The Rab C Nesbit cigar ads were ok but they don't come close to the original ads of the 1960s & 1970s. I recall one of these ads had a guy in a farmyard, fitting 'Carlos Fandango" Extra-Wide wheels to his small Ford Anglia car. However, as he drives through a narrow farmyard gate, the wheels get torn off the car's body. I recall another ad where a robot-making factory places a robot's head on backward. However, it was the sound of a match being struck and the 'Air on a G-string' tune playing that made these ads iconic. "Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet. The mild cigar from Benson & Hedges." Over time, they dropped the second sentence. Eventually, all tobacco advertising was banned, not only during regular TV commercials but also at international motor racing events. Gone were tobacco company sponsorship, in came watch company sponsorship, which is where I first heard of the brand, 'Tag Heuer'. Does anybody recall the St. Bruno ads, where the flat-cap and driving-gloves-wearing pipe smoker needed that bald-headed bodyguard to keep all those pursuing women at bay? Or what about the Castella Panatella ads where tobacco was hand-rolled against a rock on a beach by a 'dusky maiden'?
The Hamlet cigar advert is from years and years ago (1970s or 1980s) before there were many restrictions on advertising smoking, it wasn't because they couldn't show the cigar in those days it was part of the joke behind the advert.
The Honda ad was showing some of their past racing achievements, like Mike Hailwood's epic 1967 Isle of Man Senior TT victory, also when he transitioned to 4 wheels in Formula1, they even used a close match to his helmet colours throughout the ad. Also, some of the vehicles were current when the ad was shown.
Mike never raced for Honda in the F1 World Championship. The car shown relates to Richie Ginther's win in the #11 Honda RA272 at the Mexican GP in 1965.
@ yeah? they’re not even that. Honestly none of those would have sprung to most people’s minds when asked about creative ads they remember loving. Apart from one, maybe two at a push it forced.
The woman in the Levi’s ad was Tatjana Patitz. She was one of the original supermodels, a contemporary of Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista. She sadly died last year.
The man in the Hamlet commercial is Gregor Fisher he's quite famous in the UK for having the starring role in the Scottish comedy series Rab C. Nesbitt. I haven't seen an American reactor do that show yet you would probably have to come from the UK to understand the thick accents.
#2 Lynx. In the office I worked in, early 2000s, me and 2 of my lady colleagues learnt this dance and one day, when the office was busy, I played Room 5's version of "Make Lurv", stood up and started to dance. Everyone wondered what the hell I was doing but only laughed when my lady colleagues joined in. One of those lady's is now my wife. 😊
The Honda ad is the cleverist. Ads are made to srick in your head and the Honda one is the one you kept remembering and repeating that there was no logo. It wins by a mile.
And yes - they were ALL Honda products - even the little jet at the end. The original music - Dream the Impossible Dream - makes it make much more sense. But 'The Cog' is better, imho.
Whether these are the best ads is subjective, but it shows the difference between the US and UK, in the US ads bash you over the head with the product name to ensure you remember it, in the UK they use a story and music to implant a link into your brain, UK ads tend to be much more subtle about the product name.
They cut the end off of the Honda ad. After he goes off the waterfall he’s in a hot air balloon with the logo on it, then they finish on a screen with the logo. There was also a follow up ad, you might want to check them out (they’re both on YT)
And the original music was "Dream the Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha. The replaced music deflates that ad significantly, probably done to avoid YT copyrighting action.
I used to be in a band (The French Letters) and we did a parody of the Hamlet cigar commercial. After several fastish numbers Brian, our lead singer, would sit on the edge of the stage, declare he was 'knackered' (tired out) and ask for a cigarette. Someone would give him one, the lights would go down, with just a spotlight on Brian and Dave (bass) would play the Hamlet commercial theme (air on a G string, by, J S Bach) as Brian smoked the cigarette and looked pensive. It always got a howl of laughter.
I agree that these ads are perhaps not the best of British advertising, but you have to realise that the British public are very familiar with the brands being shown, and very often there will have been a preceeding ad and people here would be waiting for the next one, to see what happens, rather like serial, also ads will often be made on location, which seemed to surprise you, remember the USA is huge, with many different types of scenery and climates, thus making it easier to simulate another country. I should also say that the girl playing the part of Audrey Hepburn was a body double and the face was CGI.
