Scope and Contents A file containing two promotion-related items concerning the British satirical puppet television show, Spitting Image. The first is an original ring-bound proposal document for the series (SI/1952), dated 1982. Bearing one of the programme's initial titles, Spit'n'Image, the proposal provides an introduction on the proposed production and its premise, along with information on its format and a demo video currently in production, and...

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A file containing two examples of a proposal booklet produced for the Spitting Image Productions Limited/HIT Entertainment plc television programme, Winjin' Pom. Advertising to prospective broadcasters, the proposal outlines the premise of the programme, provides artwork representation of the characters in the series, and gives information on those involved in the production (SI/845-860).

Scope and Contents A file containing a promotional synposis folder for the first series of the Spitting Image Productions Limited/Channel 4 adult animation soap opera, Crapston Villas (SI/417). Inside the folder are synopses for the show, episodes and characters; and biographies for the cast and crew.Also present in the file, separate from the synopsis folder, are the following: a promotional postcard for Valhalla Villas [the original title for...

Scope and Contents A file containing five examples of a promotional postcard for the Screwball Films' short animation film, The Big Story (SI/595). All postcards have the same design on the front, which feature the title of the production, along with credits, and an image of a Kirk Douglas claymation model. On the rear of two of the postcards, there is text informing the recipient that the short film has been nominated for an Academy Award, and has been selected to support Quentin...

Scope and Contents A Central Independent Television promotional folder advertising its winter programming for 1983-1984. The front and back covers feature images of the Spitting Image puppets for the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, and American President, Ronald Reagan. Inside the folder, there is a bundle of photocopy press-cuttings with stories about the upcoming first series of Spitting Image.The original reference number for this...

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Two examples of a promotional card for the ITV childrens' television programme, Get Fresh, which features a photograph of the show's presenters, Gareth Jones and the Charlotte Hindle. Accompanying Jones and Hindle is the puppet presenter for the show, Gilbert the Alien, which was made by the Spitting Image Workshop (SI/1125).

Scope and Contents A press pack produced by Philips Electronics for the interactive computer game, Create Your Own Caricature, made by Philips and Spitting Image Productions Limited (SI/198). The pack contains the following items: a copy of the game on compact disc; the first issue of a new magazine for 'compact disc interactive' games, CD-i; a press release for Philips CD-i; biographies for Roger Law and David Stoten; and a couple of 35mm slides, which...

Scope and Contents A British Film Institute (BFI) press pack that contains multiple press releases issued by the Museum of the Moving Image, along with a press release from the British television broadcaster, Channel 4. The Channel 4 press release comments on the success of British animation that year, and mentions the Screwball Films Limited/Spitting Image Productions Limited (SIPL) short-film, The Big Story, and also the SIPL animated series, Crapston...

Scope and Contents A Channel 4 International catalogue, which has been produced to promote Channel 4 programming to international television broadcasters. The catalogue is in the form of a small plastic, ring-bound folder, which holds multiple pieces of card with information about shows.This appears to be an incomplete catalogue, containing introductory pages along with multiple copies of the same three cards, relating to the following Spitting Image Productions Limited and Screwball Films Limited...

Scope and Contents A file relating to Spitting Image Productions Limited's involvement in an AIDS charity concert, Hysteria!, which was held at Victoria Palace Theatre, London, on 7 June 1987. SIPL provided puppets, voice actors and puppeteers, and workshop/production crew for the event. The file includes: correspondence between SIPL and Central Independent Television, regarding permission for the former to be involved in the concert; a document listing details about the event and...

Scope and Contents A leaflet for the UK/LA '88 Festival, which was held as a 'celebration of British Arts,' and was a collaboration between UK/LA '88 Inc., various Los Angeles arts organisations, and the British Council. This particular leaflet promotes the festival's The Art of Communication lecture series, which involved 14 lectures held between February and April 1988 at various venues. Spitting Image Productions Limited's Roger Law and John Lloyd gave a talk on the ...

Scope and Contents A file relating to Spitting Image Productions Limited's involvement in an exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery, The Cutting Edge, which ran from 13 August to 11 October 1992. The file contains a letter from the gallery, dated 2 December 1991, to Angela Sheam at SIPL, asking whether another meeting can be arranged between Roger Law, Carol Brown and John Hoole; the latter two being staff at the gallery. The remaining items in the file are two photocopies of a transcript for a lecture given...

Scope and Contents A file relating to Roger Law's participation in a festival held by the Theater Instituut Nederland, on puppet theatre, film and television; between 24 and 31 March 1993, in Amsterdam. Law was invited to a public interview on the making of Spitting Image, conducted by Hank van Gelder, on 28 March, held at the Nederlands Filmmuseum. Items include: a travel itinerary, a programme for the festival, a brochure for the Theater Instituut Nederland, and a leaflet for the...