AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials. A digital archive of thousands of television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B). Major clients included are Procter & Gamble, Kraft, Schick, Vicks, and Post, among others.
The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2012. More than 300 commercials, from every presidential election since 1952.
University of California at Berkeley Bibliographies on Films and TV Extensive bibliographies, many with annotations, on a variety of topics including censorship, the 1950s, movies and the technological world, reality TV, sex in the movies, and situation comedies; film and TV genres; film and race, ethnicity, and gender; national cinemas; individual film makers and actors; and individual films and TV shows.
For a fee, the Archive will make copies and lend individuals DVDs of specific broadcasts. You can place an Interlibrary Loan Request for a program. However the Rutgers Libraries will only pay for the first $20 of the fee; the requester would be responsible for the remaining amount. Clips from some broadcasts are also available freely on the site. Rutgers-restricted Access
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