Levi's used to promote freezing jeans as a way to freshen them up instead of washing them, they still tell you to avoid washing them. I have Levis from the 80s that weren't washed for months lol
Even for the old adds, there was no classics like „I wanna be Smith‘s Crisps.“ „ All because the lady loves Milk Tray“ Or the one with the Fairy washing up bottle.
The actor in the Honda ad, was miming the track "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" sung by Andy Williams. The number 2 Lynx ad is similar to the video for "something good" by Utah Saints. The girl in the Chanel ad is French actress Audrey Taotou.
Hi, the only one I remember of these is the one with the comb-over guy in the photobooth, Gregor Fisher, who went on to have his own comedy series as Rab C Nesbit. Good luck with the new channel.
Never seen most of these on my TV ! Seen the comb over guy and Audrey Hepburn. We are not allowed to show ads for tobacco products any more in the UK. The original comb over guy or " baldie man" as he was known, was from a Scottish TV show.
Hello, JJLA! Seeing Gregor Fisher in the Hamlet ad, I wonder if you'd enjoy watching Rab C Nesbitt, which is genius. The accent is strong - well worth the effort. And the lady in the 501 advert is a well known German model, Tatjana Patitz. You are spot on! Or did you know that already?
I'm wondering if he'd be able to understand a single word of what they were saying on Rab C. Nesbitt. Many Brits struggle hard with that show. "The accent is strong" is kind of comic understatement.
I’m nearly fifty and a couple of these ads were on TV when I was at most in my teens, like the Hamlet ad…which was prior to the ban on cigars being advertised on TV in 1990.
4:39 - HAMLET CIGAR ADS - From the mid-1960s to the 1990s when on-screen tobacco ads were eventually banned, Hamlet Cigar ads ran one of the longest campaigns. The premise of each ad was the same... An attempted activity would go wrong, the screen would fade to black, the sound of a match being struck would be heard, and then the screen would come to life displaying someone smoking a Hamlet Cigar, accompanied by the tune 'Air On A G-String'. Then a voiceover would say, '"Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet. The mild cigar from Benson & Hedges." The first of these I recall was a guy in a farmyard, fitting 'Carlos Fandango" "Extra-Wide wheels to his small Ford Anglia car. However, as he drives through a narrow farmyard gate, the wheels get torn off the car's body. I recall another ad where a robot-making factory places a robot's head on backward. These ads became so popular that comedians at the time would create 'mock' cigar ads.
JJ FYI: The Honda ad was to show the wide variety of uses that Honda engines are pu to... Approximately 70% of the general-purpose engines manufactured by Honda are supplied as OEM engines to OTHER manufacturers of power products (from bike, cars, boats and planes).
I remember the photo guy as RAB C NESBIT 🤣 Classic Scottish comedy, him and his friend Jamsey got up to all sorts of drunkards mischief 🤣🤣🤣 Rab C Nesbit 👌
Are you trying to tell us that all dudes in the US of A do NOT put their jeans in the fridge before wearing them? It used to be a very specific habit in the UK
the last advert if you looked when the train was moving of the shot of the bridge it is the bridge where mission impossible dead reckoning was shot where the train bridge was blown up.
The Hamlet advert was banned, along with all tobacco advertising, years ago. The Honda advert does show all Honda products and developments upto that date, including the boat and plane. It was advertising the company, not the products. However they advertise Levis, I've never found a pair to fit me. They're all cut so badly for me. Wranglers always fitted. That Galaxy advert always hit me in the same way Beautiful women can get away with minior theft. I understand it was a facial double of Audrey Hepburn from Roman Holiday, and using advanced VFX techniques from 2013 they recreated her. I remember the advert well. It's still quite brilliant.
No point showing The Honda ad without the song. In fact most of these, as an audio guy you should realise the power of sound, these ads are synonymous with the soundtrack and THEY DON'T work without, so PLEASE don't do it. Scrap the post instead.
You might want to look up the Honda ad (The Impossible Dream) separately, because I think the compilation edit you were watching cut the end off. I would reccomend looking up Honda ads in general they've got several good ones like 'The Cog' and 'Keep Up'
Galaxy might be call 'Dove' in US and yes it was Audrey Hepburn digital add her face to the actor. Both versions can be found on line. 16-year-old Cromer model Ellie Burton is the star of a high-profile advert for Galaxy chocolate, in which she plays the Hollywood icon.Ellie to Audrey was down to CGI technology, hair, make-up and costume
The hamlet advert chap is Rab C Nesbitt, I’d love for you to watch one of his own videos as even I struggle to understand him and I’m from a region not all that far away from him. I’ve no idea what he ( Gregor fisher ) sounds like in real life mind.
