Friday 1 March 2013

Caught On Camera

   The woman in the background, who's she? I don't recall seeing her in the Colonel's office! Hang on a minute, that's not that Doris Martin is it? Who's Doris Martin I hear you ask. She was one of the people responsible for continuity on the production of ‘the Prisoner.’ 
What's That Patrick McGoohan Up To?
   I don't recall No.6 smoking at any time during‘The Chimes of Big Ben,’ well that's because this is a production photograph. So what's Pat seeing on that strip of 35mm film? Yes I was right, the time's 8o'clock, No.6's watch says 8 o'clock despite there being one hours difference between English and Polish time. But on the other hand………
   “There's the lorry, the crate being loaded aboard a ship with Nadia and me inside the crate. Then the crate being loaded on board a cargo plane, to finally arrive here in the Colonel's office. Just a minute! I don’t damned well believe it! Doris who forgot to put a crate in back of that blessed lorry!”

BCNU

2 comments:

  1. Perhaps McGoohan was counting out time, the film frames per second, that he believed he'd have available before the show was canceled... Hypothesis only of course ;-) - BCNU!

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    1. Hello Arno,

      Hypothesis it may be, but I like the thinking behind it!

      Kind regards
      David
      BCNU

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