Ahh memories of watching films through a cloud of smoke.

66 years old now and every time I hear pearl and dean . It still makes me excited when am in the flicks. 🇬🇧

“My Grandparents were called Pearl and Dean. We called them Grandma and Grandpapapapapapapapapa”. Milton Jones

the "pictures" we never called it the "cinema" on a saturday afternoon. priceless!

I wonder if those folk who remember these the first time around know how lucky they were to have the innocence of that world.

The Pearl & Dean music is called Asteroid, and was composed by Pete Moore.

The Pearl & Dean tune has been my ring tone for over 10years now.

That Silk Cut advert is absolutely insane looking at it with 2021 eyes. And High Karate is not much better. Terrific. Thanks for posting these. I'm bloody old but happy to have been young in the 70's, 80's and 90's.

Feel like I've just been in a time machine & just travelled back to the early 70's. Some real gems there. Amazing they have survived.

I watched with the light off and pretended I was at the cinema, for the nostalgic atmosphere.

The memories of my dad advertising at the local cinema. We got free tickets for a year. Thst Pearl and Dean sound track still sticks on my head.

Oh How I Miss The 1970's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, I Was Lucky Enough To Go To The Cinema, About Three Time's A Week,. Just BRILLIANT I Want To Go Back To The 1970's , Can I Go Back Right NOW, Please,.

cigarettes advertised by a blacked up actor being a zulu. This is the sort of thing I show my kids as they stare with jaws swinging.

I remember those cartons of drinks various and all they did was bring on a thirst like no other.

Used to love these, many scratches as they had probably been run through the projectors hundreds of times and the 'thumps' on the sound track where they had been spliced in, brilliant :)

One of the regional advertisements for a local ironmongers began with a bloke shouting, BEAUTIFUL KNOCKERS!!! Had me and my mates in stitches every time...

The Silk cut Zulu was a classic 😆👍🏻

I've set the pearl and Dean ident video to play before any movie I play through plex. It looks amazing when I stream it to my projector outside at night, on a 10ft screen. The kids love it.

There was a door furniture company opposite the Odeon in Bromley called "Knobs and Knockers"... you can imagine the hilarity when their advert was shown! :)

thanks for the memorys this brings back woman with a light on a tray and the slurping of the orange juice would love to see these days come back cinema was our entertainment thanks for sharing this video with us all

Even today, whenever I open drawstring curtains i still sing papa, papa, papa, papa, pppapa....... funny how something like that stays with you

1:15 Leonard Rossiter doing the voiceover for Kia-Ora.

I always remember at the end of the 70s seeing a dated advert for a local clothes shop that went along the lines of " that's the gear, man. Really cool and trendy!" We laughed like drains as someone paraded around in a pair of synthetic flared leg trousers, a nylon shirt with a huge collar and a tie as wide as a trouser leg. The 70s were amazing and I went from 7 to 17, what a decade!

Ah my childhood taken to the local flea pit to watch the latest cartoon film and Saturday morning film club when we were on holiday back in the 70s. Sometimes the Pearl and Dean adds were better than the actual film. Wish i could visit the 70s and 80s again. Happy days

It's the early 80s, the ABC cinema Bournemouth, the Pearl & Dean stock Indian Restaurant advert comes on, when the clip showing the sheek kebab came up the whole cinema shouts "Turd on a plate", Ah the good old days before the world turned sour.

Leonard Rossiter, Ronnie Barker, Brucie, john Le Mesurier. All loved and missed.

As a 56-year old, this takes me back to the days when my parents took me to see the latest Disney releases in our nearby (one screen) cinema. For local businesses, I well recall the use of generic '70s 'vibe' commercials, each followed by what was essentially a static card with voiceover tailored to the specific business (as shown). These were voiced by a typical RP-speaker, even though we were in South Wales, and this sometimes led to hilarious (for us, at least) mispronunciations of local place names! I thought the Milk Tray Man might put in an appearance here but it seems he's hung up his skis, ropes and harpoon gun for good. ('Must be about eighty by now, if the sharks didn't get him.)

Ah, Lyons Maid ice cream....so hard the little wooden spoon would snap and Kia Ora orange juice that made you so hyper you couldn’t sit still for hours. Aaah happy days!

