Cartoon Comercials Volume 1 Content

[nickramer]

After asking Steve Stanchfield if it was okay, here is the content of "Thunderbean's Classic Commercial Volume 1". Note that since there are more than one commercial for some products, I will put a small title that decribes the commercial (most of which I made up, some are already identified on the set) and will also identify if the commercial is in black and white. I should also note that I do not own a copy of "The Moose That Roars" so I apologies if I get any of the Jay Ward spots' names wrong.

Note: For those you who want to be surprised on this collection might want to skip this thread.




* Hippity Hooper Commercial Bumper -"Hit TV"
* Wild Root Cream Oil- "Square Dance" b/w
* Kelvinator Refrigenator b/w
* Cheerios- "Football" b/w
* Kelloggs' Corflakes- "Sun Power" b/w
* Phillip Morris with Lucy and Desi b/w
* Wild Root Cream Oil- "Hairy the Hair" b/w
* Twinkles- "Introduction" b/w
* Twinkles- "Storybook Package" b/w
* Wild Root Cream Oil- "Dragon Hunt" b/w
* Reynold's Wrap b/w
* Dupont #7 Auto Polish b/w
* Milk American Dairy Association PSA b/w
* Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Complete Pizza Mix b/w (That product is still available.)
* Jello-"National Fruit Week (Orgain Grinder)" b/w
* Betty Crocker Yellow Cake Mix b/w
* Zerex Antifreeze b/w
* Wild Root Cream Oil- "Date" b/w
* "About Faces" Promo b/w
* Swift Butterball Turkey-"Thanksgiving Hunt" b/w
* Camel Cigerattes- "Christmas Gift" b/w (My, how times change!)
* Drewry's- "Hot Air Balloon" b/w
* Wild Root Cream Oil- "Wrestling" b/w
* U.S. Marine Corp. b/w
* Jello- "National Vegetable Week (Gardener)" b/w
* Wild Root Cream Oil- "Song and Dance" b/w
* Tootsie Roll with Farmer Alfalfa- "Tootise Roll Square Dance" b/w
* Borden's- "Banana Bowl Ice Cream Cheer" b/w
* Pure Packed Milc Cartons b/w
* Rice Krispies with Woody Woodpecker- "Super Market" b/w
* Drewry's- "Set the Record Straight" b/w
* Wild Root Cream Oil- "Oil Drops" b/w
* Cheerios- "Railroad" b/w
* Brilcream b/w
* Standard Oil- "Ask Us" b/w
* Tang with Bugs and Daffy- "Shoot a Duck" b/w (Perhaps my favorite ad with the Looney Tune Characters.)
* Frito- "Frito Bandito Eraser" b/w (Good ol' Tex!)
* Drewy's with Bob Shield- "Dig It" b/w
* Suger Crisp with Bugs and Yosamite Sam- "Hunting Lodge" b/w
* Winston with the Flintstones- "Yard Work" b/w
* Winston tag for "The Flintstones" b/w
* General Electric 3-Way Light Bulbs with Magoo- " Mister Magoo at the Fair" b/w (Sorta ironic that Magoo went to Progressland.)
* Hamm's Beer- "Hamm's Bear's Matchstick House" b/w
* Carnation Ice Cream- "What's Great Flavor Have We?" ("Thanks alot, Harry!")
* Carnation Cottage Cheese- "Beacuse It's Fresh!"
* Carnation Ice Cream- "I Got a Scoop"
* Carnation Vita-Glo- "Keeps Your Weight Down"
* Carnation Milk- "Great Body Builder"
* Carnation Milk- "Good For Your Bones and Teeth"
* Carnation Milk- "Only Way to Grow"
* Carnation Cottage Cheese- "Hum a Few Bars"
* Carnation Cottage Cheese"- "Great Demand"
* Carnation Ice Cream- "Phychologist"
* Carnation Cottage Cheese- "Hold Some"
