What is the best commercials you ever saw?
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I didn't have to watch the clips to know that it was Arnold Stang. In his New York accent: "What a chunk of chawcolate".
I don't consider Don Draper a troll, although he has become depressed and reclusive since his beloved Barcelona jumped the shark.
Black Label Beer Commercial (Go-Go Dance) from the early 90's.
I kinda like the new one with 2 cavemen , where one has ordered delivery and is quite eloquent, while the other just grunts and chews on a branch.
Up until now I would say the Budweiser 9-11 horse commercial. I choke up every time I see it. Now its the one where the dad is trying out a sledge hockey sled then carries his son down to the pond so he can try it.The kid loves it.
cant find that cavemen one - but found these
Canadian Tire, "Albert!, Albert!" commercial.
The Leafs were really bad in the 80's when this commercial came out, fans at the gardens would shout "Albert!, Albert!" when they were losing badly, LOL
The Leafs were really bad in the 80's when this commercial came out, fans at the gardens would shout "Albert!, Albert!" when they were losing badly, LOL
I made the video file for this on September 21, 2003 from VHS tape, but someone else uploaded it to YouTube. I still have the .mpg video file. I made hundreds of clips from VHS in 2003-05, mainly TV commercials and music videos. If you ever see a music video on YouTube with the CityLimits logo, I made it.
I've found 38 clips on YouTube that I made, and somebody else uploaded, plus I have a few of my own clips on my YouTube Channel. YouTube didn't exist before February, 2005. Before that, people usually got video clips from downloads using peer-to-peer apps like WinMX, eDonkey/ eMule, Gnutella, etc. WinMX and eMule are still around, and I still use WinMX regularly; it went underground around 2005. It's probably the best remaining place on the Internet to find rare music in .mp3, without having to purchase. These old school file sharing/ trading apps generally have older users, and frequently older files that are unavailable through bit torrents, because no one is sharing a complete torrent file anymore.
Online sites for videos usually had low resolution .asf, .wmv or .mov video files. .wmv was the standard type for video made with the Windows Movie Maker, a standard app in Windows XP. .mov is Apple Quicktime, which was the best in terms of quality back then. Downloadable clips were often posted on sites like metacafe(dot)com and punchbaby(dot)com. I think metacafe was similar to Youtube, before there was YouTube, in that members could upload content.
Back then, part of the reason internet videos were such low quality is that many people still had dial-up Internet. With dial-up, it could take more than half an hour for a three minute low res video to fully load. A copy would be saved in the Temporary Internet Files folder when using Internet Explorer 5, so you wouldn't have to wait half an hour if you wanted to see it again. I acquired a lot of streaming videos by copying the files from Temporary Internet Files to a permanent folder location.
I used to make digital video using a JVC s-video VCR. It connects to separate audio and video capture cards on a computer, and frame-by frame editing could be done with an app called TMPGEnc, (Tsunami MPEG encoder). This was before the more advanced divx/ .avi video type was introduced.
I fried the video recording heads on my first s-video VCR, and bought a second one, (at the audio/ video store which used to be two stores south of The Zanzibar on Yonge Street), which I've never used. I might own the only remaining pristine mint copy of that machine in existence, (the box is not in mint condition, but this is not a Star Wars action figure). I Still have an old tower computer with the audio and video capture cards installed, but it needs some repair work, and hasn't been used in almost eight years.
