from the absurd -- >> i'm going to pull my junk out and take a leak. >> -- to the embarrassing. >> it really happened. i have all the wedding footage. do you want it see it. >> to the just plain shocking. >> this was one of the most disturbing viral videos i've seen. >> these viral videos capture our attention. one way -- >> a pretty horrifying visceral thing when you see that. >> -- or another. >> the tire should not be able to go up just by nudging it. >> i can't believe it. that's so incredible. >> almost instantly. we want to forward them along. >> things like that, people tend to want it share with other people. >> he just lost his wing. >> but how can you know if they're real? >> looks like it could be real. which is why i think it's not real. >> imagine your wedding day has finally arrived after months, if

>> imagine your wedding day has finally arrived after months, if not years, of planning. the sun's shining. your dream dress is perfectly steamed. your hair and make-up are flawless. you're staring into the eyes of the man you love and then -- >> oh, my god, oh, my god. >> a wedding disaster. >> there's always that fear that one little thing will ruin everything. >> that's what happened in this video. >> one little tumble turns it from perfect to a calamity. >> it has awesome shock value. >> if this was my wedding, my whole family would be like, that guy would be in the pool, maybe on the barbecue. it wouldn't be like, oh, is she okay?

oh, charlie slipped. you know what i mean? it would be like, get the forks. we are killing charlie. >> this nuptial nightmare is first uploaded to youtube in october 2008. soon, it's appearing on news broadcasts and morning shows around the country. >> this is somebody's wedding day. we found on the website. let's take a look. that's the best man. that's the best man. but you know what? i mean -- and it didn't look -- oh, oh. >> was it a real moment caught on camera? or something all together different? if you guessed real, you were wrong. >> i thought it was fake. but i didn't want to think it was fake. i wanted to believe it was real. so i just told everyone it was real. i just willed myself to believe it was real. people were like, that's fake.

i was like, no, it's real. it's got to be real. >> independent filmmaker archie gibb is the man behind this embarrassingly funny tumble. >> it is a script after feature film that i wrote. >> that's right. it's a promo for a movie. >> my producing partner and i thought it would be really cool if we could do a movie that we could actually market, have clips on the internet that people would think is real and then when they come see the movie, they would decide for themselves. >> inspired by the 1999 hit, "the blair witch project", they came up with the idea of putting together a film from so-called found footage. but this time it would be a romantic comedy. not a horror film. and a wedding seemed like the perfect setting. >> sometimes when you go to a wedding, they will have disposable cameras that the bride and groom will hand out. at this wedding, they handed out flip cameras. >> in reality, the movie was shot over 12 days at a home in

los angeles. as soon as production wrapped, archie uploaded a short clip to youtube. that moment, millions would see. he thought it would be a good way of drumming up interest while he edited the movie. little did he know how quickly the clip would take off. >> about a week later, yahoo! had it on their home page as wet wedding and it went bonkers. >> zoe, your top. >> oh, my god. >> every single major morning news program wanted the bride and the groom to come on to their show to talk. we couldn't do that. >> after all, the bride and groom were actors. >> it's dry cleaning. >> and sending them on to a national television program seemed a little too risky. and because the movie wasn't ready for audience, archie wasn't prepared it spill the beans just yet. >> we did not want to let the cat out of the bag.

because part of the fun of the movie is, is it real, is it fake? >> so he decided it string the shows along. when asked if the clip was real, arch archie would just say -- >> it really happened. i have all of the wedding footage, do you want it see it? if they asked me point blank, was this shot for a movie? i would say yes. but they did not ask the write question. >> people can be duped. smart people can be duped easier. things like that, people want to believe. because it's really funny. we weren't set out to pull a hoax. it was always to have it -- something entertaining that people thought was funny and they just weren't sure if it was real or fake. >> fast forward one year, to october 2009. the clip has millions of views and the movie is now complete. archie's ready for more publicity, and lucky for him, a local morning show in l.a. wants to have the bride and groom on

