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There's our homage to the original
with the strings on the hand.
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Lady Penelope's character has a costume
for every set, a costume for every scene.
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In the car scenes, where she's
taking the boys back from school,
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you'll notice she changes clothes
two or three times
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and here she just happens to have
an International Rescue spacesuit
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that she must keep handily at Tracy Island
for an eventjust like this.
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And with it comes
a pink matching headpiece.
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But it's that kind of fantasy.
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There's Mike McGee on the right,
one of the visual effects supervisors,
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who managed to coerce me
into letting him be in the movie.
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The first time ever a helicopter with a camera
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was allowed to fly through the Tower Bridge.
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Even the Bond movie couldn't pull that off.
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But it didn't come easily.
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In preproduction we had a meeting at BAFTA
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where we invited all the corporations
involved in shooting this sequence.
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They included
the police and fire department,
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the Thames Commission, Westminster,
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Tower Bridge and Jubilee Gardens
have their own commissions,
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the London Eye -
the BA London Eye had a commission.
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There were 13 commissions
gathered for breakfast
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and, again, to credit Tim Bevan
and Mark Huffam, our producers.
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Mark Nelmes, our other visual effects supervisor,
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is the ice cream man,
sporting an original Thunderbirds hat.
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Fortunately the only time
that hat is seen in the film.
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He had the... Bevan and Huffam
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had the good sense to involve all these
commissions in one room at once
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to pitch to them what we wanted to do
in this sequence you're watching.
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And the thinking being
that they would shame each other