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Kid for Two Farthings, A (1955)
IMDB rating: 6.80
Plot: In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky the tale that a captured unicorn will grant any wish, Joe uses his accumulated pocket change to buy a kid with an emerging horn, believing it to be a unicorn. His subsequent efforts to make dreams come true exemplify the power of hope and will amidst hardship.
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Directors: Reed Carol
Actors: Kossoff David,Robinson Joe,Ashmore Jonathan,Carnera Primo,Jacobi Lou,Green Danny,Tafler Sydney,James Sid,Tomelty Joseph,Drama,Comedy,Family,
What's the message?; are current UK adverts meant to sell us something make us recall the – er – 'good times'?
Just watched Coronation Street for the first time in months, and was made to watch Twiggy harp on about a store from it’s beginnings to where it is now, with nostalgic pictures. Over the weekend, saw a couple more, from Hovis (AD79 to 2009) to Milky Bar – with all the kids of the programmes flashing by…calling at Persil (the many designs of their boxes), and other old-stylee products. Is this their answer to the recession – press the ‘nostalgia’ button? Noticed the ads. coming on during the dross of Saturday night viewing, or during the soaps. Does this mean their ‘target’ are socio-economic C2DE’s – who, thanks to the actions of the present government, along with other professionals who should know better – who either haven’t two farthings to rub together, or can only manage to get the lowest band of Sky telly?
There is definitely a nostalgia band-waggon going on: Persil, Milkybar, M&S and Sainsburys and the SOS lifeguard guy all having jumped on board that which was driven by the Hovis kid escaping his hill and his bike for a time-travelling experience.
I await Humphrey reappearing to steal my milk, Charlie meaowing his warning about matches and wondering where the yellow went and I squeeze my pepsident out.
The message? Well the Wii generation surely don’t give a darn which blue-whitener is being used so I guess the target audience is granny – get the old dears to dip into the pension fund while wiping a tear from their eye perhaps? (This would explain its inclusion in the Corrie break)
Me – when they bring back Spangles and Texan bars I might just sit up and take notice 
Heather J | May 18, 2009
..I don’t watch the soaps, but do indulge in some rubbish Saturday night tv when I don’t go out, but ads have been trying to sell nostalgia for years. However I was not aware these nostalgia adds were never before aimed at the soap watchers and BGT viewers.
It must be difficult of the ad execs to have come up with new ideas year after year, so its cheaper and easier for them to dish out the same ads over and over again, like most things now, it lacks imagination, but they can get away with it, give it another few months and we’ll have the smash robots back Also, taps into the branding, and a lot of people believe in branding, no matter which category they belong to
Due to fecken gobshites running my country and deciding the only way to drag us out of this recession is to tax us to the hilt I’ll be sitting in more too, you never know, I might even start to watch soaps and find out who Twiggy is.
Christine | May 18, 2009
Good question! I’ve noticed kids running through eras, like World War 2, Brylcreem 50s, swinging 60s and the crappy 70s, with even a bit of the 80s miners strike thrown in to end up at home with a loaf of Hovis for their mum. The Twiggy thing is odd, thought M&S would have a Yorkshire actor on the case, as they started in Leeds. Its true what Christine writes. Advertisements have always used nostalgia to sell their product, but I am also amused at them using the adverts you write during soap opera time and on saturdays. That’s always the case isnt it? Nostalgia will always be used here in Britain when it gets harder. Its a message to the hard up to ‘not to worry’, but the only shops they (and I) will go to until the cows come home will be the local Netto in Peckham!
arthur_75 | May 18, 2009
