Strange Wal-mart vision DVD I saw as a child?
Mar 24, 2023 2:04:48 GMT
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Post by sleepless on Mar 24, 2023 2:04:48 GMT
First off, I'm not sure how to describe the "form" of media. They weren't quite ads-- that is, they never aired on TV, nor were they something you would have been able to find online, as far as I'm aware. Rather, I witnessed this series of shorts playing on a television in a Wal-mart vision center in a single Wal-mart in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a Wal-mart I very well could have only visited once in my life, as that town had many stores at the time and I very rarely got to travel there. It's also entirely possible that this was the only Wal-mart that had this footage, and just a confirmation of its existence would be nice.
These videos were a series of still images of traditionally "cute" things: a baby, a kitten, a puppy, a hamster, etc. In each short, a man's mouth was superimposed onto the mouth of that animal, presumably describing the Wal-mart vision center, the importance of glasses, or some deal they had going on. I never got a good listen of the audio, I just remember being a child standing by my mother, watching these from afar as she checked out. I recall the visuals looking very similar to that one Markiplier video, just with far less motion, seeing as they were either stock photos or stock footage. They'd just play back to back and loop back afterwards, and I believe the first one (or at the very least, the one I saw first) being the baby.
As for a timeframe that this would have played during, I recall the vision center only being a thing in "super" Wal-marts. My hometown didn't have one at the time, and to summarize a huge tangent, I remember the one in my town opening on the release day of Ratchet: Deadlocked, so this took place before late 2005. I also recall going to large towns like Indianapolis and Fort Wayne regularly in late 2004 through early 2005, as I was a die-hard Star Wars fan at the time and would go on extensive searches to find cool merchandise with my dad.
Does anybody else remember these? Did these air only in that store, or were they DVD's shipped out by corporate for every vision center to play? Where would I even begin trying to find them again?
These videos were a series of still images of traditionally "cute" things: a baby, a kitten, a puppy, a hamster, etc. In each short, a man's mouth was superimposed onto the mouth of that animal, presumably describing the Wal-mart vision center, the importance of glasses, or some deal they had going on. I never got a good listen of the audio, I just remember being a child standing by my mother, watching these from afar as she checked out. I recall the visuals looking very similar to that one Markiplier video, just with far less motion, seeing as they were either stock photos or stock footage. They'd just play back to back and loop back afterwards, and I believe the first one (or at the very least, the one I saw first) being the baby.
As for a timeframe that this would have played during, I recall the vision center only being a thing in "super" Wal-marts. My hometown didn't have one at the time, and to summarize a huge tangent, I remember the one in my town opening on the release day of Ratchet: Deadlocked, so this took place before late 2005. I also recall going to large towns like Indianapolis and Fort Wayne regularly in late 2004 through early 2005, as I was a die-hard Star Wars fan at the time and would go on extensive searches to find cool merchandise with my dad.
Does anybody else remember these? Did these air only in that store, or were they DVD's shipped out by corporate for every vision center to play? Where would I even begin trying to find them again?
