A good few years ago, at the cinema...
I think I was seeing Robocop 2, that gives you an idea of how long ago.

Before the film trailers started, there was an advert for a local double-glazing firm. I remember it vividly:

Lounge piano jazz soundtrack, to Rolls-Royce driving along country lane. Pulls into airfield and parks next to Cessna light aeroplane. Man in suit gets out and shakes hand with another man, who was waiting by the plane. They both board the plane, it taxis to the end of the runway and takes off. Once it's in the air, freeze frame and display the name of the double-glazing firm.

I also remember the wave of laughter that swept the cinema at the completely irrelevant stock footage which had nothing to do with double-glazing at all :)


Length? About 60 seconds of wondering what the advert was going to be for, followed by about 30 seconds of incredulous laughter...
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 13:29, 4 replies)

Ahhh, but it worked didn't it
Seeing as you remember it so vividly so many years later.

Randomness is often the best way to go with adverts. Like the gorilla playing the drums in that Cadbury's advert. If anyone can tell me what an ape playing the drums has to do with chocolate, I'll eat my chocolate hat. But it was a bloody successful ad.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 13:55, closed)

Didn't make me want chocolate though
So there :)
(steh30, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 14:27, closed)

Reminds me so much of Aberystwyth's little cinema
which rather sadly has closed down. They used to have legendary local adverts instead of movie trailers before any film was played; some of them were brilliant (a guy in a butchers with him holding a carcass and a little map of how to leave the cinema to nip in there on the way home), all of which produced big grins on our faces before watching the feature.

It became more famous for this than the films they provided.
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 14:04, closed)

I REALLY want to see this now
Found this though...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CuR-asdOhk&feature=related

I started going the flicks just as these kind of things were on the way out
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 14:42, closed)