Marjut Rimminen

Commercials

Marianne

1978 · Commercial · 35mm · 30 seconds

Chymos (now owned by Fazer) / Ruutukuva

Live action shot on 35mm film, treated with back-projected animation on a rostrum camera. The red and white stripes of the Marianne sweet wrapper were the inspiration for showing how much people enjoy these sweets. They were the most popular sweets in Finland, and the Finnish Parliament House shows how popular.

Marianne still, a woman with long dark hair holds a pair of large round white-rimmed sunglasses up to her face and both lenses are filled with red and white candy stripes, her eyes looking out above the frames, blurred greenery behind
A woman in a red coat unwraps a sweet by the water, large round sunglasses on. Her sunglass lenses have turned into red and white candy stripes as she speaks. A figure made out of red and white stripes, with handwritten script beside it. A moustached man in a bowler hat and grey suit holds a bag of sweets on some steps. The columns of a long public building read as red and white candy stripes. Three sweet bags, Mikko, Marianne and Marimint, laid out under the CHYMOS name.

Heard in the film: “Piparmintun ja suklaan makua. Chymoksen Marianne on maan pidetyin karamelli. Mariannen maun takana on koko kansa. Ja kivan makuisia ovat myös Mikko ja Marimintti.” In English: “Mmm, peppermint and chocolate. Chymos Marianne is the best-loved sweet in the land. The whole nation is behind Marianne. And Mikko and Marimint taste good too.”

Credits

Direction
Lemmikki Nenonen
Animation
Marjut Rimminen

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