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Wednesday 1 August 2007

Midweek YouTube: Andy Warhol 'plugs' now-defunct airline Braniff

It's very difficult to put oneself in the hoped-for mindset of the target audience for this advertisement; it looks as if it dates from the late 1960s, or perhaps the 1970s. Braniff is not an airline I ever flew with, but it is difficult to imagine I could have been prevailed upon to do so after watching this cringe-making ad:



Read the Braniff story; like Pan-Am it was once a major airline. Both have now passed into history.

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