The last time as I remember seeing these ads was that I was a kid less than 10 years old and me,my mom and dad,my sisters,and our cousins were in Baltimore at a drive in and we saw Food of the God's and Frogs starring Sam Elliott. This brings back those memories.
Imagine going to the drive- in in 1978 and during the intermission they play a Devo music video for their version of Rolling Stones' Satisfaction . it freaked the s*** out of me
4:19 An instrumental version of the famous "Feelin' Free" Pepsi jingle. It was composed by Ellen Starr and Joe McNeil, and Barry Manilow, of course, sang on a version of this jingle.
The "PIC" commercial actually creeped me out as a child lol just scary looking bugs lol now i love it its a classic! I really enjoy watching these thanks!
I didn't even know about the PIC commercials until I started getting my VHS copies of Something Weird Video's "Hey Folks! It's Intermission Time" series.
Nice Sprite ad! Oh man...... It is nearly impossible to find Sprite ads from the 60's to 1972... The oldest I can find is from 1979.... (One more thing: I found a Sprite ad from 1975.) ~Yule
2:12 sounds like Manhattan Research produced the sound for the commercial. Raymond Scott synthesizers were used in commercials. He would record all these weird sounds, then speed up the tape to make it sound even more insane.
I remember being so stoned sitting in my car that these ads were the only that could get me to get out and walk to the snack bar with a bad case of the munchies. Sometimes it took me a half hour to find my way back to my car.
Was the animated segment around 4:40 done by the same animation company as did The Yellow Submarine? The style, animation, and artwork is incredibly similar.
I wonder if the trippy pepsi ad was illustrated by Peter Max as he drew all or most of the Beatles Yellow Submarine movie from 1968 looks just like it! Hes always been my favorite artist! Him and Roger Dean that does the illustrations for the rock group "Yes" albums
I have never seen the "It's Intermission, Intermission" before. I know it was filmed in Phoenix AZ. The round concession stand was built by the same people who built the Stadium Drive-In in Orange California. Did you scan the 35mm film?
0:00 A couple works at a drive in and turns the snack bar into some sort of party 1:13 Pocahontas kills a pig and turns it into a BBQ sandwich 2:12 A literal STOMACH talks about pizza. WTF?! 2:55 Is it the 4th of July? Didn’t think so. 3:18 Mosquitos get killed by an outdated mosquito coil. Just spray yourself with Off. 4:18 Peter Max tries to tell me to eat at the concession stand. No thanks. 5:00 Same deal 5:42 Food can dance? Smh 6:18 Leave it to the farmer to get me a coke. 6:47 Sprite? I wish. 7:41 Same thing, but that’s so damn catchy. 8:14 Now we’re in the Wild West? Where the hell am I going? 8:42 I’ll get a banjo some other day.
Oh, how I wish that "Let's All Go Down to the Lobby to Get Ourselves a Treat" be part of one of the segments on one of those dvd's which is (or was) entitled "A Salute to Movie Theater Ads & Intermissions from the 1930's to the 1990's." What do you think about that, eh?!
The Intermission musical at the beginning is about as bad as it can get -- but what can one expect -- it was clearly made in the late 70s or early 80s.
