fbpx
  1. Home
  2. Tag "1970s"

Donnelly’s Sausages: Sherlock

Archive Player
A short animated advertisement for Donnelly’s sausages, featuring Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Watson. As they investigate Donnelly’s sausages, Watson finds himself tied up by a group of playful children. To see more from The Irish Adverts Project, click here.

Scotties Tissues

Archive Player
An animated advertisement for Scotties Tissues, in which a man pulls tissues out of a box and explains how they stay soft, even when you crumple them up. The advertisement concludes with a freeze-frame showing the man leaning on the box of Scotties, with strapline: ‘Crumple Soft Scotties’. To see more from The Irish Adverts […]

Bass Ale: The Dubliners

Archive Player
An advertisement for Bass Ale, in which The Dubliners are seen traveling from an airport to a Dublin pub (O’Donoghue’s, Merrion Row). where they sing a song and enjoy a pint of the Cork ale. Inside, the group sing a song to the tune of Rocky Road to Dublin and Ronnie Drew drinks from a […]

Calvita: Boutique

Archive Player
An advertisement for Calvita cheese opens with 3 young women trying on clothes in a boutique store. As the music begins, a voiceover asks: ‘What are all the slim girls eating? What are all the trim girls eating? What do the girls with good teeth eat? And where do they get their energy?’ To see […]

Galtee: Midnight Feast

Archive Player
An advertisement for Galtee Continental cheese, in which two young men quietly enter a house late at night and make themselves a toastie while trying not to wake the people sleeping upstairs. To see more from The Irish Adverts Project, click here.