Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 20923 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
CLOCK-WISE (OR, A GOOD START FOR THE DAY) | 1949 | 1949-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 35mm Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 2 mins 17 secs Credits: Organisations: Production: Geoffrey & Mina Johnson Studios Sponsor: Andrew Liver Salts F.D. Stewart Ltd. Genre: Animation Subject: Family Life |
Summary Comic Technicolor cartoon animation advertising Andrews Liver Salts produced by Geoffrey & Mina Johnson Studios and created for Scott and Turner of Newcastle upon Tyne. |
Description
Comic Technicolor cartoon animation advertising Andrews Liver Salts produced by Geoffrey & Mina Johnson Studios and created for Scott and Turner of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Credits & Title:
F.D. Stewart Ltd present
Clock-Wise, or A Good Start for the Day
Produced by Geoffrey & Mina Johnson Studios
Colour by Technicolor
A boy stays up late to do his homework in a very messy bedroom, stacks of books all scattered around, ink bottle knocked over on the table. He yawns tiredly and...
Comic Technicolor cartoon animation advertising Andrews Liver Salts produced by Geoffrey & Mina Johnson Studios and created for Scott and Turner of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Credits & Title:
F.D. Stewart Ltd present
Clock-Wise, or A Good Start for the Day
Produced by Geoffrey & Mina Johnson Studios
Colour by Technicolor
A boy stays up late to do his homework in a very messy bedroom, stacks of books all scattered around, ink bottle knocked over on the table. He yawns tiredly and heads off to get undressed. It is past 10 o’clock at night. He climbs into bed in his red pyjamas and turns off the light.
Next morning, the clock yawns itself awake and sounds it’s alarm at seven. On being awoken, the boy reaches out and thumps the clock to carry on snoozing. The bruised clock angrily rings again but backs away fearfully when the boy’s arm reaches over from the bed. As the boy still slumbers in bed, the alarm clock prods him awake with a finger. The boy wearily gets up and rubs his eyes, heading off to the bathroom. The alarm clock ponders, has an idea and writes something on a sheet of paper.
The boy splashes water over himself but still looks half asleep. He plunges his head into the sink full of water. It doesn’t work. His portly father, scantily clad in a towel, is trying to get into the bathroom. The boy drags himself out with not a glance at the angry father. Back in the bedroom, he sees the alarm clock’s note and heads back to the bathroom to collect something, passing his father after his wash. Heading back to the bedroom, followed by his father, he downs a glass of sparkling Andrews Liver Salts. Much to his father’s surprise, the boy springs into action, speeding into his clothes and tidying his bedroom. He smugly hands the father a glass of Andrews. The father angrily snatches it, drinks it down, smiles, and appears fully dressed for work. They both race off. The boy waves back to the alarm clock.
Close-up of the alarm clock’s note, which reads: ‘”Excuse me! Inner Cleanliness comes first! (Sgd.) A Clock. P.S. Take Andrews Liver Salt for Inner Cleanliness!’ A tin of ‘Effervescent Andrews Liver Salt laxative’ sits on the bedside table. The weary alarm clock pours himself a glass of Andrews, immediately perks up, points to eight o’ clock and winks.
Context
A wake up call in cartoon colour
Start the day the Andrews way with a strikingly crisp cartoon advertising a Toon tonic in Technicolor.
A bold splash of Technicolor and a dose of salts to ward off the teenager in you. This slick cartoon pitch for the famous brand of Andrews Liver Salts, produced by the Bristol-based animation studio of Geoffrey & Mina Johnson after the war, appeals to the kids with bright pizzazz, bold contours and generational humour.
This re-discovered 35mm nitrate...
A wake up call in cartoon colour
Start the day the Andrews way with a strikingly crisp cartoon advertising a Toon tonic in Technicolor. A bold splash of Technicolor and a dose of salts to ward off the teenager in you. This slick cartoon pitch for the famous brand of Andrews Liver Salts, produced by the Bristol-based animation studio of Geoffrey & Mina Johnson after the war, appeals to the kids with bright pizzazz, bold contours and generational humour. This re-discovered 35mm nitrate print was returned to Tyneside from a cinema in Malaya, still under British colonial rule at the time. It is the earliest known foray into cinema advertising for the Newcastle-based Scott and Turner, who first registered their product in 1909, naming it after a local church in Newgate Street. Along with print campaigns and the Merry Andrews promotional card game, manufacturers Scott and Turner sponsored radio shows and moved into screen advertising in the late 1940s on into the boom-time 50s to capitalise on their worldwide market. |