to talk about their mishap. this time it seems worth the risk. >> carissa wheeler, who plays the bride, and josh cobitt, the groom, went in character. one of them actually says, i kind of believed it was real but now seeing you guys together, you would totally make a great couple. >> well, i had my doubts too. but now that i see you, you guys are truly in love. i feel bad for the news anchors digging themselves in into a hole without knowing they were digging themselves into a hole. >> we called them up and said we would love to come back on the show. it wasn't real. can you chastise us or whatever you want. they declined to have us back on their show. >> you can take a joke so far. and then you can take it too far. they clearly went over the edge and fell over it into the pool of bad will. as it were. >> maybe not with the audience though. while the completed movie wasn't a hit, this dip was viewed over 100 million times online and on tv.

real or fake, it was a viral success. >> oh, my god! oh, my god! >> another viral hit. this short clip uploaded in january 2011. yes, that appears to be a gorilla walking upright just like a man. all the other gorillas are sitting or on all fours, like you would expect. it seems suspicious. could this be a man in a gorilla suit? nope. this is as real as it gets. bam bam is a western low land gorilla living at the port limnney wild animal park in kent, england. where he can sometimes be seen strutting across his enclosure on just two feet. keepers say this stance gives him a height advantage he can

use it see over the wall when they come to feed him. and apparently, the ability to walk like a man runs in the family. bam bam's father displayed the same unusual behavior. so, he's just following in his father's foot steps. from a primate who can walk the walk, to a baby doing -- whatever this is. that can't possibly be a real baby. can it? >> you kind of hope that it's -- >> you are going to send this to everyone you know who has a baby. >> amazing special effects or obscure child development practices. when we return to "caught on camera: viral videos, do you believe?" let me tell you about a very important phone call i made. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn't cover everything. in fact, it only pays up to 80% of your part b expenses.

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in late 2010, this jaw-dropping video of a woman moving and swinging what looks like a small baby starts to get the attention of online viewers. >> you see a video of this happening to a baby, you're going send this to everyone you

know who has a baby, likes cute things and likes cute little babies and would be outraged by it. >> web sites like gawker quickly start questioning if it's even real. >> this was one of the most disturbing viral videos i've seen. it's intense. it is intense. this can't be a real baby. right? >> i mean, the way that we bind them up and swaddle them and put them this car seats, you don't expect to see babies move this way. >> it's easier to say, it's fake, the baby is not getting hurt, i don't need to worry about it. >> i was hoping it was an editing trick like live baby, live baby, okay, cut. put the doll in hand, do whatever you want with that doll because it is just a stupid doll. >> is this a case of creative editing? no, it isn't. >> who comes up with this idea first? jumpy, jumpy. oh, you know, it's like, oh, hey

the arm didn't come off. >> that would be russian lee anna fokina, a practitioner of something called dynamic gymnastics. she runs a workshops in egypt. the journalist has looked into this for his blog and for time magazine where he's a contributing writing. >> she was able to confirm that you know, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that this was real, that child was real. and fortunately, that the child was still alive and seems to be healthy. >> thornburg scored an interview with her after seeing the video go viral. >> this was one of those videos that you don't just see in one place one time. i think i got it forwarded to me from 15 people at once. >> the video is hard to watch. so we're only showing you carefully selected portions. thornburg describes it in its entirety. >> she starts by sort of rocking it back and forth. holding two hands and then, before you know it, she's flipped the baby up and she starts to swing it, you know.

like she is starting to make pizza dough or something. then she lets go of one arm and she has the kid by just one hand. little bit of lariat action. 30 seconds into it, your jaw is just on floor. >> the two-week old baby girl seems to remain calm. >> that's why a lot of people are thinking, well this is not real. because no child could sit through that kind of thing without howling or something. >> far from harming the child, fokina and her followers say this practice of dynamic gymnastics sometimes called baby yoga aides in development. >> my russian friends said, yeah, they start walking more quickly and start talking and start reading at a younger age. >> but these claims are not supported by scientific evidence. >> there's been no big scientific study what happens if you take ten babies and flip them and ten babies and you don't flip them.

