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Colorful Rossini!

Posted at 12:23 PM on October 23, 2006 by John Birge
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And the award for Most Colorful Use of a Rossini Overture goes to:

This tv spot!

No computer graphics, it's all real. A little documentary here.

Note also that it was done by the London office of Fallon, whose HQ is here in Minneapolis...

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