All Together Now

Meant to note: via Coudal.

Go Brown Line!

@HPAdmiral, I agree. You know what I'd like to see more of, when it comes to alcohol ads on TV? I want a return to 80's-style soft-focus booze ads where everyone's drinking in a dark basement after work with poofy hair, wearing sharp suits, and trying to figure out how to take home and date rape. Those were my favorites as a kid.

There's some Pink Line in there, too, at 29 seconds as the train crosses the Eisenhower. And I'm thinking there's some fancy editing and maybe some composite images to patch everything together.

I must say, well done.

From that Sun-Times backstory...from a blog referenced in the piece...

[The commercial] was shot over 5 days from an actual train on the metro-rail as it tracked around the city of Chicago.

All in all, the film and crew were on the train for 50 hrs over a 5 day period in temperatures that were often below freezing. All of the actors were outside for up to 10 hrs a day in the freezing temperatures, often in costumes that provided little warmth. As such there was almost an entire crew of people dedicated to keeping the actors warm with blankets, thermoses and portable heaters.

It would've been so cool/random to see the people on the tops of the buildings as you zipped by on the El.