This is a frame from a film
shot by a member of the public who was either staying, or visiting Portmeirion
in September 1966, at the time when the location shoot for four episodes of ‘the
Prisoner’ were being filmed. As far as I am aware the short piece of amateur
film footage is all there is of the Village helicopter, a French Alouette,
landing on the water of the estuary at Portmeirion. Had the production crew filmed
the helicopter with its floats landing on the water in ‘Free For All’ after
No.6 had been attacked by the Guardian, there would have been no need to repeat
the type of scene in which three Guardians rescue Nadia during ‘The Chimes of
Big Ben.’ For a change they could have recovered No.6 using the helicopter
instead of the three Guardians again. In fact the picture does have the look of
a scene in ‘Free For All’ when No.6 was floundering in the water, doesn’t it
readers?
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