Video URL


13184_UM_9428_commercials1

1960s
B&W

Three commercials are shown: Colgate toothpaste, Anacin headache relief, and Wildroot hair gel. In the Colgate commercial a handsome man enters a restaurant and all the girls are impressed by his teeth. He kisses one of the girls and a theme song that sings "cleaner breath, cleaner taste, cleaning teeth" is repeated. Animation of how Colgate toothpaste is shown. The Anacin commercial shows a woman returning home and kids playing outside her front lawn. The kids accidently throw a ball over her fence and they ask if she can retrieve it for them. The woman has a headache and asks the kids to go away. She takes Anacin and feels better, then makes the children cookies. The commercial concludes with a bottle of Acacin on a table and the narrator explains that Acacin works better because it has more pharmaceutical ingredients. The Wildroot commercial shows a woman walking her dog. She's impressed with a mans hair across the street. The woman approaches him and they cuddle on the grass with the dog in between them. The man puts the hair gel on his hands, rubs it in, and applies it to his hair. He combs his hair and looks at himself in the mirror.