i think at the end of the day there's a matter of faith. and there is a small group in russia that do this. it's a small minority but they have a lot of faith in it. >> the baby's father, sasha, thinks that fokina, not the girl's mother, is on to something. >> sasha, the father, believes in this. he has gone down to egypt before and spent time with her, and i think is a big part of their lifestyle. >> in fact, he still swings his daughter, who is shown here as a 2-year-old toddler. he says she is happy and healthy. while this video represents an extreme version of dynamic gymnastics, thornburg says this practice is at least partly in line with the russian approach to fitness and health. >> russians expect a certain amount of virility. they are the people who sit in hot, you know, saunas and beat themselves with sticks then run out into the snow. >> this is an example of different strokes for different folks, right? but still, i don't think it

would be a good idea. >> you know that it's real, it's good to know that the baby was fine. that nothing happened. there was no injury. everything's cool. but it just seems so, like, violent and like, not healthy. i thought babies' necks were soft and that you needed to cradle them. not jerk them around. >> and maybe the extreme nature of the video is the reason many people thought this couldn't be real in the first place. and why some still don't believe it is. but there are still people who come on to our site and comment that they still think it's fake. even after the whole interview and i think one of the reasons is because we just have no visual context for anyone surviving something like this. coming up, from babies who shouldn't be flying, to planes that should. >> where is the right wing?

he just lost his wing. >> so aerodynamically that should not fly. >> should not or could not? >> you want to discuss it with your friends. what do you think? is this fake? is this real? >> the answers when we return to "caught on camera: viral videos, do you believe?" [ female announcer ] we were flattered when regenerist beat a $100 cream. flabbergasted when we creamed a $500 cream. for about $30 regenerist micro-sculpting cream hydrates better than over 20 of america's most expensive luxury creams.

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an airplane flies higher and higher into the sky. and then -- >> where's his right wing? he just lost his wing. >> as the one-winged plane falls through the air, you watch, horrified.

somehow, the impossible happens. the plane lands with only one wing. >> one of those amazing awesome things that you see and you're like, i can't believe it. that's so incredible. >> this clip titled, the best air race pilot ever, hits the web in 2008. and quickly racks up the views. some people just want to see this remarkable feat. >> he just lost his wing. >> but others pass it along because they aren't sure it's real. >> when you're not sure whether

something is real or not, you want to discuss it with your friends and you want to be like, what do you think? is this fake? is this real? >> there's a lot of sort of aerodynamic things that would have to happen that are against aerodynamic laws to make this work. >> you have wings that hold you up. if those wings are not holding you up, the engine is not keeping you up, you're going down. >> still, the video is shaky, like a home individual movie. and the plane is out of frame at times. this doesn't seem to be the work of a professional and that wing definitely disappeared, right? so which is it? real and really amazing? or fake?off, it is like fake. >> i think in the end we have given like, lots of hints that it can't be real. >> this viral hit is martin drager's brain child. >> we call it stealth campaigns. so that means that you fake something.

that you try to convince people in a way that they discuss if something is real or not. >> the video is a subtle campaign for a small german clothing company called kill a thrill. you can make out the company name on the body of the plane. >> if you type in killer thrill on google, you have four results before the campaign. after the campaign you have 15,000 results. i think they had even more than 100,000 visitors on the website. and the website had been totally unknown before. >> he got the results he was after. but how did drager make something fake look so real? >> that was the big problem, to get the knowledge, how to use such a video. that it looks real. and that, in the end, the pilot steps out of the plane and everybody has to think, oh, my god, he actually landed this plane.

