Post Grape-Nuts Flakes - 1950's UPA

Shotlist & Visual Analysis

The still features a simplistic, stylized design typical of UPA's animation style from the 1950s. It likely showcases characters related to a Post Grape-Nuts Flakes commercial, focusing on playful animation and catchy visuals to promote the product. The soft color palette and minimalist backgrounds reflect the era’s artistic trends, emphasizing clarity and charm over realism.

00:00:00.000 — The still features a simplistic, stylized design typical of UPA's animation style from the 1950s. It likely showcases characters related to a Post Grape-Nuts Flakes commercial, focusing on playful animation and catchy visuals to promote the product. The soft color palette and minimalist backgrounds reflect the era’s artistic trends, emphasizing clarity and charm over realism.

The still features the logo for Post, designed in a stylized, script font on a black oval background. The overall aesthetic reflects the vintage animation style of the 1950s, with a simple and clean presentation, typical of UPA's animation work during that era. The logo is likely used as a branding element in a commercial promoting Grape-Nuts Flakes.

00:00:35.702 — The still features the logo for Post, designed in a stylized, script font on a black oval background. The overall aesthetic reflects the vintage animation style of the 1950s, with a simple and clean presentation, typical of UPA's animation work during that era. The logo is likely used as a branding element in a commercial promoting Grape-Nuts Flakes.

The 16mm still from the 1950s UPA commercial for Post Grape-Nuts Flakes features a simple, stylized graphic design. An oval black shape contains four elongated, white forms resembling abstract representations of cereal pieces. The minimalist aesthetic reflects the era's emphasis on clean lines and vibrant simplicity in animation, characteristic of UPA's distinctive style.

00:00:41.375 — The 16mm still from the 1950s UPA commercial for Post Grape-Nuts Flakes features a simple, stylized graphic design. An oval black shape contains four elongated, white forms resembling abstract representations of cereal pieces. The minimalist aesthetic reflects the era's emphasis on clean lines and vibrant simplicity in animation, characteristic of UPA's distinctive style.

The still features the logo for Post, designed with a retro style typical of the 1950s. The logo is enclosed in an oval shape, with a distinctive handwritten font. The background is a simple, soft color, emphasizing the logo itself. This image reflects the vintage aesthetic of UPA animation, characteristic of that era's advertising visuals.

00:00:54.922 — The still features the logo for Post, designed with a retro style typical of the 1950s. The logo is enclosed in an oval shape, with a distinctive handwritten font. The background is a simple, soft color, emphasizing the logo itself. This image reflects the vintage aesthetic of UPA animation, characteristic of that era's advertising visuals.

The still from the 1950s UPA Post Grape-Nuts Flakes commercial features a simple, stylized animation aesthetic typical of the era. It showcases a minimalist background with a box or outline, likely representing the product packaging or a visual element related to the commercial’s theme. The overall color palette and design reflect the vintage animation style prominent in UPA's works.

00:00:56.290 — The still from the 1950s UPA Post Grape-Nuts Flakes commercial features a simple, stylized animation aesthetic typical of the era. It showcases a minimalist background with a box or outline, likely representing the product packaging or a visual element related to the commercial’s theme. The overall color palette and design reflect the vintage animation style prominent in UPA's works.

Film Transcript / Subtitles

Two good friends, Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Green. Both work hard and enjoy life. Now all morning, Mrs. Brown feels wonderful. But poor Mrs. Green gets that mid-morning letdown. You see, Mrs. Brown knows she needs a good breakfast. So she eats post-grape nuts flakes to give her a whole morning's worth of energy. And she loves their exclusive grape nuts flavor. So nut-like and delicious. When Mrs. Brown told Mrs. Green about grape nuts flakes, she started having them, and now she never gets mid-morning letdown. That's why grape nuts flakes are just a little bit better. Most any cereal is fine with me As long as you spell it P-O-S-T Cause all post-cereals happen to be Just a little better A little bit better A little bit better Than any other cereal happens to be No mid-morning letdown when you eat grape nuts flakes Yeah, please A little bit better Bunched