A retro-futuristic Ray Bradbury helps sell prunes


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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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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