OLD ADVERTISEMENTS

I needed to find some audio clips for a song I'm working on, and I found a site that some people might find useful--or at least interesting. It's a database of old advertisements, mainly from the 50s and 60s (there's a decent chunk of 70s ads, too). The cool thing is that a lot of these are common domain now, so you can dissect them however you want and work them into your own art/videos/games/music/etc. Here's the site:

https://archive.org/details/classic_tv_commercials&tab=collection

I haven't looked at anything other than the advertisements, but it's just part of the internet archive, which I'm sure has all sorts of stuff. About the advertisements, though, it's kind of an interesting peephole into the weirdness and stupidity of the past. Some of my favorite ads are old cigarette ads, like this campaign from Virigina Slims where they tried to co-opt the women's rights movement in order to sell cancer sticks. Or, there was this one, where Dial has a bizarre prize for a contest.

Hope you guys find this interesting and/or useful!