A major headache at the time, due to the impossibility of stitching real Antarctic bird footage into the here-there-everywhere tale of remote naturalist John Hurt trying to balance web-footed duty with love for distant spouse Hayley Mills. Massive production problems – the wildlife footage didn’t cut together properly, and Roy Boulting and wife Hayley Mills were parachuted in when it turned out the original leading lady and director just couldn’t cut it. Result – one astonishingly directionless mess of pottage.
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The People’s Songs
Wednesday, 22.00, BBC Radio 2I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor tonight, which allows us to mention that when it got to number one, Calendar showed a clip from its Whistle Test-inspired video and captioned it “amateur video”. In fact that video was the first we’d heard of them or it, when it was shown on Popworld in fact, and we never thought the record version was quite as good because it was a bit overproduced. Anyway, it’s included here because it started bands being broken via the internet and that rather than the major labels and Top of the Pops.
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