Scope and Contents Items relating to the British weekly/monthly media industry magazine, Broadcast. The following items are present:1. Two front cover tearsheets for the 27 April 1984 issue, which both contain images of the Spitting Image puppets for President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. However, the image for each cover is different (SI/509 (b) and (c)).2. The 5 October 1990 issue, which includes a short...

Scope and Contents A file containing seven directors' reports and accounts for the company, Burginhall 179 Limited, which was originally used by William Sargent as a vehicle to obtain shares in one of Spitting Image Productions Limited's parent companies, Tooth'N Claw Limited, in 1988. By 1990, Burginhall 179 was a subsidiary of SIPL, and William Sargent was SIPL's managing director. The reports and accounts cover the years ending 31 March 1988 to 31 March 1994.Also present is one directors' report...

Scope and Contents A box containing a mixture of internal Spitting Image Productions Limited communications and documentation, along with external correspondence, relating to the management and activities of the company. Non-correspondence material includes, but is not limited to: memoranda, minutes for board meetings, draft legal agreements, and press releases. Topics covered in letters, faxes and documentation include, but are not limited to: the agreement between SIPL, David Paradine Television,...

Scope and Contents A file containing press-clippings, both originals and photocopies, taken from various British newspapers and some magazines. There is also the occasional cutting from international publications as well. The contents of these clippings feature articles and other items on the following topics, but are not limited to: William Sargent's appointment as chairman of Spitting Image Productions Limited; the establishment of a commercials division at SIPL; news of a proposed adaptation of the comic...

Scope and Contents A box containing 22 sub-files that hold bundles of photographs, transparencies, contact prints and negatives; which focus either on Spitting Image personnel or on Spitting Image Productions Limited premises, such as the workshops at Limehouse Docks (early 1980s to c 1989), Plumbers Row (c 1989 to early 1994), and Cairo Studios (1994 to late 1990s/early 2000s). The personnel represented in this file include, but are not limited to: Roger Law, Peter Fluck, John...

Scope and Contents Five issues of the British weekly cultural magazine, The Listener, which was published by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The following issues are present:1. 7 March 1985 - page 29 contains an article on Spitting Image.2. 25 July 1985 - the front cover has a photographic illustration containing a Spitting Image puppet of satirist, James Gillray (SI/687), and pages 13 and 14 have...

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A framed first part of a P45 form [a UK tax form filled out by an employer upon an employee leaving their job] for the former managing director of Spitting Image Productions Limited, William Sargent. This form was completed upon Sargent's exit from the company, at the beginning of 1992.