Commercials of the Past

Vom Bäckermeister Quarkgebäck
Elisabeth Wilms
We see children playing and then running to a table covered with a variety of pastries. Children and mothers eating […]
Flirt mit einer Maschine
Elisabeth Wilms
Reducing the amount of household work. The introduction of the washing machine, here still running on gas. An advertising film […]
Das Geheimnis der Marquise
Lotte Reiniger
A silhouette-animation in the style of The Adventures of Prinz Achmed, also by Lotte Reiniger. Behold! Her skin is white […]
Im Filmatelier
Hedwig Otto, Gerda Otto
A commercial for aspirin. We see an advert being filmed. A lady suffering from a headache takes some aspirin tablets. […]
Die Katastrophe
Leni Fischer
This animated film was made for the washing powder »Famos« produced at soap factories in Riesa-Gröba and Düsseldorf. We see […]
Katharine
Elly Heuss-Knapp, Rudi Klemm
Kunterbunt the poster artist is looking for a model for a Nivea poster. But his colleague is unshaven and scruffy. […]