watch it: 1950s Cheerios and V8 commercial

Thu, Feb 11, 2010

Whoever uploaded this to YouTube says it’s 1940s, but it looks more 1950s to me:

Wow! Can I still get one of those rockets? It’s a toy and a game! It crashes imaginary astronauts into the moon! It’s totally cool!

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funWithHeadlines

Thu, Feb 11, 2010 9:48pm

1958, evidently:

http://adland.tv/commercials/cheerios-v8-moon-rocket-kit-1958-60-usa

And it sort of would have to be post-Sputnik to make any sense in American culture.

Kenny

Fri, Feb 12, 2010 7:00am

It can’t be 1958 I’m afraid Fun… The rocket at the beginning is a Redstone derived first stage booster for the Mercury program. The first launch (which failed) wasn’t until 21st November 1960. The earliest possible date that ad’ could have been made was after the 19th of December 1960, when the first successful launch occurred.