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Mad Men - The Carousel (Higher Quality)

TomR35 · 2.4M views · 2008-05-16 · 3:26

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Overview

The Kodak Carousel pitch scene from the Mad Men season finale, in which Don Draper sells nostalgia through a slide projector. It runs about three minutes.

On Hacker News

HN holds it up as one of the best pitches ever, an example of selling feeling and nostalgia rather than features.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2010–2022

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27182818284 · 2015-07 · Strong recommendation

Mad Men's Kodak presentation in season one is one of the best pitches I've seen. If you haven't seen it, and even if you haven't watched the show, you should. [VIDEO]

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bradleyland · 2012-11 · Strong recommendation

Why this product? Nostalgia. Why only Instagram? Because it's good product alignment. Instagram also sells Nostalgia and has a huge user base. If you haven't seen it before, take a moment to watch this clip from an American television show called Mad Men. It's a show about a group of people working at Madison Avenue (in New York City) advertising firms in the 1960's. [VIDEO] I felt pretty moved the first time I saw that clip. I still feel moved when I watch it. For a moment, I wanted a slide projector. All of the people I know who also watch the show felt it was a master stroke. Nostalgia is a powerful selling force.

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twoodfin · 2013-10 · Recommendation

I want to believe you're on to something here, but how do you "tease" a show like "Mad Men" at low cost? The best tease for that show would be something like the incredible "Carousel" pitch from the end of Season 1[1], and indeed, a link to that from reddit was how I finally decided to check the show out a couple of years in. But that arose organically, after a ton of money had been spent on script, casting, production... [1] [VIDEO]

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