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[Where Has All the Fun Gone]

Item number (ISN):

240569

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1970/1974 ?

Item number (ISN):

240569

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

SHUSTER, Frank

Accession:

1995-0218

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1970/1974 ?

Production credit:

producer/script, Donald Murphy; editing, Roger Harris

Cast credit:

Johnny Wayne, Frank Shuster

Description:

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Compilation of television commercials featuring Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster for Gulf gasoline, home heating and other products. The compilation is introduced by a set of hand-lettered panels, a set of chattering plastic teeth and the sound of laughter.~The commercials feature: Wayne and Shuster inspecting Gulf employees; Wayne and Shuster as gangsters; Wayne and Shuster and sports announcers; Wayne and Shuster watching workers jogging; the Hurry Hall of Fame (based on Gulf's slogan "We Hurry"); Wayne and Shuster with a megaphone; motor oil; Wayne and Shuster in a jeep, leading West Coast Gulf workers in training; Gulf research; a tire sale; the Gulf giveaway of Real Coins of the World; Wayne and Shuster as cave men, getting mineral samples as part of the Minerals of Canada giveaway; Amherst glassware; flatware; china; animation of a tortoise and a hare (with the voices of Wayne and Shuster ?); snow tires; Gulf gasolines suited to different seasons; Wayne and Shuster fencing; Money Game cards; water heater; a haunted house and Gulf's emergency service for fuel oil and furnace repair; self-serve gas stations; a winter tune-up; hillbillies getting a spring tune-up for their car; a take-off of the "only in Canada, pity" tea commercial; a court room; the vacation get-ready special; the Tireland amusement park; unleaded gas; two monks going to a self-serve gas station; a grandfather and child; and Wayne and Shuster getting their car pushed. <23mn 30s>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Production credits are for this compilation, not the commercials themselves.~2. Some video jitter.

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Vault ISN:

273956

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V2 9601-0009

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

23:30

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

848778

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

240569.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V2 9601-0009

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

848779

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

240569.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V2 9601-0009

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 28874

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictionsMost of this material is copyrighted to broadcasters (see responsibility field in item-level descriptions).Donor does not hold copyright.

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