Dancing Cossacks advertisement
A scene from the advertisement featuring dancing Cossacks | |
| Agency | Colenso |
|---|---|
| Client | New Zealand National Party |
| Running time | 2 minutes, 48 seconds |
| Release date(s) | 1975 |
| Starring | |
| Country | New Zealand |
The "Dancing Cossacks" was a 1975 electoral television advertisement for the New Zealand National Party, produced by advertising agency Colenso. The first half of the advertisement was animated by Hanna-Barbera, with the second half featuring National Party leader Robert Muldoon. The advert was produced to be highly critical of the governing New Zealand Labour Party's recently introduced compulsory superannuation scheme, implying the scheme would eventually turn New Zealand into a Soviet-style communist state, and urged people to vote for National in the upcoming general election.