I can’t clip together the whole, long background drawing without colour problems, so we’ll just post where the camera stops on each slogan. The cartoon is from 1939 so some of the slogans are lost on most people today.
Wheaties was the Breakfast of Champions. Fish is brain food. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery was a quack (duck?) remedy for all kinds of stuff. With men who know tobacco best, it’s Luckys 2 to 1. Coca-Cola is the Pause That Refreshes. I don’t recall what had more costly ingredients than the other brand. Evidently I need more duck, the brain food.
A shame it is the background artist went uncredited.
Duck: The Breakfast of Champions always made me smirk. Also, good use of Stalling to use "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" as the underscore.
ReplyDeleteI think it was also Lucky Strikes that made the claim of "costlier ingredients."
ReplyDeleteThere was a Dr. Pierce reference in "Stupor Duck" where Daffy takes "Dr. Pierce's Mild Pills" (I used to think that was an in-joking reference to Tedd Pierce).
I always assume Tedd Pierce as well.
DeleteAcme Beer had "more costly ingredients" but I don't think that's what the reference is. Several other alcoholic products used the same line.
DeleteAs one sign after another leads to a conclusion, it reminds me of the " Burma Shave " ads.
ReplyDeleteChuck's love of signage -- most evident in the Road Runner cartoons -- first came out in this short, which was also one of the few Jones shorts of the period to eschew cuteness for straight comedy.
ReplyDeleteChuck's own 1952 "Rabbit Seasoning" (one of the first Bugs and Daffy teaming) had a memorable Burma Shave thing too, advertising Rabbits. GUESS who PLANTED those signs..:)SC
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