Eric Anderson of LOGAN directed this piece which entailed a collaboration between Google and Audi, two clients of agency Venables, Bell & Partners, San Francisco. The video highlights the fact that Google Maps now powers the maps in Audi’s navigation systems.
A film with a dash of product demo, the video follows an Audi A4 as it makes its way through the streets of San Francisco as seen in the frozen worlds of Google Earth and Street View. The couple in the A4 make a handful of stops before heading to their final destination: their own impromptu wedding at Muir Beach. Oh, and about those pit stops: you can’t have a wedding without something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.
Setting the story within the worlds of Google Earth and Street View wasn’t just a technique. Audi’s Google Maps-powered navigation system uses Google Earth, Street View, and Local Search to create an immersive and intelligent driving experience. And as the video shows, navigation isn’t just about getting from point A to point B. It’s about creating the perfect journey.
“Beatles ’64” Documentary Captures Intimate Moments From Landmark U.S. Visit
Likely most people have seen iconic footage of the Beatles performing on "The Ed Sullivan Show." But how many have seen Paul McCartney during that same U.S. trip feeding seagulls off his hotel balcony?
That moment — as well as George Harrison and John Lennon goofing around by exchanging their jackets — are part of the Disney+ documentary "Beatles '64," an intimate look at the English band's first trip to America that uses rare and newly restored footage. It streams Friday.
"It's so fun to be the fly on the wall in those really intimate moments," says Margaret Bodde, who produced alongside Martin Scorsese. "It's just this incredible gift of time and technology to be able to see it now with the decades of time stripped away so that you really feel like you're there."
"Beatles '64" leans into footage of the 14-day trip filmed by documentarians Albert and David Maysles, who left behind 11 hours of the Fab Four goofing around in New York's Plaza hotel or traveling. It was restored by Park Road Post in New Zealand.
"It's beautiful, although it's black and white and it's not widescreen," says director David Tedeschi. "It's like it was shot yesterday and it captures the youth of the four Beatles and the fans."
The footage is augmented by interviews with the two surviving members of the band and people whose lives were impacted, including some of the women who as teens stood outside their hotel hoping to catch a glimpse of the Beatles.
"It was like a crazy love," fan Vickie Brenna-Costa recalls in the documentary. "I can't really understand it now. But then, it was natural."
The film shows the four heartthrobs flirting and dancing at the Peppermint Lounge disco, Harrison noodling with a Woody Guthrie riff on his guitar... Read More