[…]ather Falls which nobody's seen, because that was done for - Granada, I think it was. And stuff he's done - from Supercar[?], Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds - over a period of years.]Jim Shields: And I saw, I remember I saw - we had some friends round on Sunday and I saw a Thunderbirds - nothi[…]
The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project, the interview is with James Gilbert interviewed by John Taylor with possible interruptions by Stephen Peet. James Gilbert has mainly been a producer and director for television and the date is 5 March 1990, File No 130.SIDE 1, T[…]
[…] Ice Lollies which used the Tracy Island, you know from Thunderbirds. And that was a good experience. There was a […]
[…] Meddings on SFX. An artist, very nice man, designed " Thunderbirds" vehicles. TAS also worked with him on "Spies Like […]
[…] you’ve been working on and obviously the early days of Thunderbirds, this kind of basis of skills. I mean, how […]
[…] I didn’t think about things like that. It’s like on Thunderbirds, I used to be L ady Penelope’s hand and […]
[…]ed! And then I did one whole programme, which was an arts programme, about the Scottish Design Centre where they were designing a new car for the new Thunderbirds movie, the new, what is it, Lady Penelope's car. And they were demonstrating their, they called it the haptic table where they could look[…]
[…]ran a studio – it was basically a big unit – on the Slough Trading Estate, and as it happened it was right next door to Gerry Anderson, who was doing Thunderbirds at the time. The reason she knew him was obviously she’d wanted odd bits of engineering stuff because he ran this special effects company[…]
[…]mpany called Valley Films who did commercials and I worked on the sort of things like the Zoom Ice Lollies which used the Tracy Island, you know from Thunderbirds. And that was a good experience. There was a man called Roger Woodburn who made the little rockets. He made all the special effects, like[…]
