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Dairylea Dunkers, the advert that Ray Harryhausen worked on???

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When I was a kid during the 1990s, a commercial was broadcast for DairyLea Dunkers, in which it portrays a young cave woman been chased by a caricature of a dinosaur, which catches her and dunks her into a pot of Dairylea Dunkers before being comically told by the narrator to remember to use the provided bread sticks inside the tub. I was immediately hooked and was always glued to the screen when ever I caught sight of it. The advert was officially called "Dinotime", which can be watched in full bellow. Little did I know that this was actually produced by Ray Harryhausen! In recent years I discovered that Merlin Crossingham was actually the animator on this project and Martin O'Neill was the puppet sculptor and armature fabricator. Bust of the Dinosaur puppet, used for extreme close ups left to right, Puppet on animation table with Rear projector, Camera rig set up, Ray Harryhausen and Merlin Crossingham. It was interesting to see that the productio