Dow Chemical and things not to do with cellophane.

[write-light.livejournal.com]

If you've looked for vintage ads online, you've probably already seen these three CREEPY & DISTURBING ads featuring babies wrapped up on cellophane. Apparently babies weren't enough.

Dow Chemicals, Ethocel, 1938


From periodpaper.com, full size 1000x1259

Could we have a plastics or chemicals tag, please? :)

Comments

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how to explain this, but 3-Dish depictions of the earth like that, especially with that color palette, scare me even without the cellophane. I hate the old-fashioned Universal logo too.

/coolstorysis

[write-light.livejournal.com]

So you hate the giant globes at museums too? :D

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

I can deal with the globes themselves OK. It's when it's turned into a freaky (to me) 2-D image that it just gets all kinds of weird. I have no idea why. I guess we all have our... things.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

You see baby carriages with a version of the cellophane you linked too, people use it when it's windy, cold and or rainy. Although in the linked ad, I couldn't tell what the weather was :P But them was dry babies, that's for sure lol.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

It was the usual blah blah blah until the last line...wait, romantic?

[write-light.livejournal.com]

GAH I didn't even notice that. I should add the WTF tag. :D

[bzul.livejournal.com]

Kathy Bates gave it a shot in Fried Green Tomatoes...

[bib-specialist.livejournal.com]

What, no plastics tag? Miss Tia, haven't you ever seen The Graduate?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxihhBzCjk

[misstia]

no, i have never seen the graduate!! i will add the plastics tag! :)

[penpusher.livejournal.com]

The depiction puts me in mind of the earth being something to unwrap and dispose of when finished.

Clearly nobody else would have perceived it in that way, thank goodness.

[mejeep.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's a drip-cloth to protect the earth from the Sherwin-Williams humongous paint-can trying to "cover the earth" with paint!

Long ago, hotel/motel bathrooms had the toilet seat, cups and things covered with plastic (or a paper band) exclaiming "sanitized for your protection". Perhaps that's why the earth's in trouble, someone broke the sanitary seal!

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

At first it looked like the entire world was covered in clear ice.

[mackinzie.livejournal.com]

Wrap the world in cellophane? Sounds like something a supervillain would do.

[mystical-chickn.livejournal.com]

I could be wrong about this (and/or overthinking) but I'm fairly sure that, if one were to actually be able to wrap the entire Earth in cellophane, the greenhouse effect would skyrocket and Earth would become Venus's literal twin faster than you can say "all wrapped up in Ethocel". So, congratulations, Ethocel, you've just doomed the entire planet to a broiling, suffocating death.

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Under shrink-wrap!

[bradygirl_12]

Take off the wrapping and I wonder how many licks to get to the chewy center? ;)

[write-light.livejournal.com]

1...2....CRUNCH!

[almond-cakes.livejournal.com]

I like the artwork on this ad very much (and I've always liked the Universal films logo- esp. fun to see how they changed over the years). However, the world wrapped in cellophane, well kind of makes me feel suffocated.

[1geek-queen.livejournal.com]

So, that's why we have global warming.