Kellogg, bran cereals
Kellogg Company / Taucher
A gaunt man lies awake in a painted bedroom, the patterned wallpaper, fringed lampshade and dotted eiderdown all airbrushed in warm ochres, while ranks of iced buns advance on him out of a dark red void. His worry then arrives as a thought cloud that fills the screen, and inside the soft painted cumulus sits a precise technical diagram, a cross-section of a wheat grain with four leader lines, so a schoolroom illustration and a dream occupy one frame. Morning is handled as pure graphics: cereal falls from the pack in a long ribbon of flakes and the word LESEMUROJA is already lettered into the bottom of the bowl as they land. The selling is done by a sung verse, a rhyme about modern food leaving the stomach nothing to do, with the refrain "Kuitua, kuitua mulla anna" [Give me fibre, give me fibre]. The pack only ever appears drawn, on the breakfast table beside the bowl, and the film ends on the red Kellogg's script over a rising sun as a pair of striped pyjama legs strides out of frame.
What is said: Nykyihmisen ruokani hienoa on, että vatsan työ on olematon. Makkarat, pullat, kaikki muu, vähän kuituisa vatsaan puristuu. Kuitua, kuitua mulla anna, en paino lastia kauan kanna. Kelloks uutta nyt sulle tarjoo, kai ruuan monen se jättää varjoon. Lesemuroja aamui syö, jopas alkavi vatsan työ. Lesemurrat uudet kellokin, aamupalaksi ota pikimmin.