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Title: KIA ORA ADVERT - NELL GWYN

Reference number: 7071

Date: 1985c

Sponsor: [ Kia Ora]

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 0.32 mins

Description: A Kia Ora orange juice cinema advert. The thirst the audience had for fresh oranges in a Shakespearean theatre is compared to contemporary cinemagoers and fresh boxes of Kia Ora juice.

Shotlist: performance of 'Hamlet' (supposedly set in the age of Shakespeare with the 'audience' dressed in clothes of that era) actor begins an over the top interpretation of the 'Alas, poor Yorick....' monologue, only to be interrupted by a man in the audience shouting 'Nell' just at the point he is going to address the skull (0.08) Nell promptly distributes fresh oranges to the members of the theatre crowd, who clamour to buy the fruit (0.19) 'Nell', now appearing as a cinema usherette in contemporary times,stands with her supply of fresh Kia Ora orange juice for cinemagoers KIA ORA. ON SALE NOW [voiceover "Why not quench your thirst with one?"] (0.32)