Incredible commercial 'The Cog'

by Karel Thönissen

The Cog is a beautiful television commercial for Honda. Incredible, but true: the movie was taken in a single shot, although it took more than 600 shots to get it right, there is no trickery, no computer graphics, everything is what it appears to be, all parts are taken from two canabalized pre-production versions of the Honda Accord (at a time when there were only 6 hand-built of these in the world). This is the story behind the making of the commercial.