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Chevrolet Advertising Rings the Bell

Ephemeral film · 11 min

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0594 PA8173 Chevrolet Advertising Rings the Bell

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Running time
11 minutes
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Prelinger Archives

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★★★★★ · So You'd Better Be Ready! · Christine Hennig · 2005-01-23

No, really, it does! Disembodied hands spring out of Chevrolet print ads and ring doorbells! Its true, I swear! This film with a missing soundtrack blows the lid off of this whole conspiracy! And whos responsible, you may wonder? Why its Chevrolet Man, a robot-like apparition built of wire and bits of advertising ephemera! He places an evil curse upon all ads for the 1951 Chevrolet, and suddenly billboards start walking around! Print ads show up on peoples doorsteps and demand to be taken in and made members of the family! People become mesmerized by their tv sets! And heres the really scary…

★★★★★ · Chevy Advertising is coming for YOU! · Steve Nordby · 2004-05-20

Without the soundtrack, this could be a horror film. Print ads in the shape of human hands keep ringing the doorbell! Won't they ever stop! And that creepy transparent gnome appears with the strangest things growing out of his body! You can't escape the Chevy curse, not reading a magazine, nor at the theatre, nor listening to radio, nor watching TV. It's coming for you, and it's letting itself in your front door! Oh my god! No, No! NO! NO!!!!! Ah but we are saved by the bell ... not that creepy haunted doorbell, but a Liberty Bell look-alike that breaks through the poster ad to let us know…

★★★★★ · no soundtrack · Rick Prelinger · 2003-07-24

The soundtrack to this film deteriorated and was destroyed by the Jam Handy Organization. Only the Kodachrome master pix survives, unless someone "out there" has a release print.

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