1959 First EVER Barbie Commercial High Quaility HQ!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- This is the first Barbie commercial that first aired during Mickey Mouse Club! This is higher quaility then our old upload we did last year, enjoy. :)
Ruth Handler watched her daughter Barbara at play with paper dolls, and noticed that she often enjoyed giving them adult roles. At the time, most children's toy dolls were representations of infants. Realizing that there could be a gap in the market, Handler suggested the idea of an adult-bodied doll to her husband Elliot, a co-founder of the Mattel toy company. He was unenthusiastic about the idea, as were Mattel's directors.
During a trip to Europe in 1956 with her children Barbara and Kenneth, Ruth Handler came across a German toy doll called Bild Lilli. The adult-figured Lilli doll was like what Handler had in mind, so she purchased three of them. She gave one to her daughter and took the others back to Mattel. The Lilli doll was based on a popular character appearing in a comic strip drawn by Reinhard Beuthin for the newspaper Die Bild-Zeitung.
Upon her return to the United States, Handler reworked the design of the doll (with help from engineer Jack Ryan) and the doll was given a name, Barbie, after Handler's daughter Barbara. The doll made its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York on March 9, 1959. This date is also used as Barbie's official birthday. Mattel acquired the rights to the Bild Lilli doll in 1964 and production of Lilli was stopped. The first Barbie doll wore a black and white zebra striped swimsuit and signature topknot ponytail, and was available as either a blonde or brunette. The doll was marketed as a "Teen-age Fashion Model," with her clothes created by Mattel fashion designer Charlotte Johnson. The first Barbie dolls were manufactured in Japan, with their clothes hand-stitched by Japanese homeworkers. Around 350,000 Barbie dolls were sold during the first year of production.
Barbie was one of the first toys to have a marketing strategy based extensively on television advertising, which has been copied widely by other toys. It is estimated that over a billion Barbie dolls have been sold worldwide in over 150 countries, with the well-known fact that three Barbie dolls are sold every second.
The standard range of Barbie dolls and related accessories are manufactured to approximately 1/6th scale, which is also known as playscale.
Barbie products include not only the range of dolls with their clothes and accessories, but also a huge range of Barbie branded goods such as books, fashion items and video games. Barbie has appeared in a series of animated films and makes a brief guest appearance in the 1999 film Toy Story 2.
Uniquely for a toy fashion doll, Barbie has become a cultural icon and has been given honors that are rare in the toy world. In 1974 a section of Times Square in New York City was renamed Barbie Boulevard for a week, while in 1985 the artist Andy Warhol created a painting of Barbie.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. In a series of novels published by Random House in the 1960s, her parents' names are given as George and Margaret Roberts from the fictional town of Willows, Wisconsin. Barbie has been said to attend Willows High School and Manhattan International High School in New York City, based on the real-life Stuyvesant High School.
Today the Barbie line is responsible for more than 80% of Mattel's profits.
yeah i saw one sell for $7,000 in the box....it craziness!!
I have one of those old barbies. It was a birthday present from my grandmother.
when you look and the 1959 barbie dolls and then look at the at the new ones it is like WOW!!!
The wee "Barbie" accessories back then were such fun to look at and touch.
Full breakfasts cost fifteen cents back then!
"You can tell its Mattel its swell"
i love the zipper its not there on the modern barbie
dam 3$ wow now its 20 or 15$ now wow
am 13 i got my barbies stil from the 90s lol
wow barbie sure has changed...I remember the barbie from the 80's when I was a little girl and it changed alot between then and when this commercial was done
My sister said that the real and living Barbara Millicent Roberts was featured in Oprah, sadly though I didn't get to see it as I was at school. I wish someone would post it.
Wow $3 for a barbie doll!? now you can't even get a barbie doll SHOE for $3. love barbie though i don't care what ANYBODY says barbie rocks!and will continue to rock forever!! GO BARBIE!
Happy 50th Birthday Barbie! I still love you Barbie!
now adays lil girls could just wacth barbie on dvds thats wild lol
That's what I'm thinking too. Especially when I heard the clothes prices! I mean when Fashion Avenue came out when I was 9-10 years old & it was $3-5, it didnt seem like alot but back then it was.
now they are but, back then it was sooooooo much money ( I wish it was right now though!!)
I thought the same thing. And the clothing for 3-5...thats kind of expensive. Thats about what I paid for Barbie cloths in the 90s.
I just got the reproduction of this doll today... barbie turns 50 this year huh? maybe if i rub her head and make a wish I will look this good at 50! LOL!
Hehe fantastic!
Only if you're making what you're making now, back then. If you have a job making $30,000 a year in the present, and also making that back then, of course you could buy loads.
Some Women's Studies professor is making a study right now of how Barbie reflects cultural values changing through the decades. Or they should, I would but I'm too lazy. The Goth is a joke, but I have a real one similar, with tattoos!
o wow barbie was awesome then!
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LOL thats pretty old!
its Iight
hahah XD :]
It's so sad! Oh wait,I DON'T CARE!!!! GET A JOB,YA BUM!!!!