It's hard to say for sure if these images are now considered public domain. Some of the products are no longer being sold and the companies are likely out of business, but that does not mean the rights are necessarily open as another company may have purchased them. Most of these are from the Forties, so they could be expired, but then again it depends on the way the copyright was filed and or if it was renewed. I would be cautious about any commercial use of these images, but they can certainly be used in "fair use" situations such as teaching, books, articles, etc., and if you have a specific image in mind, let me know and I can tell you the product and date. gene@creativepro.com.
Submitted by GeneGable on Fri, 06/05/2009 - 08:32.
The pictures are very interesting to look at! They hide of course other messages they want the reader to know in a subliminal way or whatever it is called, it has to do with Freud also of course. But is it not very obvious that in the second ad from the bottom the aunt is a He and the girls husband is a She... And look at the black gloves and long hands of the aunt and the things in the room, very intersting in a psychological way of analysing the pictures. Thank you for a very interesting cavalcade. By the way I like to sit home and read books -now I have ben very insecure over why I do it...
regards
Anna-Mi Wendel
Look at the auntie: is it not Clark Kent? And look at all the items around when he/she is around: tall small hard objects. And opposite at the last picture with the feminim husband, round objects 8the hat!) in a feminim atmosphere.
I wonder also if the artist, the one who was drawing, the pictures in the sequence aboput the Valentine card, that style of drawing look exactly like in the cartoon, oh god I forgot the name, Google of course: Johnny Hazard by frank robbins, started 1944
Over
Anna-Mi
Gene, I can't wait for your articles. I think I became a designer because my grandmother never threw anything away and I got hooked on her old magazines and my uncle's comics from 1920 on. Thanks for always making me smile, but these really take the cake. LOVE the chick by the mailbox!
Gene, Are these images in
Gene,
Are these images in the public domain?
Thanks,
Sue
Do these ads make me look fat?
Makes me proud to be an advertising professional!
Uh, I think I'll go take a shower
Public Domain Issue
It's hard to say for sure if these images are now considered public domain. Some of the products are no longer being sold and the companies are likely out of business, but that does not mean the rights are necessarily open as another company may have purchased them. Most of these are from the Forties, so they could be expired, but then again it depends on the way the copyright was filed and or if it was renewed. I would be cautious about any commercial use of these images, but they can certainly be used in "fair use" situations such as teaching, books, articles, etc., and if you have a specific image in mind, let me know and I can tell you the product and date. gene@creativepro.com.
pictures with hidden messages
The pictures are very interesting to look at! They hide of course other messages they want the reader to know in a subliminal way or whatever it is called, it has to do with Freud also of course. But is it not very obvious that in the second ad from the bottom the aunt is a He and the girls husband is a She... And look at the black gloves and long hands of the aunt and the things in the room, very intersting in a psychological way of analysing the pictures. Thank you for a very interesting cavalcade. By the way I like to sit home and read books -now I have ben very insecure over why I do it...
regards
Anna-Mi Wendel
must say more
Look at the auntie: is it not Clark Kent? And look at all the items around when he/she is around: tall small hard objects. And opposite at the last picture with the feminim husband, round objects 8the hat!) in a feminim atmosphere.
I wonder also if the artist, the one who was drawing, the pictures in the sequence aboput the Valentine card, that style of drawing look exactly like in the cartoon, oh god I forgot the name, Google of course: Johnny Hazard by frank robbins, started 1944
Over
Anna-Mi
Awsesome!
Gene, I can't wait for your articles. I think I became a designer because my grandmother never threw anything away and I got hooked on her old magazines and my uncle's comics from 1920 on. Thanks for always making me smile, but these really take the cake. LOVE the chick by the mailbox!
look fats
Makes me proud to be an advertising sohbet professional!