A fascinating vintage educational video about the techniques of propaganda, made in the in the late 1940s or early 1950s. Found at YouTube from weirdovideos.

Just a friendly, 1950s neighborhood smack down. Found at YouTube from BaratsAndBereta.

This is a wonderful mashup of the Bob Hope, Abbott & Costello, and Martin & Lewis comedies of the 1940s and 50s, imagining what a Ghost Busters trailer might look like were the movie released thirty years earlier. Found at YouTube from whoiseyevan.

This is a great 1950s-style animated spoof of a PSA educating our good citizens on using the zombie survival kit in case of a Zombocalypse. Found at Vimeo from Rob Moffet.

Watch a fascinating exploration of America’s cultural attitudes through the past five decades illustrated in Barbie TV commercials. Found at Slate V.

Attack of the Giant Leeches

This is funny in so many ways. First, it is inherently funny as a relic of 1950s-era television advertising; second, it includes a leggy, sexy, animated woman (because, you know, leggy, sexy, animated women sell cars); third, the commercial features an overweight Underdog; and fourth, Jerry can only afford a one minute ad! Thanks, retrotvluver.

This is an unintentionally funny 1950s commercial for Black Label beer because it is so damned sexist. I wasn’t alive in the 50s, but if this commercial is to believed, back then women only existed to do the weekend chores and serve men beer. I guess everyone were just stick animations back then, too: