Friday, September 14, 2012
The Great Panjandrum
Here's some archive film footage of the testing of the Great Panjandrum which was secretly constructed in Leytonstone towards the end of the Second World War.
Here's an audio clip from Ventures and Adventures in Topography where Nick Papadimitriou and I discuss with local historian David Boote the possible location of the factory where the Panjandrum was built. We then somehow get onto the subject of Nazi Flying Saucers. I think I may have watched some Youtube videos on the subject the night before.
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Somehow I got the idea that this would be some kind of huge mystical musical instrument. An Indian version of those horizontal Japanes drums. And something that had to be tested carefully for sound and ritual effect.
What a wonderful re-imagining - that would have been a more successful use of the panjandrum than mine clearing on the Normandy Beaches
Now the Paralympic closing ceremony begins to make sense...
It was a tribute to failed industrial design of the Lea Valley Delta
The movie has an incredible Thomas Pynchon look and feel :-)
I'm still trying to work out where exactly in Leytonstone it was made. We discussed this with local historian David Boote on the radio show. I'll dig the clip out.
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