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And here's the classic from the cartoon.
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Shameless use of sound.
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And a great credit again to Martin Walsh
who cut this all together,
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to keep this thing going.
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That line used to be, "Of course he had his palace,
why not his concubine?"
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The studio thought kids wouldn't understand
what a concubine was, so we recut it,
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so that The Hood calls her a princess,
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which is somehow appropriate for Lady Penelope.
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Great sequence. Weeks and weeks of rehearsal
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with Paul and the doubles and the actors
while we were shooting other scenes.
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We were shooting the stuff
on Thunderbird 5 on one stage
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while Paul and the actors were rehearsing this
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and then Des Whelan, our camera operator
and I would go over at the end of the day
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and with a little video camera,
shoot what they had rehearsed
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and get some sense of which shots
we would need when we actually filmed.
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We were restricted - that shot, for instance,
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we were restricted how often
we could look out over the ocean
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because this was shot on a sound stage.
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And each time we added an element -
in this case the ocean -
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it cost x amount of dollars
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because it's a blue screen shot
that then needed to be combed together
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with computer generated ocean
and set extensions.
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So we shot as much as we could
into the practical set,
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the kitchen was practical,
the kitchen table was practical,
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that arched ramp, obviously, was practical,
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and the first swimming pool you see was practical.
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So in staging this we tried to stay on the set
as much as possible.