Friday, September 16, 2011
Coke Card 229
Commissioned Artists
Throughout its history, The Coca-Cola Company has captured the spirit of the times through its advertising art. From its first promotional calendars produced in the 1890s, the Company linked itself to the popular designs and lifestyles of the era the art represents.
The Coca-Cola Company used the work of the top artists of the day, including the leading artists of America's Golden Age of Illustration. Their work for the Company
exemplifies the classic All-American image they helped create in the first half of the 20th Century. The famous illustrators produced paintings for The Coca-Cola Company from the turn of the century into the 1960s, when their art form was replaced by photography in the Company's advertising.
Much of the work of artists working on behalf of The Coca-Cola Company is beautifully displayed in a recent book, Coca-Cola Girls: An Advertising Art History by Chris H. Beyer (Collectors Press, Inc.). The richly illustrated history captures the Company's compelling use of "radiant, vivacious, and breezy" young women, always dressed in the latest fashions, in Coca-Cola® advertising since the late 1800s. The vast majority of the Company's advertising posters and calendars featured these beautiful women, who became synonymous with the most recognized trademark in the world.
In his book, the first art book The Coca-Cola Company has licensed for publication, Beyer writes,"one of the most consistent focuses of the Company's advertising has been its depictions of attractive young women who persuade their audience to enjoy a glass of 'Delicious' and 'Refreshing' Coca-Cola."
The earliest use of an artist's signature by The Coca-Cola Company was on the work of Hamilton King, a prominent artist at the turn of the century. King illustrated the beautiful "Coca-Cola girls" for calendars from 1910 to 1913. His work also appears on serving trays.
Over the next quarter century, the Company used a wide variety of illustrators, some of whom signed their works. But most did not. The anonymous craftsmen produced lavish illustrations with deep colors that graced calendars and other promotional pieces.
In the mid 1920s, The Coca-Cola Company began working with a young illustrator who would become synonymous with both Coca-Cola and Santa Claus. His name was Haddon H. Sundblom.
Coke Card 261
Coke in the Movies
From Star to Bit Player, Coca-Cola® Sparkles on Film
Want a Coke® at the movies? You can try the lobby -- or check out the screen.
Filmmakers around the world use Coca-Cola or our other products to help tell their stories, and they have for decades. Often it's a quick cameo appearance that lends casual authenticity. Sometimes Coca-Cola takes the spotlight. Here are some highlights of the "reel thing":
MARQUEE MOMENTS:
The Gods Must Be Crazy
This South African comedy takes a wry view of modern life circa 1980. A Coke bottle tossed from a plane lands in the remote village of peaceful Bushmen. Thought to be a divine gift, the bottle assumes growing importance in the tribe, which eventually leads to strife. When the wise tribal leader tries to return it to the gods, he meets the "civilized" world.
The film was a hit in Europe and Japan before winning U.S. audiences in 1984.
One, Two, Three
Set in 1961 as the Cold War heats up, this features a Coca-Cola bottler in West Berlin. Life turns upside down when the visiting daughter of a Coca-Cola executive meets and marries an East Berlin communist student.
The film was named one of the ten best releases of the year by The New York Times.
SUPPORTING ROLES:
On the Beach -- A submarine officer investigates strange Morse code signals. In a deserted restaurant, he finds a Coke bottle resting on the transmitter, entangled in the cord of a window shade. As the shade flaps, the bottle taps.
It's a Wonderful Life -- Young George Bailey works in a pharmacy with a Coca-Cola soda fountain. In fact, he's surrounded by Coke items, from stained glass lamp shades to a thermometer to a "Betty" tray.
Dr. Strangelove -- A Coke vending machine briefly takes center stage when the protagonist needs to make a phone call to the President. He instructs his sidekick to shoot the machine for its change-and the sidekick replies he will have to answer to The Coca-Cola Company.
The Paper -- Tabloid editor Henry Hackett consumes a lot of Coca-Cola as he works to get to the bottom of a big story. He and his co-workers share screen time with a Coke vending machine in the office.
