Animated commercials in the 1950s are loads of fun. They have great designs, good writing and excellent voice acting. And they provided jobs...

It’s safe to say anyone reading this grew up watching old theatrical cartoons. There was a time when anything outside of Disney was pretty m...

You couldn’t help but see the incongruity of someone who couldn’t see, selling light bulbs. As Television Age of March 21, 1960 put it in ...

Animated television commercials were still popular with ad agencies and clients as 1960 drew to an end. Small production houses continued to...

A few weeks ago, we posted frames of animated commercials reprinted in Television Age magazine. We’re going to post a few more below, this...

Cartoon studios were already cutting back operations in the late 1940s. MGM and Warner Bros. closed units, Screen Gems was shut down altoget...

Want to sell beer? In the 1950s and early 1960s, the combination that seemed to work was cartoons and comedy. Hamm’s featured an animated b...