>> to pull it off, drager, along with producer yan barons and post production consultant, michael viksu, combined three different planes. first, a remote control model airplane. to make the wing of the remote control plane disappear, they painted it out, frame by frame, replacing it with the blue from the sky. the detail 3-d aircraft was completed with a computer and inserted into footage shot on location at a hamburg airfield. it's the 3-d version of the plane that tumbles to earth and pulls up for a landing. >> i think the biggest challenge for the landing was it create a realistic looking plane, which we see before that, flying through the air. and then making it land on the real airport. >> after the plane lands, it comes to a stop and the pilot pops out of the cockpit, that's where the real plane comes into play. >> we used the real plane.

because we had to have all those dimensions. we have to have the position for the pilot where he comes out. so what happened was, we shooted it with the real plane. and afterwards, we put the 3-d machine right on to the real one. this picture we can see the layers. the person actually, opens the window and steps out. and that was what we thought would be necessary for the people to make it real for them. >> but after weeks of work, the team couldn't quite manage to make the landing look real enough. >> it looked a bit like, i don't know, a toy plane landing. when we saw we first thought, okay we have to work on it. it has to be super realistic. but then we decided, no, let's leave it like this because it will open the discussion on the net and people will say, well, something is wrong. i don't know what, but it looks

a bit weird. >> where is the right wing? >> all we wanted is to get people to debate about it. wanted to give them a story they can share or just a good thing, what you can -- yeah, discuss with friends. that's all we wanted. >> leaving the imperfect landing is way of tipping the viewer off and jump-starting the conversation. >> there is a huge amount of internet culture will people are debating whether something is fake or not. and i think there is video that plays perfectly into that. >> another one that had people talking, this video released in march 2011, standing in the middle of new york time's square, this man says he can hack any video screen. >> you see plug into the iphone that's my video transmitter now this is my video repeater. basically it takes any video signal coming out of the iphone and enhances it.

i can take over any other video signal that i want that i put this close to. >> he then plays the video he just recorded first on small screens close to the ground. and then attaching the devise it a large red balloon on a jumbo screen high overhead. the images on the phone and on the screen are perfectly in sync. so, real or fake? what do you think? no hacking here, the transmitter and receiver are random spare parts picked up from a used electronics store. but the video is playing for all to see. the company behind it just leased the screen space and played the video back like any other advertiser would. of course, play back is perfectly timed of correspond to what is being shown on the iphone screen. and why, might you ask? turns out, it is stealth campaign for the movie

"limitless." that's the movie that hacker interrupts on the giant screen. coming up, a close encounter with a rat. >> i will say, it did seem like it might have been people playing a joke. >> and a giant lego ball on the loose. >> this is just under that genre, of let's just do something really weird and videotape it and have fun with it. >> the gross and the whacky when we return to "caught on camera: viral videos, do you believe?" i? new intense shadowblast from covergirl. the news? it's eye shadow with primer built-in so it lasts! rich color that's fadeproof, waterproof, totally ignore-proof! oh yes! with new intense shadowblast eye couture is ready to wear for hours! and here's a tip: to make an even bigger statement wear with lashblast fusion mascara lashblast and new intense shadowblast from easy, breezy, beautiful covergirl.

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that rat does not mess around. it's not like a rat, on the leg, oh, no, a human, i will get off of you. that rat was like, i will go towards the face hole. >> pretty horrifying visceral thing when you see that. this video is the hard to resist passing around. oh, my god, did you see this? >> but did that really just happen? >> i well say it did seem like it might have been people playing a joke. like they had a pet rat and were like, oh, let's let a rat loose. i did think there was some trained rat. i thought there would be a clicking noise in the back, and oh, there's a trainer. >> is this video for real or like some of our other videos, a trick?

>> it was a subway rat. it wasn't somebody's house mouse. it wasn't a pet chinchilla. no, it was a dirty subway rat. >> jeff forbs catches this hair-raising moment on camera while on his way home from work late at night. >> i was on the train and asleep on my way home, and a lady is screaming, a rat, a rat. i woke up and the rat was at my feet. this -- >> he takes out the point and shoot camera and points it at this rat climbing on this unidentified sleeping man. >> i thought it was a crazy video because i've never seen a rat on the train in my life, and i have lived here all my hive. >> within days of putting it on youtube and facebook, it has tens of thousands of views. and for good reason. >> that's amazing. caught a rat climbing on somebody on the new york subway. >> an experience forbs won't forget any time soon, even if he wanted to. >> i have a hard time sleeping on the trains now. i seriously do.

