These Videos Helped 80s Cities Sell Themselves

These Videos Helped 80s Cities Sell Themselves
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No gimmick was too gimmicky. It was the 1980s, and chambers of commerce in cities around the country needed to convince people who’d spent the last decades fleeing crime and decay in America’s urban areas to come back downtown and party.

They made their cases, naturally, with the era’s most powerful medium: montage videos.

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