1959 General Mills Cereal Commercials Rocky Bullwinkle

[@danielcrowe9324]

Ya gotta LOVE Rocky and Bullwinkle!!! The best cold war satire ever!!!

[@Nyanko907]

I love it

[@vincemacek681]

I hadn't seen a lot of these commercials for some sixty years, and it's remarkable how much of them were stuck in my head. The advertisers did a good job - but of course it helps to have a reputable spokesman.

[@julesstephenson8935]

OK, I love these! I really kind of wish that Trix stayed a Rocky and Bullwinkle cereal. Although they would have to recast after Mr. Scott died, and then again after Miss Foray retired and unfortunately passed. RIP to both of them, they are legends.

[@torieriddleshorts2429]

Wow I want bullwinkle coloring book

[@tombovitale2597]

Rocky and Bullwinkle great cartoon was around when I was a kid after that all the reruns

[@yahirpuga3513]

R.I.P. June Foray for voicing Rocky J. Squirrel.

[@Juliaflo]

She was the runner-up to Mel Blanc when it came to voicing characters.

[@alexanderip1003]

She was the last member in Jay Ward's voice cast to pass away but she could have became a centenarian

[@yosefdemby8792]

@@alexanderip1003 Anybody can or could have been a centenarian.

[@Musicradio77Network]

These commercials were shown during “Rocky and His Friends” in 1959 and 1960.

I remember those Commercials when I was a kid

[@anubis1751]

Aside from the clever General Mills commercials I love the earlier designs of Rocky J. Squirrel --it has an anime style to it.

[@lbrown21494]

The first episode of the series, as well as these commercial, were animated in the U.S. subsequent episodes were animated in Mexico, hence very off-model designs.

[@yosefdemby8792]

@@lbrown21494 Also animated in Hollywood were a handful of bumpers and promos, the Saving Stamps promotional film, 34 Fractured Fairy Tales, four Aesop and Sons, one Peabody's Improbable History, and seven Dudley Do-Rights.

[@yosefdemby8792]

@@lbrown21494 The first episode was reanimated in Mexico because the first episode was the pilot, which had different designs than those made for the series. It had to look the same from the other episodes.

[@dillonkinder9296]

Already brings back memories of 2012 I so glad it still here and not removed cause of that copyright law b s

[@sea80vicvan]

I had a bootleg VHS tape in the 90's that contained all these ads plus the bumpers used as intros to those ads (the "eenie meeny chili beany", "fan mail from some flounder" and "I just paint what I see" clips). As mentioned in some of the other comments, the Cheerios ads were done in the mid 60's, not 1959 - the animation is cleaner and in the style of the later Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons, and were done entirely in Hollywood, instead of Gamma Productions in Mexico, the startup company that animated the actual epsidoes of the series.

[@thetreasurehouse1742]

How neat that you found the books and crayons!! I haven't seen a few of the commercials before today.

[@kevinwollenweber340]

This is indeed a wonderful memory. This is how the opening credits to “Rocky and his friends“ actually looked and sounded. It might have seemed like primitive animation to those looking at it today, but this was a jewel of a show to us who enjoyed it in 1959. I only wish we had it this way on physical media. some television shows in the 1950s often featured little snippets of what the sponsor was right in with the opening credits. These are often deleted from DVD or Blu-ray releases, and they shouldn’t be. It’s not just a product placement, it’s history! it was good fun to us who were kids back then. What a nice memory. Thank you for posting this.

[@darthstarkiller1912]

Is it just me, or is the animation in the commercials a lot smoother than the actual cartoon?

[@godkingzulu]

Unlike the show--which was animated by Gamma Productions in Mexico--the commercials were done in house by the likes of Benny Washam, Phil Duncan, Rod Scribner and Gerry Baldwin.

[@barneyboyle6933]

You mean like how the ads on your videos will play just fine even if your actual video struggles to buffer?