There's an area of South West London (Streatham) where the high street had (possibly still has) two Indian restaurants, quite close to each other - both of which feature Indian Elvis impersonators to entertain the diners.
6:42 Is the moment you realise what a huge difference the song (The Impossible Dream by Andy Williams) played in that Honda advert. Without it, the whole ad makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. That Honda advert was iconic though
With regards to the HAMLET CIGAR advert, YES they showed the cigar in his mouth - what is available on YT is the 'sanitised version' - cut short. It was shown on British TV in 1987 - BEFORE cigarette or cigar ads were banned! This was how the advert 'finished' : Kicking off from the SEAT DROP.... you think it can’t get any worse for him, the seat does what it always does… it suddenly drops. Disaster as the crown of his bald head is all we see; then the MUSIC PLAYS and smoke arises... Then he lifts his head, a cigar in his mouth and a look of sheer contentment and satisfaction on his face. He couldn’t give a shit.... LOL - Right now he’s in heaven. A Hamlet cigar to the rescue and that wonderfully reassuring base cello bringing us to the final seconds with that famous voice over reading the HAMLET TAG LINE... "happiness is a cigar called hamlet". 😎 👍
15:08 I think we all remember the "Make Luv" ad and song and some of us, may even remember the dance routine! A few if us tried it out in the club one night. It had the desired effect as well 😂
Hi there can I point out that the advert to do with Honda at the time that went out originally the song was actually Andy Williams Impossible Dream and the reason I know this this is because this is the first time I heard it and I actually have got it on my phone because it's a brilliant song
The hamlet ads were very brave, started in 1966, showing someone as a 'loser', 6 years earlier, 1960 WD & HO Wills (I think) killed off a cigarette brand Strand, with a set of ads called 'Lonely Man', with the stap line 'you're never alone with a Strand', Scenes were loosely based on The Third Man, showed in Cinemas, I think the brand was withdrawn fairly soon after.
The only one that I've ever seen is the Hamlet one with the combover. It's years since I've even had a television. Sometimes, when a hot, dry and parched look is wanted in a commercial or programme, the choice is to nip over to Spain. Depends really on how much money they intend to splash out.
Yup, definitely Amélie and Audrey... I've been living in a triad with them both for decades. Sadly, neither of them had the foggiest idea! 😆 As to the Hamlet cigar ads, anyone who is a bit of a boy racer still gets called Carlos Fandango! Well worth a RUclips search... Edit: Oops! Apologies, I took my own advice & the Carlos Fandango ad was for Panama cigars...
@@bfmt42 How ironic given that Galaxy is made by Mars Inc...which IS an American company. Galaxy is a Mars Inc product which is an American company...albeit made in the UK. It's sold now as 'Dove' chocolate in the U.S. but only comparatively recently has it been sold in the U.S at all....30 years or so. Dove is an original product name dating back to the 1930s (Chicago based Dove Candies & Ice Cream brand)...meanwhile Mars sold their own chocolate as Galaxy in the UK since the 1960s, and in Ireland and most of the rest of the world where it is available except Canada, Mexico U.S. Mars Inc acquired Dove brand sometimes in the 80s and in the 90s launched that chocolate there with unified branding similar to 'Galaxy' Whether it's the same...highly unlikely...different sugars, different fats and different cocoa content etc
No one EVER shows the Wide Mouthed Frog ads, Tey were brilliant. Anyone remember them? Hello, I'm a Wide Mouthed Frog, and I love honeycombe covered in milk chocolate........
10:28 I don't get that Levi's advert either. I actually think the Wrigley's (Alright Now) ad from the 80's did more for making you want to buy a pair of jeans than this did 😂
All the ads for 501s were faux-US in style and usually featured some variant on the dude in white boxers subtly outraging society with his rebellious streak that all the girls loved. Some of them launched careers.
You highlight one of my pet hates with many adverts. Those when you have absolutely no idea what they are advertising. They for a second put some pointless logo on expecting people to look it up, which I for one never do.