Silent Movie -- When gangsters threaten, the protagonist has the perfect sidekick-a Coke machine that shoots exploding cans.
E.T. -- Explaining life on Earth to his alien friend, young Elliott shows E.T. a refrigerator with Coke.
THERE IT IS!
Look for glimpses of characters enjoying beverages from The Coca-Cola Company, along with scenes of Coke bottles, signs, machines and other icons in films including:
13 Going 30 (2004) (Diet Coke®, DASANI®)
21 Grams (2003) (Coca-Cola®, Diet Coke)
3,000 Miles to Graceland (2001) (Coca-Cola)
The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005) (Fanta®, Minute Maid®)
9 to 5 (1980) (Coca-Cola)
About a Boy (2002) (Coca-Cola)
About Last Night (1986) (Coca-Cola)
Across the Universe (2007) (Coca-Cola)
Alex & Emma (2003) (DASANI)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) (Coca-Cola)
All About the Benjamins (2002) (Coca-Cola)
All the King's Men (2006) (Coca-Cola)
Along Came Polly (2004) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
American Gangster (2007) (Coca-Cola)
American Gigolo (1980) (Coca-Cola)
American Splendor (2003) (Coca-Cola)
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) (Coca-Cola)
Analzye That (2002) (Coca-Cola, Sprite®)
...And Justice For All (1979) (Coca-Cola)
Antwone Fisher (2002) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Sprite)
Apt Pupil (1998) (Coca-Cola)
Aquamarine (2006) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Are We There Yet? (2005) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
The Astronaut Farmer (2007) (Coca-Cola)
At First Sight (1999) (Coca-Cola, POWERADE®)
The Aviator (2004) (Coca-Cola)
Babel (2006) (Coca-Cola, Sprite)
The Bad News Bears (2005) (Coca-Cola)
Bad Santa (2003) (Coca-Cola)
The Banger Sisters (2002) (Coca-Cola)
Beauty Shop (2005) (Coca-Cola)
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) (Coca-Cola)
Bedazzled (2000) (Coca-Cola, Minute Maid)
Behind Enemy Lines (2001) (Coca-Cola)
Best in Show (2000) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Minute Maid)
Bewitched (2005) (Diet Coke, Sprite Remix®)
Beyond Borders (2003) (Fanta)
The Big Bounce (2004) (Coca-Cola)
Big Fat Liar (2002) (Coca-Cola)
Big Momma's House 2 (2006)
Biker Boyz (2003) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Blood Work (2002) (Coca-Cola)
Bloodbrothers (1978) (Coca-Cola)
Bobby (2006) (Coca-Cola, Fresca®)
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004) (Coca-Cola)
Boiler Room (2000) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) (Diet Coke)
Borderline (1980) (Coca-Cola)
Bounce (2000) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) (DASANI)
Boys and Girls (2000) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
The Brave One (2007) (Coca-Cola, DASANI, Diet Coke, Sprite)
Breach (2007) (Diet Coke)
Bride and Prejudice (2005) (Coca-Cola)
Bridge to Terabithia (2007) (Minute Maid)
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Bring It On (2000) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, POWERADE, Surge™)
Bringing Out the Dead (1999) (Coca-Cola)
Bronco Billy (1980) (Coca-Cola)
The Brothers Rico (1957) (Coca-Cola)
Bruce Almighty (2003) (Coca-Cola)
The Bubble Boy (2001) (Coca-Cola)
A Bullet for Joey (1955) (Coca-Cola)
Bulletproof Monk (2003) (Coca-Cola)
Bustin' Loose (1981) (Coca-Cola)
Cactus Flower (1969) (Coca-Cola)
Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) (Coca-Cola)
Carbon Copy (1981) (Coca-Cola)
Carnal Knowledge (1971) (Coca-Cola)
Casino Royale (2006) (Coca-Cola)
Catch Me If You Can (2002) (Coca-Cola)
Catwoman (2004) (DASANI)
Cellular (2004) (Coca-Cola)
Chairman of the Board (1998) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, TaB®, Sprite)
