Various animators and studios worked on the Hamm's Beer Bear at one time or another, including Michael Lah, Art Babbitt, and Hanna-Barbera. The bear mascot had a long run, though not continuous, from the 1950's thru at least the mid-80's.
Alexia Hamm was a high school pal here in San Francisco! + After the giant Hamm’s brewery on Bryant street unfortunately closed some punk rocker bands found their way inside, set up a squat and would rehearse and skateboard inside the giant beer vats. Sigh, the San Francisco of yesteryear.
Does anybody know who did the animation for these Hamms commercials? The Omnibust album came out in the late 50s. A somewhat different version of "The Late Show" (that's on that album) was released on a 45 (in two parts, on side 1 & 2) but didn't chart. The 45 likely preceded the completion of the album. Paul Frees did most of the voices on the 45 and the album, as he did on the "Spike Jones in Hi-fi (& Stereo) monster album released about the same time. All these albums are now on CD.
It varies depending on that specific commercial. This one definitely looks like the work of Swift-Chaplin, a collaboration between former Disney and Screen Gems animator Howard Swift, and Charles Chaplin. Yes, THAT Charles Chaplin. One of the many animators who works on these commercials is former MGM animator Mike Lah, and most of his commercials were made at Quartet Films, the same studio that brought you Tony the Tiger.
Today it would be inappropriate to at advertise a cartoon that associates itself with the use of alcohol and smoking fearing that it might enable kids to do it. Looked like pretty good beer too.
Great old commercials thanks for this video 📸😊
Even though I am as old as the commercial, I never have drank a Hamm's beer.
But I have ALWAYS enjoyed Spike Jones!
Various animators and studios worked on the Hamm's Beer Bear at one time or another, including Michael Lah, Art Babbitt, and Hanna-Barbera. The bear mascot had a long run, though not continuous, from the 1950's thru at least the mid-80's.
Alexia Hamm was a high school pal here in San Francisco!
+ After the giant Hamm’s brewery on Bryant street unfortunately closed some punk rocker bands found their way inside, set up a squat and would rehearse and skateboard inside the giant beer vats. Sigh, the San Francisco of yesteryear.
Reminds me of candy cigarettes. Get those kiddies on Hamm's Beer!
The best damn Brewed ❤ beer in America in the 1950s and 60s
Did ya all notice the use of a can opener. Most young people these days may never have seen one.
The time before, "Pop Tops"!!!! :)
I still use bottle openers.
Commonly known back then as a "church key"
Most people these days have never seen a pop top, or know what to do with the tab.
Kicked the anvil. Ow!
Hamm's is BACK!!!
Tom and Jerry should do a beer commercial.
Jones also did a take-off on these ads on his "OMNIBUST" LP around the same time. "From the Land of Dirty Wa-ter (Wa-ter!)..."
Does anybody know who did the animation for these Hamms commercials?
The Omnibust album came out in the late 50s. A somewhat different version of "The Late Show" (that's on that album) was released on a 45 (in two parts, on side 1 & 2) but didn't chart. The 45 likely preceded the completion of the album. Paul Frees did most of the voices on the 45 and the album, as he did on the "Spike Jones in Hi-fi (& Stereo) monster album released about the same time.
All these albums are now on CD.
It varies depending on that specific commercial. This one definitely looks like the work of Swift-Chaplin, a collaboration between former Disney and Screen Gems animator Howard Swift, and Charles Chaplin. Yes, THAT Charles Chaplin. One of the many animators who works on these commercials is former MGM animator Mike Lah, and most of his commercials were made at Quartet Films, the same studio that brought you Tony the Tiger.
Someone stuck a beers commercial on the end of that children's cartoon
that was mean with the anvil!
That was an a-hole bird!
I can identify...( :19)!!
Today it would be inappropriate to at advertise a cartoon that associates itself with the use of alcohol and smoking fearing that it might enable kids to do it. Looked like pretty good beer too.
+Jesse Lockhart It was a mediocre beer at best. But the commercials for it were great.
Actually I read about 2 recent blind taste tests for the best inexpensive beer in America - Hamm's won both.
Hamms was decent beer, at least until the 1975 brewery strike, and the company was sold to Pabst.
It was sold to Olympia before Pabst in the '80s.
Spike Jones wasn’t alive in 1961
I thought he died in 64?
Doge Records Nevermind I was thinking of the other Spike Jonze.
@@dogerecords5312 -- He died in 1965, about the same time as Nat King Cole. Both died of lung cancer, although Jones was a decade older.
@@biggkoz There IS no other Spike Jones!
Kinduva dumb commercial that doesn't make me want beer.