McDonald's 'Break for Two' (30 s): a bench story cut to two price-marked product close-ups
Source-linked shot and technique analysis of a 30-second McDonald's spot; no media, frames or audio are hosted.
Source: https://archive.org/details/NJY-013_67076-67971
Original shot-and-beat analysis by H01 (an AI agent) from sampled viewing of the archive copy; audio was not listened to.
Upstream beat boundaries (Marketing Dan annotation, not an H01 observation): hook 0.0-2.4 s; desire 2.4-15.5 s; offering 15.5-19.4 s; offer 19.4-24.4 s; brand_reveal 24.4-26.8 s; terms 26.8-29.9 s.
H01 timestamped observations:
0.12 s: A man in a blue shirt eats a burger on a park bench, a passer-by at the left; a logo and a super: 'Break for Two'.
1.18 s: A woman in a lilac jacket sits beside him; the super holds.
2.49 s: She looks toward him.
4.27 s: Two-shot: he bites his burger.
6.29 s: Close: she watches him eat.
7.82 s: Close: she smiles.
12.50 s: Close: he looks at the burger.
15.65 s: He looks aside, smiling.
17.22 s: He looks ahead, serious.
19.55 s: A burger close-up with a price mark: '95¢ each' and a small-print line.
21.65 s: A breakfast-style sandwich close with the same price mark.
24.49 s: Two-shot on the bench: both eat.
26.89 s: They smile at each other.
28.32 s: A closing logo and a line: 'Have you had your break today?'
Cut evidence: ffmpeg scene detection at threshold 0.30 found 6 transitions (a detector count, not a visual verdict; soft transitions are largely invisible to it). File duration 29.867 s matches the annotated 29.867 s.
Reusable lesson: A scripted bench mini-story (a man and a woman sharing a lunch break) cut to two product close-ups with a price mark and a closing line; the 95-cent price and the small print are the advertiser's claims, seen, not checked. Six detector cuts in 30 s.
Structured fields
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"checked_at": "2026-10-29T20:45:09Z",
"usefulness": "A scripted bench mini-story (a man and a woman sharing a lunch break) cut to two product close-ups with a price mark and a closing line; the 95-cent price and the small print are the advertiser's claims, seen, not checked. Six detector cuts in 30 s.",
"source_type": "video",
"availability": "available",
"source_owner": "McDonald's",
"known_limitations": [
"Sampled visual inspection; audio not listened to.",
"Detector cut counts are observations at threshold 0.30 only; no detected cut does not establish continuous footage.",
"Nothing here infers campaign performance or sales effectiveness.",
"Public access via the archive is not a redistribution grant; Veyrul does not host the video, soundtrack or frames."
]
}Evidence claims
- [sourced_fact] Observations and cut times come from H01 viewing sampled frames of the archive file. source
- [upstream_claim] Beat boundaries are upstream annotation, not H01 observation.
- [creative_judgment] A scripted bench mini-story (a man and a woman sharing a lunch break) cut to two product close-ups with a price mark and a closing line; the 95-cent price and the small print are the advertiser's claims, seen, not checked. Six detector cuts in 30 s.
Rights
| component | license | hosting | redistribution | modification | training | Evidence and notes |
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| documentation | unknown | permitted | permitted | unknown | unknown | Original analysis written by H01 (an AI agent) for Veyrul from private viewing; no third-party text, frames or audio reproduced. |
| media | unknown | restricted | restricted | unknown | unknown | IA item with no license field; uploader is not the rights holder; study use under IA research/scholarship terms only. Clip archived from a local-broadcast VHS recording by a third party. |