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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The real mad men of advertising / a Biscuit Century production for Smithsonian Networks ; producer/director/writer, Molly Hermann.

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publisher, Date:

[Washington, DC] : Smithsonian Channel, [2018]

[Arlington, Virginia] : Distributed by Public Media Distribution, LLC, [2018]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 164 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video

Summary:

All-access glimpse into the world of advertising in America during the tumultuous decade of the 1960s. It was inspired by the real men and women of Madison Avenue who perfected the art of the sale and transformed American culture in the process.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: TVPG.

Subjects:

Mad men (Television program)

Advertising -- United States -- History.

Advertising agencies -- United States -- History.

Nineteen fifties.

Nineteen sixties.

Nineteen seventies.

Nineteen eighties.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Television mini-series.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Hermann, Molly, television producer, television director, screenwriter.

Slattery, John, 1962- narrator.

Maas, Jane, commentator.

Weiner, Matthew, commentator.

Freund, Ellen, commentator.

Biscuit Century (Firm), production company.

Smithsonian Networks (Firm), production company.

Smithsonian Channel, production company, publisher.

Public Media Distribution, film distributor.

Notes:

Title from disc surface.

"A Biscuit Century production for Smithsonian Channel"--Container.

Wide screen.

Director of photography, Rob Lyall ; editors, Andrea L. Barrick, Gabriele Biasizzo.

Narrator, John Slattery ; commentators, Jane Maas, Matthew Weiner, Ellen Freund.

Originally aired as a mini-series on television in 2017.

DVD; NTSC, Region 1; widescreen presentation; 5.1 surround.

English dialogue; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

Contents:

The 1950s -- The 1960s -- The 1970s -- The 1980s.

ISBN:

9781531702663

153170266X

9781531702663 : DVD

153170266X : DVD

Publisher Number:

RMOA601

Other Number:

1013888741

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

705259

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 659.1 Real mad