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- From: sao@athena.mit.edu (Andy Oakland)
- Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
- Subject: Re: Name of film?
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 21:36:16 GMT
- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- References: <1993Jan17.201635.17724@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1993Jan21.151245.16668@promis.com> <5528@merlin.ukc.ac.uk>
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- In article <5528@merlin.ukc.ac.uk> jn@ukc.ac.uk (J.Nash) writes:
- >...The film was made by Gerry Anderson...Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, etc.
- >[...] I believe he had a fling with making films (or more precisely using
- >actors and live action rather than puppets, hence the UFO series) but gave
- >up on the idea and admitted that he was destined to make puppet shows...
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- Hold on there...Didn't Gerry and Sylvia Anderson come back in the early
- '70's with "Space: 1999?" If they didn't produce the series, they certainly
- did the special effects; those Eagle miniature shots look almost identical
- to the "Thunderbirds" effects!
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- :Andy Oakland
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