[Spridgets] Read intro before watching: Amazing commercial

Hank Beck tnhotairpilot at comcast.net
Fri Dec 14 18:01:35 MST 2007


> > Subject: Read intro before watching: Amazing commercial
> >
> >  This is really cool, make sure you read the text below prior to > opening
> >
> > READ FIRST
> >
> >
> >>
> >> This is just way TOO cool a video.  You have to see it to believe it
> >> (but be sure to first read the text intro below).
> >>
> >> If you thought that the people who set up a room full of 
> dominoes to >> have
> >> them knocked over later was amazing, you haven't seen anything yet..
> >>
> >> There are no computer graphics or digital tricks in these images.
> >> Everything that you see happened in real time exactly as you see it..
> >>
> >> The recording required 606 takes and in the first 605 takes 
> there >> always
> >> was something, usually of minor importance, that didn't work.  It was
> >> necessary for the recording team to install the set-up time 
> after >> time and
> >> it took several weeks working day and night to achieve this effect.
> >>
> >> The recording cost 6 million dollars and it took 3 months to finish,
> >> including the engineering design of the sequence.
> >>
> >> The duration of the video is only 2 minutes, but every time that >> Honda
> >> shows the commercial on British television, they make enough money to
> >> support any of us for the rest of our lives.  However, this >> 
> commercial has
> >> turned out to be the most displayed in the history of the Internet.
> >>
> >> Honda execs think that it will pay for itself simply because of 
> the >> free
> >> showings (Honda is not paying one cent for you to see it)
> >>
> >> When Honda senior execs viewed it, they immediately approved 
> it >> without
> >> hesitation-including costs.
> >>
> >> There are only six Honda Accords built by hand in the whole 
> world, >> and to
> >> the horror of Honda engineers, the recording team disassembled 
> two >> of them
> >> for the recording.
> >>
> >> Everything you see in the sequence (besides the walls, floor, ramp >> and
> >> untouched Honda Accord) is part of those two automobiles.  The 
> voice >> is
> >> that of Garrison Keiller. The commercial was so well received by >> Honda
> >> execs when they saw it, that their first comment was how amazing the
> >> computer graphics were.  They almost fell out of their chairs 
> when >> told
> >> that the recording was real without any graphics manipulation.
> >>
> >> By the way, about the wind shield wipers in the new Honda 
> Accords, >> they
> >> are sensitive to water and designed to start working as soon as 
> they >> get
> >> wet.
> >>
>http:\\www.mywebpages.comcast.net/tnhotairpilot/AllPhysics.wmv


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