What exactly is Smashie and Nicey – the End of an Era?
One of the endless joys of the show is that it’s many things. A parody of a certain kind of DJ, of course. Also a pastiche of a certain kind of documentary. But it’s also a trawl through decades of British light entertainment: a macrocosm of a particular strand of British culture.
With that in mind, it’s no surprise that the show is absolutely stuffed to the gills with music, of all different kinds. Some of them obvious, others obscure. Wouldn’t it be nice if somebody sat and worked out exactly where everything came from?
What, you want me to do it? Fine.
All times given are for the broadcast version of the show, although I’ve also noted any significant music changes made for the extended VHS edit. For any music which is taken from archive footage, I’ve provided very minimal details here; a companion article detailing all the stock footage used in the show is in the works.
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(0:09) “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”, Bachman–Turner Overdrive
As Smashie and Nicey race Johnny Beergut to announce their resignation. What else were you going to start the programme with? Get it out the way.
(0:43) “Radio Fab 90s Jingle”, Philip Pope
For the opening titles. All the custom music in End of an Era was written by Pope, and the performers are given as Tessa Niles, Julian Littman, Michael Fenton Stevens, Miriam Stockley, Carl Wayne, Philip Pope, and James Simpson. Sadly there are no specific roles listed, although Niles/Stevens/Stockley/Wayne would have been session singers.
Pope is clearly very much in Radio Active/KYTV mode for all these jingles.
(0:52) “Panic”, The Smiths
During the clips of Smashie and Nicey on air. “That’s what I did last night, anyway…”
It’s worth stopping to ponder the intent of using this song. “Hang the DJ…” Morrissey intones, and the book The Smiths FAQ (2015) by John D. Luerssen gives the standard tale behind it:
“Its lyrics were purportedly influenced by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, news of which broke on April 26, 1986.
According to Smiths lore, Morrissey and Marr had been writing together at Bowdon at the time they first learnt of the tragedy from zany BBC DJ Steve Wright, who came away from the somber news of the by introducing Wham!’s single “I’m Your Man”. They were disgusted by the inappropriateness of the broadcast. “I remember actually saying, ‘What the fuck does this got to do with people’s lives?’ Marr told Simon Goddard in 2003, recalling how, having heard of the devastation, they were then expected to shimmy around the room to Wham! only seconds later.
On a broader scale, “Panic” was perceived as a commentary on the tepid state of pop music in 1986, which music writer Nick Kent later touted as a decree for “rock terrorism”. In support of the song, the band even commissioned a T-shirt with a picture of Steve Wright alongside Morrissey’s slogan, ‘Hang the DJ!'”
However accurate or not the above tale is, its use here over Smashie and Nicey is pointed. But I would argue, not pointed exclusively against Smashie and Nicey themselves. It’s also surely a little comment on documentaries and their hilarious ironic music choices.
(1:34) “Radio Fab 90s Jingle”, Philip Pope
At the end of the above sequence, a slightly different edit of the jingle used for the opening titles.
These jingles are obviously great, but they don’t quite sound like Radio 1 jingles of the era, despite the use of the Radio 1 slogans “National” and “Much More Music”. In many ways, they sound closer to Capital’s jingles of the time. But then, as someone pointed out to me, there’s surely a fair bit of Capital in Radio Fab anyway.
(2:29) “Desperate Moment”, Kenneth Essex
For the newspaper headlines eventually revealing that Smashie and Nicey are leaving Fab FM. This is one of those infuriating moments where the paperwork is actually wrong; it lists this music as “Impact” from the De Wolfe library, DWCD 0102, “Movie Archives: Drama”. It is actually “Desperate Moment” from the same CD.
The original release of the track was DW 2551, by De Wolfe at some point in the 50s. These days, the track is probably best known for its use as the theme music to the Two Ronnies serial “The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town”, and some releases even give it this name.
If you listen to the full track, you’ll note that End of an Era does a cut-and-shut; it uses the opening few seconds, and then bungs on the final note from the end. Once you know the edit is there, you can easily hear it.
(3:06) “Deeply Dippy”, Right Said Fred
As Smashie is driven to Nicey’s house. A nice subtle joke about Smashie – the music is amusingly low in the mix – which this article has just ruined. Sorry.
(3:41) “Walkürenritt”/”Ride of The Valkyries”, Royal Dutch Symphony Orchestra
For Nicey getting his pint of milk. Wagner being abused for the sake of a stupid sketch. Now that’s comedy. The actual recording used is from the Selected Sound Library, SEL 7029, Overtures and Classical Highlights.
(3:55) “Deeply Dippy”, Right Said Fred
The rest of Smashie’s journey. See above.
(5:13) “Swedish Rhapsody”, Mantovani and his Orchestra
Over the second half of Smashie’s home movie footage; low in the mix and distorted, but definitely this track.
(6:43) “Charmaine”, Mantovani and his Orchestra
While Smashie and Nicey wander around Nicey’s house. It’s a little weird to go from Mantovani over Smashie’s home cine footage, to it also being used as muzak in Nicey’s house. Is it a deliberate parallel? I can’t quite figure out what it means if so.
(6:57) “Barnacle Bill”, Sidney Torch and the New Century Orchestra
From Nicey’s stint as a Blue Peter presenter, with the music taken from the actual archive footage itself. This was, of course, the very original theme for the show.1
(7:13) “You Were Made for Me”, Freddie and the Dreamers
Again, the music is from the original 1964 episode of Blue Peter itself.
(7:47) “Charmaine”, Mantovani and his Orchestra
In Nicey’s house, as per above.
(8:32) “Twist and Shout”, The Beatles
A live performance, taken from the 1963 BBC programme The Mersey Sound. This is entirely missing on the VHS release due to rights reasons.
(9:54) “An Ordinary Copper”, Tommy Reilly & Jack Warner
The theme tune to Dixon of Dock Green. Here is another error in the paperwork; it claims that the music was taken from the 1956 episode “The Rotten Apple”, clearly stating “ARCHIVE FOOTAGE” as the source in the music log, and so that’s what this article originally said. However, as Rob Keeley correctly points out in the comments, “An Ordinary Copper” wasn’t used yet at this point in the series; the theme used in that episode was a whistled version of “Maybe It’s Because I’m a Londoner”.2
There were many different versions of “An Ordinary Copper” over the years; despite the slight difference in pitch, I believe it’s the following one used, or certainly an extremely similar version:
(10:35) “Z Cars Theme”, Bridget Fry and Fritz Spiegel
Taken from the very first episode of the show, from 1962. Based on the traditional folk song “Johnny Todd”, which I only found out while researching this article. Pass it on.
This article originally claimed it was the Johnny Keating single version, as per the paperwork, but this is incorrect – Bridget Fry and Fritz Spiegel did the version used in the show itself. Thank you to Nathan in the comments for the correction.
(11:21) “Doctor Who Theme”, Ron Grainer
Taken from the first episode of “An Unearthly Child” from 1963.
(12:23) “Radio Geraldine Jingle”, Philip Pope
More fun stuff from Pope. I don’t have anything else to say about this one, so I guess now is the time to admit that Nicey looks a lot like pictures of my Dad from the 60s in this section. Now that’s what I call cool.
(12:41) “Dedicated Follower of Fashion”, The Kinks
Played by Nicey (and then Smashie) on Radio Geraldine. It’s specifically mentioned as being “the latest number from The Kinks”, which dates the pair’s Radio Geraldine adventures to 1966, if we are playing that rather dangerous game. The game is indeed dangerous; Smashie says he was “on board” for the next four years, but Radio Fab is supposed to launch the very next year, in 1967.
Regardless of continuity troubles, it’s a brilliantly appropriate song for Nicey to play; both the man and the song are outwardly swinging, and inwardly reactionary.
(13:36) “Radio Fab FM ’67 Jingle”, Philip Pope
During Smashie’s breakfast show link. And yes, it’s called that in the paperwork, despite Radio 1, and thus presumably Radio Fab, only launching on FM in 1988. No, I can’t believe that I brought that up either, but there you go.
Again, while great, these jingles don’t quite sound like Radio 1 jingles of the era. This sketch is clearly taking off the famous clip of Radio 1’s launch, so let’s compare the two. Here’s the jingle from End of an Era:
And here’s the equivalent jingle from the launch of Radio 1:3
It’s not a complaint, more an observation: while some parts of End of an Era go for direct, painfully close parody, the jingles don’t always go for the jugular in quite the same way.
(14:02) “Flowers in the Rain”, The Move
The first song played on Radio 1 in 1967, of course, so the parallel is obvious. Here’s the really funny thing about this, though: the lead vocals are by Carl Wayne… who is also singing on the Radio Fab jingles throughout the show! This is the best fact in this entire article, so you may as well stop reading now.
(15:20) “Train Kept A-Rollin'”, The Yardbirds
The song Nicey talks all over during his link. “I hope you’re enjoying this at home as much as I am!”
(17:30) “Harlem Nocturne”, probably Mantovani
As Smashie and Nicey approach the pool. This is labelled as Mantovani’s version of “Red Roses for a Blue Lady” in the paperwork, but this is incorrect.
As pointed out by Simon McLean, this is actually “Harlem Nocturne”, probably Mantovani’s version, although it’s very difficult to make out, it being so low in the mix:
(17:53) “Radio Fab FM ’67 Jingle”, Philip Pope
An acapella version of the previous jingle at (13:36). I love that, much like real radio jingles, End of an Era uses different mixes and edits of the same basic track for different purposes.
(17:56) “Everlasting Love”, Love Affair4
For Smashie and Nicey’s DJ handover. “Hot weather means no bras, for better bouncing bristols…”
(18:03) “Harlem Nocturne”, probably Mantovani
Back at Nicey’s house, as per (17:30).
(18:33) “Radio Fab FM ’67 Jingle”, Philip Pope
Again, another mixout: this time, an acapella of the “Fun and Music” opening line.
(18:58) Unidentified Top of the Pops theme
Oh, boy. Here lies a tale. We’re talking about this title sequence:
The problem is: who actually wrote and performed this music, and what it’s called, seems to be shrouded in mystery. The paperwork for End of an Era seems to think this is the Dave Davini Four, which surely isn’t the case; they did a previous theme. It also claims that it’s called “Topsy Popsy”. Well… maybe? But I’ve found no evidence for that anywhere else. Some people online give the names of potential people behind the track who are attached to Top of the Pops in other ways; Johnny Pearson is a recurring example, but I’ve still not found any proof.
So what do we know about it? The paperwork says that the clip comes from the episode dated the 15th October 19705, and the theme seems to have been used from late 1969 until late 1970. That’s pretty much it. Plenty of talk about Top of the Pops themes skip it entirely. Others admit its existence, but just call it an “unknown brass track”.
Rather than guess, I’m going to hold fire for now. But I’ll return to this at some point. It seems absolutely absurd that we don’t seem to know the answer.
(19:16) “Maggie May”, Rod Stewart
Taken from Top of the Pops in 1971.
(19:51) “Whole Lotta Love”, CCS
The famous Led Zeppelin song, in its CCS incarnation. Taken from a 1973 edition of Pops. This is missing from the VHS version, replaced with the previous, unknown theme, presumably for rights reasons.6
(21:05) “Kung Fu Fighting”, Carl Douglas
Played during Smashie and Nicey’s attempts to get involved in black music. “You would not BELIEVE the complaints that show got…” This is a lovely hidden background joke; you’re initially focused on, erm, other things in that link, but the idea that this song is what Smashie and Nicey thought represented black music at its best is very, very funny.
(21:54) “Buckin’ Horse”, Paul Whitehouse
No Pope involvement here for Smashie’s foray into pop music; just written by Enfield and Whitehouse.
(22:11) “Save Your Kisses for Me”, Brotherhood of Man
Taken from a 1976 edition of Top of the Pops.
(22:30) “Beat Boutique”, Alan Hawkshaw and Keith Mansfield
A wonderful KPM track for Deptford Draylons. “Got a family? Get one!”
(24:47) “Anarchy in the U.K.”, Sex Pistols
During the punk montage. Hilariously, this couldn’t be cleared for the VHS release, so in that edit it’s replaced with “Oh Bondage Up Yours!” by X-Ray Spex:
I make no judgement as to the relative quality of the two songs, but the broadcast version works better here: you just need the shorthand of using the Pistols, to get the point across quickly. The BBC should have just taken punk at its word and put “Anarchy” on the video release regardless.
