I suspect you’re not keeping up with comments on posts from a year and a half ago, but let me share a recent one that was interesting: responding to my rundown of commercial break #4 in the MTV 1988 countdown, “CheezNapkin” informs us that the great animated spot featuring a scientist getting the MTV logo carved into his red hair was directed by none other than Henry Selick! A little sleuthing reveals that this is indeed true; it was called “Haircut M” and it won a Clio Award. (Selick, of course, went on to direct The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, and Coraline.) I don’t know for sure, but I’m guessing that the Marie Antoinette bumper in the same commercial break was also by Selick. Thanks, “CheezNapkin”!

posted 27 October 2009 in 1988 and tagged Henry Selick, MTV. 1 comment