TV ad for Alka-seltzer
TV ad for Alka-seltzer
TV ad for Alka-seltzer Alka-Seltzer ad (footage that is played off as a joke, replete with belching pitchmen, microphones wandering into frame, wrong product placement, etc).
TV ad for Alka-seltzer
The camera zooms out from a framed illustration of a man in boxing pose. A man, wearing a suit, walking into the picture; the microphone can be seen hanging around his neck. He says, "Hello there. Lesard(?) Harris for our..." He looks to the right quickly and continues, "...Alka-Seltzer. You know back in the days of yore when the forefathers used these(a pair of boxing gloving is held up)." He throws them off camera where they make a loud clunk. The man quickly glances over and tries to continue, "Well before boxing became the fine gentlemanly sport it is today, why.."(the picture falls off the wall and he glances behind him). While still looking behind him, he continues, "...the, uh, participants would get get tired, headachy even upset after fighting(?) becuse they didn't have(he bends down out of camera to pick up a box)..uh, Alka-Seltzer. That grand cure-all for all of you with boxes of answers. Happily, we're not all doctors are we? Yet, there are times even when we get tired, headachy, upset, even pooped and"
TV ad for Alka-seltzer
He sits down in a chair, still holding the box of Alka-Seltzer, and continues, "Well, then the time to treat yourself to Alka-Selt.."(a boom mike drops into view and the man tries push it back up out of view). "It's fast, fast, fast, so fast its supersonic. Why, it's even better then a doctor prescription because its not one, not two, not three, not not four, not five but a combination of more ingredients than the doctor ever heard of(the boom mike's shadow can be seen before it drops back into view again and withdraws in a few seconds). Ingredients that are more than medically true. They're proof that actual people or as I say, when you're tired, headachy, upset. Why just drop two tablets of Alka-Seltzer in a glass of water"(the camera has pulled backed to show a glass on a side table next to the chair). "Like this and watch the actual evap.."(CU of empty glass, with the wording "Alka-Seltzer" on it; two tablets are dropped in in.) Someome offstage says something to which the man replies(CU as he pours water into the glass which causes it to bubble over). He finishes with, "Whoaa!!"