Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Tooniversary: Remember Corn Crackos? (1967)

 The year is 1967. Linus the Lionhearted had been bounced off the airwaves, but that didn't mean producer Ed Graham was done with Post Cereals. Not if you go by this next item.

Commentators on YouTube mistakenly assumed that Jay Ward, who had contracts with Quaker & General Mills, was also being asked to help promote Post's short-lived Corn Crackos. Its mascot, Cracko, might well be the British or Australian cousin to Linus' pal, Billie Boid, which gives me the thought that it was Graham and his studio, or at least some of the same animators, who worked for other studios concurrently, that dreamed this up:


If anyone can confirm the animators or voices, feel free to comment.


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