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I am humbled. That brought a tear to my eye.
They are using, not this exact clip, but the same music and similar light effects in an ad for the UK Lottery. Obviously a rip off of this clip, but interestingly the house is a little smaller. I guess they had to make it believable for the UK market.
---The Sister
Actually, I had wondered if this was in the UK. Someone told me this was near Cleveland, but the balcony says Happy Christmas. You're right, though, I thought the house was too big for the UK.
Whoa...
I still can't stop laughing!
I am still so awed by the technical wizardry here that I looked up the thing on YouTube. It is officially favorited. Here is the backgrounder from the guy who posted the original clip:
Wow, this thing has really gone crazy with the viewers. Let me first start by saying that this is not my house. Regardless of what any of the comments read, this house really does exist, I have seen it with my own eyes and nothing you see in the video is trickery, it's all real.
This display was the work of Carson Williams, a Mason, Ohio, electrical engineer who spent about three hours sequencing the 88 Light-O-Rama channels that controlled the 16,000 Christmas lights in his annual holiday lighting spectacular (from Christmas 2004). His 2005 display includes over 25,000 lights that he spent nearly two months and $10,000 to hook up. So that the Williams' neighbors aren't disturbed by constant noise, viewers driving by the house are informed by signs to tune in to a signal broadcast over a low-power FM radio station to hear the musical accompaniment.
The rough quality of the video has led some viewers to believe it was put together in stop-action form from still photographs, but that is an artifact of the high compression used in the clip circulated via e-mail. Mr. Williams has posted instructions for recreating his "Wizard in Winter" sequencing, and another of his choreographed Christmas light music shows can be viewed here.
Carson's Christmas display proved so popular that it was featured in a Miller Lite beer commercial in December 2005.
Mr. Carson Williams even has a wikipedia entry. There is also a video on youtube with a similar theme--search for Frisco Christmas Lights--same music and all, but it's a house with a much larger yard and more lights. These folks (Frisco, Texas, by the way, not San Francisco) apparently use different music every year. I still like Williams' show better just because he put the peace symbol in there way back in 2004. These Texans probably still support the war and their god/president George Bush, but it's a darn good show all the same
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