What a feeling... sitting in the cinema, lights dimmed, image on curtains before they opened...the anticipation of a some great movie.

This is brilliant. I’m now off to try and find a copy of K-tel Summer Cruisin 👍🏻

Wonderful, memories, memories. Good old days, brilliant!!!!!!!😊😊

Before Terry Wogan came out as Irish...

That Gordon's Gin ad was much better than the utter bollocks they show now...saying That, all the adverts in this upload are better than the crap they show now...

Wow. Just felt really nostalgic about going to the cinema in another age, another era.

That’s the electric cooker model I was using up to 2018!

Hai Karate Aftershave, complete with soap on a rope , my first venture into not smelling like a typical sweaty 70's Kid .....those were the days

ahh chewing gum throwing around the cinema landing in your hair and a cornetto on sale half way through the movie, great times.

That brings back memories. The last time I went to a cinema in the UK it cost me a pound to get in.

It was during a Pearl & Dean advert in the 70s that I learned that "indifferent" was another word for "better". There was a young couple in the row behind me and the girl said "oh, that's better" and the guy said "yes, it's in different".

Great trip down memory lane! Seem to spend a lot of time there these days!

Those were indeed the days. A more innocent time? My father taking me to see a film I wasn’t really old enough to watch, come back dad. Very nostalgic.

My youth returns.

Jeff Wayne's theme tune for Gordon's Gin - also covered by the Human League on the Travelogue album.

Yup. Pearl and Dean intros, intervals halfway through, and the air extractor doing bugger all to remove the smog from the 'smokers side' of the cinema. Happy days(?)

Don’t even live in the uk, but I love this sorts of ads!

This video reminds me so much of watching Mary Millington flicks like 'Come Play With Me' and other soft porn films in Leicester Square when I was a young man in the RAF stationed at Hendon in the late 70s!

seems those adverts had a lasting effect on me been a carpet fitter for 35 years now, got 4 bottles of gordans gin in the cupboard and a bottle kia-ora orange squash in the fridge

Yea back in the day when it didn't cost the earth to go to the pictures and your first kiss was shared in the back row under a haze of cigarette smoke.

Then off to a Berni Inn for tough steak and a flat pint of Brew XI or home for a Vesta curry.

That was incredible. Thank you so much for posting this!

I'm heading back to 1975 next week for a holiday

did anyone else 'pah, pah, pah, pah' along to the intro? I know i did! Fond memories of being a youngster!

Remember a sign coming up asking for the owner of a particular car to move it as its blocking the entrance of the car park.

Every time I see this Pearl & Dean typeface I partly keep thinking of ITV's 'World Of Sport' in the back of my mind because they used it in the majority of The 1970's back then.

The local ads are the funniest. Just some stock footage and a logo slapped on at the end.

Ahhhhh back in the day!!! I use to love the trailers coming up after

Tommy Vance voice over on Indian restaurant ad he was a legend

an absolute classic!!!

Hi Karate aftershave and compilation albums from K Tel 👌

That Zulu Silk Cut advert brought a smile to my face. Imagine that on your advert on our TV's these days? "Beam me back to the '60s or early '70s Scotty," this place is driving me insane with envy. Although to be honest that Sunkist muck was beyond disgusting.

Adverts for Alcohol, cheap aftershave and cigarettes coupled with casual sexism and racism. I miss my childhood!

Many of those seem to be in and around the Solihull and South Birmingham area. Probably aired at the cinemas I frequented in my youth.

I worked in a Major London Cinema and people used to rush out to get a drink, hot dogs, popcorn, even cigarettes.

Just realised that the last time I went to the cinema there were no ads. I liked it when cinema ads were totally different to tv ads

Happy days .great era

I used to work on these film commercials. Tony Annis

Worth watching for the Gordon’s Gin ad and music !

Anyone remember an advert for Wang & Cohen, Chinese and Jewish restaurant? It was around the back of the Empire, Leicester Square, in China Town. Straight up, no messing.

memories of when I saw the first Star Wars film and 2001 A Space Odyssey

'Siege and Silk Cut': classic.

