Cog (television commercial)

The Cog television commercial was a dramatic commercial for the Honda Accord, made (almost completely) without any CGI or trick photography.

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Honda - Accord - CGI

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The two minute commercial appears as a single, long camera pan (although it is in fact two stitched together because the contraption wouldn't fit in a room: the join is at the moment where the exhaust pipe rolls across the floor) along a Heath Robinson/Rube Goldberg-like arrangement of parts from the car. The commercial took 606 different takes to complete.

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Contraption - Heath Robinson - Rube Goldberg

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The sequence starts with a transmission bearing rolling into a synchro hub. This sets off a cascade of movement; windscreen wipers 'walk' across the floor, valve stems roll down a bonnet and carefully weighted tires roll uphill. The commercial ends when the central locking on a complete Accord is triggered, causing the tailgate to close, tipping the car off a balanced trailer and into a final pose in front of the camera. The voice of US author Garrison Keillor announces "Isn't it nice when things just work?", while the song "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang plays in the background.

Related Topics:
Transmission - Bearing - Windscreen wiper - Valve stem - Bonnet - Tires - Central locking - Tailgate - US - Author - Garrison Keillor - Rapper's Delight - The Sugarhill Gang

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