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THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT a year that ends with a nine. Whether it's a birthday or the end of a decade, it's just a big deal, a signal of the end of one thing and the beginning of something else. There's trauma attached to turning 30 or 40 or 50 or whatever else we get to. So, in...
5 Years Ago
JANUARY 7, 1994
Jim Hensons Creature Shop, known for its work in animatronics, art direction, modelmaking and puppetmaking, has announced it will open a base of operation in Burbank, Calif., partly to do more work for advertising. The company also has offices in London...
A SAG-COMMISSIONED STUDY conducted by George Gerbner, professor of telecommunications at Temple University, has concluded that Americas poor and underprivileged are practically nonexistent on primetime dramas and daytime soaps, while foreigners and mentally ill characters are more likely to be...
THERES SOMETHING ABOUT a year that ends with a nine. Whether its a birthday or the end of a decade, its just a big deal, a signal of the end of one thing and the beginning of something else. Theres trauma attached to turning 30 or 40 or 50 or whatever else we get to. So, in 1999, we start to...
CLIENT
MCI WorldCom/MCI 5¢ Sundays.
PRODUCTION CO.
Live action by PYTKA, Venice, Calif. Joe Pytka, director/DP; Suellen Wagner, executive producer; Lisa Winston, producer. Animation by Warner Bros. Classic Animation, Sherman Oaks, Calif. Frank Molieri,...
CLIENT
Toyota 4-Runner.
PRODUCTION CO.
Case Nydrle, West Hollywood. Peter Nydrle, director/cameraman; Carol Case, executive producer; Laura Brown, producer; Cassie Hulen, head of production; Steve Woroniecki, production supervisor. Shot on location....
CLIENT
Taco Bell.
PRODUCTION CO.
Partizan Midi Minuit, bicoastal/international. Traktor, director; Andrzej Sekula, DP; Richard Ulfvengren and Ole Sanders, executive producers. Shot at Raleigh Studios, Manhattan Beach, Calif.
AGENCY
TBWA/...
CLIENT
General Motors Corp./Chevy Trucks/Silverado.
PRODUCTION CO.
Steve & Linda Horn Inc., New York. Steve Horn, director/DP; Alayne Baxter, executive producer. Shot on location.
AGENCY
Campbell-Ewald, Warren, Mich. Jim Gilmore,...
CLIENT
Walgreen Co.
PRODUCTION CO.
"Sources," "Tale of 1,000 Pharmacies," "Roads" and "All of the People" produced by Atlas Pictures, Santa Monica. Toby Phillips, director/DP; Sharn Stinson-Ure, executive producer; Jeff Tannebring, producer. "Photo...
Cel animation directed by Peter Chung of Acme Filmworks, Hollywood, sets up what looks like a story of intrigue inevitably leading to confrontation. But the payoff is quite different in "The Coupe Mission," a Honda spot for the U.S. Hispanic market out of La Agencia de Orci...