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Post by DI Alex Drake on Apr 25, 2020 10:14:42 GMT
It's 1973, folks! Very kind of you to make an exception.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 25, 2020 15:10:46 GMT
I think whoever did that beef ad must've also done the Bran Flakes & Kwik Fit ads, they're all interchangeable- 'British Beef, it's tasty, tasty, very very tasty, it's very tasty', 'You can't get better than British beef, it's the beef to trust'.
Not seen the connection until Cartman mentioned it but I think it's very probable that the League Of Gentlemen got the inspiration for Hilary Briss the butcher from that pork ad.
Those big 80's glasses usually worn by larger than life characters were designed by a man called Lawrence Jenkin & were called 'Chelsea'-
"Lawrence, along with his brothers Tony and Malcolm, took over and renamed the business Anglo American Optical. Lawrence started designing his own spectacles and in the nineteen-eighties had a massive hit with the ‘Chelsea’, the outsized and colourful frames popularised by celebrities like Christopher Biggins and Su Pollard and still much-loved by older ladies today."
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Post by Sparky on Apr 25, 2020 16:43:06 GMT
I think whoever did that beef ad must've also done the Bran Flakes & Kwik Fit ads, they're all interchangeable- 'British Beef, it's tasty, tasty, very very tasty, it's very tasty', 'You can't get better than British beef, it's the beef to trust'.
I would have thought so. These days there are loads of Ad Campaign Agencies - back then there were a couple of really big ones who pretty much had the market. You could guess which ad agency had brainstormed which Ad.
They're f*****g good money to work on too, as they usually shoot enough material to get about 3 different adverts, as well as enough to make different lengths ones (10sec, 20sec, 30sec) etc. Usually they have to be shot in 2-3 days. Even the Runners get paid handsomely.
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Post by Three Litre on Apr 25, 2020 19:19:49 GMT
Video rental shops.
I remember rushing in just before Christmas in the 80's to rent the latest movies for the holidays.
Oddly I found that quite fun!
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Post by Sparky on Apr 26, 2020 8:06:09 GMT
Video rental shops. I remember rushing in just before Christmas in the 80's to rent the latest movies for the holidays. Oddly I found that quite fun! We used to go round the Video Rental shops collecting the old film posters. Still have a lot of the posters, though not on the wall- in a large cardboard tube. The posters were much smaller than the large cinema "quad" posters.
My brother went to a video shop in Nottingham and came home with a handful of posters, when we unrolled them, 40% of them were for "Adult Films".... Obviously, we didn't put them on our bedroom walls.
He was told to get rid of the posters.
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Post by Three Litre on Apr 26, 2020 8:15:51 GMT
Video rental shops. I remember rushing in just before Christmas in the 80's to rent the latest movies for the holidays. Oddly I found that quite fun! We used to go round the Video Rental shops collecting the old film posters. Still have a lot of the posters, though not on the wall- in a large cardboard tube. The posters were much smaller than the large cinema "quad" posters.
My brother went to a video shop in Nottingham and came home with a handful of posters, when we unrolled them, 40% of them were for "Adult Films".... Obviously, we didn't put them on our bedroom walls.
He was told to get rid of the posters. Ha! I can imagine the scene! Some film posters are iconic items.
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Post by Sparky on Apr 26, 2020 8:20:35 GMT
We used to go round the Video Rental shops collecting the old film posters. Still have a lot of the posters, though not on the wall- in a large cardboard tube. The posters were much smaller than the large cinema "quad" posters.
My brother went to a video shop in Nottingham and came home with a handful of posters, when we unrolled them, 40% of them were for "Adult Films".... Obviously, we didn't put them on our bedroom walls.
He was told to get rid of the posters. Ha! I can imagine the scene! Some film posters are iconic items. There is/was a memorabilia shop in Manchester, about 5minutes walk from the station- I think near Piccadilly Gardens. That sold literally everything - and at the back of the shop had a small section for Film & TV.
They had a selection of Adult Film posters from the 70s and 80s - and for some, wanted around £150-200 for each of them. Even some of the cult mainstream film posters were priced at that.
I picked up a "Sweeney!" and "Sweeney 2" poster each a little bigger than A3 paper for £15 the pair. They had a "Sweeney!" Cinema Poster and a set of B&W Promotional Stills but wanted nearly £200 for those.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 27, 2020 18:49:27 GMT
I was trying to place the other man in the British Pork ad, then I happened to see him today in something else, it's Brian Peck.
Peck is married to an actress called Jennifer Wilson, she had a regular part in 'Special Branch', hard to be sure but I think that might be her in the ad playing his wife.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Apr 28, 2020 6:37:34 GMT
I was trying to place the other man in the British Pork ad, then I happened to see him today in something else, it's Brian Peck.
Peck is married to an actress called Jennifer Wilson, she had a regular part in 'Special Branch', hard to be sure but I think that might be her in the ad playing his wife.
Maybe coincidence but was Brian Peck related to the late Bob Peck (Edge of Darkness) Art?
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 28, 2020 13:20:18 GMT
I was trying to place the other man in the British Pork ad, then I happened to see him today in something else, it's Brian Peck.
Peck is married to an actress called Jennifer Wilson, she had a regular part in 'Special Branch', hard to be sure but I think that might be her in the ad playing his wife.
Maybe coincidence but was Brian Peck related to the late Bob Peck (Edge of Darkness) Art? I wondered that too Dirty, they don't appear to be related but they were both born in Yorkshire.
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