Gulf No-Nox Gasoline - 1968 Stop Motion Animation Clio Award Winner
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2021
- Gulf Oil was a major global oil company from 1901 until March 15, 1985.[3] The eighth-largest American manufacturing company in 1941 and the ninth-largest in 1979, Gulf Oil was one of the so-called Seven Sisters oil companies. Prior to its merger with Standard Oil of California, Gulf was one of the chief instruments of the Mellon family fortune; both Gulf and Mellon Financial had their headquarters in Pittsburgh.
Gulf Oil was the primary sponsor for NBC News special events coverage in the 1960s, notably for coverage of the U.S. space program. The company used the connection to its advantage by offering giveaway or promotional items at its stations, including sticker sheets of space mission logos, a paper punch-out lunar module model kit, and a book titled "We Came in Peace," containing pictures of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Gulf was also a major sponsor of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, which also aired on NBC. Disney magazines and activity books were often given away with a gas fill-up. Gulf was also noted for its "Tourgide" road maps.
This copy was made during the analog era. But I have many of these spots being restored to 2K HD imagery, so its going to make these creative spot a lot more exciting.
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I copied this commercial in 1974 in Junior High school in a film studies class. My crew met on Saturdays and filmed six boys racing on the 440 track like this. We had a blow out, a tow truck guy, a banana peel crash and a bubble gum wad sling shot one guy back and forth. We earned Superior in the California Young Film Makers competition.
We did it without stop motion. A Malibu, a rope, and a kid we didn't really like.
@@MilwaukeeF40CI believe it! 😊
would love to see that, any video available?
I did an 8mm film study at college.., a very early spring canoe float, focusing on environmental issues. It was a beautiful late winter day and the colors, and first melt was with much activity, including a co-operative water snake and some waterfowl. One resident was dumping his Houshold sewage in the National scenic river. For myself, it led to a lifetime of Geology, environment, conservation, and Dinosaur fossils galore.
@@rodneycaupp5962 Hmm. 8 mm. For the students of today they would say to you.......8 mm? What's that? 😁
I remember this commercial. Thought it was hilarious, I was 15. The years go by people.
I wish close captioning for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure could be sponsored on Toonami by Gulf Nonox.
Tom: Brought to you by Gulf Nonox. A car that knocks, needs Gulf Nonox.
Samspade man that hits hard.
Where does time go?
Be weird if they didn't
I was 12 years old. What good memories. And, yes, the years do go by.
If commercials were more like this today I wouldn't hate them like I do.
No-Nox Gasoline. All the added Tetra-ethyl Lead you could ever want.
Yeah, that killed me. Seems like the kind of twist punchline that SNL would intentionally come up with
Extra irresponsible so it needed an extra catchy advertisement!
But yet, people thenwere so much smarter than people now.
‘Smart’ phones do more neural damage.
Do you know what the lead in gasoline was added for my guess is no
Lead was added mostly for the octane boost, but it also lubricated valve seats.
This commercial deserves high marks for originality.
It got them.
Didn't Harold Lloyd, or some other silent film star, do this first?
*Skid Marks
@@spikespa5208: Yep. Harold Lloyd did this type of stop motion animation.
Giving my age away here, but I remember this commercial from my younger days.
97
I was 10 and loved this ad. It inspired attempts at stop-action with my best friend and my dad's home movie camera for the Girl Scout photography badge. My mom passed last month at 97. It's 0 to 97 in 10 seconds, kids.
I was 15, with a learners permit in my wallet.
The burned-rubber marks were a nice touch.
Now "skid marks" are something you don't want on your clothing😁
@@PlasmaCoolantLeak But holes are "Fashionable".
Thats because he just got back from Taco Bell!
Excellent to see this again after 50 some years. 1968 was the height of muscle cars with high compression that needed tetra-ethyl lead. So instead of 29 cent regular gas, I needed to get the 34 cent premium for my GTO. When gas jumped to 49 cents during the oil crisis I needed to get a Datsun.
Hope you kept the GTO on the side of the house for cheaper gas prices by the 80's.
I would say we're currently at a different height for muscle cars. There are +20 different car models right now with +650 WHP available new with full warranties at a local dealership. All of them are equipped with A/C full infotainment cameras and safety gear galore while getting better gas mileage than the muscle cars of old. Not to mention they ride/turn a whole lot better.
