Amazing flash film
I got this with an email claiming on a stack of bibles that it was real not faked, but I don't believe it for a minute!
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Hey Pito. This made the rounds a while back (a couple of years maybe?) and I think it even got a fair amount of news coverage. All the coverage focused on how hard it was to make the film using traditional (non-faked) methods. So I'll add my Bible to your stack of bibles and affirm (Quakers don't swear) that it's real.
Posted by: David Coletta | February 21, 2007 10:58 AM
It's real, and rather old -- from 2003. More details at Wikipedia. It took 606 takes. There's only one bit of trickery, which is that it was done as two parts which were later combined in editing.
Posted by: Jered | February 21, 2007 12:11 PM
Yeah, this is a famously real rube-goldberg ad, and yes, very old. C'mon Pito, were you busy in 2003?!
Posted by: Will Koffel | February 21, 2007 06:06 PM
Grr. Your blog software filters out links and other HTML formatting with no warning! The Wikipedia article on "Cog" is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_%28television_commercial%29
Also, the "Remember personal info?" checkbox doesn't.
Posted by: Jered | February 22, 2007 12:26 PM
Thanks everyone.
I still don't believe it :)
And Jered and Will, this blog will be moving to Wordpress soon, so those uglynesses will be fixed.
Posted by: Pito Salas | February 22, 2007 03:43 PM