Selling That Stuff 'Toon Style: Forty Years of Animated Advertisements May 29, 2009

Event: Oddball Films presents Portland archivist and curator Dennis Nyback’s program Selling That Stuff 'Toon Style: Forty Years of Animated Advertisements, a 40 year history of animated advertisements pitching everything from Papermate Pens to Sani Flush Toilet Bowl Cleaner. The program promises to provide a comic and cheesy take on the advertising industry with rare and uniquely animated ads. All films screened in 16mm film with a special intro and Q+A with Nyback.
Date: Friday, May 29th at 8:00PM sharp.
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco.
Admission: $10.00 Nyback’s shows soften sell-out so RSVP to: [email protected] 415.558.8117
Web: www.oddballfilm.com/oddballftp/selling_that_stuff_best.pdf
Selling That Stuff 'Toon Style: Forty Years of Animated Advertisements
Screens at Oddball Films

On Friday, May 29th at 8:00PM Oddball Films presents Portland archivist and curator Dennis Nyback’s program Selling That Stuff 'Toon Style: Forty Years of Animated Advertisements, a 40 year history of animated advertisements pitching everything from Papermate Pens to Sani Flush toilet bowl cleaner. The program promises to provide a comic and cheesy take on the advertising industry with rare and uniquely animated ads from Nyback’s collection of over 7,000 quirky 16mm films. Nyback will introduce and discuss the history of these ads in person. Some of his previous Oddball Films screenings F*ck Mickey Mouse, Bad Bugs Bunny and The Effect of Dada and Surrealism on Hollywood Films of the 1930s have drawn sell-out crowds over the past years. Admission is $10.00. Seating is limited. RSVP to: [email protected] or 415-558-8117. Oddball Films is located at 275 Capp St in San Francisco.
“The government discovered with Private Snafu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Snafu) during World War II that animation worked well in educating young men who paid no attention to standard training films. It was no accident that TV advertisements from the earliest days used animation to sell products, and not just to children. This program starts in the black and white days with ads for peanut butter, Vitalis, Papermate Pens, and much more, and then goes to color in the sixties for dog food, Alka Seltzer, breakfast cereal, cigarettes and beer, before charging forward through the disco days of the seventies and prototype high tech eighties. All of the eighties cartoons are CLIO (http://www.clioawards.com/) award winners. Among the other specific classics are the Ken Nordine's (http://www.wordjazz.com/) mind-blowing Levis ad, the Nestles Quik Rabbit, the very cool bird on top of the Western Airlines jet telling us it is "The Ooooonnly Way to Fly" while he smokes and drinks a cocktail, and the little Chuck Wagons that charge out of the cupboard past the confused dog. Just be thankful that the majority of the products being offered are no longer available and you will not be amimated-ly suckered into buying the stuff.”-Dennis Nyback

Featuring These Highlights!

7-UP-“See the Light!” Psychedelic vaudeville!
Ding Dongs- “King Ding Dong”
Maybelline- “Moonstar False Eyelashes” The fabulous 60s!
Coppertone-“We own the sun” Oh yea and skin cancer too.
Cocoa Puffs The first “Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs” tv spot.
Sani-Flush- Watch the animated toilet!
Twinkies “Even space girls like Twinkies.”
Nervine The better housewife mood elevator!
Ken-L-Ration Tender Chunks Woof! Woof!
Rice a Roni - Cool Jazz and San Francisco Sights.
Fruit Loops- Oop Fray Oops Lay!

And much more!
About Dennis Nyback
Dennis Nyback creates film programs from his collection of thousands of early animation and jazz films, Soundies, Scopitones, educationals industrials, commercials, newsreels, silent films, vintage television shows, home movies and rare, forgotten, forbidden, and amazing short films. He founded the Pike Street Cinema in Seattle and the Lighthouse Cinema in NYC. Dennis has toured Europe screening his programs at film festivals theaters, and universities for over 20 years.

Curator Interviews
http://twitchfilm.net/archives/010333.html
http://theeveningclass.blogspot.com/search?q=nyback