The Champ (1979) (Coca-Cola)
A Change of Seasons (1980) (Coca-Cola)
Changing Lanes (2002) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Charlie's Angels (2000) (Coca-Cola)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) (Cool from Nestea®)
Christmas with the Kranks (2004) (Diet Coke)
Cinderella Man (2005) (Coca-Cola)
Clay Pigeons (1998) (Coca-Cola)
Clerks II (2006) (Diet Coke)
Click (2006) (Coca-Cola, DASANI)
The Coca-Cola Kid (1985) (Coca-Cola)
Cold Creek Manor (2003) (Coca-Cola, Minute Maid)
Collateral Damage (2002) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Minute Maid)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) (Coca-Cola)
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004) (Coca-Cola, Sprite)
Corvette Summer (1978) (Coca-Cola)
Cradle 2 the Grave (2003) (Coca-Cola)
Crash (2005) (Coca-Cola, Minute Maid)
Cruel Intentions (1999) (Diet Coke)
Daddy Day Care (2003) (Coca-Cola, DASANI)
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) (Coca-Cola)
Deep Blue Sea (1999) (Coca-Cola)
The Departed (2006) (Coca-Cola, Sprite)
Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) (Diet Coke)
Diner (1982) (Coca-Cola)
Dinner at Eight (1933) (Coca-Cola)
Disturbia (2007) (Coca-Cola)
Dr. T and the Women (2000) (Diet Coke)
Domestic Disturbance (2001) (Diet Coke)
The Door in the Floor (2004) (Coca-Cola)
Double Jeopardy (1999) (Diet Coke)
Down with Love (2003) (Coca-Cola)
Dreamcatcher (2003) (Coca-Cola)
Dreamer (1978) (Coca-Cola)
Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005) (Coca-Cola)
Dreamgirls (2006) (Coca-Cola)
The Driver (1978) (Coca-Cola)
Drowning Mona (2000) (Coca-Cola)
Drumline (2002) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Duets (2000) (Coca-Cola)
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) (Coca-Cola)
Eight Below (2006) (Fresca®)
Eight on the Lam (1967) (Coca-Cola)
Election (1999) (Coca-Cola)
Elf (2003) (Coca-Cola)
Employee of the Month (2006) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Epic Movie (2007) (Coca-Cola)
Erin Brockovich (2000) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Sprite)
Eurotrip (2004) (Coca-Cola)
Evan Almighty (2007) (Coca-Cola)
Failure to Launch (2006) (Coca-Cola, Sprite, POWERADE)
The Family Stone (2005) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Minute Maid)
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) (Coca-Cola)
The Fast and the Furious (2001) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Fat City (1972) (Coca-Cola)
Fever Pitch (2005) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Final Destination 2 (2003) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Final Destination 3 (2006) (Coca-Cola)
Finding Forrester (2000) (Coca-Cola)
Flaming Star (1960) (Coca-Cola)
Flawless (1999) (Diet Coke, Sprite)
Flicka (2006) (Coca-Cola)
Flightplan (2005) (Coca-Cola)
The Forgotten (2004) (Coca-Cola)
Four Brothers (2005) (Coca-Cola)
Freaky Friday (2003) (Sprite, POWERADE)
Freddy vs. Jason (2003) (Coca-Cola, Sprite)
Freedom Writers (2007) (Coca-Cola)
Frequency (2000) (Coca-Cola)
Friday After Next (2002) (Coca-Cola)
Friday Night Lights (2004) (Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta)
Funny Lady (1975) (Coca-Cola)
Galaxy Quest (1999) (Coca-Cola)
The Game Plan (2007) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, DASANI)
Garden State (2004) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
The Gene Krupa Story (1960) (Coca-Cola)
Georgia Rule (2007) (Coca-Cola, Sprite)
The Getaway (1972) (Coca-Cola)
Gloria (1999) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Ghost Rider (2007) (Coca-Cola)
Glory Road (2006) (Coca-Cola)
Goal! The Dream Begins (2006) (Coca-Cola)
