[Air-l] Old Commercials of Technology

[Barry.Smith at bristol.ac.uk]

Dear Fernando, Paul, Mary and List

A fascinating topic and i won't repeat in full here the recent DRHA 
conference call (see http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha06/index.asp if 
not familiar, Sept 3-6) but it will be loosely based on 
a "past", "present", "future" structure so I hope some/several 
research presentations (and one keynote) will be in this first 
category....  Ah the romanticism of it all...

In terms of direct help (or perhaps more indirect help as "promotions" 
and "mentions" rather than "commercials" per se) to your project the 
Barbican (London) had a retro exhibition of games' machines in 1998 
and the effective catalogue was "re:play" (Liz Faber, published by 
Laurence King UK) which has some excellent reproductions of graphics 
from a wide selection of both console and Net-based games.  In that 
latter context "Atlas of Cyberspace" (Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin, 
published by Addison-Wesley (UK) 2001 included (Ch 3) Mapping the 
Web.  Perha[s of more immediate interest (and access) if you're more 
interested in post WW2 images of British-back-to-being-housewives 
women lovingly stocking up their new fridges or doing the vacuum 
cleaning with gusto, sites like the Google (beta) Video archive at 
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2207857877868779946&q=housewife
might prove interesting.
Also Macfilms claims to locate 624 TV ads from the 1950s and 60s -
everything from new gadgets to blood donations - see 
http://www.macfilms.com/TV%20Ads%20TOC.htm

And don't forget the conference!:-)

b.
Barry Smith
DRHA Conference 2006

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Quoting Fernando Garrido <fgarrido at cibersociedad.net>:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm working in some presentations, and i would like to know if you
> have 
> old comercials of  Technology, as TV, Telephone, Mobile Telephone, 
> Internet conexion, etc... Please if somebody know where i cand find
> this 
> stuff, let me know.
> 
> (The "internet in movies" was a very useful topic, Thanks to all!!)
> 
> Best
> 
> Fernando Garrido
> 
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