Monday, April 23, 2018

Saturday Morning's Forgotten Heroes: Twinkles (1960)

Twinkles the Elephant not only was General Mills' newest cereal mascot in 1960, but he also appeared in short back-up segments during King Leonardo & His Short Subjects. George S. Irving, later the narrator of Underdog and a razor blade salesman, narrated, and the shorts, such as the following one, played out as if he was reading from a book, since the characters' mouths don't move all that much.



There are also some commercials for the cereal, and we'll take a dive into that another time.

Rating: B.

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