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At this year's film festival epicenter of Park City, Utah, the presence of the advertising community was stronger than ever. People came and consumed, promoted and acquired in vast quantities. As with the spot arena, the proliferation of dot com companies, hungry for content and eyeballs, was...
The second entry in this week's "The Best Work You May Never See" gallery—Auburn University's "Rock-A-Bye," directed by Karsten of Green Dot Films, Santa Monica, for Birmingham, Ala.-based agency Lewis Communications (see p. 17)—is breakthrough work for the usually deadly dull ad category...
February 24, 1995/Tobin Film Company, Los Angeles, has formed an alliance with FILMHAUS West, Venice, Calif. In the agreement, the Tobin studio gains exclusive spot representation of director/cameraman Stefan Würnitzer in the U.S. and, via FILMHAUS West's parent company, the Vienna-based...
February 24, 1995/Tobin Film Company, Los Angeles, has formed an alliance with FILMHAUS West, Venice, Calif. In the agreement, the Tobin studio gains exclusive spot representation of director/cameraman Stefan Wrnitzer in the U.S. and, via FILMHAUS West's parent company, the Vienna-based FILMHAUS...
A regional restaurant chain typically offers a TV advertising menu consisting of smiling waitresses and appetizing shots of food. Sometimes the entrée is spinning. Perhaps there's a quick-cut glimpse of tomato slices flying through the air. And watch for a close-up of steam rising off a hot meal...
CLIENT
St. Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta.
PRODUCTION CO.
Mom-O-Rama Co., Atlanta.
Thom Oliphant, director/DP; Todd Johnson, executive producer; Stan Vaughn, producer. Shot on location in Atlanta.
AGENCY
Match Inc., Atlanta.
B.A. Albert, creative...
February 17, 1995/Michael Pollock, former director of program development at Dennis Hayes & Associates, New York, has left the company to join Vito DeSario Editing, New York, where he will be executive producer....Editor Stu Eisenberg has joined Pi Edit, a New York offline house. He had been...
Editor's note: The following is excerpted from Jef Loeb's testimony last week before the U.S. House of Representatives' Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade and Consumer Protection. The subcommittee is examining the controversy over the Office of National Drug Control Policy's (...
The ties between advertising and politics have been strong over the years—some would say too strong, given that television time has become dangerously important in helping to determine the outcome of national, state and even local elections. One school of thought is that TV stations should be...
February 17, 1995/Michael Pollock, former director of program development at Dennis Hayes & Associates, New York, has left the company to join Vito DeSario Editing, New York, where he will be executive producer....Editor Stu Eisenberg has joined Pi Edit, a New York offline house. He had been...