[MacDV] Re: OT: must see TV!

[Chris Searles]

On Montag, Juni 2, 2003, at 08:49  Uhr, Matthew Guemple wrote:

> This bit is interesting hmmm...
> "The idea for the advert derived partly from the old children's game 
> Mouse Trap, and from the wacky engineering of Caractacus Potts's 
> breakfast-making machine in the Sixties film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. > "
>
> So much for credit where credit is due... or due diligence. In light 
> of this. "This is a direct take from some German (Swiss?) artists 
> whose original work "Der Lauf der Dinge" (from the 80s I believe)"
>
Maybe, but I still believe the BRITISH advertising agency who made the 
commercial derived their inspiration from those Swiss artists whose 
work - as I posted in a previous mail - is distributed on video by the 
Institute for Contemporary Art in LONDON. Granted, there were such 
"Spielereien" in the 60s like Mouse Trap (a game which I personally 
remember well) and different "wacky machines" in all sorts of films, 
but the way that Honda commercial is set up is obviously a direct 
borrowing - I'm tempted, of course, to use another word, but my better 
judgment tells me not to - from the idea of those Swiss guys.

Here again the link to their site with a QT trailer of their work "Der 
Lauf der Dinge":

http://www.tcfilm.ch/lauf_txt_e.htm

Chris Searles