I bought 3 large pages of original artwork,Conoco gas original hand drawn advertising,I don't think this was ever put on any ads,drawn by Clinton E Frank Inc,need help,anybody know about this company.I googled and found some information,but not much.I bought this about 25 or 30 years ago from an attic sale of a friend.She and her husband travel to may cities buying odd items.When her husband passed,she just sold everything.This is just one of 3 pages.
Here's the Wiki page for the guy who started the ad agency these drawings were done for. Clint Frank, football player and advertising executive. Says he started the self-named agency in 1954. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Frank
Would have been done in the creative department, drawn by an art director using copy from a copy writer. Account team would have pitched this and a couple other ad concepts. And, if not produced, most likely client preferred another option. I'd think interest from someone somewhere. Clinton E. Frank only existed between 1954 and 1976 so there's your window. (Of course, you can narrow it considerably by the car model and the word "Shazam" which was widely used in the 1960s after Jim Nabor's Gomer Pyle character.) Debora
I agree - storyboards for TV ad. That shape of screen went out with CRTs. If the 'shazam' was meant to be literal (and why not?), that might make the ad contemporary with the original Batman series - 1966-68. It might have been discarded as a TV spot for being too derivative.
Believe the 'Shazam', along with the attendant's uniform, is a reference to Captain Marvel... ~Cheryl
That logo was in use from 1930 to 70......& with the style of sedan used in the drawings....I'm putting it closer to 1970,,,
Ah, SOMEWHERE! (Still among the thousands that have not yet been scanned!) It was an AMAZING car, but the UGLIEST green color you can imagine - sort of a sick olive - with a black roof & black leather interior. I had it from 1972 until I got my first company car in 1979, at which point I gave it to my father-in-law... He kept it for several more years after that.
Definitely a similar color, but mine was a 2-door and had a black roof, different headlights & gas under the back plate - oh, and whitewalls, too!
LOL! I started in graphic design in the late 1970s, 20 years later I was working at an ad agency and we were still hand drawing story boards like this
