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
-----Original Message-----
From: davrecon [mailto:
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Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:15 AM
To: UFO discussion group
Subject: [SHADO] SHADO beneath existing studio?...
Original Message:
From: "Dandello"
[hidden email]
Subject: RE: [SHADO] Re: Mary's place in the scheme of things -
Look again, dear - SHADO was built beneath an existing
film
studio - Britain
had a surplus of bust studios in the early
70's and was
practically GIVING
them away. Allowing a new studio
to be built when most of the
others were
looking at bankruptcy
would have raised a lot more questions than
putting a
big hole
in the ground for SHADO HQ.
Deborah
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Actually, SHADO *was not* built beneath
an existing studio.
If you watch the episode, they built the whole thing from
scratch;
the studio, plus blocks of surrounding govenment office
buildings.
They refer to that several times in the episode. :
)
Dave H.
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