Most of the videos are embedded in a flash file, which allows them to be streamed in different sizes. If you have legitimate need for the original *.mpg files, email me. All flash movies written by Peter Bradley
There are currently 124 video clips in the Inquiry system.
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 | 7UP Sex and the City | 7UPSexAndTheCity.swf | 77 Mb | |
| Could be mistaken for a clip from the show... |
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 | 1984 Macintosh Ad | 1984.mov | 13,424 Mb | |
| Probably the most famous advertisment of all time: the first 30-second Mac advert shown during the Super Bowl in 1984. Die hard fans of the ad still claim that Apple only paid once to show it, and it was shown again and again on local TV channels, award shows and the like. In reality, Apple paid to show it at least twice - once on the Super Bowl, and once at something like 3 in the morning in Iowa, in order to qualify for the annual advertising awards. Clip from www.apple.com |
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 | Hal's Boast | 2001Boast.swf | 77 Mb | |
| This scene is at the beginning of the third part of 2001. In it, HAL, the ship's computer, is being interviewed by a television reporter from the US. When questioned about his abilities, HAL boasts "Let me put it this way, Mr. Kramer. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are, by any practical definitions of the words, foolproof and incapable of error." |
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 | Progress for America - 02 | 2004BushAd-527PFA-02.swf | 76 Mb | |
| Guilt by association in the 1st half. The second half contains the claim that the progress in Iraq is going unreported because 'bad news sells' |
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 | Progress for America - 11 | 2004BushAd-527PFA-11.swf | 76 Mb | |
| Equivocation on 'us' in 'These people want to kill us'. The series of images includes Mohammed Eta, Osama bin Laden, chechen rebels and captured members of al Queda. The voice over continues 'they killed hundreds at a russian school' (again, chechens, not al Queda). |
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 | Bush's Ashley | 2004BushAd-527PFA-Ashley.swf | 77 Mb | |
| Probably the ad to which we owe the second term of Bush the second. Funded by a 527 called 'Progress for America', little blond Ashley tells the American people "He's the most powerful man in the world and all he wants to do is make sure I'm safe." |
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 | Swiftboats - Any Questions | 2004BushAd-527SBV-anyquestions.swf | 76 Mb | |
| The ad that introduced the verb 'to swiftboat' into English. Repeated accusations that John Kerry lied about his record in Vietnam. |
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 | Bush's Swift Boat Vets - Friends | 2004BushAd-527SBV-Friends.swf | 77 Mb | |
| One of the most damaging anti-Kerry ads of the 2004 election - accuses Kerry of being friends with the enemy. |
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 | Bush's Swift Boat Vets - Never Forget | 2004BushAd-527SBV-neverforget.swf | 76 Mb | |
| "John Kerry gave aid and comfort to the enemy by advocating thier negotiating points in the US" - they do not argue that what he said was false, but merely that saying it was wrong. |
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 | Bush's Swift Boat Vets - Why | 2004BushAd-527SBV-Why.swf | 77 Mb | |
| One of the first Swift Boat ads. In this one, many vets accuse Kerry of lying. |
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 | Bush - Changing World | 2004BushAd-changingworld.swf | 76 Mb | |
| The world is changing... in ways that terrify. We share values 'faith', 'family' 'freedom'.... |
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 | | 2004BushAd-together.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | 2004BushAd-victory.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | 2004BushAd-wolves.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | 2004BushAds-KerryAndTheLiberals.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | 2004KerryAd-527MoveOn-clarke.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | 2004Kerryad-527MoveOnPAC-HeDoesntGetIt.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | 2004KerryAd-agenda.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | 2004Kerryad-jobs.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | 2004KerryAd-lifetime2.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | 2004KerryAd-remarkablepromise.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | 2004KerryAd-underfire.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | Kerry - Who is this man? | 2004KerryAd-WhoIsThisMan.swf | 76 Mb | |
| Ad from the Kerry campaign itself, trying the character card. |
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| | | 2008PresPrimary-HillaryRedPhone.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | American Express - Ellen | AMEX-Ellen.swf | 76 Mb | |
| Hot on the heels of Discover card's successful identy-based advertising, American Expressed launched this campaign - and this with Ellen. |
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 | | AMEXCoachK.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | AMEXDeniro.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | AMEXEllen2.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | AMEXLairdHamilton.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | AMEXWesAnderson.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | AppleIPhone.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | Banana Republic | BananaRepublic.swf | 76 Mb | |
| Another 'identity' ad |
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 | Simpson's Short | Bart-WhatIsMind.swf | 77 Mb | |
| The first ever Simpson's short, originally aired on The Tracy Ullman show. Bart asks Homer "Dad.. What is the mind? Is it just a system of impulses, or is it something tangible?" Homer responds: "Relax. What is mind? Don't matter. What is matter? Nevermind." |
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 | | BillOReillyKatrina.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | Bobby Kennedy's Indianapolis Speech | BobbyIndianapolis4-4-68.swf | 77 Mb | |
| A clip from the Frontline documentary on Bobby Kennedy - it contains actual footage of Bobby's famous speech in an African-American neighborhood in Indianapolis on the night of MLK's assassination. |
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 | | Brawny.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | BushShameOn.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | CaravanFamily.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | CCFinfomercial_001.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | Chanel no 5 | ChanelNo5.swf | 77 Mb | |
