Re: TV Ads (was: Rail on the Coke Ad)

[Railway Rasputin <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

John Engleman wrote:

> Maybe I was WAY off in thinking the Coca-Cola ad was the Napa Valley
> Wine Train in the U.S., BUT....there is an ad currently running on the
> East Coast of the U.S. for Bell Atlantic Mobile Phone service which
> starts out showing the side of a Melbourne Z3 (with a yellow skybreaker
> ad) and a whole lot of scenes of Hatachi sparks pulling into a station
> where the station signs just read "Track 3" (it looks like it could be
> Richmond or South Yarra), as well as some uniformed Melbourne school
> kids, and a few other unidentifiable scenes. All the scenes are quite
> short but there is no mistaking where they are. It goes to show that
> just because a commercial is shown in one country doesn't mean it was
> made there.
>
> Just look at the Qantas adds mad a few years back. They were about
> Australia and beaches etc, filmed o/s.
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