HAving said that I have a soft spot for some of the vintage muscle looks. I miss my ugly 72 nova :(
GTO is a bloody classic :P
The GOAT!
@@ToolofSociety Yea and they all look the same and have no class at all.
My grandma said GTO stood for "Gas, tires and oil." She was a hoot.
One of the best TV commercials ever!! I remember as a young kid watching it the first time on TV during the Wonderful World of Disney
Yeah, pretty sure that’s where I saw it too. Thought it was the coolest thing. Was 12 or 13 at the time, and don’t remember seeing since back then. Still funny and was ingenious for the time. I know I was asking my dad how they did it, especially the black burn out marks.
Was that before or after Mutual of Oklahoma's Wild Kingdom?
Pretty sure Wild Kingdom was before
Saw it watching the same show. I was 8 and thought the commercial was hilarious.
Yes! Same here! I was 7 years old, and remember this commercial vividly. I have been hoping to see this again sometime, and 56 years later here it is. Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom was on before Disney.
Perhaps one of the best human stop-motion commercials ever, if you can categorize it that way.
In the past the term "Pixilation" was used to describe this approach of using people in stop-motion animation.
Check out the movie "Blaze Glory!"
@@ChristopherSobieniak WRONG!!! I did stop action filming in Jr High in the 1970s. The word Pixel was coined based on the dots on the screen when capturing an image from a broadcast. The first OFFICIAL use of the word was in 1969, with belief that it was coined as early as 1965, but it has always been dealing with the fact that a broadcast IMAGE is made up of a bunch of tiny PICture ELements laid out in a GRID (Pix El or pixel). Prior to that, it was simply film emulsion, tiny points on film that react to light because of the silver oxide emulsion that was on the paper. Emulsion referred to the tiny particles of silver that would be layered all over the surface of the film so that it would react to light. The emulsion though consisted of tiny particles that ranged in size and were laid down randomly, and therefore overlapping, to ultimately produce an image. No GRID, therefore no Picture Element.
My friends and I tried to recreate the commercial with this kid Billy, but we didn't know what stop motion was. Poor Billy's ass.
@@tiredofliars Actually, Christopher Sobieniak was correct: The term was coined later, credited to Grant Munro or Norman McLaren, according to Wikipedia, but the technique, i.e., stop motion using real people, animals and objects, goes back to the earliest days of cinema.
I know it is time lapse,/stop/start photography but I cannot get it out of my head that they wore thier bums out. Its looked painlfull. Love the man with the pipe.
That man with the pipe was the typical Jaguar driver of the day. Jags were that kind of cad's car that you'd lay rubber with. If it was an American muscle car, his fashion would be very different.
I miss the 60s. Cars back then had such incredible legroom. 😅
I miss both the 60s and 70s glenmoss02 Such memorable times
@@robertmoir5695 Compared to today's societal mess, yes, me too. Such simpler, happier times.
Unfortunately, they also squashed like a soda can during collisions.
And trunks that could hold multiple bodies!
“You didn’t need much of that big car anyway”
I always enjoyed these commercials as a kid, but I also wondered where the guy stuck the gas nozzle when he stopped at the pump.
The makers of this commercial wisely decided not to address this question.
I know
That commercial was frequently on Disney's Wonderful World of Color back in 1968 when Gulf was a sponsor of it. The sponsor tagline was Gulf- the travel agency with pumps.
That year, they also offered the "Walt Disney's Merriest Songs" LP as a premium through Gulf dealers- a dollar and a fill-up got you the album!
Yep, that’s where I remember seeing it at age 11.
Gulf's memorable slogans:
"At the sign of the orange disc".
"Gulf. The travel agency with pumps"
"Gulf goes a little bit further".
"Drive with experience."
@@armorybrunotjr.3204 "Where your driving takes a turn for the best"
"Gulf's got it all"
@@gregsells8549 A big remembered Gulf slogan when this commercial came out…”There’s a lot more to Gulf’s ‘Extra Kick’ than horseshoes!”
First time I saw this commercial as a kid, I busted a gut laughing out loud! Brilliant.
I remembered this commercial os a kid and thought it was cool by Gulf. It's still Cool.
My favorite commercial. I miss these good ones.
