Made for Television

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Directed by: William Farley

year: 1981 4 minutes

A dense assemblage of excerpts from television commercials juxtaposed to a soundtack of extraordinary facts about human beings. MADE FOR TELEVISION presents a humorous and critical view of TV advertising manipulation.

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dschweisguth

I don't know why this film is narrated by the voice of a cartoonish hick. I do know that the narration is unmistakeably from Ripley's Believe It Or Not. The value of the commercial clips is more in the ups and downs of their intrinsic strangeness than in the cleverness of their juxtaposition with Ripley's factoids.

Jane Davis

Worth the 4 minutes!

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