{"id":665,"date":"2006-12-21T09:21:24","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=665"},"modified":"2006-12-21T09:24:30","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:24:30","slug":"blast-from-the-past-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2006\/12\/21\/blast-from-the-past-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the past"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone old enough to remember that commercial for flavored Tootsie Rolls<\/a> that featured claymation characters riding a rainbow? Well, my dad created that ad when he worked in Evanston. Here’s a shot from the set:<\/p>\n

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\"Tootsie\"<\/a><\/div>\n

Date on the picture looks like ’72. I think my dad must have some old Super 8 or 16mm footage of this spot sitting around somewhere. I’d love to get it transferred to digital and uploaded to YouTube or someplace. It was a really fun commercial to watch, and it represents a cool period in animation when there was a lot of work being done in clay (anyone recall Gumby<\/a>?). We always had a Gumby sitting around the house somewhere (dammit<\/a>).<\/p>\n

My dad’s one of those people who can pick up a chunk of clay, a pencil, a piece of wood, or pretty much any other material and create something compelling out of it. I wish I’d gotten more of that from him, for Ava’s sake, if nothing else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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