Sunday, January 24, 2021

Toonfomercial: Don Quixote seeks gasoline? (1971)

 How's this for creative license?

Don Quixote, the Man of La Mancha, is now in the 20th century, searching for the best gasoline available in this 1971 Sunoco ad. 


Don & Sancho Panza either were in the public domain, given how many loose adaptations of the characters existed in the 60's & 70's, or the estate of the author reaped a huge bounty, larger than Quixote ever imagined.

6 comments:

Mike Doran said...

Miguel de Cervantes wrote the original Don Quixote stories between 1605 and 1615, long before the existence of copyright and trademark laws anywhere in the known world.
Meaning that the cartoon producers were off the financial hook.

***You WERE kidding, weren't you?***

hobbyfan said...

No, just curious. Thanks.

MichaelSar12 said...

Any idea who the voices are here? They sound familiar, but I can't pinpoint it...

hobbyfan said...

Neither can I.

MisterSig said...

I never knew there were adaptations of Don Quixote in the '60s and '70s. I only used to know two references: Don Coyote, which you brought up a while back, and in a part of "'Round My Family Tree" in The Tigger Movie where the lyrics "There were glorious phantamagorious Tiggers" are sung.

hobbyfan said...

They did one for the Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo (1964), and a Quixote type appeared on the live-action Ark II in 1976. The Ark II episode is also here on this blog.