1977 Levi's jean commercial - A new harvest

[steveasat2]

This is what Tron looks like once you get out past the city limits. Folks out here were a little sorry to see MCP get kicked out. He was tough, yeah, but he kept us safe from hackers. Flynn's always been soft on foreign policy.

[rmbb10]

Kewl.

[buzzlewie]

"We put a little blue jean in everything we make."

[sketch2k]

@buzzlewie Sure you didn't mean blue gene ;)?

[myronfan]

My favorite jeans commercial was out around

l976 and it was "Live in Britannia" (not that crappy country version). I can hear it in my head as I write. Came out the same time as the "200 million people, no 2 are quite the same" commercial for Burger king.

[raposofan]

This kind of animation is called rotoscoping. The reason it looks so lifelike is because, well, it is: animators pencil and ink over live-action film of actual people. It's considered a time and money saver in the industry; so it wasn't as innovative or groundbreaking for Levi's perhaps as you think it is. Bakshi used it a lot in his version of LOTR to save money. Stylistically that later came back to haunt him.

[HCShannon]

@raposofan Also, Max Flescher did it a lot in the 1920s and 30s!

[trppey66]

Can someone help me? In the 70's, was there a Levi's commercial where some guy was dreaming about being in Levi's pants factory?  And when he woke up, his Levi's hanging by his bed told him to go back to sleep, because he was just dreaming?

[MishuTaste]

@trppey66 Is this the one? xxxwatch?v=CAxo1Nd5oW8xxx (Erase the "xxx")

[trppey66]

@MishuTaste Thanks for the mssg...I couldn't find that. Couldn't make that link work. Can you give me a description that I can type in? Thanks

[MishuTaste]

@MishuTaste The title of the video is: 1974 Levis Animated Color Jeans Commercial It's on this channel: rrunner81sg

Good luck.

[kixkix]

cool vid! can you send me a copy of this ad?

[YouDummy]

Ken Nordine, THE voice of the 70s.

[celestialnavigator]

love these old levi's ads. brings back memories of the coke "i wanna teach the world to sing" ads and the dog food chuck wagon ads as well.

[variousdinosaurs]

if i'm not mistaken.. that's Ken Nordine's voice.. =)

[drypondscout]

Farrrrrrrrrrrrrrr OUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTT

[byronsiren]

Is that Brian Dennehy's voice?

[paapira]

or bud spencer?

[Cyan2000]

oh man, anyone have the original levis comercial from 70/80s with the jeans as a big spaceship flying overhead? reallllly cool animation, would love to see it! :D

[nakamichiguy]

This is brilliant! I don't remember seeing this one back in the day. Who did Levi's advertising back then? Some talented people there.

[PooBuS]

Levi's commercials always had a style of their own.

[Hailey2006]

Have you seen the reel of Richard Williams ads?

[Hailey2006]

I love these old Levi's commericials they were awesome!

[Fulc]

Good stuff. It looks like this was rotoscoped.

[Dunes]

Pretty good classic. Hey,anyone out there got any classic Levi's commercials from the 80's out there?