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Add MS 89284/2/14
- Record Id:
- 040-003397860
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003389071
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056406501.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89284/2/14
- Title:
- Michael Palin Notebooks 27 and 28: Monty Python, Marty Amok and Intertel
- Scope & Content:
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- Notebook 27 (red Silvine Students notebook, 45 pages) marked 'Python I/Marty', with notes and drafts of sketches, mainly for Marty Amok, series 1 of Monty Python Flying Circus, the Monty Python entry for the Montreux Festival 1970 and a trade film for Intertel. Monty Python sketches include 'Stonehenge', 'Mr Attila the Hun'. Headlines include: 'Press Cuttings Not Sent', 'Show 13', 'Catalogue', 'Terrifying Fright Ltd', 'Suburban Sitting Room', 'Police Dancing Round Slab at Stonehenge', 'Silly Sketch', 'Montreux', 'Playboy Film', 'Golden Knees', 'Show 13', 'Marty. A Cricket Match', 'Good Luck Keith', 'Indians in Cinema', 'Intertel Film'. Manuscript in Terry Jones and Palin's handwriting. The notebooks also includes doodles, a page with good luck messages to Palin from Eric Idle and John Cleese (with their signatures) and part of the script for the Intertel film (typescript with holograph annotations).
- Notebook 28 (blue Ryman exercise book, 71 pages plus 6 loose pages) marked 'Monty Python II', with notes and draft of sketches mainly for series 2 of Monty Python Flying Circus, including 'Motor Insurance Sketch', 'The Bishop', 'The Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights', 'There's Been a Murder', 'Gumby Flower Arranging', 'New Cooker Sketch', 'Ypres 1914', 'Art Gallery Strike', 'Poets', 'Face the Press', 'Blackmail'. Headlines include: 'Insurance Office', 'The Bishop (Film)', 'The Adventures of Weedyman and Brian', 'The Doctor', 'Keeping the Books Read', 'A Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights', 'The Ken Buddha Story', 'Dracula' (possibly for a film idea about Dracula, see Add MS 89284/3/2), 'The Garage', 'Sits on Knees', 'Words', 'Phone Keeps Ringing for Inspector', 'Flower Arrangement', 'Typical New Gas Cooker Sketch', 'World Clinic', 'The Ted Virus Hospital for Over-Acting', 'The Bunker', 'An Art Exhibition', 'Poetry Reading (continued)', 'The Minister', 'Blackmail', 'Happy Knees (Cont)', 'Looking for a Job', 'The Success Montage'. Manuscript in Terry Jones and Palin's handwriting. The notebooks also includes doodles and 2 pages of the script of the sketch 'Buying a Bed' (typescript with Palin's annotations).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003389071
036-003391163
040-003397860 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89284 : Michael Palin Archive
Add MS 89284/2 : Michael Palin Archive: Notebooks
Add MS 89284/2/14 : Michael Palin Notebooks 27 and 28: Monty Python, Marty Amok and Intertel - Hierarchy:
- 032-003389071[0006]/036-003391163[0014]/040-003397860
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89284
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1969
- End Date:
- 1970
- Date Range:
- [1969-1970]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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