Buy a Ford for Peanuts!

From Mark Evanier's blog comes a curiosity: An ad for the 1960 models of the Ford Fairlane and Ford Falcon, featuring early color animation of the Peanuts gang. This was a good five years before the first Peanuts special, and shows the characters drawn in their 1950's style, when Charlie Brown's round head was a lot more round and Snoopy actually looked like a dog. Interestingly, the animation big has almost nothing to do with the commercial -- it could be used to advertise almost any product.