Wednesday, August 3

Found in a dollar store, Fred and Barney hocking Winstons

flinstones_winstonAndrew of Apollopony.net found this over on a live journal blog. Apparently the postee found it on a CD he bought at a dollar store and redigitized it in all its glory. Not only is it entertaining, it's downright must see.

flintstones.mov

Updated URL: flintstones.mov
(video/ Quicktime)

Update: I decided to host it, the original host appears to be dead. Copyrights be damned, this is an issue of free speech. Where else do you get to see cartoons hock Winstons to little kids. Sort of throws a kink in the old "we never targeted kids" defense by big tabacco. Just wow.

P.S. I'd love to know where this cool dollar store is. No dollar store I've ever found sells CD's with old ads on them.
at

6 comments:

  1. Quirk3:30 AM

    Couldn't see it. "Quicktime cannot play this file, cannot find software needed on the server"
    Is it h264? I heard the audio. Amazing.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Chuck Olsen8:43 AM

    I've got an old VHS tape full of stuff like this. There are more Flinstones Winston commericals too... isn't it crazy? I love it.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Michael Meiser10:49 AM

    bummemhead, Raymond K said the same thing. Yeah, it's h264. Are you on windows? And do you have QT7?

    I'm really beginning to hat h264, I just want videos the fudging play. My must people freak out about using the latest codecs.

    Chuck, I do love it. It strikes a particular cord with me because when I was VERY little the Flinstones and the Jetsons used to be two of my favorite shows. What would really be amazing would be to watch the show as it was then, commercials and all. Though, I do prefer color :)

    ReplyDelete
  4. Doug5:32 AM

    This goes to show how much times have changed and our perception of cigarettes too. Imagine how much hell would be raised if not only cigarette ads were allowed on TV but they were allowed to sponser cartoons like in the 50's and 60s today.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Anonymous6:55 AM

    Hi folks. I?m the guy who originally posted the video. The blog entry is here (the LiveJournal thing is just an ?echo? blog.

    I used Quicktime 7 and h.264 because it was hosted off of my cable modem so I had a serious interest in keeping the filesize down...

    I don?t exactly remember which dollar store I found it in -- I buy those things all the time, and usually don?t get around to looking at them until months later when I have free time.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Michael Meiser1:11 PM

    Thanks for posting it dude.

    ReplyDelete