| These perfume ads are just odd. This one is a pseudo-Moulan Rouge. |
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 | Chase - Life Stages | Chase-LifeStages.swf | 76 Mb | |
| Another credit card company identifying their product with our lives, but this time, it's cradle-to-grave. |
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 | | ChaseRewards.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | ChaseTrueLove.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | ChevyGuysCantKeepHandsOf.swf | 77 Mb | |
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| | | ChevyThisIsMyCountry.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | ChevyThisIsOurCountry-Baseball.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | ChevyThisIsOurCountry-Football.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | ChevyThisIsOurCountry.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | CokeBlackHistory.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | CokeGlobalism.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | CokeLifeFullfillment.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | CokeVideoGame.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | CokeWorldPeaceXmas.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | ColbertTruthiness.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | Converse.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | ConverseChuckIntro.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | ConverseUnity.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | Cortislim | Cortislim.swf | 77 Mb | |
| The number of fallacies in this one are astonishing. It can be used to demonstrate fallacious appeal to authority ('One popular radio personality...', 'Make Cortislim the scientific centerpiece...'), flattery ('a smater way', others 'lure you into thinking...' 'intelligent way') and others. |
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 | Crossfire | CrossfireIntelligentDesign.swf | 76 Mb | |
| Recent clip from Crossfire, in which they debate the scietific-ness of the theory of intelligent design. Beware, this one contains a real howler. |
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 | | DailyShow-WarOfTheWords.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | DailyShowFrankLuntz.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | dailyshow_swiftvets.mov | 6,961 Mb | |
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 | Johnson's Daisy advert | daisy_long.mov | 2,041 Mb | |
| The classic political advertisement in which a young girl picks the petals off a daisy, counting as she goes '10...9...8...' When she gets to '3', a loud voice takes over, and the ad ends with a nuclear blast. The ad ends by tell us to "Vote for President Johnson on Nov 3... The stakes are too high not to." Clip from CNN's all politics site: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/candidates/ad.archive/ |
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 | Dell | Dell.swf | 77 Mb | |
| This is an ad primarily designed to appeal to hope (particularily of self-image). Again, if we're charitable and allow the conclusion 'you should buy a Dell', the argument can be construed either as a case of flattery (be like these kids!) or an appeal to fear (see what can happen to a computer! get the extended warranty!) |
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 | Discover Card 1 | DiscoverCard1.swf | 77 Mb | |
| Discover card is targeting their new campaign at women- in these ads, they try to link their product to a certain type of character. |
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 | Discover Card 2 | DiscoverCard2.swf | 77 Mb | |
| Discover card is targeting their new campaign at women- in these ads, they try to link their product to a certain type of character. |
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 | | DockersForLife.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | DoritosLiveTheFlavor.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | DoritosShopGirl.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | dukakis_debate.mov | 588 Mb | |
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 | 'One beat away' | dukakis_mortal.mov | 1,314 Mb | |
| Ad produced by Dukasis in the 1988 campaign 'criticizing' Bush for choosing Quayle as his running mate. There ad shows a photo of the oval office while a heartbeat plays in the background. The ad ends by reminding us that 1 in 5 VPs have had to step up to President, and "Hopefully, we'll never know how big a mistake" choosing Quayle was. Clip from CNN's all politics site: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/candidates/ad.archive/ |
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 | | eHarmonycom-AfricanAmerican.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | eHarmonycom-Proposal.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | Appeal to hope | eHarmonycom.swf | 77 Mb | |
| Lots of cute pictures of a loving couple who were matched by this internet-based matchmaker. Fantasically entertaining stuff! |
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 | Elizabeth Taylor's White Diamonds | ElizabethTaylor-WhiteDiamons.swf | 77 Mb | |
| Another odd perfume ad - this time Elizabeth Taylor shows off her diamond, as well as her 'biological', assests ;). |
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 | Focus Factor | FocusFactor.swf | 77 Mb | |
| This is that annoying ad in which the woman says "They let you try it free -- it must be good!" Fantastic reasoning this. |
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 | | FordFatherhood.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | Ad Hominen embedded in an email... | FoxNews.swf | 77 Mb | |
| Random clip from Fox news - in this one, the host reads an email lambasting Maureen Dowd, even calling her a 'viper'. The email makes no points, and one wonders why it was aired, other than media bias. A quick web search, white pages search and public information search revealed no trace of the author, making one wonder if this wasn't written by Fox news itself. |
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 | | Freaks.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | GMSuicidalThoughts.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | White hands | helms_hands.mov | 950 Mb | |
