MY FAVORITE is the California raisin growers’ commercial with the animated raisin figures singing “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.” When I hear the commercial while I am away from the TV, I run to ...

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EVERY TIME a California Raisin blinks an eye, there’s a human being with a hunk of clay and a dental tool — or maybe the top of a pen — to make him move. At least a dozen times in one second of a ...

The California Raisins started in 1986 as a claymation advertisement campaign from the California Raisin Advisory Board. The idea for the first commercial came from one of the writers saying that they ...

In the early `70s, Will Vinton was a student of architecture and film at the University of California in Berkeley. Intrigued by the clay-sculpted designs of Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi, and no ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – You may have heard through the grapevine that the ’80s featured a musical group that took the nation by storm in the name of promoting California Raisins, but you may not ...