Flashback: Vintage Kodak Commercials

If you’ve been wallowing in depression over the demise of Kodak, here are a few vintage films to cheer you up.

First, there’s “America is Cameraland” – a 1960 infomercial (yes, they had those even then) that plays up the importance of capturing your lives in video and talks about all the great Kodak video cameras for sale:

src=”http://archive.org/embed/1961CommercialForKodak-AllAmericaIsCameraland

And there’s this one, with a catchy jingle – “Kodak for Christmas”:
src=”http://archive.org/embed/1959CommercialForKodakchristmas

An advertisement for “dependable Kodak film; the film in the yellow box”. Ain’t life grand?

src=”http://archive.org/embed/1957CommercialForKodakVerichromePanFilm

And finally, because they’re all cool and I couldn’t decide, here’s one where they try and persuade you to take loads and loads of photos of your pets.  With helpful advice!

src=”http://archive.org/embed/1956CommercialForKodakWithCuddlyDog

These films, and about a million and a half other clips or movies that are now in the public domain can be viewed or downloaded at archive.org.