Product Details

• Format: Animated, Black & White, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Victory Multimedia Consignment
• DVD Release Date: April 22, 2008
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000ZJX16Q
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,290 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From Thunderbean DVD. Step back into Television history with this great collection of animated 'cartoon' commericals from the 50's, 60's and 70's! From cereal to hair cream to cigarettes, animation has helped sell products to a Television audience from its very beginnings. Included in this collection are ads from both large and small studios, featuring famous, little known and even forgotton characters, created by some animation's most talented artists, animators and directors. Commercials featured include: Wild Root Cream Oil (lots from various studios, including Shamus Culhane productions), Kelvinator, Cheerios, Corn Flakes, Phillip Morris, Twinkles, #7 auto polish, Jello, Butterball Turkey, Tootsie Rolls (with Farmer Al Falfa), Rice Krispies (with Woody Woodpecker), BrylCreem with Lou Bunin's puppets, Tang (with Bugs Bunny), Frito Bandito (By Tex Avery), Hamm's Beer, Carnation (Carnation Rabbits), Colgate with Mighty Mouse, Start-Kist Tuna, Kool Aid (Several -Tex Avery, Rod Scribner, Ben Washam), Shasta Cola, Quisp ads by Jay Ward productions, Trix, Co Co Puffs, Pink Panther Flakes, Co Co Wheats ...and many many more! This new collection has been entirely mastered from original 16mm and 35mm original film prints, for excellent quality. Special features include: *"Industry on Parade" showing a commercial studio in Colorado * A special subtitle feature with information about the commerials, the production companies, actors/ voices, animators and directors. *Still Gallery "how to design an animated commercial" from 1960. B/W and Color, 100 minutes.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievably amazing product!, March 12, 2008

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Pat S. Fitzgerald "cult film expert" (East Meadow, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cartoon Commercials! (DVD)

Wow. What a great DVD! Here is a nice collection of animated ads throughout the years of televison. You have the cereal ads with Quisp and Quake, Pink Panther Flakes, the Carnation rabbits (Thanks a lot, Harry!)Mr. Magoo for 3-way lightbulbs, and many other hard to find rarities. A special bonus on this painstakingly-made, high-quality product: You can click the subtitle button, and information about most of the ads show up on the bottom of the screen including studios, voice talent, etc. Chock-full of commercials and chapterized, this is a nice addition for any collector of nostalgia.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vintage Commercials, February 17, 2009

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SAM (NH) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cartoon Commercials! (DVD)

If your into this type of pop culture, this is well worth the cost. Most of the picture quality is very good or better. I have been buying commercial collections since the 90's. All those were on VHS and most were of questionable quality. This DVD I can highly recommend.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice collection where ANIMATION is the focus!, January 3, 2009

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Keith Black (Simi Valley, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cartoon Commercials! (DVD)

I don't leave a review for 'everything' I buy, but only for the really nice items -- and THIS DVD is one of the NICE ones!

This collection of animated commercials is NOT just "classic commercials". No, it IS a nice collection that presents many, many animated ads mostly for the representation of how animation was used in tv commercials during the 1950s, 60s & 70s.

Animation is the focus here with complete commercials -- one after another. It is not a "documentary", but by activating the "subtitles" on your DVD player, you get a description [on most of them] on your screen with production info.

After looking through many different old "animation" books showing stills from feature films to commercials, for us animation fans it's nice to [finally] get these.

The quality varies from ad to ad, but considering how old most of these are it's nice to know they still exist!

A VERY NICE collection, and with the cover reading "Volume 1" I look forward to Volume 2!