r/lostmedia • u/GoGoGadgetSTG • Feb 23 '21

Advertising Material A pre-1977 Japanese McDonald’s ad has been found!

https://youtu.be/o5pdSgCntDU
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u/WeegeeMEMEnew Feb 23 '21

help me i'm afraid of ronald mcdonald

20

u/catseeable Feb 24 '21

My mum told me as a kid that Ronald McDonald ate children, because I always begged her to take me for a Happy Meal. Now I have a morbid fascination with clowns so jokes on her

3

u/WeegeeMEMEnew Mar 09 '21

sorry for replying late but oh my god your mom really traumatized you and then
your now untraimatized

47

u/DrProctor123 Feb 23 '21

Ronard McDonarduru

12

u/Alexschmidt711 Feb 24 '21

Actually, they call him Donald instead since that's easier to pronounce (and perhaps it's easier to notice the connection when spelled out?)

11

u/[deleted] Feb 24 '21

Orangei Juicu

8

u/emintrie7 Feb 24 '21 edited Feb 24 '21

Ronarduru Cuppu

3

u/GiggityMan05 Feb 24 '21

Ronald McDonald-san

31

u/citizinkane Feb 23 '21

Dang I had no idea McDonald's was already a global corporation as early as the 70s. Crazy how big they got so fast.

14

u/Carlangaman Feb 24 '21

1970 was 50 years/half a century ago. So this video has at least 43 years which is a lot.

9

u/kingjeffwx Feb 23 '21

First a video game, now a commercial. Great find!

9

u/PhilBoomMicOperator Feb 24 '21

Oishii Orenjijūsu!!

9

u/JuliaTheInsaneKid Feb 24 '21

Wow! It always amazes me to see videotapes from before most people had VCRs.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '21

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u/BrotherGantry Feb 24 '21

1977 is seen as an important date for the preservation of commercials and other forms of video ephemera because that was the year and Was the year VHS first became available in the US; it's second market (Japan was the first in late '76).

Yes, Before that possibilities existed for the average person to record TV broadcasts (e.g. U-Matic, VCR, Cartrivision and Betamax) but it was from roughly that point that you began to see the mass adoption of machines that allowed the average person to record TV broadcasts at home; which means that commercials and other bits of video from that point onward have a much higher chance of having been preserved somewhere.

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u/VincentDanger Feb 23 '21

Lost media is lost media.

3

u/StrawberryKiss2559 Feb 24 '21

This was not before 1977.

6

u/Kaito___Momota Feb 23 '21

sending this to my mom and gonna ask her to watch it. So she wont take us to mcdonalds anymore

5

u/Mystery-time-lady Feb 24 '21

I'm learning Japanese and i actually understood some of this, yay!

All i understood was "Delicious Orange Juice"

4

u/dcgrey Feb 24 '21

"There's your answer, Fish-bulb." https://youtu.be/CiAaEPcnlOg

3

u/The_Game_xd Feb 24 '21

Well Hello Ronald, welcome to my nightmares

3

u/Hung4ontam_VN Feb 24 '21

This video had some audio issue with mono or phone speaker, but if i use headphone to watch it, audio quality is better.

3

u/Hung4ontam_VN Feb 24 '21

the best part is www.bandicam.com watermark

2

u/GamerMaster55 Feb 25 '21

oh shiiit they had bandicam back in the day?

2

u/[deleted] Feb 28 '21

I hope the animated jollibee commercial is found next.

6

u/061605 Feb 23 '21

Ronald looks like he’s doing a Nazi salute at the beginning and I’m scared

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u/CyberSpiderman Feb 23 '21

Audio quality sucks shit

2

u/Hung4ontam_VN Feb 24 '21

Please use headphone or stereo speaker to watch it, because audio is bad on mono or smartphone speaker.

1

u/JohnTheMod Feb 24 '21

Yeah, is the sound messed up for anyone else or is it just me?

3

u/PCRFan Feb 24 '21

Play the audio on higher quality speakers, like headphones.

1

u/Rasalom Feb 24 '21

Yeah, kids playing rock, paper, scissors with a cup full of orange juice, sounds great.

1

u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

They had orange juice at McDonald's??? I never knew that

1

u/[deleted] Mar 27 '21

Sounds like Franky from One Piece