Delta's In-Flight Safety Video
November 30, 2009 8:38 PM Subscribe
Delta's In-Flight Safety Video is a strange but compelling mix of surreality, Kubrickian composition, and self-mockery. And always remember, smoking is not allowed on any Delta flight.
This post was deleted for the following reason: This is me wagging my finger at you. -- cortex
yea, you totally start wondering what it is you're watching when she wags her finger "not allowed" (and when the guy's tooth glints ;)
oh and i never noticed the music before!
posted by kliuless at 8:54 PM on November 30, 2009
oh and i never noticed the music before!
posted by kliuless at 8:54 PM on November 30, 2009
I saw this on my flight yesterday and thought to myself, Wow, this is actually really well-done. Strange to see it here again.
posted by reductiondesign at 8:54 PM on November 30, 2009
posted by reductiondesign at 8:54 PM on November 30, 2009
I'll make it just that little bit worse, then-- although everyone calls her "Deltalina," her real name is Katherine Lee, and she's an 11-year Delta employee. More about Ms. Lee from her hometown paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Oh, and just to add some insult to the MeFi injury, she's also on Twitter.
posted by fairytale of los angeles at 8:55 PM on November 30, 2009
Oh, and just to add some insult to the MeFi injury, she's also on Twitter.
posted by fairytale of los angeles at 8:55 PM on November 30, 2009
I much prefer Virgin's safety video, which I can't help but watch every time.
posted by crickets at 8:57 PM on November 30, 2009 [7 favorites]
posted by crickets at 8:57 PM on November 30, 2009 [7 favorites]
Creepy.
And by Creepy I mean it's creapy when people start following and or making up names for people in commercials / ads / in-flight safety videos. Deltalina? (from first few YouTube comments).
Other than the finger wagging and the tooth glinting I don't see much of note in this video.
posted by pkingdesign at 8:59 PM on November 30, 2009
And by Creepy I mean it's creapy when people start following and or making up names for people in commercials / ads / in-flight safety videos. Deltalina? (from first few YouTube comments).
Other than the finger wagging and the tooth glinting I don't see much of note in this video.
posted by pkingdesign at 8:59 PM on November 30, 2009
I kept on waiting for whatever was funny/entertaining/post-worthy about this video. It never came.
My only explanation is that this submission must be either A) some sort of social experiment being performed on MeFi or B) some dimension of humor that I simply do not get.
posted by mnop at 9:03 PM on November 30, 2009 [2 favorites]
My only explanation is that this submission must be either A) some sort of social experiment being performed on MeFi or B) some dimension of humor that I simply do not get.
posted by mnop at 9:03 PM on November 30, 2009 [2 favorites]
I could've sworn I saw her walking up and down the aisles back in April. Could've also been intensely sleep-deprived, though. Could've been either.
posted by zer0render at 9:06 PM on November 30, 2009
posted by zer0render at 9:06 PM on November 30, 2009
I could've sworn I saw her walking up and down the aisles back in April.
Yeah, I feel like I've seen this around here before.
posted by niles at 9:07 PM on November 30, 2009
Yeah, I feel like I've seen this around here before.
posted by niles at 9:07 PM on November 30, 2009
Unless you meant that you actually think you saw her. In person. In which case I've got nothing.
posted by niles at 9:08 PM on November 30, 2009
posted by niles at 9:08 PM on November 30, 2009
an 11 year-old Delta employee? Fuck me, she is not aging well.
I saw this over the summer and became strangely fixated by her face. It's so goddam pointy. It had been a long day.
posted by jontyjago at 9:24 PM on November 30, 2009
I saw this over the summer and became strangely fixated by her face. It's so goddam pointy. It had been a long day.
posted by jontyjago at 9:24 PM on November 30, 2009
And by Creepy I mean it's creapy when people start following and or making up names for people in commercials / ads / in-flight safety videos. Deltalina? (from first few YouTube comments).
I'm not sure who made it up - certainly if it was others, she's embraced it enough that it's her Twitter user name.
posted by Tomorrowful at 9:24 PM on November 30, 2009
I'm not sure who made it up - certainly if it was others, she's embraced it enough that it's her Twitter user name.
posted by Tomorrowful at 9:24 PM on November 30, 2009
I couldn't understand why this is supposed to be on MetaFilter.
posted by KokuRyu at 9:33 PM on November 30, 2009
posted by KokuRyu at 9:33 PM on November 30, 2009
Air New Zealand took the concept a layer deeper.
posted by WhackyparseThis at 9:48 PM on November 30, 2009
posted by WhackyparseThis at 9:48 PM on November 30, 2009
I don't get why this is interesting, either.
Seemed like a standard corporate-made video. Someone at Delta heard about the Air New Zealand video and decided to make their own, but the committees took all the risque out.
posted by mrnutty at 9:56 PM on November 30, 2009
Seemed like a standard corporate-made video. Someone at Delta heard about the Air New Zealand video and decided to make their own, but the committees took all the risque out.
posted by mrnutty at 9:56 PM on November 30, 2009
Just took a Delta flight this weekend and saw the video. At the time, the only things that stood out were the blown-out contrast on the plane's video screen: it made her wide-toothed smile look like some scenester's photoshopped myspace picture.
That, and the creepy wagging finger.
There's an interesting post lurking around the edges of this one, something about the increasingly 'intimate' tone of corporate messaging that's evolved in recent years, and how it's the dark and soulless twin of the commoditization of time and relationship. But this post isn't it.
This post just makes me think, "Ugh. I have to watch that video again in three days."
posted by verb at 10:24 PM on November 30, 2009
That, and the creepy wagging finger.
There's an interesting post lurking around the edges of this one, something about the increasingly 'intimate' tone of corporate messaging that's evolved in recent years, and how it's the dark and soulless twin of the commoditization of time and relationship. But this post isn't it.
This post just makes me think, "Ugh. I have to watch that video again in three days."
posted by verb at 10:24 PM on November 30, 2009
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