And, no, I'm not referring to some sort of helicoptorial disrobing.
If I remember correctly, there were also a few 5 minute shorts produced and broadcast at approximately the same time, maybe a week or so after the original airing.
I recall that they were commentated by cast members, and vaguely recollect one about a ship carved out of an iceberg, with a voiceover by Billie Whitelaw.
Does anyone else know what I'm talking about?
There we go:
http://shootingthepast.tripod.com/shootingthepast.htm
and click on The Stories.
The one I remembered was, indeed, the Billie Whitelaw story, and very amusing it is too. (There's a bit of a Staggering Tales of Ferdinand de Bargos about it all.)
It's called Veronica's Story. There was only one other short, entitled Spig's Story. Spig was played by Emilia Fox.
The "iceberg ship" was real, as Veronica told us it was. It was not really made entirely out of ice but a mixture of ice and wood pulp. It was called the Habakkuk. You can find it on Wikipedia.
shareNo, sorry, but there's no such word as habakkuk pattern matching at wikipedia, or at least in 2013 there isn't.
#'splain.
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Here's the wikipedia entry for Project Habakkuk, the history shows it's been there since 2012 (ish).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk
but I didn't know it had happened at Smithfield market (the meat market shown in all the pictures)
But I came here wondering if anyone knew whether there was any truth in Spig's short, the one about the picture "A figure apart", I googled for that title, and the supposed name of the photographer (Holge Larsson) but came up with nothing.
Other than that I have usually seen the guy in that picture as a baseball player, although there have been times I thought it was Chaplin, I have no idea. A couple of clues are that his ears are asymmetrical and judging by his hair he is white.
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