AN INTERESTING IDEA from the PCASuk FB page of #TheImaginativeHobbyist, a freelance digital artist / designer, film-maker, and photographer.. a few days ago and shared at the Facebook PCASuk Fan Page, a few days ago . . .Peter Cushing as Alfred Pennyworth! . . I wonder if this would have worked?
EMBRACING the soon to be released blu ray remaster of the BBC broadcast of '1984' from #BFI on April 11, 2022... Here is a vintage magazine clipping scanned from the PCASuk scrapbooks, of #PeterCushing and #YvonneMitchell taking dinner for publicity.. I guess... after terrifying the whole country and raising questions with #WinstonChurchill's government ? One of four pictures, I have no idea sadly, which magazine this appeared in, as it was printed, clipped and added to the scrapbook, long before 'I was a twinkle in my father's eye'... or so he would often tell me of anything pre #1960's. Peter Cushing and Mitchell ( Winston and Julia in 1984) look to ready to chow -down on some roast beef, after they take of their cuppa. I am guessing this was either for 'the camera' or before Peter became a #vegetarian.. or maybe this was actually for Yvonne and knowing Peter, he had a cheese sandwich and apple in his pocket !- Marcus
ABOVE: VINTAGE press clipping, with the 'Cushing's at home' wife, Helen and Peter study the reaction to the broadcast of TWO LIVE transmissions on BBC television, the first on a SUNDAY evening Saturday 11th December 1954... prompted something of an upset. There were complaints about the "horrific" content (particularly the Room 101 scene where Smith is threatened with torture by rats) and the "subversive" nature of the play. Most were worried by the depiction of a totalitarian regime controlling the population's freedom of thought. Questions in the House of Commons and #WinstonChurchill's government on justifying the option of the second / repeat broadcast the following week. Amidst objections the BBC went ahead with a complete live restaging on Thursday 16 December, although the decision went to the 'Board of Governors', which narrowly voted in favour of the second performance. This was introduced live on camera by Head of Drama Michael Barry, who had already appeared on the Monday's edition of the topical news programme Panorama to defend the production. The seven million viewers who watched the Thursday performance was the largest television audience in the UK since the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth 2nd the previous year.
MORE SCREEN CAPTURES have recently been released from the BFI remastered #BLURAY and #DVD of the #PeterCushing #BBC production of #GeorgeOrwell's '1984'. It looks a very impressive image, after decades of watching fuzzy vhs and bootleg broadcast versions, for sure. I can't wait to get my copy . . . will you be getting your copy on the 11th April too?
ABOVE: PCASuk NEWS BANNER from February 2rd 2022 and how we reported the news of the much awaited for Peter Cushing BBC classic!
George Orwell’s enduring dystopian
masterpiece is brought vividly to life in this celebrated BBC production.
Adapted by Nigel Kneale (The Quatermass Experiment), NINETEEN
EIGHTY-FOUR (directed by Rudolf Cartier) broke new ground for
television drama when first broadcast in 1954. Experience Orwell’s haunting vision of a society dominated by relentless
tyranny and the subversion of truth – a world in which Big Brother is always
watching you.
- Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition
- Newly recorded audio commentary on Nineteen Eighty-Four by television historian Jon Dear, host of Nigel Kneale podcast Bergcast, with Toby Hadoke and Andy Murray
- Late Night Line-Up (BBC, 1965, 23 mins): members of the cast and crew look back on the controversies surrounding this adaptation of Orwell’s classic
- The Ministry of Truth (2022, 24 mins): in conversation with the BFI’s Dick Fiddy, television historian Oliver Wake dispels some of the myths that have grown up around the groundbreaking drama over the course of the past half century
- Nigel Kneale: Into the Unknown (2022, 72 mins): writer, actor and stand-up comedian Toby Hadoke and Nigel Kneale biographer and programmer Andy Murray try to unpick who Kneale was, what he did and why his work still matters today
- Gallery of rare images from the BBC Archives
- Original script (downloadable PDF)
- Newly commissioned sleeve artwork by Matt Needle
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