Early advertising film from the Edison Manufacturing Co.



Copied at 26fps from a 35mm print preserved by the Library of Congress.

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Reviewer: IrisKS - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - February 28, 2020

Subject: Very interesting and funny ! Check the video with music I made

So I thought about putting some music in it.

This is the link:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7u0lcSGbIY



I found this video very funny and intersting!!So I thought about putting some music in it.This is the link: - February 28, 2020Very interesting and funny ! Check the video with music I made

Reviewer: dubldeka - favorite favorite favorite favorite - August 3, 2009

Subject: Edison despised Cigarettes Whilst he permitted Cigars and pipes Edison Expressly forbade his workers to smoke Cigarettes.

He believed that the paper that wrapped the cigarette was toxic and should not be inhaled with the tobacco.

He would have been grinding his teeth in the wings while this was being filmed.

Also the lady just puffs the smoke not inhaling it - August 3, 2009Edison despised Cigarettes

Reviewer: DiamondPaul - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - November 12, 2008

Subject: Hey yall Weelll I foind this veerry offensive! Just funing with you. Loved it even though I'm and ex smoker. Smoke em if ya got em. I'm thankfull for IA that things like this are being preserved. - November 12, 2008Hey yall

Reviewer: bread - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - September 14, 2006

Subject: intersting I found this ad very interesting. Considering how old it is, it's amazing it still exists. Well worth the download, one of the best films in the archive. - September 14, 2006intersting

Reviewer: Paul Wicks - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - March 19, 2006

Subject: Talk About Legacy Media! Beside being simultaneously ad hoc and elaborately staged, this is (unintentionally) surreal.



Previous reviewers seem to have been too stunned by the clear vision of living, [smoke] breathing people, walking around during the Grover Cleveland adminstration, to notice something that will seem obvious, once it's pointed-out: That's no man, throwing money around; that's a woman... dropping handfuls of cigarettes.



This little s[p]lice of history also contains a conspicuous white guy in an ersatz American Indian headdress. A member of the Heckowee tribe, perhaps?



Students of market segmentation will notice the use of representational profiles, depicted using the product, as examples to be emulated. I wonder if this was as ineffective, 112 years ago, as we recognize it to be, today.



Will we appear any less misguided than the actors in Edison's commercial, to the people of 2108, assuming they're able to view our media? - March 19, 2006Talk About Legacy Media!

Reviewer: jammer_g - favorite favorite favorite - December 28, 2005

Subject: WE ALL SMOKEÃÂADMIRAL CIGARETTES ÃÂWE ALL SMOKEÃÂADMIRAL CIGARETTESÃÂ is the slogan, as the actors unfurl a banner that says ÃÂwe all smokeÃÂ and then all point to the backdrop depicting this brand of cigarettes. Rather an early commercial that may have been filmed from the moving picture peep show machine patented by Samuel Goodale in 1861. Interesting nevertheless. - December 28, 2005WE ALL SMOKEÃÂADMIRAL CIGARETTES

Reviewer: Christine Hennig - favorite favorite favorite favorite - September 2, 2005

Subject: Hello, Folks! Smoking Is Good for You! Made in 1897, this is most likely the first commercial ever filmed. It features a group of strangely-dressed characters (one of them looks like Uncle Sam) sitting next to a giant package of Admiral Cigarettes. Suddenly a guy dressed like Napoleon pops out of the giant cigarette package and starts throwing money around (literally). The characters unroll a banner that says, "WE ALL SMOKE'. OK. An 1897 Edison film.

Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: ****. Weirdness: ****. Historical Interest: *****. Overall Rating: ****. - September 2, 2005Hello, Folks! Smoking Is Good for You!