On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, chris wrote:
> >French Postcards! The way it worked was that there were two pictures, one
> >loaded into the first hi-res page and the other loaded into the second
> >hi-res page. The two pages were then alternated to produce "animation".
> >The obnoxious part was that it would play this loud trill between each
> >page flips, so if you were trying to be discrete there was no chance of
> >that.
>
> That might have been it, but I remembered it being more animated
> cartoonish video. Some kind of a story went with it (the two ladies came
> home from the store pulled the salami from their bag, and wondered what
> they could do with it).
Yes, French Postcards is what it was called. The pictures were all
drawings.
Another scenario featured a woman bumping into a guy working at the post
office licking envelopes that had a rather large tongue. Another was a
lady, her maid, and a bottle of champaign. I forgot what the last one
was.
> And I don't recall their being sound with it, but I could be wrong.
There were different versions. One version removed the obnoxious sound.
> I'll have to look thru one of the online A2 archives... someone must
> have it imaged somewhere.
I've still got it on disk.
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