i think of a rat crawling on you. i don't want that to happen. >> in our next video, a giant ball of legos rolls down a san francisco street. but could this be green screen technology or some other hollywood inspired trick? >> i love this video. this is just under that genre, of let's just do something really weird and videotape it and have fun with it. oh, that's the idea i've had all the time after i add couple beers or i'm joking around with my friends and these guys actually did it. >> or did they? well, yes. and not exactly. >> there is definitely a boulder that has legos on it rolling down the hill after these guys. >> that's right. it wasn't created by a computer or shot in front of a green screen. but it also wasn't just a group of friends joke around. >> it had viral video advertising campaign. wafting off of it.

>> that's exactly what it is. a viral video promoting what was in 2008, a new lego indiana jones video game, from lucas arts. >> we wanted to find a way to broaden the audience. we tasked our agency to come up with some new ideas. something that would get people talking the next day. >> what's more different than a giant lego boulder chasing someone dressed like indian jones down a hill in the middle after major american city? but still, with 5 million lego bricks, that's got to be a little heavy. >> really heavy. and they are sort of moving it like it was nothing. i was like 5 million legos. >> so what about that 5 million number flashing at the end? >> we created a very big ball of legos that was at its core, was a big foam ball. >> a foam ball with an outer shell of about 4200 pieces of lego stuck to those familiar green panels. >> we used rubber cement and

glued the little bricks to the plates and the plates got glued to the styrofoam which made up the giant boulder. >> it was people coming in on the week friend our office and from lucas and just sat around and ate pizza and built this huge ball. and threw it on the back of a flat bed truck. and a couple days later took it to location. >> and on location, catching the scene on camera, it turns out to be kind of like a movie shoot. >> we actually shot it over and over again. we actually had a big moving truck with pads on it. >> ball would kind of roll into the mattress and collide and stop. and we ended up doing that about four or five times down the rest of the length of the road. and then, kind of cut those pieces together to make it look like one fluid roll. >> there is one part of the video where you see the road flattens out a bit.

we actually today push the ball because there wasn't enough momentum to get over the flat segment. so we were then pushing the boulder and took the people out in post. >> it is also suspicious that all those lego brooks stay in place for the whole bumpy trip. well, as it turns out, they don't. >> after the very first roll within pieces started falling off everywhere. >> there were some things flapping off at different times in the post production process. we kind of cleaned up the flapping panels to make it look like a clean ball. >> this combination of real and fake certainly works. the video's been viewed more than 6 million times. >> i think most people looked at it and just said, that's awesome. and they didn't care if it was fake or real. they just thought it was funny. >> in the end, the fact they built this big thing and took it out and rolled it down the hill and some guy ran in front of it, reenacting an indiana jones movie is just hilarious. coming up, drinking and mowing don't mix. >> i've been drinking all day. hang on just a second.

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our next viral video hit the internet in 2006. and immediately had people wondering, is it real? or is it fake? >> i'm going to stop a lawn mower, white male. >> the action is caught on a police dash cam. >> what is this guy doing? >> you kind of go like, this can't be real. >> what's your name? >> steve. >> but then you're like, but it could be because this is clearly a police officer's dash cam. the guy gets out, dressed to the nines as a cop. >> it certainly has a lot of elements that lend it credibility. >> how long you been riding a lawn mower? >> about two weeks. my truck broke. >> two weeks? >> yeah. >> you got a license on you? >> the situation, quickly gets, well, uncomfortable. >> what are you doing? >> i got to pee. >> sir, step off the lawn mower. sir, step off the lawn mower. >> hang on. >> i'm about to spray you. >> step off the lawn mower. >> just give me a second.

