Advertising Movies

PBS Frontline takes an in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar "persuasion industries" of advertising and public relations and how marketers have...

Several children spend a day in the forest and learn from Smokey Bear the five rules to fire safety.

Ad man Jonathan Blake gets tired of his work and runs away to a time travel agency for the first flight out.

The film shows one day from waking up in the morning all the way to waking up again the next morning. The everyday situations that many commercials...

Film commissioned by the Chicago-based publisher of Negro Digest, Ebony, Tan, and Jet to encourage advertisers to reach out to African American...

Part of a triptych of fashion films edited from Erwin Blumenfeld's original footage by filmmaker Adam Mufti and sound designer Olivier Alary. This...

Part of a triptych of fashion films edited from Erwin Blumenfeld's original footage by filmmaker Adam Mufti and sound designer Olivier Alary. This...

Focusing directly on the world of commercial images, Sut Jhally asks some basic questions about the cultural messages emanating from this...

On completing his training in a secret elite army unit, Eitan is taken out by mates from the unit to celebrate. During a night of drinking in Tel...

Commissioned by developer Harry Macklowe to promote properties at 432 Park Avenue in New York City, this short film tells the story of a ballet...

Film collage with documentary material from the time of the German economic miracle. The "Golden" 50s run in a serene potpourri of weekly clips, old...

Advertising cartoon advising the farmers of West Africa to save their money in Barclay's banks.

A series of visual paradoxes between the names of the streets of Madrid and those of the shops located in them.

A battalion, preceded by three riders and a military marching band, parades in front of the crowd. A man is manoeuvring a handcart bearing the...

Early 1960s documentary into the spending habit of 'screenagers' (young cinema-goers aged between 16-24). Based on Mark Abrams' 1959 report, 'The...

In 1957, Peter Kubelka was hired to make a short commercial for Schwechater beer. The beer company undoubtedly thought they were commissioning a film...

No Measure of Health profiles Kyle Magee, an anti-advertising activist from Melbourne, Australia, who for the past 10 years has been going out into...

A fake horror commercial following a writer who relies on a headache pill to keep her creative spark alive

Laundry soap brand Rinso was quick to jump on the 1940s fuel rationing bandwagon and remind housewives that, unlike other soaps, Rinso required very...