* Carnation Milk- "William Tell"
* Carnation Milk- "Building Muscles"
* Carnation Ice Cream- "Great for Birthday Parties"
* Carnation Ice Cream- "How You Get the Lid On?"
* Carnation Milk- "Desert"
* Carnation Milk- "Milk to a duck"
* Carnation Ice Cream- "Indian Attack"
* Carnation Ice Cream- "I'm All Ears"
* Carnation Vita-Glo- "High Protien, Low Fat"
* Carnation- "More Magic (Carnation Dips)"
* Carnation- "More Magic (Carnation Yogert)"
* Funny Face- "Shopping Asile" b/w
* Luckey Charms- "Magic Fiddle" b/w
* Colgate Dental Cream with Mighty Mouse- "Jutebox" b/w
* Colgate Dental Cream with Mighty Mouse- "Somersault" b/w
* Trix- "Carrots" b/w
* Frosty O's with Tennessee Tuxedo, Chumley, and Baldy Eagle- "Lost Child" b/w
* "Tennessee Tuxedo and his Friends" General Mills Tag b/w
* Cocoa Puffs- " A Cockoo Bird" b/w
* Cheerios with Bullwinkle- "Diving" b/w
* Sominex b/w
* "Rocky and His Friends" General Mills Tag b/w
* General Mills Country Corn Flakes b/w (This is my favorite commercial in this collection. So random.)
* Newport Cigarettes- "Parade"
* Sun-Kist Tuna- "Tuna Scout" b/w
* Twinkies- "Bank Robbers" b/w
* Cheerios- "The Astronut" b/w
* Trix- "In My Dreams" b/w
* Lucky Charms- "Too Good for Leprchuns" b/w
* Kelloggs' Stars- "Hillbilly Goat's Welcome" b/w
* Pre- Sweetend Kool Aid with Bugs and Elmer- " A Wabbit on a Package" b/w (By Tex Avery!)
* Bactine b/w
* Chocks b/w
* Pre Sweetend Kool-Aid with Bugs and Elmer- "Kool-Aid Stand" b/w (Makes me wish Tex did more than four cartoons with the rabbit.)
* Chocolate Zestabs- "Introduction" b/w
* Shasta b/w
* PSA for American Cancer Socity (This was supposed to make people stop smoking?!)
* Yellow Pages with Bugs, Rose Mary, and Johnny Brown
* Chef Boyardee's Beefaroni/ Beff O getti
* Quisp- "Ball of Yarn"
* Kool-Aid with Bugs and the Monkees- "Make Friends With Kool-Aid(Desert)"
* Trix- "Painter"
* Quisp/ Quake Orange Kwangeroos- "Orangeania"
* Off to See the Wizard "Ouchless" Curad Band-Aids b/w
* M & M's- "No Chocolate Mess"
* Wonder Bread
* Dove
* Purina Tender Vittles
* M & M's- "Apeman"
* Milkbone Cat Crackers
* Captain Crunch- "Sing Along With Cap'n Crunch" b/w
* Clariol
* Mazola
* Trix- "Gypy's Fortune"
* Pink Panther Flakes with the Pink Panther and Fritz
* 1969 Plymouth Sale with Wile Coyote and The Road Runner (Like McKimpson's Road Runner spots.)
* Cheetos- "Julius Cheeser"
* Franken Berry and CountChocula- "Introduction"
* Co Co Wheats- "Train Jingle" (Nice Jingle.)
* Alpha Bits- "Skeleton Adventure"
* Super Suger Crisp- "Suger Bear the Artist"
* Lucky Charms- "Lucky's Rocket"
* General Electric Soft White Bulbs
* Kelloggs' Frosted Rice
* Kelloggs' Frosted Flakes- "G-R-E-A-T!"
* Nestle Quik- "Quik Rock Song"
* Kelloggs' Corny Snaps- "Breakfast Must Not Be Fun"
* Kelloggs' Rice Krispies- "Pop's Drums"
* Kelloggs' Rice Krispies- "Pop in Love"
* Kelloggs' Frosted Flakes- "Doubting Thomas"
* Cocoa Puff's - "The Cuckoos Camp Out"
* M & M's- "The Candy Man"
* Kelloggs' Frosted Flakes- "The Year of the Elephant"
* Lucky Charms- "Lucky's Skateboard"
* America Express with Mel Blanc

