Animation
Animation / Advert: In My Merry Oldsmobile - Fleischer. Bros
For an Oldsmobile commercial, the Fleischer Bros. created this extemely bawdy cartoon.
American Gothic Cornflakes - 1960's
Amazing to think that professional people got paid to cook up masterpieces such as Gothic American Cornflakes. But are times really different today, forty years later?
The recipe is quite simple, really. Take one part cornflakes, one part current youth culture cliche, throw in a little General Mills dough, then marinade in Madison Avenue saccarine and ... VOILA! the old-fashioned, half-baked Saturday morning scrapple of which almost anybody can reminisce.
In this case, the lyric "This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land" has been conveniently re-written as "Eat country cornflakes!" The repetition is enough is enough to make any sadistic psychological interrogator proud.
One wonders if this is the culmination of the visions of Grant Wood and Woody Guthrie. One wonders ...
Minnie the Moocher: Cab Calloway & Betty Boop - 1930's
Starting with a phenomenal live moment where Cab Calloway free-form dances to his orchestra swinging slow & sweet to St. James Infirmary. Then things get rolling.
Home life is tough for Betty, so she hits the road with her friend Bimbo. They venture into a haunted forest and seek refuge in a dark cave. Within, they encounter the alter-ego of Cab and his band, the ghost of walrus backed by a symphony of skeletons, monsters, and condemned ghouls.
The ending is quite spectacular.
NYSE: What Makes Us Tick - 1952
An animated, idealized illustration of how the stock market works, produced ever so lovingly by the New York Stock Exchange in 1952.
