This is very cool!!!
my father in-law just sent it to me.

Read this email first, then click to see the video... Just Unbelievable! And you thought those people that set up roomfuls of dominos to knock over were amazing... 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's 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!). 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 handmade Honda Accords in the world. To the horror of Honda engineers, the filmmakers disassembled two of them to make the film. 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. and 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.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/honda.php


-rich

 

awesome commercial
Good Job Honda

 

please tell me you did not JUST see this commercial...

 

I have that video on my computer with a created date of Apr 4 2003

 

I don't watch to much TV. or spend all my time on the computer looking for honda related stuff. Most of my computer time is spent looking at "breast" related material.

-rich

 

lol hella old, crazy nonetheless

 

six million dollars!.. holy mom!

i always like those kind of sequences

 

great commercial...but old

 

nor should you spend your time posting WTLY materials.

 

dope commercial.

 

I remember that...



*goes hunting for the full res version

 

+1 i remember watching that commercial a long time ago .. pretty amazing . now if only subaru can make a better one that would be UBBER COOL!!!

 

cool commercial, but I’m not to big on the Accord wagon.

 

so where can i find the full rez file?

 

that accord wagon looks alright though