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What-ho-she-bumps

Puppet pirates pray on the sleeping Navy: the crew of HMS Hopeless pay the price of night starvation in this 1930s Horlicks ad.

Advert 1937 7 mins

Overview

Animator George Pal’s β€˜puppet pirates’ rule the waves and prey on a sleeping Navy. After a close shave the weary crew of HMS Hopeless transform themselves into the good ship HMS Hopeful as the virtues of Horlicks are explained. Our revitalised heroes pursue their attackers and β€˜night starvation’ – a condition invented by Horlicks - becomes a thing of the past.

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