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Sell and Spin A History of Advertising
English | Size: 573.08 MB
Category: Net: Marketing
From ancient phrases etched in stone to today's cutting-edge multimedia commercials, selling has always meant grabbing attention," says its narrator, the respected talk-show host Dick Cavett. "The point? Moving the product. The means? Tapping into desire — creating need." From the first known advertisement, a wine shop's sign from ancient Babylon, to the eve of the high-tech 21st century, Cavett and a host of advertising experts tell the story of not just how advertising became an industry in the first place, but how it became the huge, shape-shifting industry we regard today as both wildly creative yet somehow sinister.
Even the most ad-loathing viewer will recognize many of the iconic examples of this ultra-commercial art form of the thousands this documentary includes: Burma-Shave roadsigns, the smoke-blowing Camel cigarettes billboard in Times Square, the Volkswagen Beetle touting itself as a "lemon" on a whole magazine page, "I can't believe I ate the whole thing"; mascots from Tony the Tiger to the Marlboro Man (a symbol of freedom, we hear, for postwar office workers shackled to their desks) to the Taco Bell chihuahua; and of course Coca-Cola's "I'd like to teach the world to sing," whose conception the final episode of Mad Men fictionalized by putting into the mind of its protagonist, 1960s Madison Avenue "creative" Don Draper.