Muratti was a German brand of cigarettes. Fischinger transforms bunches of standing cigarettes into things that resemble human beings.

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If you have three minutes to spare today, you should watch this. Stop-motion geeks will love it, but if you need an actual plot, you will probably hate this 1934 German cigarette ad. Yes, you read that right. Muratti greift ein is a movie theater commercial for cigarettes, made by Oskar Fischinger, who was a stop-moti...

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Oskar Fischinger

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"If you have three minutes to spare today, you should watch this. Stop-motion geeks will love it, but if you need an actual plot, you will probably hate this 1934 German cigarette ad. Yes, you read that right. Muratti greift ein is a movie theater commercial for cigarettes, made by Oskar Fischinger, who was a stop-motion wizard. The whole thing is just rows of cigarettes marching out of their boxes. They don't have legs, so they just waddle and slide on their flat bottoms. It is oddly cute, wh..."