>> sir, you better step off that lawn mower. you're about to get sprayed. i'm serious. >> i got to go. ahhh! >> all sorts of absurd action is caught on camera these days. and this dash cam video certainly looks convincing, but is it real? >> you're not to ride a lawn mower on a highway. what are you doing? >> this is steve, the lawn mower guy. >> to me it's bringing to comedy identify been doing for years on stage. >> i grew up with a buddy named steve who was just loud and raising hell all the time. won't it be fun to hear him every once in a while. all right, here's what you're going do. >> in 2006, mark is doing stand-up. but wants to reach a larger audience. that's where steve comes in. >> it was a way to get attention

just in general. but it was also, you know, intended kind of as a commercial. to have him say, that was really funny. who is this guy? i want to learn more. >> i've been drinking all day. oh, hang on, just a second. >> mark posted the steve video with this description. my buddy steve is a moron. i often tell his stories in my show. this is one of my favorites. through a friend on the force, i got one of steve's arrest videos. >> to randomly be able to grab a new fan through the internet is really exciting. because if the internet didn't exist, i would be old school like a politician, town to town, shaking hands, hey, here's who i am. i'm funny. trust me. believe in me. but now, the internet does that. >> just because he wants to attract new fans, doesn't mean he wants to make it easy for them to figure out who steve really is. >> i think it's kind of -- it's the modern day gag. the modern day, you know, crank

call. >> i got to pee. >> sir, step off the lawn mower. >> hang on. >> i was hoping that they would think it was real. that was my intent. was to -- let's make this as believable as possible from top to bottom. >> and that dash cam does seem authentic. >> instantly you're like, okay, the guy must know a cop. you know what i mean? >> bingo. the officer in the video none other than mark's brother-in-law. a real life cop in louisiana. >> he is so believable as the cop. especially because he's calm. you know. that's how cops are. >> you're not supposed to be riding a lawn mower on the highway. what are you doing? >> uh --- i'm just going to the store down here. my truck is broke. i mean, my wife said if i didn't get her another beer, she was going to stab me in the face. >> well, first of all, there's not a store down there.

second of all, you don't need to be drinking and then you're littering on top of that. >> when he is talking to the guy, he is probably just in cop mode. i would talk to you just as i was pulling you over as a regular cop. >> what's your name? >> steve. >> where do you live at, steve? >> except i think we would have gotten way more tazing as it were with the whole, "i'm going to pull my junk out and take a leak." i think that would have been a quick one-two for the tazing. >> ahhh! >> i mean, you really going to get up and try and take a leak? go to the bathroom in front of a police officer? i mean, no matter how much you've had to drink, are you really going to do that? i don't know. >> the officer isn't all that's real. the video is shot with the actual dash cam in the brother-in-law's very real police car.he has it get the vi processed at the station before giving it to mark. >> when he took at video in, initially the very first one, you know his coworkers

immediately were like, when did that happen? when did this -- tell us the story. and so that was like the first sign that oh, man, this is really -- this could be good, you know. >> luckily mark's brother-in-law doesn't get in trouble. and steve is a success. >> something that's kind of funny and well produced can be hugely viral on the web. >> mark follows the first video with four more. including one posted in 2010. where steve gives up his lawn mower for a scissor lift. >> steve? come on down. >> come and get me. how about that. >> i'll tell you what, steve. we can do there the easy way or we can do it the hard way. >> i don't think the intent was it make a bunch of steve videos, as much as to find something that people would gravitate to. something that people would want to watch. >> you call 911. >> it doesn't matter if they think it's real or fake. it seems people want to watch steve.

>> sir, pull that to the side of the road. stop, now. >> the last one i put up was a million views in 20 days which is quicker than any of the other videos i've put on there. >> maybe i'll come down, maybe i won't. maybe i'll come down. maybe i won't. >> so what's next for steve? >> i'm just going to say it involves a helicopter. that's all i'm going to say. we're going big. coming up, from the ridiculous to the just plain freaky. >> so i'm going to sync them up to the monitor. then -- >> seeing 3-d without the pesky glasses. >> this gets weird very quickly. >> it's one of these ridiculous things that could just be true. >> could this be cutting edge technology? or is it one giant rouse? >> i could even touch it. >> when we return, to "caught on camera: viral videos, do you believe?"

