Pencil Sketches of the California Raisins
date: label: Date made
content: 1986 - 1991
name: label: user
content: California Raisins Advisory Board
label: maker
content: Will Vinton Productions
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Sixteen original pencil sketches used in the California Raisins advertising campaign, circa 1986 to 1991. Four drawings feature the California Raisins characters, eleven are the storyboard for “The Robot” television commercial, and one is a large sheet with multiple sketches of the California Raisins characters with corrections in red ink. The clay-animated California Raisin television commercial series, produced by Will Vinton Productions for the Raisin Growers Association, was a spoof on rhythm and blues groups of the 1960s and 1970s with their highly choreographed stage acts. Marvin Gaye’s hit song, “Heard it Through the Grapevine,” was the theme song for the campaign.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Oregon, Portland
topic: label: Subject
content: Motion Pictures
label: Subject
content: Animation
label: Subject
content: Consumerism
label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Music
label: Subject
content: Blacks
label: Subject
content: African American
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Advertising
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Will Vinton Productions
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.3182.20
label: catalog number
content: 1991.3182.20
label: nonaccession number
content: 1991.3182
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sketches
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: graphite (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 cm x 21.5 cm; 11 1/32 in x 8 15/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 35.5 cm x 43 cm; 13 31/32 in x 16 15/16 in