60s TV Commercials: cigarettes, Cover Girl, Sylvania etc.

More product ads from sponsors of the 1965-1966 season of ABC's "Honey West" series. These are: Sucrets, Carnation Instant Breakfast, Coffee-Mate creamer, Cover Girl, Sylvania flash cubes (for Instamatic cameras), and cigarette ads for Pall Mall and Tareyton.
The Pall Mall ad is the most interesting for its blatant snob appeal. A group of elite, rich, white people take a break from their fancy hobby (re-enacting a Revolutionary War battle) for a cigarette. But only the finest smoke will do. Their snooty attitude towards those "other" brands is quite telling, and amusing. By contrast, the down-to-earth Tareyton ad goes for humor and nostalgia using cliches from silent movie melodramas.
Sylvania introduces the new flash cube (allowing one to snap four flash photos at a clip) as though it were a miracle of technology. In the '60s just about everyone had one of those Instamatic cameras and a supply of cubes -- which induced temporary blindness. I can still see that blue dot afterburn hovering before my eyes.