{"id":14337,"date":"2013-07-25T12:25:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T16:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=14337"},"modified":"2013-07-25T12:25:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T16:25:36","slug":"when-tv-commercials-verge-on-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/when-tv-commercials-verge-on-art\/","title":{"rendered":"When TV Commercials Verge on Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Missus&#8217;s and my favorite between-the-films bumper\/promo on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable\/satellite TV network:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OMg7m7K3tX0?rel=0\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For those not familiar with it, the network specializes in films &#8212; mostly Hollywood-made &#8212; from years ago.\u00a0They&#8217;ve been showing this occasionally for years. It so dreamily evokes bygone days, without overt sentiment. It doesn&#8217;t include any clips from old movies. (Indeed, the only reference to film at all is the shot of a guy selling tickets from a theater booth.) It keeps the locale(s) non-specific, although it&#8217;s hard not to assume they&#8217;re all in New York City. It uses jazz effectively, and even references Edward Hopper. But somehow &#8212; even without the TCM logo at the very end, probably &#8212; it unambiguously tells you what you can expect to find featured here.<\/p>\n<p>It is, we think, a masterpiece of the form.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Found it, while looking for something else, at the YouTube channel for <a title=\"AJ Ross\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ajross.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the AJ Ross advertising agency<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; the firm\u00a0which produced it.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Missus&#8217;s and my favorite between-the-films bumper\/promo on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable\/satellite TV network: For those not familiar with it, the network specializes in films &#8212; mostly Hollywood-made &#8212; from years ago.\u00a0They&#8217;ve been showing this occasionally for years. It so dreamily evokes bygone days, without overt sentiment. 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