Some friends and I did an homage to this ad, only standing up. We would shoot 2 Super 8 frames, then jump ahead, shoot 2 more, and so forth. Great fun, wish I still had that reel.
I was in college and worked at a gas station. This brings back so many memories. Nice to see something GOOD on UA-cam for a change. . . .
Thank you for posting this!
I hadn't seen it since I was 5 or 6. The version I remembered has the gas station attendant cleaning the customer's glasses with windshield cleaner and checking the oil under the man's toupee. 😂
Wasn't there another Gulf ad like this? I seen to recall the guy getting "checked under the hood" (the attendant lifts the driver's toupée), and gets a fill-up (they stick the nozzle down the back of the driver's jacket and the driver giggles like he's being tickled).
I remember that one, too and I think there was a stop-and-go student driver,too. And who could forget the Alka-seltzer "Spicy Meatball"? Good times, no doubt!
@@deedeskin2439 plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is.
@@deedeskin2439 Mamma mia!!!
I am old enough to remember when TV commercials were fun to watch in my old hometown of NYC during the Mad Men era of the 1960s. 😊
Me too.
@@coleparker Welcome to Memory Lane fellow Baby Boomer!
The guy with the pipe kills me! 🤣
A 1960s Michael Caine look-a-like.
Why? What did you do to him? Can't you discuss the matter rationally and peacefully?
The Pipe Guy was the classic Jaguar driver of the day. If he was driving an American muscle car, he would look very different.
@@BlackPill-pu4vi That's a big engine and a big reach for the shifter. I take it more to be a Duesenberg SJ
@@Spurdospaerde692 did I miss something
Saw this when I was a kid. Still is absolutely brilliant!!! I hope whoever came up with this concept was promoted and well compensated for. Pure genius!!!!!!
When you realize it was all about putting extra lead into your tank it's just a little gitchy to pat him on the back. Yet he came through for his corporation--so, Yay!
I was 17 when this commercial was shown. I remember it! Back in the days of leaded gasoline.
Nine years old at the time, Loved this commercial!!!
I saw this in 68 and this commercial gave me the video bug. I got an 8mm video camera in 69 (9 yrs old) and made many stop motion videos like this with friends.
Also, with my sister using GI Joes and her Barbie Dolls. I'm still making animations for fun in the facebook Photoshop Requests Group.
Thanks for posting!
I miss 8mm. It's what we grew up with, and I prefer it over today's audio/video cameras.
I was 14 then and I certainly remember this commercial. But there were several different ones.
There was a Gulf station on the corner near my house. After Gulf it stood, selling different brands of gasoline but looking just like it did for over half a century, right in that same spot until 2022. Then under yet another new owner, it was remodeled, with the service bay converted into square footage for junk food sales on the inside, and the white shiny exterior replaced by what looks like cinder blocks painted dark gray. I used to gas up there almost every week. I hardly go there anymore. What a lost vibe.
Sounds like the old Farm Stores drive through dairy. Looked like overhanging wings. Concrete. Some still survive.
I was 8 when this came out but somehow I remember it. Always like the Gulf gas sign.
Very cool TV ad. And the no knock additive was good old fashioned lead.
Odd Fact: Both "Gulf" and "Sunoco" were founded in Pittsburgh, PA. Although Western Pennsylvania is not known for oil, the first modern oil well WAS sank at Titusville, PA.
Pennzoil - 100% Pure Pennsylvania Crude
Man do I remember these commercials.
I am pretty sure the bus driver was Al Molinaro. Murry the cop on The Odd Couple and Al the cook in Happy Days.
Looks a lot like him. His IMDb bio says he did 100 commercials so it’s a high probability it’s him.
Yep, I'm pretty sure that was Al. Good observation. 👍
Also, anyone notice pre-famous Danny DeVito as the guy on the phone with his secretary in the back seat coming out of the Beverly Hillbillies Gate? It's right before the main character stops for them and the Jaguar guy screeches up.
You nailed that one, that is definitely Al.
@@xpose5309 That is not DeVito.
I remember them too. I was old enough that I was driving and buying gasoline in 1968 and you bet, this commercial influenced me - that and the Gulf station was right up the street.
I too remember this one. I was 7 years old and I still think it’s the best commercial ever.
My dad was 8 and he remembers it too! 😂 how fun!
