Hi Georg Is this film in public domain? Thanks!

My husband grew up in East Germany. Yes, of course they had toys and electronics. Things may have been a decade or so behind the rest of the West but they weren't living in the Dark Ages. Just like the West they had various advertising campaigns and this particular advert was obviously geared towards housewives.

I'm not in any way supporting either communism or DDR, but people could in fact bay toys and electronic equipment. If you look a bit closer at this film you will find toys, electronic toy traines, cameras, radios etc

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Wow, what a reality check. As the film promotes the consumer options at the state store, you start to notice something is missing. Grab a few USA Christmas 1958 items from Prelinger and you'll notice right away.



Where are the appliances, the radio, TV and HiFi audio gear? Toys and games? Bicycles, wagons, musical instruments?



Nope, it's clothing and dishes for Christmas, comrade...

- July 30, 2007So much of so little