Animated Ads

An animated spaceman finds a Star Bar which gives him an energy boost.

An animated ‘mousewife’ finding a way to ease her washing day woes may not be very progressive, but it's delightfully sweet.

"Gee, old age!" Malicious Father Time doesn't stand a chance against a cartoon cupid armed with a big box of washing powder.

Say aloha to a Technicolor cinema ad for Horlicks from the master of the Puppetoon, George Pal

Bread today and jam tomorrow? Cheerful puppet cartoon with a catchy song sweetens the pill of post-war austerity.

Animated advert for the much loved strawberry ice lolly, with chocolate and sugar balls and a chocolate bar inside!

Barclays advise West African farmers where to keep their money via a catchy song and crisp modern cartoon design.

Don’t judge a book by its cover but do judge a political party by its garage in this Conservative cartoon from the height of the depression.

Anthropomorphic houses pop pills to defeat colds in this cartoon cinema commercial

Behold the future! Where meals are consumed in pill form, and hankies are washed on television

Deceptively simple early animated ad for Shell petrol

Puppet pirates pray on the sleeping Navy: the crew of HMS Hopeless pay the price of night starvation in this 1930s Horlicks ad.

If your afternoon tea sessions with the vicar's wife need enlivening, take the animated advice of this cultured cup and saucer.

Who knew so much was riding on a squirrel's breakfast?

15 seconds isn't long, you've got to say Crosse and you've got to say Blackwell, and you've got to say Branston Pickle!

Three children stamp the ice cream packs with a "2p off" stamp. Look out for the special packs!

Kodak pocket cameras provide the perfect substitute for a budding portrait artist in this early advert based on the drawings of Harold Bateman.

Charming fish paste cinema ad

After your strenuous workout at the tennis club, you need a Babycham

An ageing bobby learns about the Co-op divvy in this gorgeous puppet animation narrated by Stanley Holloway.

Washing day keeping you from a spin on your flying carpet? This quality cinema features a young apprentice genie learning a helpful solution.

What seems a charming stop-motion rhapsody for Bourn-vita chocolate reveals some unpleasant racial insensitivity.

A cartoon fantasy brings fabric patterns to life in a literal soap opera - yet even here the reality of Home Front life creeps in

An RAF squadron are alerted to an attack. Flying toucans raid the officers mess and fly off with glasses of Guinness.

Pun-filled cartoon cinema ad for radios

A conductor rearranges the members of a choir then momentarily stops to drink some Guinness before resuming his task.

A cartoon Caribbean mini-musical scripted by a Nobel Prize winner and accompanied by a Trinidadian guitar legend

A colourful cavalcade of cancer sticks, in this 1930s cinema ad

A fun selection of vintage animated adverts promoting some of Britain's leading bicycle brands.