That's a truncated version of the Honda ad, the full version has more obvious logo placement, including at the end. And is much more in keeping with the traditional, don't sell the product, sell the dream, ethos that many British adverts did (when I still had a TV and watched adverts) Full advert: ruclips.net/video/6FmXjxdDBRI/видео.html&ab_channel=WILL168888
Find these ads singly and watch them again they have been ruined with editing and taking the original music out. Its the music that adds to the add. There are plenty of copies on YT of the original ads. Also take a look at British ads from the 60/70/80s plenty of humour in those.
All those Hondas are iconic, every male on earth knows them by their brand name (Gold Wing) etc...We also have a couple of HondaJet private planes here, mostly owned by ex-F1 drivers.
Love 501s. That was the jeans we all had in the 80s. 75 quid they were in 1988, but worth it as you had them for decades. Still have a pair i got in 2013. Prefer the white ones though 😊
@wessexdruid7598 i know that, hell we all know that. Its a cowboy working mans trouser. But the coolness that was about them came later. Nobody talked about what jeans you was into in the 70s.. The whole fad about them came later..
😮These are not the UK's best ads. Ok, the Hamlet one (part of a aeries) maybe, but the rest...I'm 70 this year, and don't remember any if them .The best ones are the ones everyone remembers.
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I think there's probably only one person who would say that these are the top ten TV adverts 😂
I wouldn't go that far 😂
@@sarahbonner1 Rab C Nesbit is really funny
Yeah, that would be a silly thing to say - there were 14 of them for a start.
I’ve only ever seen one of them 🙂
The Rab C Nesbit cigar ads were ok but they don't come close to the original ads of the 1960s & 1970s. I recall one of these ads had a guy in a farmyard, fitting 'Carlos Fandango" Extra-Wide wheels to his small Ford Anglia car. However, as he drives through a narrow farmyard gate, the wheels get torn off the car's body. I recall another ad where a robot-making factory places a robot's head on backward.
However, it was the sound of a match being struck and the 'Air on a G-string' tune playing that made these ads iconic. "Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet. The mild cigar from Benson & Hedges." Over time, they dropped the second sentence.
Eventually, all tobacco advertising was banned, not only during regular TV commercials but also at international motor racing events. Gone were tobacco company sponsorship, in came watch company sponsorship, which is where I first heard of the brand, 'Tag Heuer'.
Does anybody recall the St. Bruno ads, where the flat-cap and driving-gloves-wearing pipe smoker needed that bald-headed bodyguard to keep all those pursuing women at bay? Or what about the Castella Panatella ads where tobacco was hand-rolled against a rock on a beach by a 'dusky maiden'?
I am born and live in uk but i have never seen any of these adverts except the hamlet cigar one.
You have if you are 82.
Mate, you've seen enough before to know that these are nowhere near the top of British Ads.
The Hamlet cigar advert is from years and years ago (1970s or 1980s) before there were many restrictions on advertising smoking, it wasn't because they couldn't show the cigar in those days it was part of the joke behind the advert.
I don't know who made this list but I don't think they've watched much telly😂
The Honda ad was showing some of their past racing achievements, like Mike Hailwood's epic 1967 Isle of Man Senior TT victory, also when he transitioned to 4 wheels in Formula1, they even used a close match to his helmet colours throughout the ad. Also, some of the vehicles were current when the ad was shown.
No 7 on the motorcyclist back was for Barry Sheen.
Mike never raced for Honda in the F1 World Championship. The car shown relates to Richie Ginther's win in the #11 Honda RA272 at the Mexican GP in 1965.
The Lady in the 501 advert was Tatjana Patitz She did become a model. She did move to LA! And she did die early!
Most of these wouldn’t be on a list of the best adverts on TV now, let alone all time!?
They're supposed to be 'UK adverts that *showcase the creativity, humor, and cultural quirks of British marketing.'*
@ yeah? they’re not even that. Honestly none of those would have sprung to most people’s minds when asked about creative ads they remember loving. Apart from one, maybe two at a push it forced.
No they're shite.
You're overthinking some of these ads :)
It's a habit of JJ's to over think British stuff!
The woman in the Levi’s ad was Tatjana Patitz. She was one of the original supermodels, a contemporary of Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista. She sadly died last year.
I haven't seen most of these ads and I'm from the UK. Maybe not the most well known .
Not the most well known, but I think I had seen all of them.
The man in the Hamlet commercial is Gregor Fisher he's quite famous in the UK for having the starring role in the Scottish comedy series Rab C. Nesbitt. I haven't seen an American reactor do that show yet you would probably have to come from the UK to understand the thick accents.
