Check this out.

[VaSteve]

The text came to me with the link, I can't verify the accuracy. I'm sorry but I don't have the kind of patience to set this up!!!


>Honda Ad

Go to this website and watch this commercial....you won't believe >it! > >
< <http://www.daboyz.org/honda/> http://www.daboyz.org/honda/> > > >There
are nearly NO computer graphics or digital tricks in the film, apart >
>from a 1 second clip. > >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. > >The film cost six million dollars and took three months to
>complete, 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 down loaded 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. > >Note that There were six
and only >six handmade Accords in the whole 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) are 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. > >Just one-second of computer generation is
used to link the >two halves-when >an exhaust pipe rolls across the floor.
At one point, >three tires roll >uphill because inside they have been
weighted with bolts >and screws. > > > > > > > > >Honda Ad

[RickM]

Steve, this was posted here before. Still very cool.

[Z-man]

I saw that ad about a year ago, and it took them hours and hours to get the take right.

Awesome ad!
-Z.

[David]

I just saw this, wow!

Rube would be proud