Large Transparencies, 1987 - 1997
Scope and Contents
A file holding 9 200mm x 250mm photographic transparencies, which contain images used as part of Spitting Image Productions Limited merchandise, external advertising campaigns involving the work of SIPL, and a set of unpublished Royal Mail stamps. The following images are present:
1. Two examples of the Margaret Thatcher 'Adoration of the Statue' image used in the British version of the SIPL publication, Spitting Images (SI/32).
2. A plasticine model of British police officer, James Anderton, used in the British version of Spitting Images (SI/154).
3. A portrait image of Roger Law's face, half of which is Law himself and the other a latex foam puppet, which was used in the SIPL publication, Goodbye! (SI/225).
4. An image of Roger Law, face to face with his own puppet, which was used in the publication, A Nasty Piece of Work: The Art and Graft of Spitting Image (SI/390).
5. The centre panel image used on the Spitting Image board game, The Game of Scandal (SI/446).
6. Ansells Beer promotion (SI/1110).
7. Cadbury's Creme Egg promotion with a plasticine model of pop musician, Gary Glitter (SI/682).
8. Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff plasticine models, as Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster respectively, taken for a set of rejected Royal Mail stamps (SI/493 (a) and (b)).
All the photographic images were taken by John Lawrence Jones, with the exception of the stamps, which were taken by Steve Bendelack.
Dates
- Creation: 1987 - 1997
Creator
- Bendelack, Stephen, b 1958 (Film and Television Director) (Person)
- Jones, John Lawrence, b 1951 (Photographer) (Person)
- Spitting Image Productions Limited (TV/Film Production Company) (1981-) (United Kingdom) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright - held by Roger Law.
Extent
1 file(s) (A gusseted folder.) : Photographic material (plastic)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
These transparencies were originally all loose in the same box, held with a variety of non-photographic material. They have been separated from the non-photographic material and merged together into one file.
Subject
- Anderton, Cyril James, CBE, Sir, 1932-2022 (Chief Constable of Greater Manchester) (Person)
- Glitter, Gary, b 1944 (Musician) (Person)
- Karloff, Boris, 1887-1969 (Actor) (Person)
- Law, Roger, b 1941 (Artist) (Person)
- Lugosi, Bela, 1882-1956 (Actor) (Person)
- Thatcher, Margaret Hilda, 1925 - 2013 (née Roberts, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, Prime Minister) (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository
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