Toronto featured heavliy in CISCO AD

[Bogtrotter]

KFC anyone..?

 

[billonlogan]

I saw The Sentinel on a flight back last week and it featured Toronto as *surprise* Toronto.
The President of the USA was giving a major speech to other G8 leaders and VIPs in the council chamber at City Hall. I roared when would be assasins were dressed as Canadian security cops. I recall one scene where one of the assasins was taking shots at the President and Secret Service with this red maple leaf proudly displayed on his uniform. It was hilarious. Not a great film but killed a couple of hours.

 

[adma]

I'm intrigued by Stuttgart's only because it's the first of them all (1956)

 

[Oliver Tweed]

I was just down in the states last weekend and the CISCO ad runs there without the shots of Toronto. It must have been made exclusively for the Toronto or Canadian market.

 

[unimaginative2]

Here's another somewhat weird example featuring many Toronto buildings. It's a big project for a new neighbourhood in Dublin, and the renderings appear to consist of cut-and-pastings of Toronto buildings including the Royal York and BCE Place. It appears to be on the website of the ruling political party in Ireland.

www.progressivedemocrats.ie/uploads/images/A_new_heart_for_Dublin.pdf

 

[SD2]

Here's another somewhat weird example featuring many Toronto buildings. It's a big project for a new neighbourhood in Dublin, and the renderings appear to consist of cut-and-pastings of Toronto buildings including the Royal York and BCE Place. It appears to be on the website of the ruling political party in Ireland.

They also have the SkyDome on the left side picture.

I guess it's no different than a planning report with pictures from other cities for examples...though it seems like they went out of their way to cut and paste specific buildings in certain areas. The fact that they did this with the Dome doesn't surprise me much - for all the complaining people do, it's still seen as groundbreaking by many.

 

[Oliver Tweed]

Thanks for posting that Irish document. That was interesting. Of course, they just do that to give a visual representation. Much like the Toronto waterfront docs with pics of all different cities like New York to illustrate how they envision it looking, roughly.

 

[ganjavih]

That Irish document is hilarious. Maybe they felt the buildings were anonymous-looking enough to fool people.

 

[Sir Novelty Fashion]

Back to the original question, I think I have an idea. It's what cdl and SD2 were saying earlier, but here's some material evidence:

This is a brief shot from the ad, of a "conference room"-type jobbie. And, if I'm not mistaken, that's David Huband, a Toronto-based actor who's probably best known for all the commercials he's done. (Back in the day, he was the guy from the Reece's peanut butter cups commercials, who interviewed Rory Tait, Circle Researcher.) More recently, he was a regular on the late, lamented Train 48.

So if they're hiring local talent, odds are even they did the creative here too...

 

[afransen TO]

That is really bizarre.