I wasn't really thinking of maiking a video but that's a good
idea too. I was just going to find a way to put the commercials up on
the web in avi or quick time format. A video is a good idea though.
Rootes gears churning now...
Rich
> ----------
> From: CHUCK NICODEMUS[SMTP:SEALMSTR@ICCOM.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 1997 8:44 AM
> To: Richard Atherton (Entex)
> Cc: 'alpines@autox.team.net'; 'tigers@autox.team.net'
> Subject: Re: Canadian Rootes TV Commercial
>
> Richard Atherton (Entex) wrote:
> >
> > I was watching CBUT TV out of Vancouver B.C. and they were
> > running a segment about cars, so I was interested in what they were
> > talking about. It was about some place in Vancouver that rents
> Exotic
> > cars. They had Viper, Farrari's, Porche's, Cobra replica's.
> Durring
> > the segment, they showed some TV commercials about these cars, and
> > talsked about the love some people have for the automobile, and they
> > showed some old ads from the fifties and sixties. One ad that
> cought my
> > eye was one for the Hillman Minx, Product of Rootes. It showed a
> nice
> > looking convertible, and the voice over said "Hillman, the Surprise
> of
> > the Sixties". At this point I had an idea.
> > If there are other TV ads out there, archived at some TV
> > station, these Must be preserved by our group(s). I'm sure that
> there
> > is someone out there who has a video capture board in their PC, who
> > could capture ALL of the ads that we could find, and put them in a
> AVI
> > or quick Time format and then they could be posted on the web.
> Wouldn't
> > this be cool? There's probably even a national television archive
> > somewhere that we could find.
> >
> > I'll check with my local TV stations to see if they have
> > anything like this, or where they could be found. Can someone up in
> > Vancouver B.C. check with CBUT. I don't know if this was a national
> > Canadian segment (CBC) or local, but CBUT aired it just a couple of
> days
> > ago. It was about a place in Vancouver.
> >
> > Rich
> Rich , I think you are going bonkers??? or just a relapse. This sounds
> like a heck of a project , but if you can put it to gether i am sure
> i'll probable sucker in for a video,, good luck,
> chuck ~(8=; series ll
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