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World's Costliest Ad... after 606 takes

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And you thought those people that set up a room full of dominos to knock over were amazing... believe it or not, just unbelievable!! When the ad was pitched to senior executives, they signed off on it immediately without any hesitation - including the costs. There are six, and only six, hand-made Honda Accords in the world. To the horror of Honda engineers, the filmmakers disassembled two of them to make this film. There are no computer graphics or digital tricks in the film. Everything you see really happened in real time, exactly as you see it. The film took 606 takes. On the first 605 takes, something, usually very minor, didn't work. They would then have to set the whole thing up again. The crew spent weeks shooting night and day. By the time it was over, they were ready to change professions. The film cost six million dollars and took three months to complete including full engineering of the sequence. In addition, it is two minutes long so every time Honda airs the film on British television, they're shelling out enough dough to keep any one of us in clover for a lifetime. However, it is fast becoming the most downloaded advertisement in Internet history. Honda executives figure the ad will soon pay for itself simply in "free viewings" (Honda isn't paying a dime to have you watch this commercial!). Everything you see in the film (aside from the walls, floor, ramp and complete Honda Accord) is parts from those two cars. The voice-over is Garrison Keillor. When the ad was shown to Honda executives, they liked it and commented on how amazing computer graphics have gotten. They fell off their chairs when they found out it was for real... oh no J. And how about those funky windshield wipers...?? On the new Accords, the windshield wipers have water sensors and are designed to start doing their thing automatically... as soon as they become wet. It looks a bit weird in the commercial. At cost of $6.2 million for 90-sec commercial, this is world's costliest ad and hands down winner in the world of ads.

Channel: Autos & Vehicles
Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm
Author: yogeshsarkar

Length: 02:00
Rating: 4.83
Views: 96184

Tags: accord  Ad  ads  car  commercial  Costliest  honda  World's  

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DarshanIyengar (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Bingo!!
tractorhero (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Ive watched one of these that went on for ten miuites
54spiritedwill54 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
great
744268 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
there are weights inside the wheels. i remember making some large tin cans roll uphill for a school project on chain reactions like this one
maicull (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
*cough*fake!*cough*
counterstrikefreak15 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
very creative ad and is nice.
sh0tt (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
the wheels have weights inside them so that when they start to roll, the weights pull them uphill. they arent defying gravity. this commercial is real
nomiee99 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
fake
jerin123456 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
there is nothing impossible by man, if we think it is possible
classisc75 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
nice animation, but the wheels can't gain speed up hill.


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