The G4 'lampshade' iMac commercial from the early 2000s quickly makes the point.19 In this commercial, the computer is seen sitting in a storefront window, and it follows the movements of the man walking by the window. The computer catches the man's attention and interacts with him, ...
Michael Jackson’s entire 1993 performance remains one of the event’s most memorable and unforgettable, from his use of not one, but two body doubles to the minute-long standing ovation he received. The late icon performed a medley of his greatest hits while delivering larger-than-life choreo...
Michael Jackson’s entire 1993 performance remains one of the event’s most memorable and unforgettable, from his use of not one, but two body doubles to the minute-long standing ovation he received. The late icon performed a medley of his greatest hits while delivering larger-than-life choreo...
In this article, I analyze 2 case studies of television advertising campaigns for banking services during the 1970s and early 1980s in Hong Kong, those of Hang Seng Bank and HongkongBank. Advertising from this period saw consumer society emerge as traditional values and themes were adjusted to ...
and the rapidly growing number of studies from the late eighties and early nineties (Gorbman 1987, Kalinak 1992, Prendergast 1992), and, not least, the following more explicit orientations toward contemporary films, and the uses of pre-existing popular music (Smith 1998, Langkjær 2000, Ka...
Scotland sellsdeep-fried Snickersat many of their fish and chips shops and this tradition has made the leap to American state fairs as of the early 2000s. Famous UK ChefAntony Worrall Thompson made a Snickers Pie in 2012that was rated as the unhealthiest dessert ever. Each slice came in ...
A Grand Day Out (lost Peter Hawkins' "Gromit" dialogue from stop-motion animated film; 1989) Pib and Pog (lost original college animation of stop-motion short; early 1990s) Shaun The Sheep (lost pilot of British stop-motion TV series; early to mid 2000s) Wallace And G...
Days ahead of the big game, many of the 2025 Super Bowl commercials are already going viral thanks to them making early rounds on social media! Each year these star-studded and clever commercials appeal to not just football watchers and sports fans, but people at the Super Bowl party who ...
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If you turned on the television in the late 1990s, you had a good chance of seeing some claymation in the form of a California Raisins commercial. ForWandaVision’s late ‘90s/early 2000s episode, we got a taste of this animation style in a commercial for “Yo-Magic” (a riff on the...