Schick: Powershave Razor, 1950s

Genre: Commercial

Year Published: 1950s

Creator: Schick D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B)

Format: 16mm

Description: Transcription: - Take a good close look at a good close shave. 0:04 Now take a good close look 0:07 at what makes for a good close shave. 0:08 New Schick Powershave. 0:11 The only electric shaver with super action edge. 0:12 The newest idea in close shaving, 0:15 the surest idea in close shaving, 0:17 because this amazing super action edge works three ways. 0:19 Does three jobs essential to a close shave. 0:23 First, smoothes skin down to the very base of each whisker. 0:25 Second, guides whiskers right into the shaving edge. 0:29 And third, pops whiskers up 0:33 to be shaved off clean and close. 0:35 Here's how it works. 0:37 See how skin is smoothed down, 0:39 how each whisker is steered right to the shaving edge, 0:40 and how they're popped straight up, 0:44 then shaved off deep down where the beard begins. 0:45 This three-way action Schick zone discovery 0:50 guarantees you the clean, close shave 0:52 you want every morning. 0:54 Guarantees it, 0:56 even if you're a man with a beard tough as cactus, 0:57 skin tender as a toy balloon. 1:00 Watch it go after these rugged cactus needles. 1:03 Shaves close. 1:06 This close. 1:08 Nothing left to worry that balloon now. 1:09 Yet it's gentle enough for even the most tender skin. 1:12 New Schick Powershave. 1:15 Shaves best because it shaves closest. 1:17 Shaves closest because it's the one shaver 1:19 with super action edge. 1:22 The newest, the surest idea in close shaving. 1:23 Get a Schick Powershave. 1:27 Most stores offer a 14 day free home trial. 1:29