The Big Delivery Wagon (1951)

★★★★ · Jerry Fairbanks Productions. · tribtower · 2013-05-05

Jerry Fairbanks greatest hit was his early TV animated show CRUSADER RABBIT a daily 5 minute mostly tongue in cheek kiddie serial. Besides the title character there was sidekick RAGGS TIGER. The voice actress Lucille Bliss spoke for the rabbit and Vern Loudon gabbled for Raggs. Bliss and Loudon were associated with TV station KRON-TV San Francisco. I believe the cartoon premiered in about 1951 so it's contemporary with this film for Heinz. Rabbit ran nightly on KRON and resembles the later Rocky & Bullwinkle.

★★★ · Tantalizing, teasing, ultimately frustrating · compoundeye · 2011-05-27

Don't get me wrong, I like this fillum a lot BUT for Heinz to spend so much time telling you how boxes get from A to B and only having split second shots of tomato handling conveyors and ketchup production lines is a HUGE missed opportunity in my book... IF the journey starts at the field as Heinz clearly believe it does then why not follow a tomato from the field on it's CONTINUED JOURNEY, along the overhead basket conveyor, into the factory, through allsorts of processes and packaging machines, into a box, and THEN out into a truck to be delivered via any one of their multitudinous Art Deco…

★★★ · See why Americans Are the Best Fed On Earth! · Spuzz · 2003-01-19

In this delirious short, all 57 varieties, it seems, of Heinz is saluted. From the ruby red bottles still familiar to us today of Heinz Ketchup, to vinegar, to it's ugly puke green soup cans, the manufacture and delivery of all kinds of product is shown. Although the film somewhat skimps on EXACTLY what is involved in making, let's say ketchup, everything else is trumped up to ridiculous new heights.