Graphite Confidential Newsreel Edition: Ad Pencils That Advertise Pencils

To celebrate National Pencil Day, Graphite Confidential's inaugural newsreel uncovers the shocking truth about the advertising pencils made to advertise the making of... advertising pencils. Say that 10 times fast!

Dateline - New York. March 30, 2018. It’s National Pencil Day, and Graphite Confidential is celebrating with a long lost, newly discovered newsreel that uncovers the shocking truth about the advertising pencils that companies around the U.S.A. made to — you guessed it — advertise pencils.

But seriously, we put on our finest fake 1950s announcer voices and ginned up this historical black-and-white "filmstrip" on ye olde iPhones for your viewing pleasure. Happy National Pencil Day, and may the Hymen Lipman* be with you.

*Hymen Lipman, which you probably already know because you’re reading a niche pencil site right now, was the first person to patent a pencil with an attached eraser in the United States. National Pencil Day celebrates the day his patent was filed in 1858, exactly 160 years ago.