STAN FREBERG COMMERCIALS (RADIO)
Summary
This cluster features three radio commercials, each one touting radio as the ideal advertising medium. The first commercial "shows pictures" from the Encyclopedia Britannica, including images of the gray shark and the grass pink orchid. The second commercial claims, "You can do things on radio you couldn't possibly do on TV," and goes on to illustrate its argument; listeners hear a 700-foot mountain of whipped cream piled onto Lake Michigan, which has been drained and filled with hot chocolate. The Royal Canadian Air Force then drops a ten-ton maraschino cherry on top of the whipped cream, and 25,000 extras cheer. Annoucer Stan Freberg boasts that radio stretches the imagination beyond the 27-inch monitor offered by television. In the third commercial, listening to radio is likened to opening the "theater of the mind" with its capability of conjuring up a merry-go-round next to Inca ruins or a pterodactyl taking a bite out of the Superdome. "The monitor of our head is limitless," say Freberg.
Details
- NETWORK: N/A
- DATE: November 30, 1999
- RUNNING TIME: 0:04:07
- COLOR/B&W: N/A
- CATALOG ID: R:5192
- GENRE: Radio - Advertisement
- SUBJECT HEADING: Radio advertising
- SERIES RUN: N/A
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Stan Freberg … Announcer