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Okay, I'm not so tired now, so here's a slightly longer Fischerkösen post, edited from a comment at bOINGbOING:
A great animated ad (from Hans Fischerkösen, in 1930s Germany) for a grocery store chain based in Köln, with pigs inspecting the pork and happy sausages peeling off and diving onto the conveyer belt to be sliced up. [Note: Vaguely racist images of third-world peoples are included at no extra price!] ps: That fly's not getting any sausage. They're using cellophane, the wonder material!
A cigarette smoking a cigarette turns life's threats and nuisances into happy good-luck symbols.
Men desert their sweethearts to cling to a giant pair of disembodied legs which are, of course, wearing the sponsor's stockings.
In an antacid ad that seems to have given Hitchcock some ideas, guns threaten a dreaming blonde who experiences vertigo, sees skeletons, and has rats run across her face. Before taking the sponsor's bottled sunshine.
There's lots more, but let's leave it in a happy place for now with the enlightening thoughts of a tobacco smoker.
(Clarification: Hans Fischerkösen was Dutch, but his work was pretty popular in Germany. Some refer to his work as Nazi animation, but I think it's a bit more complicated than that. Anyway, I think some of his stuff after the war was done for the French market. More information can be found on the internet, I'm sure.)
I posted these before, in 2006, in case you're having a strange case of déjà vu.
re-edited to provide embedded videos
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Okay, I'm not so tired now, so here's a slightly longer Fischerkösen post, edited from a comment at bOINGbOING:
A great animated ad (from Hans Fischerkösen, in 1930s Germany) for a grocery store chain based in Köln, with pigs inspecting the pork and happy sausages peeling off and diving onto the conveyer belt to be sliced up. [Note: Vaguely racist images of third-world peoples are included at no extra price!] ps: That fly's not getting any sausage. They're using cellophane, the wonder material!
A cigarette smoking a cigarette turns life's threats and nuisances into happy good-luck symbols.
Men desert their sweethearts to cling to a giant pair of disembodied legs which are, of course, wearing the sponsor's stockings.
In an antacid ad that seems to have given Hitchcock some ideas, guns threaten a dreaming blonde who experiences vertigo, sees skeletons, and has rats run across her face. Before taking the sponsor's bottled sunshine.
There's lots more, but let's leave it in a happy place for now with the enlightening thoughts of a tobacco smoker.
(Clarification: Hans Fischerkösen was Dutch, but his work was pretty popular in Germany. Some refer to his work as Nazi animation, but I think it's a bit more complicated than that. Anyway, I think some of his stuff after the war was done for the French market. More information can be found on the internet, I'm sure.)
I posted these before, in 2006, in case you're having a strange case of déjà vu.
re-edited to provide embedded videos
.
