Scott and I went down to check out the tiki crowd.
The afternoon started out with a tiki find from Kevin Kidney. A 16mm print of the 1963 ABC series Hawaiian Eye. This print came complete with bumpers and commercials. What a treat to see a tiki-themed show that is supposed to take place in Hawaii but in actuality was filmed in Burbank. Lots of Hansard rear-screen projection. What a hoot.
The highlight of the episode was a SALEM commercial from 1963. It is similar to the one on this page but way more ridiculous.
The one we saw was also black and white yet opened with a very odd line about "freshness" being pink and green. HUH?
The knock out punch from this commercial was the like "There's freshness in every puff" I think I pee'd a little. It's OK its a movie seat everyone does it.
Then they had a nice little tiki luau complete with dancers and live tiki music and pineapple upside down cake. Oh and booze.
Then after about two hours of milling about chatting and visiting the three vendor carts selling very cool tikicrafts we returned to the theater to see the SHAG documentary THE SOPHISTICATED MISFIT.
It was there SHAG told us he is designing the art for the Haunted Mansion's 40th anniversary. Time to save my pennies.
He is the perfect artist for the anniversary.
Here is a picture of Scott and SHAG as they chat it up.
2 comments:
Scott amd Shag look like cool dudes. My anils are too long and they make typing horrrid, tomorrow I will cut off these suckers and type better, I swear.
SHAG and Scott look like very snazzy with it fellas.
I'd love to have a DVD of the best cigarette commercials. What does it say about me that I would want propaganda about something I despise? Freshens your taste? Makes you have breath that smells like burnt fecal matter is more like it.
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