Marjut Rimminen

Serto

around 1980 · Commercial · 20 seconds

Serto / Finnad

Cel animation in flat blues and reds, and the washing is the cast. Shirts, socks and a striped jersey fly across a drawn utility room and dive head first into the machine, with the rubbery stretch of a character rather than the drape of cloth. The best idea is the transition into the logotype: giant red letters slide in across the front of the machine, and the final o is drawn as a second porthole with washing tumbling inside it, identical to the real drum beside it, so the appliance and the brand name are briefly the same object. The rest is a line pegged out above the box and the blue bottle of rinse, and at the end the box grows a face out of its own graphics, two eyes and a wide open mouth sitting above the säästö cloud panel. A Farmos seal in a dashed outline box drops in beside the bottle reading "TUTKITTU LUOTETTAVA FARMOS TUOTE" [tested, reliable, a Farmos product], and the wash temperatures, 95 60 40 30, are printed along the pack and also appear as figures inside the drum.

Clothes fly through a drawn laundry room towards a washing machine with the Serto pack on top. Giant red Serto letters stand against the machine, its round door doubling as the letter o. Washing hangs on a line above the Serto box and the blue bottle of rinse. The full line of washing sways, pack and bottle small at the lower left. The Serto box and bottle stand centre frame beneath the pegged-out clothes. The box has grown a cartoon face, and a Farmos quality seal sits beside the bottle.

What is said: Serto tees ujauhe, serto huuhteluaine, kaikki mitä tarvitset. Sertolla peset kaikki vaatteet vaivata kukkaiksi. Tehdäänne sertolla huuhtelet ne ihanan pehteiksi. Sertolla.

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