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James Sterling Moran (January 1, 1908 – October 18, 1999) was a publicist, actor, and a press agent for film studios, manufacturers, retailers, Washington politicians from the 1930s to the 1980s. In 1989, Time ranked him as "the supreme master of that most singular marketing device--the publicity stunt." [1]
In marketing, a publicity stunt is a planned event designed to attract the public's attention to the event's organizers or their cause. Publicity stunts can be professionally organized, or set up by amateurs. [4] Such events are frequently utilized by advertisers and celebrities, many of whom are athletes and politicians.
Another of Houdini's most famous publicity stunts was to escape from a nailed and roped packing crate after it had been lowered into water. He first performed the escape in New York's East River on July 7, 1912. Police forbade him from using one of the piers, so he hired a tugboat and invited press on board.
Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam of the RCA Building, 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground during the construction of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City. It was a staged photograph arranged as a publicity stunt, part of a campaign ...
9 Putin publicity stunts that were absolutely absurd. Alexandra Ma. April 4, 2018 at 9:00 AM. Vladimir Putin is keen to portray himself as a patriotic strongman who will lead Russia to greatness ...
Malcolm Hardee (5 January 1950 – 31 January 2005) [1] was an English comedian and comedy club proprietor. [2]His high reputation among his peers rests on his outrageous publicity stunts and on the help and advice he gave to successful British alternative comedians early in their careers, acting as "godfather to a generation of comic talent in the 1980s". [3]
The Crash at Crush was a one-day publicity stunt in the U.S. state of Texas that took place on September 15, 1896, in which two uncrewed locomotives were crashed into each other head-on at high speed. William George Crush, general passenger agent of the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, conceived the idea in order to demonstrate a staged ...
Occupation (s) Public relations, lecturer, author. Known for. Publicity stunts. Mark Borkowski (born 1956 in Stroud, Gloucestershire) is a British PR agent and author with an interest in the history of public relations and the art of the publicity stunt. [1] He attended King's Stanley Junior School and St Peters High School in Gloucester and ...