A Little More Web Kipple
Having recently re-watched ‘Missing Believed Wiped‘, I stumbled across a pair of nice articles covering the lost and wiped dramas of Northern Ireland – a region that, like the rest of the UK, lost a number of pieces to a poor archiving policy and the the claws of the bulk eraser.
The rather lovely (and incredibly kitschy!) poster for 1971’s Gamera vs. Zigra.
And so I ended up on the VHistory blog where, hidden in one of the sites earlier posts, I came across an early trailer for the first series of Red Dwarf.
Inverse has a short oral history of 28 Days Later – film I looked back at almost four years ago. It’s an interesting little piece and I’d not realise how close the 9/11 attacks had come to putting an end to the production of a film that, ultimately, turned out to be a major influence on the genre.
Possibly my favourite ever Doctor Who death – the man-eating chair from 1971’s Terror of the Autons. It’s great fun with 70s Doctor Who remaining true to it’s nature – spending almost 30 seconds on inflating a plastic chair – and, as always, Roger Delgado remains the consummate professional through out.
A couple of bits of The Young Ones ephemera I’ve stumbled across.
The first, a trailer – with a trailer – for the first season of The Young Ones.
(Pinched from here!)
And in the second, a Friends Provident advert from 1990, Vyvyan and Neil sellout long enough to try and flog us insurance and investment products whist running around a supermarket.
(Pinched from here!)
