Your Mother Won't Know You!
Here is another commercial from the 50's Babbitt/Hubley reel...
And then there is always this reel to look at....
And then there is always this reel to look at....
Børge Ring - mentor and playmate.
Working with Børge was fun, hard, boring, exciting, unusual, normal, and most of all educational. Over a year before leaving high school, in March 1978 I found out he lived in my neighborhood from a tv program about him and his wife Joanika. So I found him in the phone book (remember those?) and called him up. While studying art history, for a year I was his "pupil" doing animation tests, dropping by and having him correct them. Then, fed up with my art history professors, I moved my animation desk with my Neilson-Hordell disc into his Blaricum attic! (I am pointing at it in this photo taken last year:) Here, for almost four years, from March 1980 to November 1983 I smelled of his Douwe Egberts Red Amphora pipe tobacco and every day incl. weekends, Christmas and New Year from 10 to 6 we worked to the sound of BBC World Service if there were no jazz songs he had to listen to over and over again for an upcoming gig. I started doing simple non-production tests from his animation...
Very smooth animation, but not very funny. Too bad Emery Hawkins didn't animate this one. The grandmother's voice isn't very good either - trying too hard to be cartoony. Not among my favorite Hubley commercials.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly enough, several of my friends seem to remember this one very well - and they hadn't been born when it came out! I have no idea why, and neither do they...
ReplyDeleteI remember it too , from the late 60's so I wonder if the agency reused it later , re-inking the cels in color (or were they originally inked & painted in color?) for rebroadcast ?
ReplyDeleteIs there any chance that this could be a Quartet commercial that Babbitt did in the mid-50s? Quartet had the core crew of Hubley's Storyboard so a lot of their commercials look and feel like Hubleys.
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