This commercial inspired me to make stop motion animations with the help of my friend and his Super 8 movie camera. Fortunately when we did our version of the Gulf commercial we filmed it on the backyard lawn (much easier on ones pants). Wish we still had those old Super 8mm films we made, they might be worth a chuckle to show on UA-cam.
I remember and loved this commercial. Later in life I discovered periods of abstinence resulted in dreams of flight. I had many dreams of being on the road or just above it without an automobile. I woke greatly rested and gleeful. I am glad Gulf no-nox commercial put that in my brain. Yes, the years!
I remember, as a kid, I thought this commercial was really funny.
I did stop motion on my dad’s Kodak 8mm (no sound) camera that actually had a single frame setting. It was called The Blanket Blob where my grandmothers blanket crawls out of the closet and eats all my friends. God bless the patience of the people in this commercial because that $hit takes a long time to do. I converted all those movies about 12 years ago and added music and subtitles. It was a good time in life, soooooooooo important. 🙏
Would you consider posting it? I always wanted to do animation and now (after retirement) I'm finally doing some. Not with Super8, of course, but I have a lot of respect for the people who did animation (and sound) before digital technology made everything so much easier.
I so remember this commercial!
Holy cow I remember this commercial! I was 8 years old
One if the greatest commercials of all time.
No it isn't.
The IIIINVISIBLE BOATMOBIIILE!!
I remember this ad. I was a little kid. It's still pretty cool.
There was a Big Chuck & Lil' John skit that used this same idea. It was called "The Chase."
Cleveland staple.
@@jlc55army Yup, just like "The Certain Ethnic" guy.
The Chuck Wagon Dog food commercial?
We had the best commercials and music back in the day and the commercials were as aggravating then as now but at least we could tell what they were advertising 😝😎🇱🇷🇱🇷
I was 9 so of course I remember it,how cool to see it again after 60 years!
I have been trying to find this for years! But I remember a similar stop motion, which was shown on channel 13, a PBS station in NYC. I was about 10 when I saw it sometime in the 1960's. It was very similar to this TV commercial ial. Thanks for uplaoding.
Back in 1968 that was a high-tech commercial and I still remember it
I was 11 when i first seen this commercial, i loved it then and still do at 67.
I would love to see a making of from this. It would look hilarious with all of them scooting up just a little bit and then scooting up a little more, etc, etc.
In 1983 one of our friends at college made a film like this where he was moving across the campus in this same fashion. In the film he was visiting his girlfriend, and the song "Sexual Healing" was playing in the background. I loved these old ads and remember them.
No-nox was lead which affected an entire generation cognitive development... thank you so much....
That's true... and sad.
@@scillyautomatic brain cells are overrated
So its was the lead that makes people think men can be women.
Snarky modern people judging history by today's standards and knowledge. I wish I would live long enough to see what YOUR grandchildren will judge you for😉
@@timtherrien7843 lead was a known poison in the 50's and 60's and its effect on the body was well documented. There will always be idiots that will accept dangerous deeds done in the past as fate.
I was barely in first grade, when this ran. They really knew how to pull out all the stops for ads, back in the day. LOL
No they didn't.
i remember that commercial...
OH MY GOSH! I was 3 years old, still remember this commercial. Did it run slightly past 1968 I wonder?!
I remember this one or maybe a similar one, and I wasn't born until more than a decade later, so it must have aired again or a similar one did.
I remember this commercial. I'd completely forgotten about it, but not the "no-nox" gas. A good advertisement will stick with you for a long time. This ad did its job. Pretty much every time I go to gas pump, I still think of no-nox gas.
Loved this as a kid, and even now. Especially when the sports car guy shows up. Really clever.
Oh, what memories! One of our family's favorites! We used to run to the living room when one of us yelled "it's the Gulf Commercial" in order to see the guy in the "Sports Car" leave what my brother called "Cheek Streaks"!! We died laughing! Yes, that's definitely Al Molinaro driving the bus! Great stuff!
A blast from the past! I remember when this was fresh. It was tremendously popular - everyone was talking about it.
O man . That's a blast from the past
I remember seeing this as a 12-year-old, living in an L.A. suburb. I could recognize the areas they filmed in; thought that was normal.
I was ten years old when this commercial aired. I laughed and laughed. Great to see it again.
