Posts Tagged ‘soaps’

Fighting Germs With Advertising

December 2, 2020

In the early 20th century, when advertisers weren’t selling Americans radioactive beauty products, they signed up for the war against germs. A National Geographic video.

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Soap Operas Have One More Life to Live — On the Web

July 7, 2011

Soap Operas Have Onw More Life to Live -- On the Web

ABC TV announced the cancellation of the long-running daytime dramas “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” but the programs will have a new life. Sort of.

The network has licensed the two soaps to a company that plans to keep the shows running on the Web. Four decades of our precious video heritage have been saved (cue the organ music and roll credits).

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Image (Midday Melancholy, after Constance Charpentier) by Mike Licht. Download a copy here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com

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