The Trip, 1940's chevrolet car commercial vivid Technicolour

Video Title :	The Trip, 1940's chevrolet car commercial vivid Technicolour
Description :	http://www.myxboxhacks.com In this 1939 short, a suburban California family gets all dressed up to drive their new 1940 Chevrolet to see grandma and grandpa, who still live on the family farm. Dad's in a suit and tie, and Mom has on a dressy dress and chic hat. Are they dressed up to go see the grandparents or are they dressed up to ride in their new Chevrolet? They pack their expensive looking luggage in the trunk This family has money to spend. When we think of the 1930's and families on the road, we're more likely to think of the old Model T in "The Grapes of Wrath" than of this affluent nuclear family. Is this image pure fantasy, or was America truly coming out of the Depression in 1939? The announcer mentions the car's"utmost economy" but that's not the real message of the ad. The Chevrolet symbolizes comfort (the kids asleep in the back seat), glamour, conspicuous consumption and personal mobility. The farm is another affluent place from what we see of it. Grandma and Grandpa sure don't resemble WPA photographs of dustbowl farmers, although who knows? Americans wanted to put the poverty and deprivation of the 30s behind them and this ad with its conspicuous display of wealth reflects that longing. i will upload videos soon to my upcoming site www.alchemygaming.com
Views :	54257
Rating :	4.9117646
Keywords, Tags :	old, vintage, chevrolet, commercial, tv, television, 1939, 1940, family, car, auto, automobile, techicolour, technicolor
Video Length :	0 : 50

What a great car. I love the styling. Thanks GJNCA for sending this to me!

Oooh color...

Up-most economy,that's right,folks!Almost 5 miles to the gallon of gasoline,how do you get better than that?

It was shown in movie theatres. Television was so rare in 1940 that only a couple of thousand people had it. And color television did not kick in until the mid fifties.

Because this is a commercial for cinema!

:30 I cracked up the girl kept hitting him and hes all awake already lol

ha, because the drum brakes where so bad!

This is just a guess but it's probably in color because it was shown in the movie theater and not on TV. Not many people could afford to own a TV at this point, and alot of people used the movie theater for entertainment. Therefore, much of the advertising was done before and after movies in the theater. Color films were shown in the movie theater before there was color on home televisions.

I find it very odd that commercials around the 1950s-60s didn't show any color whatsoever and commercials in the 1940s did..

The first Olympics being brodcasted on TV was the 1936 Beriln.. Unimportant fact of the week! :D

At :29 WAKEUP GODAMMIT !!!!

at 0:27 they almost hit a horse

How is the internet complicated?myspace? cmon man!

who doesn't hahaha

It was very modern advertising because it was in color. I think that it is rare.

I HATE THIS CAR I HATE THIS CAR

Too expensive. In fact, a man wanted to trade in his mom for a t.v.

hahahaha they called it modern and safe yeah right!

But it wasn't worth a crap until the 50's and then it went bad just after the end of the 80's. Now, it's just complete crap.

television was invented in 1926 of course they had TV's in the forties

If tv's were invented in 1920's why would not a single person buy them during that decade?

noobs

i wish i could live in that time era, it seems like everything was more calm, and innocent, all the family sat down together to listen to radio or the tv!no internet, cell phones, laptops, twitter,myspace to complicate life!!

Check out IMDB and you'll see that in England they did a lot of TV in the 1930's!

was it just me or did it look like the white box hit the kid in the face in the commerciaL: