Yesterday's blog post discussed the 1931 Louise Brooks' film It Pays to Advertise and the controversy stirred up by the film's prolific product placement. The post also discussed the campaign against product placement initiated by Harrison's Reports, a motion picture industry trade journal. Reproduced below is one newspaper editorial about the issue, from an Oregon newspaper.
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Sunday, September 27, 2015
Louise Brooks, product placement, soap, and the 1931 film It Pays to Advertise #2
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