#2 Lynx. In the office I worked in, early 2000s, me and 2 of my lady colleagues learnt this dance and one day, when the office was busy, I played Room 5's version of "Make Lurv", stood up and started to dance. Everyone wondered what the hell I was doing but only laughed when my lady colleagues joined in. One of those lady's is now my wife. 😊
The Honda ad is the cleverist. Ads are made to srick in your head and the Honda one is the one you kept remembering and repeating that there was no logo. It wins by a mile.
And yes - they were ALL Honda products - even the little jet at the end. The original music - Dream the Impossible Dream - makes it make much more sense. But 'The Cog' is better, imho.
Whether these are the best ads is subjective, but it shows the difference between the US and UK, in the US ads bash you over the head with the product name to ensure you remember it, in the UK they use a story and music to implant a link into your brain, UK ads tend to be much more subtle about the product name.
I love your comment, it really made me laugh;
The Hamlet cigar ads were all classics.... for about 20 years 😊
When Hamlet Ads were on TV, of course you could show him smoking it, it was allowed, hence the Ad being on TV
I love that show that character is in my favourite episode is the painting one 😂
They cut the end off of the Honda ad. After he goes off the waterfall he’s in a hot air balloon with the logo on it, then they finish on a screen with the logo. There was also a follow up ad, you might want to check them out (they’re both on YT)
And the original music was "Dream the Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha. The replaced music deflates that ad significantly, probably done to avoid YT copyrighting action.
I used to be in a band (The French Letters) and we did a parody of the Hamlet cigar commercial. After several fastish numbers Brian, our lead singer, would sit on the edge of the stage, declare he was 'knackered' (tired out) and ask for a cigarette. Someone would give him one, the lights would go down, with just a spotlight on Brian and Dave (bass) would play the Hamlet commercial theme (air on a G string, by, J S Bach) as Brian smoked the cigarette and looked pensive. It always got a howl of laughter.
Great name for a band.
The best adverts rarely show the logo, they don’t have to. Chocolate you only need to have a specific shade of purple and it’s Cadbury.
I agree that these ads are perhaps not the best of British advertising, but you have to realise that the British public are very familiar with the brands being shown, and very often there will have been a preceeding ad and people here would be waiting for the next one, to see what happens, rather like serial, also ads will often be made on location, which seemed to surprise you, remember the USA is huge, with many different types of scenery and climates, thus making it easier to simulate another country. I should also say that the girl playing the part of Audrey Hepburn was a body double and the face was CGI.
Levi's used to promote freezing jeans as a way to freshen them up instead of washing them, they still tell you to avoid washing them. I have Levis from the 80s that weren't washed for months lol
No Carling Black label, no John Lewis Xmas, no Typhoo or Tunes. Only the Hamlet one is even remotely a classic.
Even for the old adds, there was no classics like „I wanna be Smith‘s Crisps.“ „ All because the lady loves Milk Tray“ Or the one with the Fairy washing up bottle.
some of us are sick of all those.
Those were all Honda vehicles. That was the point of the ad.
The actor in the Honda ad, was miming the track "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" sung by Andy Williams. The number 2 Lynx ad is similar to the video for "something good" by Utah Saints. The girl in the Chanel ad is French actress Audrey Taotou.
Hi, the only one I remember of these is the one with the comb-over guy in the photobooth, Gregor Fisher, who went on to have his own comedy series as Rab C Nesbit. Good luck with the new channel.
Never seen most of these on my TV !
Seen the comb over guy and Audrey Hepburn.
We are not allowed to show ads for tobacco products any more in the UK.
The original comb over guy or " baldie man" as he was known, was from a Scottish TV show.
Gregor Fisher, Naked Video.
Rab C. Nesbitt
But there's zero point in JJ watching that one, as the Scottish accents in that show are completely impenetrable.
Gregor Fisher, from Rab C Nesbitt
The show was called Naked Video.
Throughout the Honda Advert, the guy is Singing The Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha...its epic.
The best visual adverts are those 1980'S &1990'S Guinness adverts. The white horse waves and Rutger Hauer.
"It's not easy being a dolphin..."
I'm British only seen 2 of these , so I don't know when or where the others shown !
i was the same. maybe they shown in cinemas only?
I'm shocked and amazed that JJ hasn't heard of a Papadam. I'd guess that 99% of Brits have eaten them, or at least heard of them.