Godsend (2004) (Diet Coke)
The Good Girl (2002) (Coca-Cola, Barq's®, Cherry Coke®)
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) (Coca-Cola)
A Good Year (2006) (Coca-Cola)
Gridiron Gang (2006) (Coca-Cola)
Guess Who (2005) (Coca-Cola)
Hairspray (2007) (Coca-Cola)
Hanging Up (2000) (Coca-Cola, Minute Maid)
Hardcore (1979) (Coca-Cola)
Here on Earth (2000) (Coca-Cola)
High Crimes (2002) (Diet Coke)
His Girl Friday (1940) (Coca-Cola)
Hitch (2005) (Coca-Cola)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) (Coca-Cola)
The Hoax (2007) (Coca-Cola, TaB)
Holes (2003) (Coca-Cola)
Hollow Man (2000) (Coca-Cola, Barq's®)
Hollywoodland (2006) (Coca-Cola)
How to Deal (2003) (Coca-Cola)
How to Eat Fried Worms (2006) (Coca-Cola, DASANI, Diet Coke, Minute Maid)
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) (Coca-Cola)
The Hunted (2003) (DASANI)
Hustle (1975) (Coca-Cola)
I Am Sam (2001) (Coca-Cola, TaB)
I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998) (Coca-Cola)
Ice Princess (2005) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
In the Land of Women (2007) (Coca-Cola)
In the Mix (2005) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Independence Day (1996) (Coca-Cola)
The Interpreter (2005) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Sprite, DASANI)
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) (Coca-Cola, DASANI)
Jarhead (2005) (Coca-Cola)
Jawbreaker (1999) (Coca-Cola)
Jersey Girl (2004) (Diet Coke)
John Q. (2002) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
John Tucker Must Die (2006) (Coca-Cola, DASANI, Diet Coke, Minute Maid)
Josie & the Pussycats (2001) (Coca-Cola)
Junior Bonner (1972) (Coca-Cola)
Just Friends (2005) (Coca-Cola, DASANI)
Just Like Heaven (2005) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Just Visiting (2001) (Coca-Cola, Minute Maid)
Keeping Up with the Steins (2006) (Coca-Cola)
King Kong (2005) (Coca-Cola)
The Kingdom (2007) (Coca-Cola)
Kings Go Forth (1958) (Coca-Cola)
Kinsey (2004) (Coca-Cola)
Knock Off (1998) (Coca-Cola)
Ladder 49 (2004) (Coca-Cola)
The Last American Hero (1973) (Coca-Cola)
Last Holiday (2006) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
The Last Kiss (2006) (Sprite)
The Last Mimzy (2007) (Coca-Cola, Sprite)
The Last Picture Show (1971) (Coca-Cola)
A League of Their Own (1992) (Coca-Cola)
Let's Do It Again (1975) (Coca-Cola)
Life as a House (2001) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Minute Maid)
Light It Up (1999) (Coca-Cola, Sprite)
Like Mike (2002) (Coca-Cola, Sprite)
The Limey (1999) (Coca-Cola, Sprite)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) (Coca-Cola, DASANI, Diet Sprite®, Sprite)
Little Nicky (2000) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Lonelyhearts (1958) (Coca-Cola)
The Longest Yard (2005) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
The Lost Man (1969) (Coca-Cola)
Madagascar (2005) (Coca-Cola)
Magnolia (1999) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Magnum Force (1973) (Coca-Cola)
Maid in Manhattan (2002) (Coca-Cola)
Make Haste to Live (1954) (Coca-Cola)
A Man Apart (2003) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Man of the House (2005) (Diet Coke, POWERADE, Fanta, Barq's, DASANI)
Man on Fire (2004) (Coca-Cola, Fanta)
The Matador (2005) (Coca-Cola)
Matchstick Men (2003) (Coca-Cola, DASANI)
The Matrix Revolutions (2003) (POWERADE)
Max Keeble's Big Move (2001) (Coca-Cola, Minute Maid)
Me, Myself and Irene (2000) (Coca-Cola)
Mean Girls (2004) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Sprite, DASANI)
Men of Honor (2000) (Coca-Cola)
The Merry Widow (1934) (Coca-Cola)
The Mexican (2001) (Coca-Cola, Sprite)
Michael Clayton (2007) (Coca-Cola)
