But for commercial TV channels, adverts have been their main income source for the past 70 years. The first advert on UK television was for Gibbs SR toothpaste, broadcast on September 22, 1955.
Can you guess how much an Aer Lingus return flight to America cost in the 1960s? Check it out in this advert, now available on the IFI Archive Player. "Aer Lingus: Brand of Flying" is a 1960s ...
We return very briefly to the England of the early 1960s. Our home movie footage from five and a half decades ago was shot in Co Durham and shows a pleasant driving trip. The roads, by today’s ...