Comments on: UPA’s Tang Commercial http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/2006/01/04/upas-tang-commercial/ The official blog of the new Chronicle book CARTOON MODERN: STYLE AND DESIGN IN FIFTIES ANIMATION. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:55:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Jenny http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/2006/01/04/upas-tang-commercial/#comment-330 Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:46:11 +0000 http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/2006/01/04/upas-tang-commercial/#comment-330 Wat a typically great design. Makes me want to drink some of that awful stuff. I used to know a lot of 35 and 16mm film collectors, and I can't believe this commercial doesn't exist somewhere out there, and is on VHS for sale...admittedly it's damned hard to find specific things(for example, Sinister Cinema might have a TV commercial compil. with a "Tang" advert listed without detailing which one-and of course you'd wind up with some mid-60s color l/a thing). Have you gone to the TV museum in B. Hills, by any chance? They might be a possibility. Certainly they'd have contemporaneous commercials from rare years, although i'm not sure how well indexed they might be--I think they do a good job. OT, but they have some great original Hirschfeld color/gouache TV Guide paintings there, on the walls. Good luck! Wat a typically great design. Makes me want to drink some of that awful stuff.
I used to know a lot of 35 and 16mm film collectors, and I can’t believe this commercial doesn’t exist somewhere out there, and is on VHS for sale…admittedly it’s damned hard to find specific things(for example, Sinister Cinema might have a TV commercial compil. with a “Tang” advert listed without detailing which one-and of course you’d wind up with some mid-60s color l/a thing). Have you gone to the TV museum in B. Hills, by any chance? They might be a possibility. Certainly they’d have contemporaneous commercials from rare years, although i’m not sure how well indexed they might be–I think they do a good job. OT, but they have some great original Hirschfeld color/gouache TV Guide paintings there, on the walls. Good luck!

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