The Mighty (1998) (Coca-Cola, Sprite)
A Mighty Heart (2007) (Coca-Cola)
A Mighty Wind (2003) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Million Dollar Baby (2004) (Coca-Cola)
Millions (2005) (Coca-Cola)
Miracle (2004) (Coca-Cola)
Mission: Impossible III (2006) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
The Mod Squad (1999) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Monster's Ball (2001) (Coca-Cola)
Munich (2005) (Coca-Cola)
Murderers' Row (1966) (Coca-Cola)
Music and Lyrics (2007) (Diet Coke, DASANI)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) (Coca-Cola)
My Dog Skip (2000) (Coca-Cola)
My Super-Ex Girlfriend (2006) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Myra Breckinridge (1970) (Coca-Cola)
Mystery, Alaska (1999) (Coca-Cola, POWERADE)
Mystic River (2003) (Coca-Cola, Sprite, DASANI)
National Security (2003) (Coca-Cola, Sprite, DASANI)
Never Been Kissed (1999) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Sprite)
Norbit (2007) (Coca-Cola)
The Notebook (2004) (Coca-Cola)
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, caffeine-free Diet Coke®)
Ocean's Twelve (2004) (Coca-Cola)
Once Is Not Enough (1975) (Coca-Cola)
The Other Sister (1999) (Coca-Cola)
Out of Time (2003) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, DASANI)
Outside Providence (1999) (Coca-Cola)
The Pacifier (2005) (Minute Maid)
Panic Room (2002) (Coca-Cola, Minute Maid)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) (Coca-Cola)
Primary Colors (1998) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) (Coca-Cola, Minute Maid)
Radio (2003) (Coca-Cola)
A Rage to Live (1965) (Coca-Cola)
Raising Helen (2004) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Minute Maid)
Random Hearts (1999) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Rat Race (2001) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Ray (2004) (Coca-Cola)
Ready to Rumble (2000) (Coca-Cola, Minute Maid)
Rebound (2005) (Coca-Cola)
Reign Over Me (2007) (Barq's, Coca-Cola)
Report to the Commissioner (1975) (Coca-Cola)
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) (Coca-Cola, TaB, Hi-C®)
The Ringer (2005) (Coca-Cola, DASANI, POWERADE)
Rocketman (1997) (Coca-Cola)
The Rookie (2002) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Minute Maid)
Runaway Jury (2003) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Running Scared (2006) (Coca-Cola)
Running With Scissors (2006) (TaB)
Rushmore (1998) (Coca-Cola)
Sahara (2005) (Coca-Cola, DASANI)
Save the Last Dance (2001) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Sprite)
Saved! (2004) (Diet Coke, Sprite)
Scooby-Doo (2002) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Scoop (2006) (Coca-Cola)
Secondhand Lions (2003) (Coca-Cola, Barq's)
Serendipity (2001) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
The Shaggy Dog (2006) (Diet Coke, Minute Maid)
Shallow Hal (2001) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Shark Tale (2004) (Coca-Cola)
Shattered Glass (2003) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
She's All That (1999) (Coca-Cola)
Shopgirl (2005) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, diet Barq's®)
Showtime (2002) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Silent Hill (2006) (Coca-Cola)
Simon Birch (1998) (Coca-Cola)
The Skeleton Key (2005) (Coca-Cola)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) (Coca-Cola)
Sky High (2005) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Minute Maid, DASANI)
Slackers (2002) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Fresca)
Sleepover (2004) (Coca-Cola)
Smoke Signals (1998) (Coca-Cola)
Snow Dogs (2002) (Coca-Cola, POWERADE)
