Hi, Thanks for your reply -
the (1-minute?) ad was set in a nighttime carnival/circus environment, very heavy on costume/character appearance (thus lucasfilm/ILM made it as I recall, specifically recalling comparing to lucas' work with original star wars mos eisley cantina), with barkers, freaks with stock market themes, a clown dressed as buy on one side and sell on another side who kept flipping, with narrator talking about how confusing and overwhelming all the crap out there was (not his words), till at the end the sun came out and you saw the logo of the big retail name clearing away the dregs from the night (want to say fido but obviously not sure). This came out after the humorous etrade and ameritrade series of commericals had been around a bit.
I recall reading at the time that this had been the most expensive brokerage commercial made at that time. was a very professional job but had wanted to link to a friend who started trading after this time-frame and realized I cannot find the thing on youtube nor in date-ranged google searches - thus I probably have a major detail (brokerage or producer) wrong. Organic memory does slowly accumulate data errors.
I may be wrong about lucasfilm making it but the impression it was a known special effects studio is strong.
I am much more likely to be wrong about the firm being Fidelity - but it was a retail-oriented firm, and a known name, not a relatively new or online one like etrade ameritrade, and it certainly wasn't chase's george brown.
I do have a persistent impression that the commercial was named 'wall street,' which hasn't helped searches at all given the movies with that in the title.
