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Guinness World Record For New Matrix-Style Ad

A new TV ad made using 200 camcorders has landed itself a Guinness World Record.

The commercial for Toshiba's range of HD products was shot using the "bullet-time" technique, as seen in sci-fi movie The Matrix, starring Keanu Reeves.

The technique freezes the shot, while circling the freeze-frame.

The advert was filmed using a custom-built, 360-degree rig of Toshiba Gigashot handheld cameras.

The shoot used up 20,000Gb of hard disk space and took over 336 hours for computers to process.

Those stats helped earn it a world record for incorporating the most moving image cameras used in a composite film shot.

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