Contest Entry--Lederle Virus Laboratory, 1952

[medren.livejournal.com]

Alice in Virusland?

Comments

Yes

[amiga500.livejournal.com]

It's so surreal/lovely/scary.

Yes

[ms-hissyfit.livejournal.com]

.... even though it is kind of frightening me too! Mission accomplished I guess.

yes

[beetle-breath.livejournal.com]

very trippy

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

Yes, even though it's kind of disturbing.

Although their slogan is also off-putting. "dedicated to helping your doctor help you live", huh? Would that be a Dr. Frankenstein, then?

yes

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Sweet little girl with flowers who will DIE if adults don't do what the ad says. Nope, that imagery was never used in advertising again, especially in politics.

The virus world - the final frontier. I wonder if Roddenberry saw this ad and thought, "hmmm." Glad he went in a different direction.

[baron154.livejournal.com]

Yes.
The charming illustration of the girl, in her little piece of lovely nature, contrasted with the ugly germ pics, the dead trees in the distance, and the overall menace-mongering makes this one a WTH Were They Thinking oddity.

Yes

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

That is so pretty! And I'm not even sarcastic! I wonder what would happen if some current commercial laboratory would change their advertising to look like this...