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And this brilliant ad was supported with brilliant print ads like these. (The failure of this ‘indestructible’ campaign was, however, that everyone mistakenly associated those gorilla spots with Samsonite luggage rather than American Tourister!)
Background on this campaign from Wikipedia: Shots of elderly Georgian farmers were interspersed with an off-camera announcer intoning, “In Soviet Georgia, where they eat a lot of yogurt, a lot of people live past 100.” Each shot had a caption at the bottom, which would tell the audience the farmer’s name and his or […]