Overall, I thought this was great collection and I highly recommend it for folks who like animated commercials.

[Marty26]

Honestly, it's impossible for me to watch old TV commercials without feeling like I'm lost in a time warp. I think I'll pass on this set.

[Studio Toledo]

Honestly, it's impossible for me to watch old TV commercials without feeling like I'm lost in a time warp. I think I'll pass on this set.
I'd rather be lost in a time warp than to be bombarded by advertising of today!

[Tim Lones]

I have the "Classic Commercials" 2-DVD set that Madacy Entertainment put out a few years ago..One of my first "DVD Set" purchases. While some of the commercials Steve has may be in this set..I definitely want to get Steve's collection..Nothing wrong with a "time warp"..Stuff like this is almost like a "time machine" effect..Looks like a good set..

[FleischerFan]

nick - thanks for the dilligent work.

I wonder if anyone has copies of two old animated/semi-animated commercials from the 50's:

Bucky Beaver for Ipana
Fresh-Up Freddie for 7-Up (I had always heard that Freddie was a creation of the Disney organization)

[Bob K]

I wonder if anyone has copies of two old animated/semi-animated commercials from the 50's:

Bucky Beaver for Ipana
Fresh-Up Freddie for 7-Up (I had always heard that Freddie was a creation of the Disney organization)

The Bucky Beaver commercials are out there. I have three of them (1956) on a VHS called "Cartoons Celing Commercials" [sic-Intentionally spelled "cel-ing" as in cartoon cel]. I got this tape through the old "Whole Toon Catalog" by Facets video, www.facets.org. The Facets site still lists a volume 2, using the hyphenated "cel-ing" spelling in the title. "Volume 2" also has Bucky Beaver, but is listed as "No Longer Available". I don't see vol 1 listed. My case for Volume 1 says "(c) 1991 Ed Finn" if that would help your search.

There are also 2 of the Ipana commercials (I think 2 of the 3 mentioned above) on a tape called "Best of Animated Commercials" that I picked up at a comic convention in the 1990's. There is no other identifying info on that package about where the VHS came from.

I'm happy to have the listing of the contents of Steve's DVD. I second the thanks to Nick for posting that. When I have the time I will re-watch my Thunderbean DVD so I can split up the contents list by chapter number for easier access in the future.

By the way, I also really liked Steve's feature of having the optional subtitles with studio and/or animator info for each cartoon, although I find it a little distracting to have the subtitle on screen for the length of the commercial. It would be nice to have the subtitle appear for a shorter time to avoid the need to "toggle" the titles. Something to keep in mind if there is ever a Thunderbean volume 2.

[Gasmask Ted]

I vote for about ten more volumes of animated commercials. I'd be happy with materials of a quality far below Thunderbean's normal high standards, too.

[MF TOON]

Looking forward to this!!

[Fibber Fox]

Honestly, it's impossible for me to watch old TV commercials without feeling like I'm lost in a time warp. I think I'll pass on this set.

But you'll watch cartoons with steam locomotives, candlestick phones, songs about shuffling to Buffalo and references to Joe Penner? :confused:

I enjoy 50s commercials. People can see through the ridiculousness of some of them ("More lab-coated doctors in front of desks with bookshelves behind them smoke Filter-tipped Grazzits than the other leading brand!" "Ladies, want to make sure the King of the House enjoys the dinner you've cooked for him after a hard day at the office?"). And some of the animated ones are cute.

Commercials started losing their charm in the 60s. Maybe it's because they started getting slicker, I don't know.

F. Fox

[Steve Stanch]

I vote for about ten more volumes of animated commercials. I'd be happy with materials of a quality far below Thunderbean's normal high standards, too.

The collection was an attempt to put out the first set that actually is (overall) pretty good quality- though I did have a few spots from old transfers that I'm not sure I could get again, and used what I had already mastered.

Thanks so much for putting the list up! I have a bunch of other things transferred already and have been holding them for a specific set...maybe even one detailing a certain design era or a collaboration- more on this soon. A few collectors were kind enough to lend me really great copies of some really rare spots, including those Disney animated Bucky Beavers (yes, some were made at Disney.....)

[Marty26]

But you'll watch cartoons with steam locomotives, candlestick phones, songs about shuffling to Buffalo and references to Joe Penner? :confused:

I enjoy 50s commercials. People can see through the ridiculousness of some of them ("More lab-coated doctors in front of desks with bookshelves behind them smoke Filter-tipped Grazzits than the other leading brand!" "Ladies, want to make sure the King of the House enjoys the dinner you've cooked for him after a hard day at the office?"). And some of the animated ones are cute.

Commercials started losing their charm in the 60s. Maybe it's because they started getting slicker, I don't know.

F. Fox

I guess for me it's more commercials from the late-70's and early-80's that I have a problem with (1978-1982). Perhaps it's because I was born in '82, and it's a little odd seeing how automobiles, music, computer technology, etc. have changed so much since then. But TV commercials haven't really.