Advertising Movies

Instead of working, young typists are busy showing off their purchases to each other. When they don't respond to the clerk's bell, a superior comes...

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

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...

Every year, thousands of commercials are made that never reach our TV screens, deemed too shocking to see. In order to make it onto the screen, they...

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

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

Purple Leone is an experimental short film exploring how trends emerge and spread across the world. Through a blend of visuals and sound, it reflects...

A man attempting to make a video tutorial soon realizes the task is more difficult than he previously imagined.

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

From 1996 to 1998, a low-budget TV commercial for Saskatoon’s Great Buffet of China aired relentlessly. Featuring a Caucasian pitchman...

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

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...

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...

A fake horror commercial about the agony of mental overload, where a sudden rush of endless thoughts turns into a paralyzing headache.

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

Intended as a publicity film for Chrysler, Rhythm uses rapid editing to speed up the assembly of a car, synchronizing it to African drum music. The...

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

A child is watching television, but suddenly a food advertising has a strange interference.