Advertisement of the 1920s, 1950s, and
1980s
Hans Interiano
Jose Lopez
Dennis Diaz
And
Walter Persons
Advertisement is paid communication
through medium in which the sponsor is identified and the message is
controlled. Every major medium is used to deliver these messages including:
television, radio, movies, newspapers, the internet and billboards. Many years
of advertisement are important, such as, the 1920’s, 1950’s, and 1980’s. In the
1920’s they used billboards, magazines, newspapers and radio to get their
message out. In the 1950’s they mainly used television and all the same forms
of advertisements, as the 1920’s. There was no new form of advertisement for
the 1980’s, but they preferred how to use these forms of advertisement in the
earlier years.
The 1920’s
was on an era that introduced a different type of economy that was before
foreign to the world. With new goods flooding the market and agencies no longer
just informed the public about products and prices, but they now hired
psychologists. The businesses did this in order to study how to appear the
people’s desire for youth fitness, beauty, health, and wealth. Propaganda as
well led to an increase of businesses with the slogans. “Reach for a lucky
instead of a sweet” which lured Americans to cigarettes and away from candy’s,
also “say it with flowers which doubled flowering business. Brands now became
familiar and luxury items seemed like necessities as for “mouthwash “ , which the Listerine advertisement convinced people that
without It the results can be disastrous. The companies focus was on promoting
around the world the world their products and let to the average factory worker
to be producing now 50% more at the end of the decade than at its start.
Businesses expanded and grew from $64 billion in 1921 to $87 billion in 1929.
But now iron and railroad industries were becoming non-prosperous along with
farms nation wide do to machinery producing large amounts of food which lowered
food prices. Plans came into place also as for the Installment Plan which moved
people to buy good over on extended period of time, without having to waste
much at time of purchase. The introduction of new inventions brought a sense of
conformity to the people evolving the old world into a modern world.
The 1950’s
brought a lot of new things such as rock and roll. Elvis Presley got extremely
popular and everyone started wearing loose clothing, longer jackets, and more
color. It was time when people didn’t judge prettiness so much as by how skinny
the person is, girls had to have curves…it made it attractive for guys and
companies would use the girls in commercials or billboards to promote their
products. The 50’s brought a lot of job opportunities for secretaries and
receptionists. There was a lot more food processing which led for more small
farms. It brought agricultural age rather than the
present day information age. Everyone started to my a lot of attention to
movies, it was the big thing (and still is). Companies would do whatever they
could to get the stars to star in their commercial or billboard or magazine
cover. Advertisement was all about rock and roll and sex. A big thing in the 50’s was cigars and
cigarettes; it was everywhere, at school and restaurants. You weren’t cool unless
you smoked, that’s when the cigarettes companies started booming. They would
higher the hottest and most popular celebrities they could get their hands on
to promote their product.
Advertising is associated in glamour and
excitement. Many professionals in advertising work in ad agencies and mass
media, also known as sale representation. Occupational outlook has
advertisement and marketing as two specific careers in advertising, within the
natural growth. Marketing research professionals are included in an astonishing
number of activities directly tied to a product development. In the eighties,
U.S learned it was okay to greedy. Materialism and self-indulges characterized
the atmosphere of 1980’s and a happy culture emerged. The values of cars, houses,
gadgets and many others present the wealth that was coming to America. At this
time, president Ronald Reagan economic politics left a large amount of
countless workers such as autoworkers, farmers and immigrants with out jobs.
Personal computers began in the 1980’s when guy named Steve introduced Apple
computers to the world. In 1984, MTV became a great impulse to the teens and
affected their growth rapidly.
Related Links:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/ads/amadv.html
http://www.pezlist.com/mcpez/ad.htm