[2]A Dramatic Surprise on a Quiet Square

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What It Is: In April 2012, when the cable TV channel TNT was launching in Belgium, it released a video online entitled A Dramatic Surprise on a Quiet Square. The video begins with dramatic, almost operatic, orchestral music and a series of title cards saying:

Somewhere in a little town in Belgium

On a square where nothing really happens

We placed a button

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A Dramatic Surprise on a Quiet Square

We see a bright red button on a pedestal in the middle of the square and a big arrow hanging from wires 10 feet ...

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