Pitch People

Once upon a time... consumer goods were built to last. Then, in the 1920’s, a group of businessmen realized that the longer their product...

The Smurfs were created in 1958 by the Belgian comic author Peyo (Pierre Culliford, 1928-1992) and they are one of Belgium's most recognized exports....

A documentary about branding, advertising and product placement that is financed and made possible by brands, advertising and product placement.

Programming the Nation? takes an encompassing look at the history of subliminal messaging in America. According to many authorities, since the late...

A documentary on the marketing of pop culture to Teenagers.

A documentary exploring the birth, death and resurrection of illustrated movie poster art. Through interviews with a number of key art personalities...

An examination of the evolution of commercials as an artistic medium, featuring interviews with media luminaries who relate how the in-your-face...

PBS Frontline takes an in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar "persuasion industries" of advertising and public relations and how marketers have...

Intended as a publicity film for Chrysler, Rhythm uses rapid editing to speed up the assembly of a car, synchronizing it to African drum music. The...

The film shows one day from waking up in the morning all the way to waking up again the next morning. The everyday situations that many commercials...

Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial...

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant...