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Some time ago, there were three weird pictures in TVB's late-night session, which frightened many viewers. However, everyone later knew that this was purely a gimmick made by the TV station for the promotion of the program.
▲ The supernatural picture flashing during the TVB advertising period
However, more than 30 years ago, there was also an advertisement that created many supernatural rumors in Hong Kong, and even caused social panic for a time......
This is the advertising film commissioned by the Hong Kong Kowloon-Canton Railway Company to be produced by Ogilvy Hong Kong in 1991. At that time, after the commercial aired, people kept pointing out the weirdness in it.
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First of all, someone noticed that the children inside were flickering, and the number of children in the queue was not the same.
For example, there is a scene where there is a little girl at the end of the line with her head down, but in the last scene, the girl disappears.
And in the first act, there are six pairs of feet, and there should be six children, but someone analyzed the later shots one by one, but found that there were eight children in different clothes, why did there be two more people for no reason?
Others said that the girl in the second row looked like she had blood at the corner of her mouth and a weird smile, which was not normal.
Finally, there are rumors that the boy who was last in line, who was put on the girl's shoulder, died, and there was also a mysterious death of the advertising crew.
Since there was no Internet at the time, the dissemination of these claims depended on television and radio and newspapers and magazines.
In the popular radio program "Soft and Hard Heavenly Master" in Hong Kong at the time, Lin Haifeng and Ge Minhui told in detail about the ghosts and monsters in the advertisement.
Newspapers and magazines also rushed to cover the news, and Next Magazine even made the haunting a cover story, and it is said that the issue was reprinted in a short period of time for the first time in its three years of existence.
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In addition, this supernatural incident once attracted Japanese media reports and was discussed in the program "World Horror Night".
Media reports and word of mouth spread that the advertisement was haunted caused heated discussions by the public at the time. In order to avoid causing panic, the Kowloon-Canton Railway decided to stop broadcasting this advertisement. Could it be that the advertising was really "ghosted" during the shooting?
Of course not! Friends who often read our articles or videos know that we never believe in strange forces.
Kowloon-Canton Railway and Ogilvy Hong Kong explained that the problems of children appearing and disappearing in the advertisements and the different numbers were caused by the editing.
▲Kowloon-Guangzhou Railway, source network
In fact, there were far more than six children involved in the shooting, and their shooting method was that the children lined up to play a train game with their shoulders, and then the photographer kept capturing the shots, and the editors finally selected the shots with better expressions and edited them together. However, when reviewing the film, it seems that everyone did not notice the increase or decrease in the number of people in the picture, resulting in the situation of not connecting the scenes.
In addition, for one of the girls suspected of having blood at the corners of her mouth, it was actually just a picture illusion, if you slow down the advertisement, you can find that only the girl's lips are moving, and the face is shadowed. As for the rumors of the accidental death of the young actors and staff involved in the filming, it is even more out of nowhere.
In order to clarify the rumors of ghosts, the Kowloon-Canton Railway published a statement in the newspaper titled "The child is innocent, what is the crime", and also recovered the children who participated in the filming at the time and held a Christmas party to prove that the rumors of death were rumors. At that time, the TVB program "Lingtong Tiandi Line" also went to the mainland to look for these children who participated in the performance, proving that they were still healthy.
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The reason why the Kowloon-Canton Railway advertisement became one of Hong Kong's famous urban legends was related to the backward filming technology, failed art direction and erroneous post-editing at the time, and the Hong Kong media at the time was particularly fond of reporting these strange content to gain attention, so the rumors that the advertisement was haunted became more and more exaggerated.
In fact, there are similar urban legends in Guangzhou, such as the havoc in Guangchanglong, the ghost bride of Chengzhulou, the "Liwan corpse field", etc., we have also conducted research, and made a film to explain the ins and outs, but in terms of the number of broadcasts, it is too far from those hearsay and sensational "old works" films, which may confirm the sentence: spread rumors with one mouth, refute rumors and break your legs.
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