Thursday, 15 March 2007

Kia Ora

We made this commercial at Klacto at the beggining of the eighties. It was written by the late John Webster. This commercial became incredibly succesful and popular but it also had it's detractors. We were a bit surprised by these negative reactions because there was no intention to offend anybody.

I found this in YouTube and I don't know who posted it. I am learning to compress videos and soon I will be ready to post some curiosities from our archives.

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13 comments:

  1. sase15 March 2007 at 19:20

    Que bueno !!!

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  2. El editor16 March 2007 at 11:48

    Me gustó mucho la flexibilidad de los caminantes y ese paso canchero super rápido en el aire... cuando apareció el globetrotter me morí.

    Detractores: esteeee... déjenme de joder !

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  3. ed16 March 2007 at 19:25

    fenomenal!!
    pero claro, ahora me pasa que quiero ver más...

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  4. LêA16 March 2007 at 19:32

    ¡qué bueno que reactives este blog!
    (¡tienes 5 funcionando y de qué manera!)

    lindo comercial y lindo diseño de personajes...

    ojalá encuentres más cositas tuyas colgadas en el "tutubo" o en algún sitio para que nos sigas instruyendo...

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  5. DON LIN17 March 2007 at 20:45

    DAMN!!!



    That is still fresh!

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  6. Vince M18 March 2007 at 01:10

    I loved it! You are one hell of an animator, Mr. Grillo. This is timeless.

    Love this new site. So wonderful to be able to view your animation art.

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  7. max20 March 2007 at 10:29

    This is so great, what great great movements.

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  8. juan zlux20 March 2007 at 17:22

    ESE corto tuvo detractores ?!!
    La gilada "chamuya al cuete"...

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  9. Oscar Grillo20 March 2007 at 17:34

    Porque alguien creyo ver representaciones raciales derogatorias.

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  10. R.Dress22 March 2007 at 14:19

    So cool

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  11. Matt J5 April 2007 at 12:48

    EXCELLENT- look forward to seeing video treasures from you.

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  12. Anonymous11 April 2007 at 18:53

    The detractors' take may have been similar to the recent Don Imus radio brouhaha over in the States. One dare not characterize any black beings in any manner except a positive one, unless one is himself black. Doesn't let the rapper view of women off the hook.

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  13. David Nethery13 June 2007 at 02:24

    May I just say:

    "We ALL adore Kia Ora !"

    Great spot. This one and the Sinatra's Greatest Hits spot have always been favorites of mine. I've loved this since Andreas Deja screened it for a group of us at Disney along with show reels from Eric's Pizazz Pictures and Dick Williams.

    Can you post the one with the beavers advertising Baked Beans ? (in the lighthouse) . That was fun, too.

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