakes. | 0:59 | |
| ♪ Oh, what lather ♪ | 1:02 | |
| ♪ Sharable lather ♪ | 1:06 | |
| - | Imagine, a soap that lathers like shampoo. | 1:09 |
| - | I'm so particular about my coffee, our cook says, | 1:13 |
| "Make it yourself." | 1:15 | |
| And so I do. | 1:17 | |
| Let me show you how. | 1:18 | |
| I make it a new way, by the pot, using instant coffee. | 1:20 | |
| Not any instant. | 1:23 | |
| This one, Instant Maxwell House. | 1:24 | |
| I do it my way, see. | 1:27 | |
| You'll like it. | 1:30 | |
| - | After three years, | 1:32 |
| my group had 21% fewer cavities with Crest. | 1:32 | |
| - | Just spray and dust. | 1:35 |
| Johnson's Pledge gives wax-beauty instantly | 1:38 | |
| as your dust. | 1:41 | |
| - | Hey, they're making a dog food commercial in studio B. | 1:42 |
| - | I'm starved. | 1:45 |
| - | Let's go! | |
| - | Look, it's Gravy Train. | 1:47 |
| The one that makes its own gravy. | 1:49 | |
| - | Yeah, right in the bowl. | 1:51 |
| - | Let's eat. | |
| - | Won't the dog mind? | 1:53 |
| - | What dog? | |
| Narrator | After dinner. | 1:57 |
| - | Cream? | 2:00 |
| - | Please. | 2:02 |
| Narrator | One never serves the coffee | 2:04 |
| without the cream. | 2:07 | |
| Harvey's Bristol Cream, | 2:09 | |
| one of nine imported Harvey's wines. | 2:10 | |
| (woman gasping) | 2:14 | |
| - | Did it break? | 2:15 |
| - | My shampoo? | |
| It's a tube, silly. | 2:16 | |
| (carefree music) | 2:18 | |
| - | Isn't it time | |
| for a new twist in flavor? | 2:19 | |
| Here it is. | 2:21 | |
| New Beechnut Candy Cane gum. | 2:23 | |
| Narrator | Coffee beans that cost more. | 2:26 |
| They are the reason Yuban costs more, | 2:28 | |
| a little more than other coffees. | 2:30 | |
| Narrator | The baby food that caters | 2:32 |
| to your baby's taste. | 2:34 | |
| In Beechnuts wide variety, everything tastes so good, | 2:36 | |
| one nourishing spoonful leads to another. | 2:41 | |
| Spokesperson | Drop a pearl into this shampoo. | 2:44 |
| Drop a pearl into extra rich liquid Prell. | 2:46 | |
| (ethereal music) | 2:49 | |
| It drifts through great luxury than ever before. | 2:50 | |
| Luxury that goes to your head. | 2:55 | |
| - | Kids, my cereal is now | 2:59 |
| in the new Post compact box, Post Crispy Critters. | 3:01 | |
| ♪ The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals ♪ | 3:04 | |
| - | Hi Susie, my surprise came. | 3:08 |
| - | What'd you get? | 3:11 |
| - | A baby brother. | 3:12 |
| I wanted a bike. | 3:14 | |
| - | Oh. | |
| - | I've gotta cook his bottles, | 3:17 |
| and save his diapers in a pal, | 3:19 | |
| and wash 'em in that. | 3:22 | |
| - | That? | |
| - | No, silly, that. | 3:24 |
| Ivory Snow. | 3:26 | |
| Narrator | Here's a leading alkalizer, | 3:28 |
| dissolved in water as directed. | 3:29 | |
| A plain antacid tablet, dissolved in water. | 3:31 | |
| And here's Pepto-Bismol. | 3:33 | |
| Now watch for the coating action. | 3:35 | |
| No protective coating here. | 3:37 | |
| None here, but Pepto-Bismol has protective-coating action. | 3:39 | |
| ♪ You can take your car to ♪ | 3:43 | |
| ♪ The man who wears the star ♪ | 3:45 | |
| ♪ The big, bright, Texaco star ♪ | 3:46 |
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