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Super sweet charity promo sees children take on the hardest word in the world

Date
31 May 2012

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Fillmmakers long ago hit on a formula for charity appeal videos, particularly those featuring kids and/or underprivileged countries – ladle on the pathos, pull on the heart strings and wait for the cash to roll in. That’s why it’s so refreshing to see a different take from Mathieu Cuvelier, Lucy Crook and The Viral Factory who challenged a class of uber-cute Cambodian kids to say Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious as part of a fundraising promo for About Asia Schools. Obviously some people will find it cloyingly twee but if you’re in need of a lift, you could do a lot worse than watch on. And check out the eyebrow/nostril control of the two lads at the end…

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Rob Alderson

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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

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