Re: Apple II TV Commercials?

[tsaotsao@e2.empirenet.com (Joseph I. Valenzuela )]

Charles Richmond (richmond@plano.net) wrote:

: Although even this may *not* be the first product placement in a movie, you 
: might check out the 1962 movie "That Touch of Mink" with Doris Day and Cary 
: Grant. It features scenes of card sorters and printers and even a computer 
: front panel. On the back wall in large letters is the word "UNIVAC". So this 
: might at least rate as the first overt example of computer product placement. 
: (If anyone knows of an earlier one, please post.)

The Eisenhower election?  
I remember reading in "Father and Son Co" that Spencer Tracy and 
Katherine Hepbrun played opposite an IBM computer in "Desk Set",
and that they also provided all the puinch-card machines that
the game shows of the time could take.

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