(25:57) “I Don’t Care”, Paul Whitehouse
Smashie’s contribution to punk, again written by Enfield and Whitehouse. Oddly enough, Smashie’s third song “Butterfly” is also listed in the broadcast paperwork, but is only present on the VHS release.
(26:33) “You Bastard”, Alternative TV
So, my big admission: for years, I had no idea this was a real song. I thought it was just a parody of the kind of song John Peel might like. I’m clearly not up on my classic punk.
Truth be told, it’s still funny… but I think I preferred it when I thought it was made-up by the show.
(27:01) “The Good Word”, Johnny Scott
The famous title music, from a 1973 episode of Nationwide.
(27:13) “Honey”, Bobby Goldsboro
Ah, yes, Smashie’s breakdown… and, legend would have at least, the song Tony Blackburn repeatedly played on the air when his marriage to Tessa Wyatt was falling apart. A legend which is quite difficult to research the exact truth of these days.
As for the joke itself, it always feels worth quoting Harry Enfield on this point, from his book Harry Enfield and his Humourous Chums (Penguin, 1997):
“The End of an Era is probably the piece of work I’m personally most proud of. My only regret is the sketch where Smashie’s marriage breaks down. This was a ‘satire’ of Tony Blackburn’s marriage break-up, if you can call it satire. It was in fact cheap and cruel, and Mr. Blackburn, who’s never harmed anyone, didn’t deserve his private life to be mocked. I am deeply ashamed of this sketch, as is Paul.”
Fair play to Harry for admitting it, and in a high-profile, permanent form in his own words at that. (I always think the sequence would have lost a lot of its unpleasantness if she’d simply been called anything other than “Tessa”.)
(29:08) “Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs”, Brian and Michael
Smashie on Radio Wilderness. The absolutely perfect song choice. “We have a whole lot more fun on here than on national radio, don’t we?”
(29:17) “Dave Nice Video Show”, Philip Pope
“Good. Clean. Family. Fun.” An entire suite of music for Dave Nice’s abysmal sketch show, and the kind of thing which makes me wish for a proper release of all this custom stuff from Pope. Well, I can dream.
(30:15) “Kings of the Wild Frontier”, Adam and the Ants
Over the stock footage of the New Romantics.
(30:50) “Madness”, Madness
“Right, here’s a bunch of crazy loonies that are almost as bonkers as me!” I always thought Smashie’s relentless horn action here is easily as disturbing as the more obvious section on his breakdown. The longer he keeps parping that horn, the less chance his mind has to go wandering to bad places.
(31:28) “Dave Nice Radio Fab 80s Jingle”, Philip Pope
“ROCK… WITH NICE!”
(31:47) “Relax”, Frankie Goes to Hollywood
For my money, the best joke in the show, and the most beautiful deployment of the word “shit” you’ll ever hear. Ah what the hell, I can’t resist it:
Hmmmm, I wonder where that amazing Radio Fab 147 sign went…
(32:04) “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”, Band Aid
Taken directly from the music video.
(33:08) “Saturday Smiles Music”, Philip Pope
An entire suite of music parodying Noel’s House Party. The guitar-based stuff is great, but I’d argue the sad music bed for the “Blubbing Room” over-eggs things a little, amusing though it undoubtedly is. Noel’s House Party never really did that kind of thing with its music. Perhaps there’s another entertainment show they had in mind here, lost to the mists of time. (But perhaps not lost to the mists of the comments section, if you have any ideas.)
(35:59) “Ebeneezer Goode”, The Shamen
Used in the recreation of The Word, at Fab FM’s 25th anniversary party. “PUSH. OFF.”
(40:39) “Radio Fab 90s Jingle”, Philip Pope
An extended instrumental/bed version of the jingle which opened the show. Fantastic. What I’d do to hear this one clean…
I’ve mentioned before that the Radio Fab jingles sound more like Capital than Radio 1. There is, however, one instance of Smashie talking over a real Radio 1 bed. It wasn’t in End of an Era though, or even the original Television Programme sketches. Instead, it was the linking material for the Channel 4 documentary Hang the DJ from 1992, Radio 1’s 25th anniversary year. (Yes, the Smiths reference is not lost on me, considering how End of an Era starts.)
At 2:05, that’s the 1990 Radio 1 travel jingle!
(41:14) “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”, Bachman–Turner Overdrive
Obviously.
