TALKING DUMMIES ADVERTISE GOODS (Aug, 1933)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Aug, 1933
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Aug, 1933
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TALKING DUMMIES ADVERTISE GOODS
Talking dummies, with human voices that draw a crowd’s attention, have been devised for advertising purposes by a Brooklyn, N. Y., technician. The voice is supplied by a loudspeaker, connected to a hidden microphone or a phonograph pick-up. Some of the dummies represent persons prominent in public and industrial life. Thus the phonograph voice of a well-known automobile manufacturer may talk of his car’s merits.
Today they just changed their name to “door-to-door salesmen”.
Comment by 4th guy — January 3, 2008 @ 3:34 am
Nahhhh…they dumped the cardboard cutout and now they’re telemarketers…:)
Comment by mrchurchill109 — January 3, 2008 @ 9:53 am
Wasn’t ‘Talking Dummies’ the name of David Byrne’s first group?
Comment by Stannous — January 3, 2008 @ 12:17 pm
One looks like him: the other looks like President Roosevelt!
Comment by Blurgle — January 3, 2008 @ 4:48 pm
Aren’t all salesman “talking dummies’?
Comment by Tim Giachetti — January 4, 2008 @ 5:48 am