Christmas Seals have enlisted the help of celebrities back into the 1920's. There were dignitary signings, radio spots, movie trailers, posters, and national chairmen were celebrities as well. In 1958 The National Tuberculosis Association, with the help of Clark Gable promoted the annual Christmas Seal Campaign. Celebrities of the past include Babe Ruth, Charles Coburn, Lee Trevino, Jack Lemmon, and Rock Hudson, to name a few. This was Clark Gable movie trailer was submitted by Christmas Seal collector, Jim Stone, Many such trailers exist. If you find them, please email a link to your webmaster, John@christmasseals.net and I will upload and credit you on this news page.
1914 The Temple of Moloch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HIx2QNbPNE
1925 restored Christmas Seal cartoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nYwZvxaJlA
1938 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYdA32RWm1E
1944 Bob Hope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TkvC5dAGh0
1947 thru 1951 compilation with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, Virginia Mayo, Robert Young, Ray Milland, and Gary Cooper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsxSKZkhzlc
1952 Abbott & Costello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7amiP7fVtHw
1954 Rod Cameron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzzZHjg8RaM
1956 Jimmy Cagney https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3giawv
1958 Clark Gable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7fXSWHwGR8
1959 Canada - Barry Morse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU_aq-EqGI4
1960 Rock Hudson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCPX8_JhGB0&t=1s
1961 Jack Lemmon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A6arFL_4hw
1967 Walter Brennan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnW1nNQzbCI
1968 James Coburn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSQ8dsxx7rM
1969 Henry Fonda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZzXmCv7UWU
1970 Rock Hudson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGATkZWtN10
1973 Barbara Eden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OB-AcjrA_g
1985 Pearl Bailey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuI-PzUuNBQ
More Christmas Seal trailers: The 1912 film, Hope: A Red Cross Christmas Seal Story and the 1915 film, The Lone Game are available on DVD collections. (1912: Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film 1900-1934, National Film Preservation Foundation, Disk 1; 1915: Edison: The Invention of the Movies, Kino Video, Disk 2).