UFO Spacesuit in contemporary TV advert

Fans in the UK may recall the popular 'Smash' Martian robots hogging the limelight in the
1970s but while doing some research I stumbled across some b/w screengrabs,with
'script' and credits, for a Smash SF advert pre-dating this. It appears in the D&AD (Design
& Art Direction) annual for 1971, so could have been pretty much contemporary to the last
period of production, if the advert was produced in 1970.

I've added a scan of the page (cropped to lose most of the white as the 'script' is pretty
sparce), and would be interested to hear if other fans recall the TV commercial - I do now,
but had forgotten it until seeing this...

Shaqui

The Gerry Anderson Complete Comic History
http://www.technodelic.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Home.htm
.

Nice find but alas absolutely no memory of that advert. Would they
have been called screengrabs back then though?!

Regards,
Barry


--- In [hidden email], "Shaqui" <shaqui@...> wrote:
>
> Fans in the UK may recall the popular 'Smash' Martian robots
hogging the limelight in the
> 1970s but while doing some research I stumbled across some b/w
screengrabs, with
> 'script' and credits, for a Smash SF advert pre-dating this. It
appears in the D&AD (Design
> & Art Direction) annual for 1971, so could have been pretty much
contemporary to the last
> period of production, if the advert was produced in 1970.
>
> I've added a scan of the page (cropped to lose most of the white as
the 'script' is pretty
> sparce), and would be interested to hear if other fans recall the
TV commercial - I do now,
> but had forgotten it until seeing this...
>
> Shaqui
>
> The Gerry Anderson Complete Comic History
> http://www.technodelic.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Home.htm
> .
>

Yes they probably weren't called screengrabs back then but then it's a/ Christmas b/ I'd
been at the Baileys and c/ if I said 'photographic frame enlargements from a 35mm film
print' I dare say I would have lost some people here... :-S

Whatever.


--- In [hidden email], "naughtyhector" <rod.mitchell@...> wrote:

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From: naughtyhector
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Subject: [SHADO] Re: UFO Spacesuit in contemporary TV advert


Nice find but alas absolutely no memory of that advert. Would they
have been called screengrabs back then though?!

Regards,
Barry

--- In [hidden email], "Shaqui" <shaqui@...> wrote:
>
> Fans in the UK may recall the popular 'Smash' Martian robots
hogging the limelight in the
> 1970s but while doing some research I stumbled across some b/w
screengrabs, with
> 'script' and credits, for a Smash SF advert pre-dating this. It
appears in the D&AD (Design
> & Art Direction) annual for 1971, so could have been pretty much
contemporary to the last
> period of production, if the advert was produced in 1970.
>
> I've added a scan of the page (cropped to lose most of the white as
the 'script' is pretty
> sparce), and would be interested to hear if other fans recall the
TV commercial - I do now,
> but had forgotten it until seeing this...
>
> Shaqui
>
> The Gerry Anderson Complete Comic History
> http://www.technodelic.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Home.htm
> .
>





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