{"id":2191,"date":"2013-11-21T17:37:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2025-10-19T09:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:50:17","slug":"flashback-vintage-kodak-commercials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=2191","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Vintage Kodak Commercials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/1961CommercialForKodak-AllAmericaIsCameraland<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there’s this one, with a catchy jingle – “Kodak for Christmas”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/1959CommercialForKodakchristmas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An advertisement for “dependable Kodak film; the film in the yellow box”. Ain’t life grand?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/1957CommercialForKodakVerichromePanFilm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/1956CommercialForKodakWithCuddlyDog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[872,1072,1071,805],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-musings","tag-kodak","tag-public-domain","tag-television-advertisements","tag-vintage"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9243,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/9243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}