| Famous Jessie Helm's advert showing white hands crumpling up a rejection letter, while the voice over laments that it was all because some minority got preferential treatment. Note that his opponent in this election was African-American. Not only an appeal to fear, but one that, like Reagan's use of Philadelphia, MS, was meant to galvanize the racist underbelly of white North Carolina. Insulting only until one realizes that Helms won that election. Clip from CNN's all politics site: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/candidates/ad.archive/ |
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 | | HennesseyFlaunt1.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | HennesseyFlaunt2.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | Bush's Horton Appeal to Fear | horton.mov | 1,283 Mb | |
| Ad that may have won the 1988 election for Bush the first. The ad claims that under Dukasis, Willie Horton was given a weekend pass from prison, which he used to engage in the activities of "Kidnapping.. Stabbing... Raping". If we charitably allow it as an argument, it is a clear appeal to fear: vote for Bush or else a bunch of black men will be out stabbin' and rapin'! Clip from CNN's all politics site: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/candidates/ad.archive/ |
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 | A rather creative ad hominen | humphrey.mov | 1,006 Mb | |
| Close-up of a television while maniacal laughter is played in the background. As the camera pulls back, we can read the television which says "Agnew vice-president". The ad ends by saying "It would be funny if it weren't so serious". Clip from CNN's all politics site: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/candidates/ad.archive/ |
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 | | IndiaTourism.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | infomercial_ccf_001.mov | 12,928 Mb | |
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 | | IntercontinentalBoraBora.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | IntercontinentalChina.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | IPodTechnology.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | JackDaniels.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | JandJBaby1.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | JCPennyHipHop.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | JCPennyMothersDay.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | JCPennyMyLoveOpenedTheDoor.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | KoreanAir.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | MasterCardBondwithyourkids.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | MastercardElephant.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | MastercardFood.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | Men In Black Homunculus | MIBHumunculus.swf | 77 Mb | |
| When ever I try to convey the notion of a Homunculus to my classes, they always say "Oh, like that little guy in Men in Black!" I just gave up and started showing them this scene. |
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 | | MitsubishiTruckIntimidation.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | The Argument Clinic | MontyPythonArgumentClinic.swf | 77 Mb | |
| The famed 'Argument clinic' sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus. In it, Eric Idol claims "An argument is a collection of statements intended to establish a definite proposition." John Cleese retorts "No it isn't". Hilarious stuff. |
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 | The "She's a witch" scene from the Holy Grail | montyPythonWitchScene.swf | 77 Mb | |
| In perhaps the most famous scene from Monty Python's most famous movie, a mob is lead through the basic reasoning of verificationism: first, consider the conditions of knowledge ("How do you know that she is a witch"), then produce a theory ("Witches burn"), deduce a prediction ("If she will burn, she is made of wood, therefore she'll float. And if she floats, then she's lighter than a duck.") Check to see if the prediction is confirmed, and burn away! |
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 | | MountainDewChuckNorrisYouTube.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | MoveOnPACHeDoesntGetIt.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | NotreDameBlasphemy.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | Porsche | Porsche-commodityfetishism.swf | 77 Mb | |
| Something of a joke - but every joke betrays some truth. In this, the woman has a primary relationship with her SUV rather than her husband. Classic Lukac commodity fetishism - personal relationship with a thing and economic relationship with a person. |
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 | Queer Eye - British Airways alliance | QE-BA.swf | 76 Mb | |
| Clips from 'Queer eye for the British Guy', in which a BA plane makes an appearance. |
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 | | RobertsonWeightLoss.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | Saturn - That Dad | SaturnThatDad.swf | 76 Mb | |
| Saturn gets in on the self-identification through product use game. |
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 | | SearsExtremeMakeoverTieIn.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | | SearsGoodLife.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | Causal Reasoning, Homer style | SimpsonsCausalReasoning.swf | 77 Mb | |
| Homer insists that the Bear patrol must be working because there are no bears around. Lisa points out his fallacy to no avail. |
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 | | SmartBalance.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | ThaiAirlines.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | TostitosRacialPride.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | Travelocity Sex Ad | Travelocity.swf | 77 Mb | |
| I use this ad to demonstrate the difference between Quasi-argumentative forms of persuasion used in advertisements and Non-argumentative forms of persuasion. Anyway you slice it, this is a non-argument. |
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 | | WalmartFamilyTogetherness.swf | 77 Mb | |
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 | | WalmartScientificallySpeaking.swf | 76 Mb | |
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 | Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc | WestWing.swf | 77 Mb | |
| In the first episode of the West Wing (called, coincidentally, 'Post hoc ergo propter hoc'), President Barlett explains the fallacy to his staff. |
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 | Wine ad | Wine.swf | 77 Mb | |
| Advertisement for wine- 'elegant' 'refined' - are they talking about the woman or the wine? |
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