The man in the Hamlet advert is a brilliant comedian called Gregor Fisher .His sit com Rab C Nesbitt was excellent.
Needs subtitles but yeah, it's funny!
Most of these commercials are fairly recent but the Hamlet commercial is an old one from 1987.
Tobacco advertising was banned a long time ago.
@wessexdruid7598 Yes.
Hello, JJLA! Seeing Gregor Fisher in the Hamlet ad, I wonder if you'd enjoy watching Rab C Nesbitt, which is genius. The accent is strong - well worth the effort.
And the lady in the 501 advert is a well known German model, Tatjana Patitz. You are spot on! Or did you know that already?
I'm wondering if he'd be able to understand a single word of what they were saying on Rab C. Nesbitt. Many Brits struggle hard with that show.
"The accent is strong" is kind of comic understatement.
Awful list 😂
Yeah not the best we have ones with dawn french and dog sausage advert and so many proper funny ads
I’m nearly fifty and a couple of these ads were on TV when I was at most in my teens, like the Hamlet ad…which was prior to the ban on cigars being advertised on TV in 1990.
Agh, you just made me realise I'm nearly 50
@ maybe not as nearly as me then, if you’re only just realising 😊
4:39 - HAMLET CIGAR ADS - From the mid-1960s to the 1990s when on-screen tobacco ads were eventually banned, Hamlet Cigar ads ran one of the longest campaigns. The premise of each ad was the same... An attempted activity would go wrong, the screen would fade to black, the sound of a match being struck would be heard, and then the screen would come to life displaying someone smoking a Hamlet Cigar, accompanied by the tune 'Air On A G-String'. Then a voiceover would say, '"Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet. The mild cigar from Benson & Hedges." The first of these I recall was a guy in a farmyard, fitting 'Carlos Fandango" "Extra-Wide wheels to his small Ford Anglia car. However, as he drives through a narrow farmyard gate, the wheels get torn off the car's body. I recall another ad where a robot-making factory places a robot's head on backward. These ads became so popular that comedians at the time would create 'mock' cigar ads.
CORRECTION - I've just discovered, the 'Extra-Wid'e wheels ad was for Panama Cigars.
Much better with the original sound.
Copyright issue?
There is absolutely no doubt that you are an American.
"Indian cracker" for a papadum is one of the most American things I have ever hesrd 😅😅
The guy in the cigar advert is a well know comedian.
Asian Elvis never failed to make me smile - he does it so well.
If you put horror music over the Chanel advert, it takes on a totally different vibe 😂
JJ FYI: The Honda ad was to show the wide variety of uses that Honda engines are pu to... Approximately 70% of the general-purpose engines manufactured by Honda are supplied as OEM engines to OTHER manufacturers of power products (from bike, cars, boats and planes).
This is a very cut down edit of a film that Honda released. in the 90s I think.
I remember the photo guy as RAB C NESBIT 🤣 Classic Scottish comedy, him and his friend Jamsey got up to all sorts of drunkards mischief 🤣🤣🤣 Rab C Nesbit 👌
Wait until you see the Money Supermarket advert with a dancing Skeletor.😂
No way, I remember the jeans In the fridge advert, early 90s 🤷♂️, think he needed to cool his junk down after that woman wore him out 🤣
Are you trying to tell us that all dudes in the US of A do NOT put their jeans in the fridge before wearing them? It used to be a very specific habit in the UK
the last advert if you looked when the train was moving of the shot of the bridge it is the bridge where mission impossible dead reckoning was shot where the train bridge was blown up.
The Hamlet advert was banned, along with all tobacco advertising, years ago. The Honda advert does show all Honda products and developments upto that date, including the boat and plane. It was advertising the company, not the products. However they advertise Levis, I've never found a pair to fit me. They're all cut so badly for me. Wranglers always fitted. That Galaxy advert always hit me in the same way Beautiful women can get away with minior theft. I understand it was a facial double of Audrey Hepburn from Roman Holiday, and using advanced VFX techniques from 2013 they recreated her. I remember the advert well. It's still quite brilliant.
No point showing The Honda ad without the song. In fact most of these, as an audio guy you should realise the power of sound, these ads are synonymous with the soundtrack and THEY DON'T work without, so PLEASE don't do it. Scrap the post instead.
You might want to look up the Honda ad (The Impossible Dream) separately, because I think the compilation edit you were watching cut the end off.
