Filmlets/Cartoons (Cinema)

Animated colour television commercial for Guinness Extra Stout. Opens with title card reading: "Guinness at the Albert Hall". Opens with shot of conductor and choir. Choir begins singing song in the style of Handel's 'Allelujah Chorus" using the words "Guinness gives you strength". The conductor, despite being extremely small, proceeds to lift and carry members of the choir much larger than him. After drinking a glass of Guinness, he proceeds to lift the entire choir at once. Concludes with view of conductor holding choir aloft in a pyramid shape. Won a diploma at the 1962 Venice Film Festival. Agency: SH Bensons Ltd. Production company: Richard Williams Animation Ltd. Director: Richard Williams, later an Oscar-winner for his work on 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?'.

Animated black and white television commercial for Guinness Extra Stout. Advert opens with title card reading: "The Pyramid - A Guinness Film". Opens with shot of pyramid in city park. A man presents his friend with a pyramid but he does not appreciate the gift. The man tells him that he carried it all the way from Egypt but his friend expresses disbelief. The man replies that he got his strength from drinking Guinness and that he carried the pyramid all the way from Egypt. His friend then tells him to drink another and to take it back which he duly does. Ends with voices singing the slogan: "Guinness, Guinness gives you strength". Won a diploma at the 1962 Venice Film Festival. Agency: SH Bensons Ltd. VO: Stanley Baxter and Peter Sellers.

Animated colour television commercial for Guinness Extra Stout. Opens with title card reading: "Guinness present - The Tourist". Advert opens with a British tourist entering a bar and ordering a Guinness. A large Mexican man next to him at the bar congratulates him on his choice and the tourist replies: "As we say, it's a drink and a half. The Mexican man and his associates misunderstand him and move to fight him, but another man enters and translates the real meaning to laughter all round. Another man looks at his watch and the Mexican group suddenly run out of the bar. The barman gets the tourist another drink revealing the Irish location by his accent in saying "Ah, these day-trippers. They're good for business but they lower the tone of the place you know." Concludes with caption: "Guinness - that's a drink and a half!". Agency: SH Bensons Ltd. VO artist: Peter Sellers.

Animated colour television commercial for Guinness Extra Stout. Advert opens with title card reading: "Guinness present 'Where's Nobby'". Three men [Harold, Sidney and Archibald] travel to pubs and bars in various locations searching for Nobby. Finally, they enter the Rocket Bar, where they drink a Guinness Slogan: `Guinness is Good for You'. Agency: SH Bensons Ltd.