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sarpedon2

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Just been looking through old images of Uru back when it was codenamed Mudpie and some pics rly caught my eye, apparently they're from a TV ad that was shown back in the early days of Uru.

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Since this looks like it was screen capped on a computer or something, I was wondering whether anyone else knows more about this ad. It'd be great to see Uru in its early stages in motion rather than in pics. Be rly nice if anyone knows more.

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Wafna

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There was an ad for one of those technical schools (I forget which) that used what appeared to be footage from Uru and included at least the first and last of these. Thats the only place that I recall seeing these. I'm at work right now, or I'd try to find the thread where we discussed it. I'm thinking that it was around MOUL or just before it.

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ThedStranger

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I remember there was some old Uru footage which Cyan Worlds showed at the 2002 Mysterium. I never saw it my self, but I saw some topics about it. It sounds very interesting- there's an avatar rowing a boat, and another runs while a bridge is collapsing behind him... and maybe teledahn and eder kemo as well...

Now I would love to see this one. RIUM+ may have this footage on his choru archive, but he doesn't want to release anything which Cyan Worlds may doesn't want be released, and from some reason he didn't contact the legal department. And I think Zardoz had it too.

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joclyn

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there WAS a tv ad for uru...that's how i found out about it in the first place!

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>>JP<<

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As Wafna said, these images are from a (very old) tech school ad, from the early 2000's (2001? 2002? Not sure). The screencaps you've posted have been taken by Zardoz, if memory serves me well... he has the full video, but was afraid to post the entire thing back when I asked for it. I'd love to hear back from him... can you show it to us now?

Zardoz

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Sorry, still a no-no. I checked with Cyan Legal long ago, and the answer was that the copyright to the ad was/is not held by Cyan, but by the college that ran the ad (Westwood College). Posting a few shots is fair use; posting the whole thing is not.

>>JP<<

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Well, are there any scenes in the ad that have not yet been shown by means of screencaps?

Hmmm, something just struck my mind... since its an ADVERTISING piece, wouldn't it be in their best interest if it was distributed to the largest number of people possible?

Nek'rahm

Joined: 22 Jan 2008

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Sensibly, you're absolutely right JP.

But the decision was made before this, and will likely stand afterward. If they've declared that it wouldn't be fair use to share the video, then we need to respect that.

Zardoz

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Here's what I'll do - and I'm not been coy, I just am a firm believer in copyright.

There are six scenes in the ad that feature Uru, each scene lasting about one second (the whole ad is 30 seconds) and comprised of about 30 frames. The first post has a frame from three of the scenes; I'll add three more (plus the three above) and put them in order. This amounts to six frames out of 188, so that's fair use in my book.

Satisfied?

Agenotfound

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If the copyright is owned by Westwood College why not ask them directly ? I'm sure that they wouldn't mind if someone posted an 8 year old ad (maybe only the uru part) that does them no harm.

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sarpedon2

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Very nice pictures Zardoz, thankyou and thankyou everyone else for replying.

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EthanEver

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The door in the first pic of Zardoz's post looks like the ones in The Descent in MYST 5. The rest look pretty much like Eder Gira.

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Wafna

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I've just checked Myst/Uru Obsession now that the college has been named, and the ad ran regularly in mid 2005 on G4. Here is a thread discussing it. There were at least two others started by someone at the same time.

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sarpedon2

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Just been looking for westwood college commercials, found one that's a game one, might be the Uru one but i cant watch it:(.

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