Madison Avenue, USA + Inside America: Quiet Persuader at BFI Southbank

Madison Avenue, USA is a fast-paced, fascinating overview of America’s ad industry with interviews with many of the high gurus of the field including Dan Seymour, Albert Goldman, Norman B Norman, David Ogilvy, William Bernbach, Dirk Rich and ad woman Mary Wells. Inside America is an in-depth profile of Madison Avenue top gun Steve Frankfurt, who is responsible for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars daily at his New York advertising agency. The film follows this real-life Don Draper at work and at play, and with both areas it’s intriguing to compare his world with that of Mad Men and marvel at just how perfectly the series captures the period.