Today's Topic: Animated Commercials

Today's topic is, as Mr. Blogmeister woke this morning up thinking of the theme song from Candid Camera, yet again, following up our September 8 post, commercials - in this case the animated kind (and we're not even delving into the many ads by DePatie-Freleng, Hanna-Barbera and the Jay Ward Studio).



First and foremost, it's Tea Time with Ted Eshbaugh, who spun off the glum gloomy gus guys from The Sunshine Makers for this industrial film extolling the virtues of a cuppa hot tea.



Seared into my consciousness as well as the very souls of numerous individuals in my age group: the following much televised Chef Boy Ar Dee spot for Beefaroni and Beef-o-getti.



Levis produced these early 1970's time capsule ads, designed with psychedelic style by Chris Blum.



The following Levis commercial would go perfectly with that advertising film Johnny Carson made plugging his clothing line.



The Simpsons, not surprisingly, starred in commercials. . . LOTS of commercials.



As The Simpsons and Ren & Stimpy were going great guns at the same time, that brings to mind the following question. . . Did Spümcø and John K make commercials? Yes - here are two very good ads Spümcø produced for OLD NAVY.





One source of fantastic stop-motion commercials is the Dutch Animation Project. This masterpiece for White Horse Whiskey would be this scribe's pick for the coolest ad ever.



LOVE this Quaker Oats commercial by Joop Geesink's Dollywood studio.



On Cartoon Research on a Thunderbean Thursday, Steve Stanchield posted the following trio of humdinger animated commercials mastered from 35mm, including a BRYLCREEM ad animated by Fleischer Studio stalwart Bill Sturm (who I did not know worked with stop-motion) and one for motor oil by Ub Iwerks' Animated Cartoon Films studio.



Closing today's post: a selection of pretty darn spectacular ads by the ridiculously talented Canadian-British director, educator, animator, draftsman/illustrator supreme, voice actor and Who Framed Roger Rabbit contributor Richard Williams (1933-2019) of The Thief And The Cobbler fame.