The lady in the picture, standing watching the Brass Band emerge from the Pink Pavillion, is a maid working for Portmeiron, who had perhaps just finished working in one of the cottages. After all, life in Portmeirion went on as normal, with guests staying there while 'the Prisoner' was being filmed there in September 1966. It's a wonder that the director or even the cameraman didn't see the woman standing that and say "cut!" But obviosuly they didn't, perhaps thinking that television viewers would think she is a maid working in the Village, which indeed she was!
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During one of the many conventions has there ever been a performance, a concert by a complete (new) Village Band or has it ever been attempted to set up something like that? Most likely no. Would have loved listening to it. - BCNU!
ReplyDeleteHello Arno,
DeleteTo say that there have not been Brass Band concerts at 'the Prisoner' Conventions would be wrong, because there have. During the summer months at Portmeirion, the local Brass Band comes to play on Sunday afternoons, taking their positions at the Bristol Colonnade just like the Brass Band in 'the Prisoner.' And when Conventions used to be held in the summer months, that meant that the Brass Band played at Conventions on the Sunday afternoon, and one set they played was the theme music to 'the Prisoner,' a different arrangement of course.
But no-one in Six of One has ever tried to put a band together themselves for a Convention.
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David
BCNU