(43:24) “Too Shy”, Kajagoogoo
And finally, during Smashie talking about his dreams for the future. Surely another character joke in the vein of “Deeply Dippy”. This one is even more difficult to hear in a standard watch; it surely passed most people by.
And that’s your lot for now. But in this 30th anniversary year of End of an Era, we’re just getting started. Next time:
Cor.
With thanks to Duncan Newmarch, Tanya Jones, Darrell Maclaine, Mike Scott, Milly Storrington, and Steve Williams.
UPDATE (13/2/24): Updated the sections on Dixon of Dock Green, Z Cars, Nicey’s pool background music, and the unknown Top of the Pops theme, with various corrections and clarifications.
Fun fact I discovered while writing this article: did you know Simon Brint did the theme arrangement for Blue Peter between 1989-94? ↩
With thanks to James Cooray Smith and Simon Coward for a copy of the episode. ↩
Made by PAMS, originally sung in 1966 for KONO. Cut #16 on that page. ↩
This is completely irrelevant, but I had to include it. When faced with this song at the start of a BBC Two programme once, I just had to do this. You’re just obliged with that drum intro. ↩
The earliest surviving colour edition of the show. With thanks to David G-P. ↩
You may wonder: how was the previous theme cleared properly then, if nobody knew the correct details about it? To which I answer: shhhhh, don’t think about it too much. ↩
16 comments
Brad Jones on 11 February 2024 @ 10am
Great article as usual! Looking at my files here, the earliest Top Of The Pops I have that features that theme is the 1969 Christmas Special, which won’t get repeated anyway because a.) it’s incomplete, and b.) the Jangler hosts. In fact, he and Blackburn alternate presenting duties throughout the whole of 1970 (much in the same way Dortie and Franklin do through 1993). There only appear to be four complete episodes from 1970, anyway. The next complete episode after the one you link to, 14th January 1971, uses Whole Lotta Love, so it seems the mystery theme was only around just over a year (possibly introduced with colour?) The closing theme (the “previous” Davani theme you link to) was never used for the opening titles, and remains into the colour era (and sounds distinctly un-1970s by this point!). The only credit I can find is to the Johnny Pearson Orchestra, though whether that’s for the theme or not, I can’t say. I realise none of this information is probably useful, but in true Ian Davidson style, can I just say that this is the very very first time I’ve ever appeared on Dirty Feed?
Footnote: Link to the actual “previous” opening theme is the first one in this video, which someone has ripped from the 40th Anniversary DVD…
David Brunt on 11 February 2024 @ 11am
I’ve always assumed the blubbing room was a reference to Surprise Surprise, where every week Killa Kak would gradually goad people to sob their eyes out about their sad stories.
J. Wallace on 11 February 2024 @ 2pm
With regards to the Tony Blackburn parody, I believe Paul Whitehouse did personally apologise to him over it. Tony of course agreed to be part of the mythos, and has regularly led into parts of Smashie’s character for his own end, but when it became clear that Tony didn’t know that section was present, I think all concerned realised how badly he would take it.
As for the blubbing room, there could be an element of Hearts of Gold in there too, particularly the medals and the tonal whiplash.
Rob Keeley on 11 February 2024 @ 5pm
Great work as ever, John. I’ll have to annoy you with one thing, though: ‘An Ordinary Copper’ couldn’t have been taken from a 1956 Dixon since they were still using ‘Maybe It’s Because…’ then, as the recent repeats on TPTV proved.
Always look forward to your articles.
Rob
Rob Keeley on 11 February 2024 @ 6pm
According to the BBC official history of the show, the original theme was a percussion track written by Johnnie Stewart and Harry Rabinowitz, with two subsequent versions of this before “Whole Lotta Love” came in, in 1972.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/trivia/history/history2.shtml
Not totally convinced by this, however, since I’ve just watched all the surviving sixties titles on YouTube and they all seem to have totally different themes!
John J. Hoare on 11 February 2024 @ 7pm
Cheers Rob. Something odd going on here, because the paperwork claims it’s from the archive footage itself, rather than dubbed on afterwards. The Rotten Apple definitely went out on 11th August 1956.
Which means either they’re using two different episodes but not saying in the paperwork (very possible), they dubbed the well-known tune onto the old footage for storytelling purposes (also very possible), or two different versions of the episode exist, one with the old theme, and one new (also very possible, but perhaps marginally less possible than the other two).
