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Tagged: General Motors Holden
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This collection of General Motors Holden cinema and TV ads spans 1955–76. The commercials highlight the changing image of the much-loved Holden car over the two decades, as well as an increasingly...
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In a 1950s suburban street, a woman driving a Holden pulls up to do her Saturday morning shopping. Other GMH cars, including a Vauxhall, Chevrolet and Pontiac, are shown. The woman enters a showroom...
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This clip shows the whole advertisement minus the opening and closing titles. A curtain parts to reveal the new model Holden FE on display on a turntable in a car showroom. As the car spins around, a...
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This advertisement for the Holden Monaro HK begins on the racetrack amongst sleek sports cars, champion drivers (including Norm Beechey) and adoring female fans. A sequence of still images of foreign...
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This television advertisement highlights General Motors Holden’s research and training programs, apprenticeships, cadetships and scholarships, and the contribution they make to help Australia 'meet...
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A couple drives through banana country on the coastal border of Queensland and New South Wales. Their car pulls up at a banana plantation where they alight and meet with the owner. A voice-over...
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A family of six walk out of their house to the car. One of the sons helps his father pack the luggage into the boot as a voice-over narrator describes the spacious interior of the car, which can seat...
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A Holden customer shakes hands with his dealer and drives out of the Holden dealership. The voice-over narration explains Holden’s high resale value over an image of the newspaper classifieds. The...
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A General Motors Holden representative directly addresses the viewer. He describes the broad range of Holden owners throughout Australia, accompanied by footage of a Holden vehicle driving through a...
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This is part two of a television advertisement for three Holden HK sports coupes: the Monaro, Monaro GTS and Monaro GTS 327. The advertisement includes a jingle and male voice-over.