Apple iPhone Oscar 2007 TV commercial
Apple aired its 30 seconds iPhone ad during Sunday’s ABC’s telecast of Oscars 2007 Academic Awards ceremony. The commercial begins in Black & White with a ringing rotary telephone and then follows up with clips from various movie and television shows featuring both real life characters such as Dustin Hoffman, Harrison Ford, John Cusack, Kevin Spacy and also animated characters such as Mr.Incredible and Betty Rubble from Flintstones answering the phone and saying “Hello”. Towards the end of the commercial, we see the iPhone doing a 360 and then we see a full screen caption “Hello” and then ” Coming in June”.
Macworld has the entire list of 31 different movies and TV shows that were featured during the commercial. Also check out Macworld for the song featured during the commercial.
The iPhone ad aired during the Oscar ceremony’s first commercial break after the awards for art direction and scientific and technical achievements were presented.
The iPhone ad has also been posted on Apple’s Web site.
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