Packard Bell commercial with storm trooper librarians

December 1, 2009 - 12:56am — Bibliofuture

In 1996 Packard Bell put out a commercial that tried to show urban existence as negative with the point of the commercial being that using a Packard Bell computer "You can do it all from home". Librarians objected to the negative image of the library. The commercial has storm trooper like characters marching around the library shushing people. Packard Bell changed the commercial and lifted out the library scenes. The version here shows the library scene.

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Page 33 of this PDF on "Cultural Images of Librarians" also mentions this commercial