Light Up This Guy

It's fireworks time again! Man, this year's just been and gone like some kind of relative you see maybe three times a decade when they want money. Anyway fireworks and this first one isn't a PIF, it's an actual advert for actual fireworks: specifically, Britain's foremost Fireworks manufacturer, Standard, whose jingle -heard here - can still be heard on the wind every November 5th. This advert is from 1986, which I figure is pretty late in the day as far as firework advertising goes. I certainly don't remember any adverts for fireworks when I was growing up, and my memory stretches back to about 1987 (halfway through which I was four). It wasn't outlawed, but it was surpressed, in an attempt to stop people burning their faces and those of others, directly off their skulls. The last firework advert I remember seeing (and, actually, also the first) was circa 2000, again for Standard, which consisted simply of the logo appearing in the sky to an ethereal version of the chorus. They do still advertise to this day, though, with a not-dissimilar version of that being circulated last year and probably this year as well. Standard are now owned by Black Cat Fireworks, a Chinese concern. The advert features a then 20-year old Sara Crowe (Four Weddings, Sometime Never, Philadelphia Adverts, any number of other roles as a ditz, what with having blonde hair and all). Apparently she's been Scottish this whole time and I never knew. Anyway, this advert, eh? I can't tell if it's great or rubbish, but I like its use of colour, and the absence thereof.