{"id":2778,"date":"2021-10-19T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2021-10-04T17:34:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T21:34:07","slug":"armour-hot-dog-commercial-an-homage-to-ingmar-bergmans-seventh-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2021\/10\/armour-hot-dog-commercial-an-homage-to-ingmar-bergmans-seventh-seal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold Up: Is that emblematic 1967 Armour hot dog commercial an homage to Ingmar Bergman’s classic film SEVENTH SEAL?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I mean, it\u2019s weird that no one talks about the obvious visual similarities between the beginning of hot dog ad (top image) and the final image from Bergman\u2019s Seventh Seal<\/em> (bottom image), right? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The opening frame of the classic ’67 “Armour Hotdogs” ad<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The final frame of Bergman’s Seventh Seal<\/em>, often referred to as the “Dance of Death” by scholars<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Are we to understand that the Armour hotdog ad takes placed in some purgatorial afterlife, where we are all condemned to revert to a childlike state of un-knowing and follow a sinister hot dog man, terrified and singing? ’cause that’s a dark, dark Easter Egg<\/a>, folks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the entire VINTAGE 1967 ARMOUR HOT DOGS COMMERCIAL – KIDS MARCHING & SINGING<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n