I took these photos of a black Dalek on display at the London Museum of Film a while back.
It is described as a Dalek specially created for the AARU film, Dr Who and The Daleks.
In the film, the Black Dalek, in line with the TV series at the time, is leader, and originally had a sucker arm rather than a pincer. It had two gold neck straps, rather than one with slats. The upper rings have a silver one in the middle. In fact most of this Dalek looks nothing like it did in the film.
It's fairly obvious that this prop has gone through a few changes over the years. All the eight main Dalek props had a few adventures after the film was completed, what with touring the country advertising the film, and various other publicity events. I think it's reasonably well known that three of the original props appeared in The Chase TV episode, and had their large fenders removed and their speech lights replaced with smaller ones
This is the Product Enterprise version of the Black Movie Dalek. Fairly accurate apart from the pincer arm.
.Some of the movie Dalek props were given away as prizes, although not necessarily, in their original colours.
It fact, I'd imagine that in time most of the props would have suffered various stages of deterioration.
So I think its reasonable to assume that although this Dalek has seen a few changes over the years, I'm sure there must be a part of it that appeared in the film.
It looks like a completely different head. It might even be a TV Dalek that was 'doctored' (pun intended) to make it look more like the movie version for an earlier display.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like that to me Kid, but I'm wondering whether the lower section only with the hemispheres is original and everything else has been altered or butchered over the years. It's feasible that it's not even the original Black Dalek from the film. It might be one of the 'dummys' that just made up the crowd scenes.
ReplyDeleteLooks a bit fake to me.
ReplyDeleteHa, ha! I think that's crossed everybody's mind Yorkie.
DeleteIt looks to me like the head is from one of the break-away prop Daleks from the second movie, 'Daleks: Invasion Earth 2164 AD'. These were only made to be smashed up, and were not built for close scrutiny, although one does get a long enough shot for you to see how shonky they were. The 'neck rings' are way too far apart, and would reveal the operator within. The lower section looks ok, but the top isn't quite 'Daleky' enough to be convincing.
ReplyDeleteReasonable assumptions Brian. I tend to think that the lower section might be original in some way but as for the rest of it, your guesses are as good as anyone's.
DeleteIt is actually a very old 1970s BBC exhibition Dalek model which was removed from Longleat Doctor Who Exhibition in Wiltshire in the 1990s and was painted to look like an Aaru movie dalek, but it is genuine/not a fake. see here:https://pin.it/7rQiyzH
DeleteThanks for the info, MBHDALEK.
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