Silk Cut cinema ad

[mazzer]

I have a vague memory of an advert - done by Saatchi and Saatchi I believe - for Silk Cut cigarettes. Involved a giant purple curtain being erected between 2 mountain tops and then being slashed. Have tried looking on YouTube for it, but no avail. Anyone remember it?

[ZipperCat]

Re: Silk Cut cinema ad

Don't worry, you're not the only one who remembers this. Came out around 1986/7 and seems to have been inspired by Reichstag wrapping duo Christo and Jean Claude's "Valley Curtain".

[Richard1978]

Re: Silk Cut cinema ad

Did they allow cigarette ads at cinemas that late?

I know they were banned on TV in the mid 1960s, though cigar & loose tobacco ads were still allowed until the early 1990s.

[ZipperCat]

Re: Silk Cut cinema ad

Here y'go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZEOA4Zci3w