Attention All Graphic Artists - Shell Oil Wants YOU!

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6. Yes, I remember that.

It was for an SUV. There were a few different video clips you could choose from, 30 second segments that looked like a typical car commercial - the SUV racing down some city street. then on an alpine highway, then cruising across some frozen tundra, then some panning interior views, etc.

A person could then combine that with a choice of a few different sound tracks and to top it off you could type in text that would overlay each segment.

It was actually a very nice format for anyone with any creativity at all to put together a very professional looking ad.

And a lot of very creative people took advantage of the opportunity in a wonderfully subversive way. They had a site where you could look at all the other "ads" that people had created but it didn't last very long. But it was sure fun while it lasted.