Cocoa Puffs 1974 TV Commercial ("Phone Booth")

Wow... hard to believe this was 35 years ago! I'm wondering if anyone remembers this one. I did the voice of the kid ("Who was it? Well, what did he say?") in what was called a "non-air test" when it was produced. You can imagine my thrill when I came home from school one day and saw the commercial airing during afternoon cartoons! This scratchy, old copy survived on an old Beta video tape long enough to get it digitized for posterity.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• cereal
• cartoon
• kids
• phone
• booth
• 1970s

[plateshutoverlock]

If you pause the vid at the right frame at 00:22, you can see the background (with the phone) completely covering the bird!

[AdamConlea]

Funny, I never noticed that! Now, I see it every time I watch it...

[cagstoon]

YOU DID THE VOICE?!

[AdamConlea]

Yes, the voice of the kid, lo, those many years ago. That's Chuck McCann as the voice of Sonny.

[kylekronez]

Its like he needs drugs lol

[NewWorldRob]

thanks never seen this one.

[Candies1999]

its a diffrent voice then now!

[mssimpleone1]

I remember that one! Wow. I was 11. Never did like that cereal, but it sure is fun to see that again!

[mollytherealdeal]

I didn't love the past, but I loved what I was when I was young. Thanks for the memories.

[FolsomAngel]

@bjggjb I think you got weird stuff on your brain to even think like that.

[thomasmoredamian]

Demented/

[bjggjb]

1974 sure was a different era... they actually showed an (adult-voiced) unstable male with no pants on hanging around two children. I wonder how many parents were appalled by this subtly pedophilic commercial (complete with a bondage reference when those kids chained Sonny into a telephone booth...)

[NiagaraFalls4424]

Cocoa Puffs and Trix were my favorites

[thefirefighter2011]

from early 1974