History of advertisement video

I have to say I really enjoyed watching the video in class about how advertisement came to be. At first I thought to myself, "oh man not another boring video", but it proved me wrong. It managed to grab my attention within the first couple minutes when it talked about how America was trying to enforce a complete opposite type of society by shunning communism with mass consumerism. During this time America was going through the red scare, I believe, and so it was intreging to see that Americans delt with this by encouraging people to be more materialistic and individualistic.

It was also fascinating to look at some of the old methods of advertisement and see some of the obsard tactics in which they used to sell everyday products. It's crazy to me how it appeared that they really didn't care about the long term effects of some of the things they were selling like Coke-A-Cola and Mallburo and even looking at the gender roles of society in that decade you can really notice how times have changed. By doing some research I was able to find some old ads which cracked me up..