Videos, 1987 - 1998, 2009
Scope and Contents
A box holding merchandise VHS cassette tapes or cases, a LaserDisc and DVDs, which contain Spitting Image and other Spitting Image Productions Limited-related material. The following items are present:
1. A Spitting Image compilation video, on LaserDisc, which has been produced for the Japanese market (SI/501).
2. An empty VHS tape case for a video that contains two Spitting Image special episodes, Bumbledown (The Life and Times of Ronald Reagan), and The Sound of Maggie! These episodes were first broadcast in 1988 and 1989, respectively.
3. A VHS tape for the Spitting Image: The Classic Music Video. The item features videos of 26 songs from the series.
4. A sealed VHS tape for the Spitting Swanns Limited television production, A Prokofiev Fantasy with Peter and the Wolf (SI/349 and 356). Also present is a proof for the cover sleeve of the VHS case, and a proof for the cover sleeve of the LaserDisc version.
5. Two VHS tapes containing series 2 of the Spitting Image Productions Limited stop-motion animation series, Crapston Villas. There are 10 episodes, which have been split between the two tapes.
6. A DVD boxset containing series 1 to 7 of Spitting Image. This boxset was released in 2009 by Network, a company that re-released television shows from ITV's archives on VHS and DVD. While this boxset was released after the SIPL-era (1983-1998), it has been placed into this section of the archive.
Dates
- Creation: 1987 - 1998
- Creation: 2009
Creator
- BBC Studios Home Entertainment (Video and Music Publisher) (1980-Present) (United Kingdom) (Organization)
- Channel 4 Television (Organization)
- Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft (Record Label) (1898-) (Germany) (Organization)
- Network Distributing Limited (Entertainment Distribution and Publishing Company) (1980-2023) (United Kingdom) (Organization)
- Pony Canyon, Incorporated (Film, Music and Video Game Publisher) (1966-) (Japan) (Organization)
- Spitting Image Productions Limited (TV/Film Production Company) (1981-) (United Kingdom) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright - held by various parties.
Extent
1 archive box(es) : Optical disc; paper; plastic
Language of Materials
English
Japanese
Arrangement
These items were originally held in various boxes, and have subsequently been merged together.
Separated Materials
Related production and photographic material are present elsewhere within the archive.
General
Duplicates of the Peter and the Wolf VHS tape have been weeded out.
Repository Details
Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository
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