Can this be true, or is SNOPES wrong?

[Chaosium]

My only problem with the video is when those three wheels roll from a stop, uphill, with only the slightest bump. Perhaps it is simply a matter of perception within the video, but it looks impossible.

They did more than six hundred takes, so it's nearly impossible

 

[jj]

Well, and they aren't so hot on the origin of the "green ink for CD" myth, either.

But the commercial is a hoot.

 

[bagtaggar]

The one instance of computer assistance was to amplify the movement of the speakers so they would be visible.

As a CG artist, I've developed a knack for pointing out the difference between real and CG, and I've read a few articles about this. The whole thing, (except for the increased movement on the speakers at the end) is real. It took over 600 takes to get it right, with a whole lot of "misfires".

 

[petre]

What I want to know is, who's the guy who figured all this out in the first place, and how did he convince TPTB at Honda to let him try it?

The pitch man said, "Do? It doesn't DO anything, that's the beauty of it!"

Sorry, in a topic about Snopes I couldn't resist

 

[moopet]

Rope. Now that was some good mise en scene! The only problem was he had to focus on something that went dark whenever the film had to change reels.

There've been a couple of attempt to do this sort of thing since, most notably to my mind "Running Time" which uses the same sort of camera trickery but in a much less noticable way. It's worth watching mainly because they had something Hitchcock lacked: a Bruce Campbell.
It's always fun to watch out for the bits where they had to change

 

[c4ts]

If I were going to do something like this, I'd use digital.

 

[petre]

If I were going to do something like this, I'd use digital.

Almost certainly easier, but then, would people be discussing your advert 2 1/2 years later on messageboards across the world?

 

[c4ts]

They would if it were a damn fine movie that was tightly written and well acted, which is the real reason Rope works so well.