Tommie Podzemski

Gene Kelly: The original, updated

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In the line of impressive car-commercial comes the new Golf GTI, “The original, Updated”. DDB London used body doubles and CGI to make it appear as if Kelly is breakdancing down the street. The track is remastered by Mint Royale and which will be released in the charts later on this year.

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http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-video/…/27/golfgti.mov
http://www.kottke.org/05/02/golf-gti-commercial-and-elsewhere

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3 responses to “Gene Kelly: The original, updated”

  1. Kamil Avatar
    Kamil

    I see you saw my thread about this on t.nu 😛 Where are my credits for bringing it to your attention! 😡

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  2. Tommie Avatar
    Tommie

    Kamil;
    “Posted February 3rd, 2005 by tommie, that is 2 weeks, 5 days ago”
    I didn’t see it on t.nu … 🙂

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  3. Kamil Avatar
    Kamil

    It aired during the superbowl, so sometime late january, tho i saw it before it aired (y)

    The guys behind the advertisement are DDB, the same guys that did the minimal advertising for VW 60 years ago.

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