Blog inspirer Rob Godwin recently made some insightful observations on the old Project SWORD display film we've featured here on Moonbase. The link to it is below.
He thought the video is amazing. Rob pointed out the images from 2001 A Space Odyssey in the background. He highlighted the Captain Scarlet cap gun stuck on the wall. He's never seen that white Nuclear Ferry anywhere. Rob noticed that there isn't a moon base, which may not have meant anything if the Nuclear Ferry was in prototype phase only when this was filmed.
Rob wondered why Reuters would go and film something so obscure? In colour no less.
Finally Rob speculated if this had anything to do with that announcement we had seen about displaying the toys at the time of the 2001 release, this is dated within days of the release of 2001.
What are you thoughts?
Could the release of "2001" just two weeks earlier have had something to do with the special interest in the space toy display? It would be interesting to know how coordinated this timing with the movie was, as the display was much wider in sortiment after all. Was it contractual or just something that was too convenient to miss? If there was a contract, it may have survived in the movie end of the paper trail.
ReplyDeleteAs a personal note, this link between "2001" and Project Sword was exactly what first brought Sword to my notice, via the photos included in the Sword Annual.
I don't think it was a formal contract, I suspect it was just serendipitous. Century 21 just asking for permission to use the photos in various publications. The SWORD craft looked like something from 2001. So it was a convenient way of giving a real life feel.
ReplyDeleteNotice, at no time was any 2001 stuff used on the SWORD toy boxes.
A few years later 2001s designs were used in Countdown. What would have been exciting would have been all the 2001 craft given a SWORD makeover!