Some friends and I in high school circa 1973 did a stop action film not unlike this, but on a beach. It rakes a long time to film a short scene, but the laughter when we showed it to a class was worth it.
This was your grandparent's CGI.
Hey, wait a minute
CGI SUCKS....
@@johnathandavis3693ok cool
No, more like my (late) parents'. And since I came into being only roughly 4 years after this was created, it could have just as easily been my CGI equivalent, too.
Thanks so much for posting this… I remember this on TV when I was 7.. was also one of the first color commercials .. I’ve told friends about this for years, and until now haven’t seen it since 1968… thank you!
I made several short films like this in 8th and 9th grade. One was a fight between a loader and a dump truck. I learned to make them fluid and not jerky- looking with consistent movement
This is such a cool, clever ad. And that stop motion must have taken a lot of work.
OMG!! I remember this! That is crazy! Never thought about this commercial since then, but now it really does seem like yesterday. The thing that blows my mind is that I was 6 years old! Never realized how vividly a memory from that age could be. The thought of how that would hurt your butt sticks in my mind the most. Thank you for the memory! Awesome upload. . . . . Had to come back after reading the comments after I posted mine and add this - it is amazing how many people said the same thing!
This brings back memories of the Glen Cambell Show with his train robbery skits
I wasn't even driving yet and as a kid loved that ad.
I remember seeing this in Drivers' Ed class in 73. We drove Ford Galaxies, 351 V8, PS, PB, AC, and an AM radio tuned to rock and roll. Mushy brakes, no road feel in the steering.
Loved this commercial back in the day.
OMG I remember this commercial !!!!
One of the best….great times
Imagine how long it took them to produce this; taking a shot, moving everything up several inches and then taking another shot - over and over and over......
My question is: How many pairs of pants got worn out by sliding on the pavement?
😆😆😆🤪🤪 I am 64 years of age and have never seen this before - well, I am in the UK, so why should I have?! That is brilliant. I’m quite sure that took quite a lot of time to shoot. Great ad.
I remember too, but in the 70's. I was in my 10's to teens and thought they were great. This wad when watching commercials was just part of the show. "He likes it...hey Mikey!"
Yep I remember that add too….hilarious…🤣🤣.
My dad worked at a GULF Gas station for extra money. I remember having those Horseshoes. They were plastic and you could stick them to whatever you wanted. I wish I still had them.
The most original commercial of all time
My dad sent this to me, he remembers it from his younger days. I love it!!
's'truth, I'd not seen this since it was broadcast Stateside. Same creative team was nominated for an Academy Award for their short film "Stop, Look and Listen." (Same lead "driver" in that too.)
Man, I remember this commercial! Totally forgot about it. All you see now are commercials for medications ,lawyers, whiter teeth, and the like.
Crap.
Thanks for the blast-to-the-past 👍
0:37 The wild eyed guy with the pipe is hilarious.
I remember this one!
I remember this commercial. As we all do, I hated commercials, but found this one entertaining.
Since I was born in 1951 I likely saw this advertisement during my teenage years. This is a humorous commercial. Looking back on those times we know that the octane boosting additive in Gulf No-Nox gasoline was that toxic compound known as tetraethyl lead. Those were different times than today.
A true classic! I loved this commercial so much.
No you didn't.
I was 15 years old when this came out. I remember it well. Also Gulf Oil.
Gulf Pride was the eventual name for that. The gas with guts.
For years as a little kid I would dream-drive around town this way.
I remember this commercial. Blew me away. I wanted to do stop motion movies partially because of this commercial.
I've seen this animation in a McDonald's commercial back in the late '80s / early '90s where Ronald was animated like that.
We had a Gulf station until they went out of business when I had my first car in 1989. Even had a Gulf credit card. Didn’t have to pump my own gas until 1990. Haven’t had a car for 14 years but Gulf was the first gas station I went to.
I remember that commercial. I haven't even thought about for over 55 years!
I remember all of the oil company ads in my area from the era. Some of them were: Put a Tiger in your tank, Trust your car to the man who wears the star, Fina with Flash!, and so on.
I remember that ad. I was 7 yo. Some friends and I did a stop motion like that yrs ago when I was about 20 yo called The Great Race. It started at a car hop place (former A&W) then led to a 1/4 mile race on a country road. Lots of fun.
I remember it well! Thanks for bringing it back around!