10549_sominex
Subjects
1950s
B&W
Commercial for Sominex, a sleeping aid from the 1950s.
Animated genie sleeps with zzz’s emanating from his head, a sleepless housewife paces back and forth in front of a window, genie floats on a magic carpet and brings the woman Sominex pills. Woman takes sleeping pills, goes to bed, wakes up to thunder/lighting/rain storms feeling refreshed. Sominex jingle plays while woman sleeps soundly on a cloud.
Bouncing white ball follows the words at the bottom of the screen “Take Sominex tonight and sleep...sleep...sleep.”