• By Murilee Martin
    Nov 11, 2008 2:00 PM 3,126
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    The 1961 Renault Dauphine: Built By Invisible Robots In The Asteroid Belt!

    Here we've got a seriously avant-garde animated ad for the '61 Renault Dauphine, with artwork by Alexandre Alexieff and an electronic music soundtrack by the enigmatic Van Thienen. We're reminded of the Louis Barron soundtrack to What's The Big Hurry, but in this case a car is being born rather than being crushed.


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