Someone Like You (2001) (Coca-Cola)
Spartan (2004) (Coca-Cola, Sprite)
St. Ives (1976) (Coca-Cola)
Starsky & Hutch (2004) (Coca-Cola)
The Stepford Wives (2004) (Diet Coke)
Stick It (2006) (Coca-Cola, DASANI)
Stir of Echoes (1999) (Coca-Cola, Minute Maid, Cherry Coke)
Stomp the Yard (2007) (Coca-Cola, POWERADE)
Strictly Ballroom (1993) (Coca-Cola)
Sugar & Spice (2001) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Sprite)
Summer Catch (2001) (Coca-Cola)
Suspect Zero (2004) (Coca-Cola, DASANI)
Sweet Charity (1969) (Coca-Cola)
Sweet Home Alabama (2002) (Coca-Cola)
Sydney White (2007) (Coca-Cola)
Syriana (2005) (Coca-Cola)
Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) (Coca-Cola, POWERADE)
Taxi (2004) (Coca-Cola)
Team America: World Police (2004) (Coca-Cola)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) (Coca-Cola)
Thank You For Smoking (2006) (Coca-Cola)
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) (Coca-Cola)
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) (Coca-Cola)
Thirteen (2003) (Coca-Cola, DASANI)
Thumbsucker (2005) (Minute Maid)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) (Coca-Cola)
Trippin' (1999) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Two Can Play That Game (2001) (Coca-Cola)
Two Weeks Notice (2002) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls (2007) (DASANI)
The Ultimate Gift (2007) (caffeine free Coca-Cola®, Coca-Cola, Sprite)
The Upside of Anger (2005) (Coca-Cola)
Uptown Girls (2003) (Coca-Cola)
Uptown Saturday Night (1974) (Coca-Cola)
Urban Cowboy (1980) (Coca-Cola)
Used Cars (1980) (Coca-Cola)
Vanilla Sky (2001) (Coca-Cola)
Viva Knievel! (1977) (Coca-Cola)
A Walk on the Moon (1999) (Coca-Cola)
Walk the Line (2005) (Coca-Cola)
Walking Tall (2004) (Coca-Cola, Sprite)
War of the Worlds (2005) (Coca-Cola)
The Watcher (2000) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
The Waterboy (1998) (Coca-Cola)
The Way We Were (1973) (Coca-Cola)
The Wayward Bus (1957) (Coca-Cola)
We Own the Night (2007) (Coca-Cola)
Welcome to Mooseport (2004) (Coca-Cola)
Whatever It Takes (2000) (Coca-Cola, Sprite)
Where the Heart Is (2000) (Coca-Cola)
White Chicks (2004) (Coca-Cola, Sprite)
Wild Hogs (2007) (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke)
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004) (Coca-Cola, Sprite)
Winning (1969) (Coca-Cola)
Wonder Boys (2000) (Coca-Cola, Minute Maid)
You Can Count On Me (2000) (Coca-Cola, Sprite)
Zathura (2005) (Diet Coke)
Zodiac (2007) (Coca-Cola)
Zoolander (2001) (Diet Coke)
Jack Boxley
Copyright LEAF, Inc.
Jack's talents are obvious. He can soar to a height of 14 feet from his normal 2 foor height. He sometimes plays shortstop. On off days, Jack works in a toy store.
Looney Tunes Baseball Card Hold the Mustard
Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and was Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series. Since its first official release, 1930s Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the series has become a worldwide media franchise, spawning several television series, films, comics, music albums, video games and amusement park rides. The series features some of the most well-known and popular cartoon characters in history, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird and Porky Pig. Many of the characters have made cameo appearances in television shows, films and advertisements. The name Looney Tunes is a variation on Silly Symphonies, the name of Walt Disney's concurrent series of music-based cartoon shorts. From 1942 until 1969, Looney Tunes was the most popular short cartoon series in theaters, exceeding Disney and other popular competitors.
