Advertising Movies

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...

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...

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

"The Inventor" - About "Arbman Development" an inventory company initiated by PR-guru Leon Nordin. AD produced a total of 173 inventions, including a...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

A fake horror commercial about a girl whose terrible sleep and agonizing headaches leave her desperate for relief.

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.

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

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

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