I’m so glad I’m old. Oh the memories of better days!

Gordon's Gin, Silk Cut and Kia-Ora were most definitely shown at the cinema during the Pearl & Dean intermission, but Oxo cubes and any other TV commerical were not shown in any of the cinemas I went to in the 70's.

Ooh, I've come over all nostalgic, loved the silk cut ads, they were always good. One I remember as a mainstay was the "super hotdog" ad, surprised it wasn't in the clip.

John Le Mesurier.......master of eyebrow-raising!.....and the best ad. here!

Cuddles in Lapworth looks banging.

you didnt realise how much, orange juice, coca cola,tomato sauce, hot dog and chocolate sauce and ice cream you had spilt down your shirt till you got outside in the daylight............................"Mbongoland" lol !!, innocent days !

I remember the 'people like you are turning to players No6' accompanied by a montage of 70s hipsters being met with howls of derision from the cinema audience.

Remember quite a few of those, thanks for the memories.

Kia-Ora always just made me even more thirsty than I was in the first place.

This makes me yearn for a top deck!

So much gold in here

In an episode of "Have I Got News For You" in 2010, guest host Bruce Forsyth said that after every take where he had to bite into a scone with Stork spread on it, he had to spit it out into a bucket by his feet. He hated the stuff, but said if they needed someone for an advert (i.e. if there was a fee) then he was available.

The Silk Cut commercial was wonderful. You can see why The National Front was doing well

8:55 Julie Peasgood - had a real crush on her!

We had Local ones advertising the Local Businesses. IE: We had Patric McKnee eating In the Local Chinese Restaurant. Great memories of the Best Years of Cinema. I went to see the Latest Pirate movie with My Daughter (She Is a big Johnny Depp Fan) I noticed You so much as Sneezed to loud You were out. In My day they used to Dance In the Allies and sing along to the songs. So much for the Getting Into the film. How times have changed Kids don't how to enjoy themselves no more. Sad.

love the indian restaurant ad. Thanks for uploading it

Who came here for 0:00-0:16?

Ah, the bad old days when junkie stick ads were still legal. Kia-Ora, otherwise known as weak orange squash in a plastic box. The Chris's cabs phone number is now a hydroponics company. And does anyone remember 'Have fun with a hot dog?' The punchline was, 'An hour from now you'll wish you'd had one!'

Yes the 70's really were that brown and orange.

excellent! so many memories...

What memories! That Pearl and Dean tune was a rite of passage for any cinemagoer.And I never liked Kia-Ora!

I remember the Gordon's gin ad, and the Human League version so I did a bit of research. Jeff Wayne also did the music for the war of the worlds. . Gordon's Gin is the title of an instrumental track written by Jeff Wayne and recorded by The Human League for inclusion on the Travelogue album. The track was originally written and recorded by Wayne for the cinema advertisement for Gordon's Gin in the late 1970's. The commercial end witht e famous slogan "It's got to be Gordon's". Only a demo 7" single of the original exists, under the name of Jeff Wayne Music. The recording was engineered by Martin Rushent, who would later work with The Human League as producer.

Popcorn munchers, drink slurpers, seat kickers, unnecessarily-persistent, loud coughers. These are a few memories of going to the cinema way back then. Happy days.

Sneaking into the Odean cinema (Canterbury) saturday mornings circa 1976 via the fire door.....picking up old tickets from the dirt covered floor....and when the usher came around to check for if you had paid....pop ticket in mouth, chew for a few seconds, spit it out onto your hand and offer it to her.....FREE entrance

How the heck did this come up as a recommendation, I was only thinking of this the other day, couldn't remember what it was called to even look for it, Pearl and Dean, thanks for posting

ABC Cinema Sheffield near the 'hole in the road', advertised with Pearl&Dean if I recall correctly. Remember as a kid queuing up in the tunnel to watch 'Grease'

such memories @ the pictures

Memories of the pictures in the 70s. Happy times used to go regular every week for the double features. The silk cut ad wouldn't be shown today😂

Mr Andrew me too..off d lights...brings so much of memories

"It's too orangy for crows. It's just for me and my dog." I loved the taste of Kia-ora. But my Mum said it was too expensive.