ckollars@east.sun.com (Chuck Kollars - Boston) (06/05/91)
>I work at the California Academy of Sciences, and a few weeks ago some >people at Sun Micro came and sunk a workstation into the round-about (a >fish tank) and took pictures and all. I heard in one of my classes that >this was also filmed as a tv comercial? Anyone who has any knowledge of >this, or a copy of it, please contact me. The people at the California >Academy are interested in seeing it. Thanks very much. > >[[Ed's Note: That brings up an interesting point - it seems Sun has >finally broken into prime time television advertising. I saw one of their >commercials on Arts & Entertainment a couple of nights ago around 7pm-ish. >(Strange that they pick A&E to advertise on instead of one of the big-4, >but it was a pretty neat commercial [sort of reminded me of the planet >scenes out of Jedi :)]). I haven't seen the sunken Sun one though. -bdg]] Apparently some film of the elaborate April Fools "stunt" at the aquarium showed up on a bay area TV news program. But it was not a "TV Commercial", and folks outside the bay area aren't likely to know anything about it. The TV commercial was indeed produced by some of the same people who were involved in the Ewok (?) segment of Return of the Jedi. It was introduced on April 14th. On that day it showed twenty or thirty times, mostly on the big networks during prime time. cheers! -- chuck kollars <ckollars@East.Sun.COM> (located in Boston)