I would reccomend looking up Honda ads in general they've got several good ones like 'The Cog' and 'Keep Up'
Galaxy might be call 'Dove' in US and yes it was Audrey Hepburn digital add her face to the actor. Both versions can be found on line. 16-year-old Cromer model Ellie Burton is the star of a high-profile advert for Galaxy chocolate, in which she plays the Hollywood icon.Ellie to Audrey was down to CGI technology, hair, make-up and costume
The hamlet advert chap is Rab C Nesbitt, I’d love for you to watch one of his own videos as even I struggle to understand him and I’m from a region not all that far away from him. I’ve no idea what he ( Gregor fisher ) sounds like in real life mind.
There's an area of South West London (Streatham) where the high street had (possibly still has) two Indian restaurants, quite close to each other - both of which feature Indian Elvis impersonators to entertain the diners.
6:42 Is the moment you realise what a huge difference the song (The Impossible Dream by Andy Williams) played in that Honda advert. Without it, the whole ad makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
That Honda advert was iconic though
With regards to the HAMLET CIGAR advert, YES they showed the cigar in his mouth - what is available on YT is the 'sanitised version' - cut short. It was shown on British TV in 1987 - BEFORE cigarette or cigar ads were banned! This was how the advert 'finished' :
Kicking off from the SEAT DROP.... you think it can’t get any worse for him, the seat does what it always does… it suddenly drops.
Disaster as the crown of his bald head is all we see; then the MUSIC PLAYS and smoke arises...
Then he lifts his head, a cigar in his mouth and a look of sheer contentment and satisfaction on his face.
He couldn’t give a shit.... LOL - Right now he’s in heaven.
A Hamlet cigar to the rescue and that wonderfully reassuring base cello bringing us to the final seconds with that famous voice over reading the HAMLET TAG LINE... "happiness is a cigar called hamlet". 😎 👍
We get high context adverts... class 😊🎉
15:08 I think we all remember the "Make Luv" ad and song and some of us, may even remember the dance routine!
A few if us tried it out in the club one night. It had the desired effect as well 😂
Hi there can I point out that the advert to do with Honda at the time that went out originally the song was actually Andy Williams Impossible Dream and the reason I know this this is because this is the first time I heard it and I actually have got it on my phone because it's a brilliant song
The hamlet ads were very brave, started in 1966, showing someone as a 'loser',
6 years earlier, 1960 WD & HO Wills (I think) killed off a cigarette brand Strand,
with a set of ads called 'Lonely Man', with the stap line 'you're never alone with a Strand',
Scenes were loosely based on The Third Man, showed in Cinemas, I think the brand was withdrawn fairly soon after.
I think this advert was saying that he was so hot he has to keep his jeans in the fridge? I don't remember this one! Levis Spaceman was my favourite!
Perfume/aftershave ads are so pretentious, they sicken me.
That’s cause it feels like a French or Italian advert and they are pretentious 😂 cause if he was a British scene it be a add with chavs 😂😂😂
Agreed as far as pretentiousness at least. I hate 99% of car adds more though.
The only one that I've ever seen is the Hamlet one with the combover. It's years since I've even had a television. Sometimes, when a hot, dry and parched look is wanted in a commercial or programme, the choice is to nip over to Spain. Depends really on how much money they intend to splash out.
The cravendale adds with the cats with aposable thumbs are fantastic adverts
*opposable and yes that's a great ad.
All the vehicles in the Honda advert were recognisable classic Hondas. Oh, and they were together in the Channel ad. One love. 💙 🦁🦄🏴
I remember these and all these are from 80's to 2000's.
Pray that that combover isn't in your future, JJ! 😂😂
Yup, definitely Amélie and Audrey... I've been living in a triad with them both for decades.
Sadly, neither of them had the foggiest idea! 😆
As to the Hamlet cigar ads, anyone who is a bit of a boy racer still gets called Carlos Fandango!
Well worth a RUclips search...
Edit:
Oops! Apologies, I took my own advice & the Carlos Fandango ad was for Panama cigars...
18:27 new tagline
"Chanel No. 5...It fucking reeks!"
'These are all, like, the least-best British ads...we've had much better over the years.
Somebody send some Galaxy Chocolate to JJ asap ...he's "never heard of it"!!! =:-o
Definitely. Galaxy chocolate makes Cadbury chocolate seem like American chocolate and I will die on that hill.
I believe US equivalent chocolate bar is 'Dove', but I have not tasted it.
