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How Not to Be Seen
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
A government-style instructional film surveys apparently empty landscapes and calls on concealed participants to reveal themselves. Each demonstration ends badly, and even refusing to emerge offers little protection as the narrator begins destroying likely hiding places. The search grows from bushes and beach huts to buildings and whole regions before a studio presenter finally interrupts the film.
The funny people
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Say it with us
Highly quotable.
However, he has chosen a very obvious piece of cover.
He could be almost anywhere.
Though not to me, I can tell you.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Michael Palin
Writer
Terry Jones
Writer
Ian MacNaughton
Director
Ian MacNaughton
Producer
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The sketch was remade for the 1971 film And Now for Something Completely Different.
The rabbit hole continues
One more couldn’t hurt.
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