Wanna really feel old? This Bangor vacation custom first debuted in 1990!
The Bangor Savings Bank “Christmas Kitten Commercial” is popping 43 this 12 months. The advert that includes two playful kittens is a reminiscence that everybody who grew up in Eastern Maine remembers fondly. The two kittens scurry below the Christmas tree, swat their paws at ornaments, tear open present wrapping paper, and lap up the milk they spilt, whereas the music you could not assist hum alongside to performs within the background.
The Christmas Kittens have aired each single 12 months it first aired manner again in 1980. Back in 2020, to mark the business’s fortieth anniversary, Bangor Savings Bank took a glance again with this superb video that takes a glance behind the scenes to see the way it was created, and the affect it has had over the years.
There are interviews with Phil Cormier, a TV business editor who labored on this advert, The Nite Show’s Danny Cashman, who parodied the business, reflections of Bangor Savings Bank workers, trivia together with the names of the kittens, who have been named Waylon and Willie, and enjoyable details from the shoot.
Did you recognize that it took 4 occasions as lengthy to movie the spot, as a result of the kittens, named Waylon and Willie, stored falling asleep, and that the legendary “meow” on the business’s finish didn’t come from a cat, however from a person who occurred to be within the studio when the advert was filmed?
The truth of the matter is that it simply would not be Christmas within the Bangor space with out remembering this iconic advert!