[@yosefdemby8792]

@@godkingzulu Also Bill Littlejohn

[@yosefdemby8792]

The decision to outsource the majority of the show's animation was not Ward's choice. It was made by General Mills' ad agency, Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample. When Ward made the pilot in 1958, he made it super cheap. He hoped that once it was greenlit, they would have a higher budget. He wanted everything of his animated in Hollywood. Unfortunately, that same year he had a near-fatal nervous breakdown on a plane. D-F-S's decision was made while Ward was still recovering. Gamma Productions was brand new when the show was greenlit. D-F-S invested in Gamma, so less work for the Mexican studio meant less income for D-F-S's people. The initial language barrier was enormous, there was no telephone, the ink-and-paint and camera departments were working in near darkness and dustiness, there were racial tensions between the Mexicans and the Americans, many employees were absent because they had to attend to loved ones funerals (though I don't fault them), one of the directors caught hepatitis, the building also faced earthquakes, supplies were held at the border and in perpetually short supply, and multiple of dilemmas existed. The first cartoons animated there were so incompetently made that Ward ordered a large number of retakes. Rather than save time and money as D-F-S expected, the cartoons cost _more_ time and money. In exchange for the increase in budget, Ward was conscripted to have the postproduction done in Mexico as well. The sound mixing was especially incompetent as well. To compensate, Ward was allowed to have some of the bumpers, commercials, interstitials, segment intros, the opening, the credits, and a handful of Fractured Fairy Tales animated in Hollywood. The Peabody cartoon with Pancho Villa was rejected by Mexican censors, so he animated it in his studio. The first Aesop and Son short, as well as three others, was animated there too. The first Dudley Do-Right cartoon, along with six others, was animated in his studio as well. And Ward convinced D-F-S to let all the postproduction on the Dudleys be supervised in Ward's Hollywood studio.

[@jckoibra2662]

2:26 I like the animation in this one.

[@shamadayart]

I got scared for a second because I didn't realize the thumbnail was Bullwinkle, I thought it was an Eraser Head alien baby looking cartoon character.

[@jakebarnes8404]

I like the fruit fruit flavor of Trix, Trix, Trix. I like the fruit fruit flavor of Trix, Trix, Trix. I like the fruit fruit flavor of Trix, Trix, Trix... But Trix are meant for kids!

[@mrmjb1960]

From the first season the intro and ending. Later episodes had a different into and ending it also had The Bullwinkle Show title.

[@jonmeyer3076]

1:30 I wish to see this one as a single short video

[@kelanjones7281]

1:31 The General Mills Song!

[@jonmeyer3076]

I wish that can be shown as a single video with Rocky and Bullwinkle

[@ferociousgumby]

It's not that I don't trust you, William Tell!

[@arqivist2077]

I'm just a moose with Cheerios to sell.

[@apexpredator4]

Up in an land in the midnight sun Where the cold wind always blows, Old Mother Hubbard goes to the cubbard To get some Cheerios!

[@victoriabrown9192]

2:18 🎵Here's another Goodness cereal from General Mills!🎵

[@georgeshelton6281]

So I said to myself, you must see this one. Rocky and Bullwinkle haven't mentioned Wheaties. The dry breakfast cereal that's made for adults only.

[@angelfabianmesina6099]

Nice

[@richardranke7878]

The only cereal I ate from this bunch was Cheerios.

[@charlettedieuseul1972]

For me cheerios and trix

[@rudymalone1]

For me it's frosted Cheerios formerly know as Frosty-O's!

[@joebev59]

Great stuff. The laer ones are not from 1959. Dudley Do Right did not yet exist.

[@apexpredator4]

I like the fruit fruit flavour of Trix Trix Trix (3x)

[@jakebarnes8404]

But Trix are meant for kids!

[@Collector261]

How were you supposed to send 5 cents in the mail even back then?

[@TheOldsbfan]

Personally, I always taped my coin to a piece of cardboard and put it in an envelope

[@retrolopez8321]

(5:08) Here's the Color Version right here.➡kzbin.info/www/bejne/foKQf6SshrV4pbs

[@mardoniovalealvesvale6763]

Isso foi de 1959 ou 1960

[@apexpredator4]

5:09 is surfing a fun sport?

[@jakebarnes8404]

No, unless someone's got the *go* to do it.

[@derikdragon80]

Silly moose...Trix are for kids!

[@victorspanbauer7710]

5 an 69/1

[@apexpredator4]

The other 3 ones are too dark