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Dancing Cows - Dairylea Cheese

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Dancing Cows - Dairylea Cheese
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NZ On Screen
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In this commercial, a chorus of musically talented cows — and one bull — perform a catchy song and a (sort of) dance, while preaching the benefits of Dairylea cheese. As it turns out, it's all about the cow's diet: "when you try Dairylea there's no better to be found, because Dairylea cows eat grass all year round." The cows are not computer animated — rather, real footage of cows is creatively edited and reversed to fake their musical performance. The dancing cows advertisement originally sc...

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Video
Date created
1991
URL
https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/dancing-cows-dairylea-1991
Related subjects
cows / dairy / farming / dance / funny / comedy / milk / commercial / dairy products / dairylea cheese / tasty cheese / mild cheese / medium cheese / singing cows / advertisement / singing animals / dancing animals / farm animals / talking cows / dancing cows / 1990s / nineties / 1988 / editing / saatchi and saatchi / saatchi & saatchi / colenso bbdo

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