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Forgotten Commercials: Lost In Time, Found Online

We rarely appreciate modern-day commercials when we see them on TV; a commercial's true cultural impact can only be measured when we rediscover it years later. The Internet is a time machine, and these dated treasures have the power to transport us to our younger days when TV was all we had.

Chiquita Banana - The Original Commercial view now
Julian Camilo Pozzi

Playwright / Video Producer: Julian Camilo Pozzi
Playwright/Video Producer, House of Broken Windows

Chiquita Banana - The Original Commercial

Animation (Cartoon / Traditional), Other Gems (Advertisements), Viral (Time Capsule)
[1:24, from YouTube]

This video shows the original 1940's Chiquita banana commercial made by Disney. Like most cartoons of the time, there is an equal amount of Freudian weirdness, cultural insensitivity and innocent sweetness. Please note the sexual-cannibalistic moment when the singing Latina banana interviews three different dorky male bananas about their state of ripeness and readiness for consumption and one peels himself and jumps into her salad...moments later a baby appears. Madmen at work! Si, si si!  

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