Amazing Honda domino set up

**Divinus Arma** · 02-20-2006, 03:13

This is pretty damn cool.

From my inbox:

READ THE TEXT BEFORE YOU CLICK ON THE LINK

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 big bucks. 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 hand-made 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 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.

http://www.steelcitysfinest.com/HondaAccordAd.htm

**Papewaio** · 02-20-2006, 03:30

Don't you get that ad?

Seen it for years here...

BTW have you figured out how the wheels roll up hill yet...

**discovery1** · 02-20-2006, 04:01

Saw this in physics last semister. The tires should have wieghts at the top. that's how they roll uphill.

And the term is Rube-Goldberg device since it involves numberous energy types.

**Mikeus Caesar** · 02-20-2006, 19:38

Originally Posted by discovery1

Saw this in physics last semister. The tires should have wieghts at the top. that's how they roll uphill.

And the term is Rube-Goldberg device since it involves numberous energy types.

Darn it, that's what i was going to say! I was going to be the clever one and point out that it's a Rude-Goldberg device, which are overly complicated machines which go through all sorts of motions, can take a long time, all to do a simple task e.g. knock over something, or in the case of the Honda ad, unfurl a banner.

Divinus, what country/cave have you been living in? This advert is ooooold.