Pencil Sketches of the California Raisins
Pencil Sketches of the California Raisins
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- Description (Brief)
- Sixteen original pencil sketches used in the California Raisins advertising campaign, circa 1986 to 1991. Four drawings feature the California Raisins characters, eleven are the storyboard for “The Robot” television commercial, and one is a large sheet with multiple sketches of the California Raisins characters with corrections in red ink. The clay-animated California Raisin television commercial series, produced by Will Vinton Productions for the Raisin Growers Association, was a spoof on rhythm and blues groups of the 1960s and 1970s with their highly choreographed stage acts. Marvin Gaye’s hit song, “Heard it Through the Grapevine,” was the theme song for the campaign.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Sketches
- Date made
- 1986 - 1991
- user
- California Raisins Advisory Board
- maker
- Will Vinton Productions
- place made
- United States: Oregon, Portland
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- graphite (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 28 cm x 21.5 cm; 11 1/32 in x 8 15/32 in
- overall: 35.5 cm x 43 cm; 13 31/32 in x 16 15/16 in
- ID Number
- 1991.3182.20
- catalog number
- 1991.3182.20
- nonaccession number
- 1991.3182
- Credit Line
- Will Vinton Productions
- subject
- Motion Pictures
- Animation
- Consumerism
- Food Culture
- Music
- Blacks
- African American
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- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Advertising
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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