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Title card.

Status: Found

Engagement found: 06 Jan 2021

Found by: Will C Wilson

How The Grinch Stole Christmas is a 1966 goggle box special directed by Chuck Jones based on the book on the same name. While the residuum of the special can be hands found, promotions from the sponsor were cut from subsequent airings.

Promotion in Question [edit | edit source]

During the production, Chuck was finding an advertizing agency to back the film. Most backed down, but Chuck found an "unlikely source," the Foundation of Commercial Banks, which is ironic since the message is Christmas doesn't come up from a shop, and fifty-fifty Chuck thought information technology was ironic, and in his own words:

"You got to be kidding! The bankers bought a story in which the Grinch says Maybe Christmas doesn't come from a store??!!, Well, bless those bankers hearts. And I didn't fifty-fifty often collateral."

Due to this, the promotional commercials were lost for almost 55 years.[ane] [two]

Backwash [edit | edit source]

Due to the success, the bankers were impressed. Dr. Seuss even had an interview for TV Guide by Chuck's childhood friend and hereafter married woman, Marian.[iii]

On January 6th, 2021 YouTuber "Will C Wilson" uploaded the sponsor tags from the special'south original 1966 airing onto his account.

Gallery [edit | edit source]

Images [edit | edit source]

  • An image from the original print.

  • An advertisement for the special's premier from the December 18th, 1966 edition of The Mail-Crescent.

  • The only known advertisement from the company that mentions them sponsoring the special, featured in the November 1967 effect of LIFE Mag.

Videos [edit | edit source]

The opening title score with the sponsor plug music intact (0:04-0:09).

The closing score with the sponsor plug music intact (ane:52-two:33).

The sponsor tags from the special's original airing.

External Links [edit | edit source]

  • Internet Annal upload of the sponsor plugins.

References [edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Chuck Reducks: Drawing from the Fun Side of Life (1996) pg. 276 Retrieved 26 Sep '20
  2. ↑ Life (24 Nov 1967) pg. 100 Retrieved 27 Sep '20
  3. ↑ Chuck Reducks: Cartoon from the Fun Side of Life (1996) pg. 281-283 Retrieved 26 Sep '20