in early 2011 this is uploaded to youtube. >> i'm going to talk to you about a very new device that creates 3-d without glasses. >> the man in the video explains that someone named jonathan has found a new way of seeing 3-d on a normal television screen without the pesky glasses. >> this is one of the viral videos that sneaks up on you. like why is this a viral video? but this gets weird very quickly. >> i'm going to sync the eyelid to the monitor. and then go. >> his eyes are flapping rapidly out of his control. it looks like the most uncomfortable thing to have

essentially a device take control of your blinking. >> the idea is to mimic special glasses that block one eye and then the other in rapid succession allowing you to see 3-d on newer television sets. but how could that be comfortable? or real? >> it's one of these ridiculous things that could just be true. like, you know, it could just be that this guy is a crazy guy who thinks this is amazing technology. >> the video is on tech websites. >> everybody's trying to come up with a way to do 3-d without the glasses. >> first off, if this was a technology, that man would be blind or not able to taste oranges. >> what's great about it is that you have nothing to -- no front of you. no glasses. so you can enjoy the show.

>> it's better than glasses because nothing is in front of your face. your eyes feel they're going to explode, but nothing is going in front of your face. >> so is this the next big thing or the next big fake? >> luis bloomenfeld is responsible for this creation. >> i thought we need to make something that represents what we are able to do. like 3-d we could do a composition -- special effects composition. >> they make the video to show what they can do. they post the name of luis' company. and the blinking is made possible between 3-d graphics. >> we make points over his face. he put pictures of his face around him.

with the pictures and points we create a 3-d face. >> luis and his team take a blink and repeat that over and over. >> it starts to follow him and blink. the effect is simple to do it. >> and those devices on his temples, computer chips with l.e.d. lights. >> the remote for the air conditioner. the beep that you listen on the movie, it's the air conditioner behind him just turning on. >> it might have been a fabrication, but it certainly fooled a lot of people. >> there was people saying he was trying to buy it, trying to use it, trying to see how they could spend to be the first one to have it. we got over 11,000 comments on our page. >> this clip has more than 5 million views on youtube alone.

>> you see it and you want to believe it. even if you kind of know it's fake, you want to kind of believe it's real and send it around. it's delightful to believe this guy exists and the technology exists. he's so excited about this weird invention he created. >> and finally, from the headache-inducing, to the logic-defying. >> when the cog rolls, it looks cg. it doesn't even look like a real thing. >> here it comes. tires rolling uphill. that was where this viral video lost me. the tires rolling up. that, i was like i can't do it. the tires should not be able to go up just by nudging each

other. >> this video first hits the air in 2003 as a traditional television ad for honda in the uk. but it quickly goes viral around the world. >> the different parts of the car are rolling or flipping and hitting the next thing and triggering the windshield wipers or muffler to roll. and it ends with unlocking the full car coming down a ramp. and that's the product they're selling. >> but did this happen for real? or is this another case of computer-generated effects? this one may surprise you. amazingly, this whole sequence actually happened. even the tires going uphill. >> people ask about how the tires go up the slope. and it's incredibly simple. the tire is here and there's a weight here. so as soon as there's motion,

the weight pushes it forward even though it's up a slope. >> he was there when it all came together. >> my personal favorite was the wind screen wipers. they look messy. one of our jobs in the commercial was to talk about product specifications. one of the product specifications of this honda accord was that it had rain sensitive wind screen wipers. >> they use the rain sensor and it's a creepy sci-fi creature that comes alive. >> so the wipers works. the tires rolled up. the cog set things in motion. but did it all happen in one continuous shot? well, almost. >> let me say that the whole sequence actually worked.

a two minute sequence works. when we came down to the shoot days, we made a limitation decision. we decided just so we had a better chance of succeeding to 60 second segments and then would join in the middle. it was half a second's worth of cgi on the books. between the two 60 second sequences but you can't see it. >> one shot or two, this is a hit. >> it's beautiful to watch. i'd definitely forward this to people. they actually did it. can you believe it? that's the kind of reaction i had. and i know other people would have the same.