@@bfmt42 How ironic given that Galaxy is made by Mars Inc...which IS an American company.
Galaxy is a Mars Inc product which is an American company...albeit made in the UK. It's sold now as 'Dove' chocolate in the U.S. but only comparatively recently has it been sold in the U.S at all....30 years or so.
Dove is an original product name dating back to the 1930s (Chicago based Dove Candies & Ice Cream brand)...meanwhile Mars sold their own chocolate as Galaxy in the UK since the 1960s, and in Ireland and most of the rest of the world where it is available except Canada, Mexico U.S.
Mars Inc acquired Dove brand sometimes in the 80s and in the 90s launched that chocolate there with unified branding similar to 'Galaxy'
Whether it's the same...highly unlikely...different sugars, different fats and different cocoa content etc
Great video 👍 The majority of these adverts are missing their original soundtrack s so doesn't have the impact intended 😅
I think it’s cause he changed the music cause of copyright
No one EVER shows the Wide Mouthed Frog ads, Tey were brilliant. Anyone remember them? Hello, I'm a Wide Mouthed Frog, and I love honeycombe covered in milk chocolate........
The Elvis one shows bollywood director Puneet Sira. I wouldn't worry about stereotyping, he wasn't forced to do the advert
At the time of the Hamlet advert, baccy advertising was still allowed on the TV. That was quite a while ago now.
JJ, have you got a PO Box Address I'll send you some British Chocolate.
10:28 I don't get that Levi's advert either. I actually think the Wrigley's (Alright Now) ad from the 80's did more for making you want to buy a pair of jeans than this did 😂
All the ads for 501s were faux-US in style and usually featured some variant on the dude in white boxers subtly outraging society with his rebellious streak that all the girls loved. Some of them launched careers.
16:07 Rhe Honda logo was shown at the end....on the hot air balloon. Clearly the ad was cut short for some reason
I have to say that's a weird selection of ads - I only recognised a couple of them.
You highlight one of my pet hates with many adverts. Those when you have absolutely no idea what they are advertising. They for a second put some pointless logo on expecting people to look it up, which I for one never do.
Ridley Scott started out making adverts ,check out the John smith adverts
As said before your overthinking it , use your British humor and enjoy the adds
The Honda ad had different music to what you showed and they did have the logo at the end of the real ad
The Audrey Hepburn ad was done entirely using CGI.
Galaxy chocolates are head and shoulders above other chocolates.
Can't wait for the music channel! Good luck I'll be there!
In Brazil, I used to put my clothes in the fridge. And underpants and socks in the freezer.
That's a truncated version of the Honda ad, the full version has more obvious logo placement, including at the end. And is much more in keeping with the traditional, don't sell the product, sell the dream, ethos that many British adverts did (when I still had a TV and watched adverts)
Full advert: ruclips.net/video/6FmXjxdDBRI/видео.html&ab_channel=WILL168888
Find these ads singly and watch them again they have been ruined with editing and taking the original music out. Its the music that adds to the add. There are plenty of copies on YT of the original ads. Also take a look at British ads from the 60/70/80s plenty of humour in those.
Why show the brand when to showcase a line of your iconic vehicles? And yes, the Honda Aircraft Company do make planes! Everyone's a critic 😁
All those Hondas are iconic, every male on earth knows them by their brand name (Gold Wing) etc...We also have a couple of HondaJet private planes here, mostly owned by ex-F1 drivers.
im assuming you changed the music for the cat and budgie? if memory serves they sang a duet of just the two of us.
First ever advert was for Colgate toothpaste
Love 501s. That was the jeans we all had in the 80s. 75 quid they were in 1988, but worth it as you had them for decades. Still have a pair i got in 2013. Prefer the white ones though 😊
Wranglers and Levis were available long before then.
@wessexdruid7598 i know that, hell we all know that. Its a cowboy working mans trouser. But the coolness that was about them came later. Nobody talked about what jeans you was into in the 70s.. The whole fad about them came later..
in uk we eat popdaums allthe time with curry
The last one ended the train journey in Istanbul Turkey.
The Orient Express still runs from Paris to Istanbul.
Most of these ads dont do justice if the original music or any singing has been replaced...maybe for copyright
have look at the Tango and pepperino ads
😮These are not the UK's best ads. Ok, the Hamlet one (part of a aeries) maybe, but the rest...I'm 70 this year, and don't remember any if them .The best ones are the ones everyone remembers.