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Full-Motion Building Advertising Facade  
  An advertising display that covers an entire skyscraper; it provides full-motion video to onlookers.  

The 'screen' is a display that covers the entire side of the building. Note that it offers full-motion video. Also, note the vehicle lights of the flying car that is going by the midsection of the building.


(Blade Runner: full-motion, full-size building advertisements)

Technovelgy from Blade Runner, by Ridley Scott.
Published by Blade Runner Partnership in 1982
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Take a look at the full-motion building advertising facade in this clip from the movie Blade Runner (it starts about 15 seconds in).

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