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Hungry Jacks Chicken Minis advertisement
The Hungry Jacks television advertisement for their Chicken Minis burger opens with a jousting tournament on the ‘Isle of Shetland’, Scotland. A knight in full armour and helmet with visor rides a Shetland pony and carries a lance. The…
Four Seasons Gutter Protection
The website and advertisements for Four Season Gutter Protection feature four cartoon medieval foot soldiers wearing helmets and brandishing shields and weapons – flails (a type of mace) and spears or pikes. The heads of the weapons are in the…
Tags: advertisement, cartoon, flail, foot soldier, Four Seasons Gutter Protection, helmet, mace, pike, shield, soldier, spear, Vic, Victoria, website.
Evandale Village Singers present Henry Purcell’s ‘King Arthur’
This poster advertises two performances of Henry Purcell’s ‘King Arthur’ by the Evandale Village Singers in late October 2012 at St Andrew’s Anglican Church in Evandale. Henry Purcell’s ‘King Arthur’ is a…
James Boag’s Draught
This billboard in Launceston advertises James Boag’s Draught beer. The logo for the beer features an armoured knight wearing a helmet and thrusting downwards with a spear. Behind him lies a dragon. The inclusion of a dragon suggests that the…
Tags: Ad, Advert, advertisement, alcohol, Armour, Beer, billboard, Boag’s Brewery, dragon, helmet, James Boag, James Boag’s Draught, knight, label, Launceston, logo, spear, St George, Tas, Tasmania.
Viking Unsweetened Milk
An advertisement on page 15 of the Perth newspaper ‘Western Mail’ on September 8, 1899. The advert is for unsweetened milk made by Henri Nestle in the ‘highlands’ of Norway and sold by Preston and Co. in Fremantle, Western…
Tags: Ad, advertisement, advertising, Fremantle, Henri Nestle, marketing, milk, Nestle, Norway, Norwegian, Perth, Preston and Co., viking, vikings, WA, Western Australia, Western Mail
The Viking
A poem advertising the film ‘The Viking’ on page 6 of the Darwin newspaper, the Northern Territory Times on July 24, 1931. The poem mentions historical Viking Age Danish kings Gorm and his son Harald Bluetooth, and other terms associated…
Tags: advertisement, advertisements, cinema, Darwin, film, Gorm, Harald Bluetooth, Northern Territory, Northern Territory Times, NT, poetry, saga, skald, viking, vikings
Robin Da Hood
An online advertisement by Virgin Mobile Australia. The advert plays on the popular image of Robin Hood, complete with images of archery, a lute being played, and a group of Merry Men. Robin Hood is now Robin da Hood, wearing a red (the colour…