The first recording today is the very first episode of UFO – Identified. I have looked at this on a tape.
Media Centre Description: Sci-fi adventure series about a secret organisation set up to protect the Earth from alien invasion. A grim secret is revealed with the coming of a visitor from outer space.
Recorded from ITV4 on Sunday 5th August 2007 14:28
After this, there’s the start of an episode of The Force, which looks like a UK version of COPS.
The next recording starts with the end of Movie Rush.
Then, we have a movie. It’s Princess Mononoke, a Studio Ghibli film from Hayao Miyazaki. The visual style is unmistakeable, as is the style of monsters – they do like wormy monsters.
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Prince Ashitaka has to defend his village against the monster, and when he defeats it, his arm is infected by whatever infected the monster, who was a giant Boar. And his village tell him he has to go out and find the evil that infected the boar. And it looks like they don’t expect him back. “Our laws forbid us from watching you go, Ashitaka. Whatever comes to pass now, you are dead to us forever. Farewell.”
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It’s surprisingly violent for a Studio Ghibli film, with its fair share of arms chopped off by arrows (not sure quite how that works).
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Heads too.
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A character (voiced by Billy Bob Thornton) complains about the drink. “Are you selling super Donkey piss?”
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Ashitaka sees giant wolves attack another army. They’re working with a young girl, the eponymous Princess Mononoke.
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He sees an Akodama, a tree spirit. “He’s a tree spirit. He brings good luck. It’s a sign this forest is healthy.” But others think they bring a monster. I think it was an excuse to make plush toys for merchandise.
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He visits Iron Town, whose leader Lady Eboshi, was the person who shot the giant boar and turned it into the monster that attacked Ashitaka’s village. She wants to kill the forest spirit, believing its blood can cure the lepers she’s looking after, and if it’s dead, and the animals will return to being just animals. She’s voiced by Minnie Driver.
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She’d also like to kill Princess Mononoke, whose wolves attack Iron Town.
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Gillian Anderson voices Moro, one of the giant wolves Mononoke travels with.
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Keith David voices Lord Okkoto, leader of the boars.
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Okkoto gets possessed as well.
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The Great Forest Spirit arrives, and at this point, after an awful lot of fighting between various human groups and animal groups, I thought maybe that was the end.
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But nope, Lady Eboshi shoots it and takes its head off. Did I mention this movie is grim?
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Its head is still dangerous, as Eboshi discovers when it bites off her arm.
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The body of the Forest Spirit is now the nightwalker, and it’s not happy at all.
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All this is Billy Bob Thornton’s fault. He’s got the head of the spirit.
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Ashitaka and Mononoke return the head to the Forest Spirit.
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This returns life to the area, and Ashitaka seems cured from the disease he got killing the boar.
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Media Centre Description: Japanese anime drama from the famous Studio Ghibli, set in the 14th Century. Infected by an animal attack, Ashitaka seeks a cure from the deer-like god Shishigami. On his travels, he sees humans ravaging the earth, bringing down the wrath of wolf god Moro and his human companion, Princess Mononoke.
Recorded from Film4 on Sunday 5th August 2007 16:28
After this, there’s the start of the same Movie Rush that opened this recording. It features an interview with Jodie Whittaker talking about one of her earliest roles in the film Venus with Peter O’Toole.
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The final recording today starts with the end of a programme about someone going to watch cricket.
Then, there’s the first episode of the 1979 Thames series Quatermass – Ringstone Round. I did look at this on one of my tapes. And I confess, I did once dress up as one of the Planet People. Nobody else had a clue why I was dressed like that. I was not a cool teenager.
This broadcast is cut compared to the version that’s on BritBox. Cut quite a lot, and not always for things like violence. Probably because there were fewer adverts in 1979 than in 2007.
Media Centre Description: Professor Bernard Quatermass returns to London after years living in the Scottish Highlands, and is shocked to discover the city in a state of anarchy. After witnessing Russian and American spacecraft being destroyed by an unknown force, he is taken to an observatory in the country by astronomer Joe Kapp, and is intrigued by groups of hippie-like youngsters known as the Planet People who have gathered at a local stone circle, Ringstone Round.
Recorded from ITV4 on Sunday 5th August 2007 19:58
After this, the recording stops after the start of The Frank Skinner Show. I don’t remember this 1970s Geography Teacher look.
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Adverts from UFO
From Princess Mononoke
And from Quatermass. Yes, during the evening on ITV4 they actually show adverts for things other than porn chatlines.
Adverts:
- trail: Sci Fi on ITV4
- Aquafresh
- Wickes
- Setanta Sports – Des Lynam
- Orange
- JML Fast Fit Ironing Board Covers
- Sony Bravia
- Hotels.com
- Chrysler
- HSBC
- trail: ITV Sport
- Becks
- Peugeot 207
- HSBC
- Hotels.com
- Wickes
- The Sun
- Just for Men
- Setanta Sports – Des Lynam
- The Contractor on DVD
- Churchill Insurance
- trail: Robbie Coltrane: B Road Britain
- Aquafresh
- Sony Bravia
- Norwich Union DIrect
- Nissan Note
- Tropicana
- Polaris World
- trail: Sci Fi on ITV4
- Becks
- Wickes
- Ford Focus Zetec
- Setanta Sports – Des Lynam
- Orange
- JML Pest Shield
- NiQuitin CQ
- trail: The Frank Skinner Show
- trail: Sci Fi on ITV4
- Direct Line
- Just for Men
- trail: Star Trek: Nemesis
- trail: Brick
- Schweppes
- Sainsbury’s Insurance
- Becks
- Zurich
- Ocean Spray
- The Namesake on DVD
- Toyota Auris
- Ty-phoo
- trail: Little Fish
- Transformers in cinemas
- E.on
- Clairol Nice ‘n Easy
- Duck Magic Scrubs
- Sunsilk
- Tropicana
- Sony Bravia
- Sure Women
- Amazing Grace on DVD
- trail: Withnail & I
- Southern Comfort
- Chrysler
- Rock ‘n Rose
- The Hoax in cinemas
- O2
- Strongbow – Tim Key
- Huggies Natural Fit
- RAC – Vinnie Jones
- Aquafresh
- trail: Film Four
- Schweppes
- Deadwood/Oz on DVD
- Strongbow
- Asda – Liza Tarbuck
- Touch of Pink
- Trident Splash
- Sensodyne
- Nat West
- Transformers in cinemas
- trail: Film 4 Summer Screen
- Chrysler
- Pimms – Alexander Armstrong
- E.on
- O2
- Sainsbury’s Insurance
- Amazing Grace on DVD
- Ty-phoo
- PC World
- Direct Line
- Just for Men
- The Sun
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- Setanta Sports – Des Lynam
- Orange
- HSBC
- Proton
- Peugeot 207
- PC World
- Setanta Sports – Des Lynam
- Sony Bravia
- Morrisons
- Aquafresh
- trail: Sci Fi on ITV4
- Becks
- Wilkinson Sword Quattro Titanium
- Setanta Sports – Des Lynam
- E.on
- Fiat Grande Punto
- The Sun
- HSBC
- Rush Hour 3 in cinemas
- Peugeot 207