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* ----Original Message----
* From: "Dandello"
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Subject: RE: [SHADO] SHADO beneath existing studio?...
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* The episode refers to an 'office block' being just
finished -
* NOT the studio buildings or the studio itself. The only
other
* statement made in the episode was something to the effect that
*
the office space was to go to the government. (Probably 'Internal
* Revenue')
The questions raised by anyone building a film studio
* in Britain in between
1967-75 when most other studios with modern
* facilities where going bankrupt
would have shut the project down.
* We wouldn't be talking about just one
questioning reporter but
* hundreds of them. The impending failure to the
British film
* industry was a major and ongoing news story. New studio
*
constuction in this climate? - They may as well have simply
* posted a sign
SECRET GOVERNMENT PROJECT HERE. SHADO security is
* supposed to be
bright.
* At the time the episode was written a
* major film studio (one
of the MGM properties, I think) had just
* changed hands for a pittance and
was in serious danger of being
* shut down for good. If the writers were not
aware of this, they
* were living in a hole.
* Besides - the HS office
building shown was
* NOT built in 1970, as any student of architecture or
building
* details can tell you. That's a late 50's, early 60's,
*
construction.
* And don't even think about trying the tack that
* they
built it to look that way.
*
* Deborah
*
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Don't worry Deborah, I won't *think* of
*trying that tact*.
All I am saying here, is that, according to what can be
seen in the
episode, it looks likes they built everything from
scratch.
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