Have you heard about this.....?

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 linked below. 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 ! viewing s" (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 hand-made 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) are parts from those two cars.

The voiceover is Garrison Keillor. When the ad was shown to Honda

executives, they liked it and commented on how amazing computer graphics

have become. They fell off their chairs when they found out it was for

real. Oh, and about those funky windshield wipers you'll see in the

clip.On the new Accords, the wind shield wipers have water sensors and are

designed to start doing their thing automatically as soon as they become

wet. !

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/ho...
here's the link!

That is so interesting. I think I've heard of someone trying that before, but using the car parts makes it more interesting. I like the part where the window opens. The winshield wipers look funny scooting across the floor! lol! I want to try this. THanks for sharing it with us.

kewl

no i havent

I saw that a couple years ago.

C 00 l

I just wasted 3 minutes of my life on THAT???

That was amazing.......

saw that a couple days ago....kinda cool

Right on thats neat.

that's neat

yep i heard about it, hmm i gotta have this car.

rube goldburg lives .LONG LIVE RUBE GOLDBURG .
now for people who dont know who that guy is he created all
sorts of machines like that in the honda add to lake make life
real simple for man .

cool, seen it before but nice to see it again!