What a strange and wonderful television commercial! Ray Bradbury predicts travel via pneumatic tubes by the year 2001 - and becomes an unwitting prune spokesperson to boot. [YouTube]
That commercial was done by Stan Freberg who also narrated it. He was responsible for some the greatest commercials from that era as well as being a wonderful humorist.
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Stan Freberg and Ray Bradbury - two of my favorite creative people - together. Who knew?
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If you read Stan's autobiography ("It Only Hurts When I Laugh") he tells how he convinced Bradbury, who refused all commercial endorsements, to make this commercial.
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ray bradbury is awesome... i just wish he was right about those tubes...
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I can't wait for my pneumatic tube to arrive!
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I keep missing my chance to meet him. Ray Bradbury was the first science fiction author I read, and he has made me a loyal fan to the genre. Very funny commercial!
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that was funny :D he was (sadly) wrong about the tubes though
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But he was right about the wall-to-wall televisions...
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Little did they know then that in 2000 the California Prune Board would spend $10 million to market prunes as "dried plums".
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