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Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, New York
Copy by: Robert Neuman, F. Paul Pracilio
First Appearance: September 1980
John Houseman: John Houseman
Creative Director: Tom Rost
Investment Company


Copy from: The Clio Awards Part I: A Tribute to 30 Years of Advertising Excellence 1960-1989, Clio Enterprises, Inc., pgs. 132-3. The company name is changed here.
Visual description by: Suzanne Morine.

[Day, interior long shot of a large old-fashioned college lecture hall with wooden desk seating, seats complete with numbers stenciled on their backs. Only one MAN (JOHN HOUSEMAN) is in the hall, taking a heavy book off a desk and walking down the stairs to us as he speaks. At the end, he's by the chalk boards looking at us.]

ANNOUNCER
[off screen] John Houseman, for the investment firm of Investment.

JOHN HOUSEMAN
Investment executives continually learn about the art of investing--precious little about selling. You don't sell clients, you work for them. You work very hard researching the right investments. And when they're right, no one has to be sold. Investment, they make money the old-fashioned way. They earn it!

[Shot has become medium shot of JOHN HOUSEMAN, the chalkboards behind him, book in his arm. White text superimposed toward the bottom half of the screen says, "Investment." Very small text at the bottom of the screen has a 1980 copyright and the full name of the firm, all capitals, followed by, "MEMBER SIPC."]

[time: 00:30]


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