Formia, Ksylitol

Name: Formia, Ksylitol
Director: Marjut Rimminen
Released: 1978
Duration: 30 s

1978 · Commercial · 30 seconds

Formia / Ruutukuva

The red, green and yellow stripes of the packaging were the inspiration for this spot. Xylitol is a Finnish invention, and the commercial celebrates it. Drawn animation on paper, coloured with Magic Markers.

Drawing for Formia Ksylitol: a small red train runs out of a spiral along a road striped orange, green and red, past telegraph poles. — Marjut's drawings for the film

Drawing for Formia Ksylitol: a girl with plaits, in a skirt striped orange, green and red, hugs a birch tree and waves a small Finnish flag against a pale blue sky. — Marjut's drawings for the film

Drawing for Formia Ksylitol: a huge open mouth with glossy red lips and two rows of white teeth around a black interior.

Timo Arnall as a small fair-haired child in a blue jumper, drawing at Marjut’s animation desk among her papers, a striped drawing in the foreground. — Timo at the animation desk

Timo likes to sit on my animation desk and draw with my Stabilo pens. He was very careful to put the top back on.
Marjut Rimminen

Credits

Direction: Lemmikki Nenonen
Animation: Marjut Rimminen

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