Alka-Seltzer commercials were entertaining in themselves. The best ads for any product and their product was a really good one. I'm pretty sure this preceded the "thanks mean Joe" commercial in which case the advertising agency that made it owes a credit to the one that did this commercial.
I was a preschooler when this ad aired,& thought it was real.I couldn't believe people would fill a huge stadium to watch pie-eating contest,my high school aged brother explained it was a joke.
1960? A commercial in color? Maybe 1970. It even sounds like a late 60s to 1970 commercial (sound quality, that is). I remember seeing it in the early 1970s, like the spicy meatball one (1969). That one ran til about 74. In fact the "kid" looks like Donovan Scott of Police Academy. He would have only been 14 in 1960, but 19-20 in 1968-69.
The lead actor, who starts off the whole cup-hammering protest, is George Raft, who was famous for playing gangsters in such films as Some Like It Hot (1959), featuring Raft, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and the great Jack Lemmon.
Alka-Seltzer commercials were entertaining in themselves. The
best ads for any product and their
product was a really good one. I'm
pretty sure this preceded the "thanks mean Joe" commercial in which case the advertising agency
that made it owes a credit to the one
that did this commercial.
One of the great commercials of all-time and a prediction of the future. Now ESPN covers the hot dog eating contest.
Not only were the TV shows much better back then, even the commercials were 50 times better.
This looks more like early 70s rather than 1960. It's in color.
1967
There was color in the sixties.
@@peggajordan5635 Not for commercials. I'd accept maybe 1967 as a previous poster commented. Maybe.
@@gabevee3 I was twelve in 1967. I guarantee you that all TV ads were in color by then, in fact that happened about two years earlier.
Sepia
I was a preschooler when this ad aired,& thought it was real.I couldn't believe people would fill a huge stadium to watch pie-eating contest,my high school aged brother explained it was a joke.
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Not from 1960. It was filmed at NY's Shea Stadium, which opened in 1964.
1960? A commercial in color? Maybe 1970. It even sounds like a late 60s to 1970 commercial (sound quality, that is). I remember seeing it in the early 1970s, like the spicy meatball one (1969). That one ran til about 74. In fact the "kid" looks like Donovan Scott of Police Academy. He would have only been 14 in 1960, but 19-20 in 1968-69.
The lead actor, who starts off the whole cup-hammering protest, is George Raft, who was famous for playing gangsters in such films as Some Like It Hot (1959), featuring Raft, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and the great Jack Lemmon.
This is from 1960? It looks newer, and not just because it's in color.
It's from 1967. It won the Clio that year
This is Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts from Everybody Loves Raymond. This is likely from the early 2000s.
Is that guy #3 Donovan Scott ?
It's Ligma Johnson.
sekh-see!!!!
wasn't that chris christie?
I was thinking maybe Stubby Kaye?
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