I should be able to find the answer out when I write the stock footage article, so I’ll go back and retrospectively update this one when I know.
John J. Hoare on 11 February 2024 @ 7pm
David:
This is very possible. I hadn’t thought about that.
It’s a trap these kind of shows run into. When a parody is so clear visually – it REALLY looks like Noel’s House Party, down to a T – it’s easy to forget that it’s doing something a little more complex, and there are other shows in the mix too.
John J. Hoare on 11 February 2024 @ 8pm
Brad: thanks for your thoughts. I’ll have a think and rewrite that little bit when I get the chance, as yes, I shouldn’t be leaping from opening to closing themes.
Someone else has a potential lead to who actually wrote the theme we’re talking about, so I might have another update in a few days!
M Clark on 11 February 2024 @ 9pm
Can’t help with that late 60s TotP theme, but it doesn’t half remind me of two other things: the Pearl&Dean cinema ads, and the instrumental break in Richard Harris’s MacArthur Park.
Leigh Graham on 11 February 2024 @ 11pm
If anyone was going to do this, it was going to be John J. Hoare. The fact the you have bothered gives me some justification for spending more hours than reasonable trying to identify all the music used in a certain BC TV sitcom series! I discovered some unidentifiable tracks, so I’ll have to post something online to see if anyone has some clues – and I don’t have access to the paperwork!
Oh, and surely you recognise Michael Fenton Stevens, who has sung on tv, but most people will know him as a tv and film actor in many comedy roles.
John J. Hoare on 11 February 2024 @ 11pm
So, just got a copy of “The Rotten Apple”, as transmitted on Talking Pictures TV recently. It does indeed have ‘Maybe It’s Because I’m a Londoner’ on it. I highly suspect End of an Era just bunged the familiar theme over it. Which is fine, but in that case, the paperwork should admit it, rather than just putting “ARCHIVE FOOTAGE” next to An Ordinary Copper in the list of music tracks!
I’m working tomorrow, but I’ll update the article on Tuesday to include a few corrections which have come up.
Nathan on 13 February 2024 @ 12pm
It’s not actually the Johnny Keating version of ‘Johnny Todd’ being played on the Z-Cars footage. The Keating version is markedly different as heard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moBBTrP3_WU
I believe it’s the original TV version from an episode itself which was done by Bridget Fry and & Fritz Spiegel.
The closest sounding commerically released version is the Norrie Paramor version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EV0hCr2QgE
On another note, how did they get such a good quality transfer of the Freddie And The Dreamers footage? The sound and picture is markedly superior to all other copies I’ve seen, which all appear to use the abysmal 1991 transfer for ‘Sounds of the Sixties’.
Jeremy Rogers on 13 February 2024 @ 1pm
I remember seeing “Topsy Popsy” being given as the name to the pre-1970s TOTP theme in articles many years ago. Composers often preferred a name for their theme music somewhat distinct from the programme it was for. Rabinowitz as composer is going to be Harry Rabinowitz, Director of Music for BBC LE. If some form of this was still being used to close, the paperwork possibly just confused the two.
John J. Hoare on 13 February 2024 @ 4pm
Thanks Nathan. This was a stupid error, I really should have checked that, and I don’t know why I didn’t.
I’ve updated the article with this today, along with all the other errors and clarifications which have come up here in the comments, and on Bluesky. Thanks to everyone for your help. There were rather more errors in this piece originally than I’m comfortable with; I’m fighting against some dodgy paperwork and it being a very dense piece factually, but it still makes me a bit itchy. In retrospect, I should have written the stock footage piece before publishing this one, as it would have self-corrected some of the sillier mistakes.
John J. Hoare on 13 February 2024 @ 4pm
Jeremy:
Agreed. What we really need is some 69/70 TOTP paperwork, which is surely going to be the likeliest to be accurate… but I can’t easily get hold of any. I’ll add it to the growing list of things to check in Caversham one day!
John J. Hoare on 13 February 2024 @ 4pm
Nathan:
I don’t know exactly, but the reference numbers given for this footage in the paperwork is PL225182/PL225183. Make of that what you will. When I write the stock footage article, I hope to poke this a little more.
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