Originally produced by Harman-Ising Productions, Looney Tunes were produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1933 to 1944. Schlesinger sold his studio to Warner Bros. in 1944, and the newly renamed Warner Bros. Cartoons continued production until 1965. Looney Tunes were outsourced to DePatie-Freleng Enterprises from 1964 to 1967, and WB Cartoons re-assumed production for the series' final two years.
In the early 1950s, WB sold its black-and-white Looney Tunes (plus the first Merrie Melody, Lady, Play Your Mandolin!, and the black-and-white Merrie Melodies made after Harman and Ising left) into television syndication through their subsidiary Sunset Productions. In 1957, Associated Artists Productions (a.a.p.) acquired for television most of Warner Bros' pre-1950 library, including all Merrie Melodies (except for those sold to Sunset) and color Looney Tunes shorts that were released prior to August 1948. Unlike the sale to Sunset Productions, a.a.p. was allowed to keep the Warner titles intact and simply inserted an "Associated Artists Productions presents" title at the head of each reel (as a result, each Merrie Melodie cartoon had the song "Merrily We Roll Along" playing twice). a.a.p. was later sold to United Artists, who merged the company into its television division—United Artists Television. The cartoons were distributed by Guild Films until it went bankrupt and shut down in 1961.
WB then licensed the cartoons to United Artists. In 1981, UA was sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, and five years later, Ted Turner acquired the MGM library—which also included U.S. rights to the RKO Pictures library, in addition to its own pre-1986 material, the classic MGM library, and some of UA's own product. In 1996, Warner Bros bought Turner Enterprises, which owned the MGM's pre-1986 library and the Looney Tunes shorts, thus gaining syndication rights back. Turner's company, Turner Broadcasting System (whose Turner Entertainment division oversaw the film library), merged with Time Warner in 1996. Today, Warner Home Video holds the video rights to the entire Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies animated output by virtue of WB's ownership of Turner Entertainment—this is why their Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD box sets include cartoons from both the pre-8/48 Turner-owned and post-7/48 WB owned periods. As of 2006, all Warner Bros' animated output are under the same Time Warner umbrella of ownership.
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Yosemite Sam is an American animated cartoon character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. Animation. The name is somewhat alliterative and is inspired by Yosemite National Park. He is commonly depicted as an extremely grouchy gunslinging prospector or cowboy with a hair-trigger temper and an intense hatred of rabbits, particularly Bugs Bunny. Along with Elmer Fudd, he is the de facto archenemy of Bugs Bunny. In cartoons with non-Western themes, he uses various aliases, including "Chilkoot Sam" (named for the Chilkoot Trail; Sam pronounces it "Chilli-koot") in 14 Carrot Rabbit (although in the same cartoon, when he tries to gain Bugs Bunny's trust, he cleverly invents alias "Square-deal Sam"), "Riff Raff Sam" in Sahara Hare, "Sam Schulz" in Big House Bunny, "Seagoin' Sam" in Buccaneer Bunny, "Shanghai Sam" in Mutiny on the Bunny, and "Sam Von Schamm the Hessian" in Bunker Hill Bunny and many others. During the Golden Age of American animation, Yosemite Sam appeared in 33 shorts.
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Bugs Bunny is an American animated character created in 1938 at Leon Schlesinger Productions, later Warner Bros. Cartoons. Bugs is an anthropomorphic gray rabbit and is famous for his flippant, insouciant personality and his portrayal as a trickster. He has primarily appeared in animated cartoons, most notably the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of theatrical short films. His popularity there led to his becoming a corporate mascot of the Warner Bros. company. Bugs has appeared in more films than any other cartoon character and is the ninth most portrayed film personality in the world.
According to Bugs Bunny: 50 Years and Only One Grey Hare, Bugs was born on July 27, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York in a warren under Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. In reality, he was created by many animators and staff, including Tex Avery, who directed A Wild Hare, Bugs' debut role, and Robert McKimson, who created the definitive "Bugs Bunny" character design. According to Mel Blanc, the character's original voice actor, Bugs has a Flatbush accent. Bugs has had numerous catchphrases, the most prominent being a casual "Eh... What's up, doc?", usually said while chewing a carrot.
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