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Derek Meddings

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Derek Meddings (15 January 1931 – 10 September 1995) was a British film and television special effects designer, initially noted for his work on the "Supermarionation" TV puppet series produced by Gerry Anderson, and later for the 1970s and 1980s James Bond and Superman film series. [1]

89 relations: Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Aces High (film), Albert R. Broccoli, Alexander Korda, AP Films, Apprentice to Murder, Art school, Audio commentary, BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects, Banzaï, Batman (1989 film), Berkshire, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Cape Fear (1991 film), Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Carpentry, Colorectal cancer, Compositing, Cookham, Denham Film Studios, Doppelgänger (1969 film), Fear Is the Key (film), Film industry, Fireball XL5, For Your Eyes Only (film), Four Feather Falls, Gerry Anderson, Golden Gate Bridge, GoldenEye, Hammer Film Productions, High Spirits (film), Hoover Dam, Hudson Hawk, James Bond in film, Joe 90, Krull (film), Krypton (comics), Les Bowie, Live action, Live and Let Die (film), Lotus Esprit, Martin Campbell, Matte painting, Merle Oberon, Michael Balcon, Michael G. Wilson, Mio in the Land of Faraway, Moonraker (film), Nuclear submarine, ..., Oil tanker, Pinewood Studios, Pink Floyd, Reg Hill, Santa Claus: The Movie, Scale model, Shepperton, Shout at the Devil (film), Space Shuttle, Special Achievement Academy Award, Special effect, Spies Like Us, St Pancras, London, Stingray (1964 TV series), Submersible, Supercar (TV series), Supergirl (film), Superman (1978 film), Superman II, Superman III, Superman in film, Supermarionation, The Bahamas, The Independent, The Land That Time Forgot (1975 film), The Man with the Golden Gun (film), The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter, The NeverEnding Story III, The Secret Service, The Spy Who Loved Me (film), Thunderbird 6, Thunderbirds (TV series), Thunderbirds Are Go, Tim Burton, Torchy the Battery Boy, Transylvania, UFO (TV series), Z.P.G., 007 Stage. Expand index (39 more) »

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is an Academy Award given for the best achievement in visual effects.

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS (often pronounced as am-pas), also known as simply the Academy) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures.

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Aces High (film)

Aces High is a 1976 Anglo-French war film directed by Jack Gold and starring Malcolm McDowell, Peter Firth, Christopher Plummer and Simon Ward.

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Albert R. Broccoli

Albert Romolo Broccoli (April 5, 1909 – June 27, 1996), nicknamed "Cubby", was an American film producer who made more than 40 motion pictures throughout his career.

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Alexander Korda

Sir Alexander Korda (born Sándor László Kellner, 16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956), BFI Screenonline.

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AP Films

AP Films or APF, later becoming Century 21 Productions, was a British independent film production company of the 1950s until the early 1970s.

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Apprentice to Murder

Apprentice to Murder is a 1988 Canadian-American-Norwegian thriller-horror film directed by Ralph L. Thomas and starring Donald Sutherland, Chad Lowe and Mia Sara.

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Art school

An art school is an educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, including fine art, especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design.

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Audio commentary

An audio commentary is an additional audio track, usually digital, consisting of a lecture or comments by one or more speakers, that plays in real time with a video.

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BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects

This is a list of winners and nominees for the BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects for each year.

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Banzaï

Banzaï is a 1983 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi and starring Coluche.

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Batman (1989 film)

Batman is a 1989 American superhero film directed by Tim Burton and produced by Jon Peters and Peter Guber, based on the DC Comics character of the same name.

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Berkshire

Berkshire (abbreviated Berks, in the 17th century sometimes spelled Barkeshire as it is pronounced) is a county in south east England, west of London and is one of the home counties.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom.

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Cape Fear (1991 film)

Cape Fear is a 1991 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and a remake of the 1962 film of the same name.

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, John Read and Reg Hill.

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Carpentry

Carpentry is a skilled trade in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc.

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Colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer and colon cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine).

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Compositing

Compositing is the combining of visual elements from separate sources into single images, often to create the illusion that all those elements are parts of the same scene.

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Cookham

Cookham is a historic village and civil parish on the River Thames in the north-easternmost corner of Berkshire in England.

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Denham Film Studios

Denham Film Studios were a British film production studio operating from 1936 to 1952.

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Doppelgänger (1969 film)

Doppelgänger is a 1969 British science fiction film, directed by Robert Parrish and starring Roy Thinnes, Ian Hendry, Lynn Loring and Patrick Wymark.

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Fear Is the Key (film)

Fear Is the Key is a 1972 film directed by Michael Tuchner and based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Alistair MacLean.

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Film industry

The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post production, film festivals, distribution; and actors, film directors, and other film crew personnel.

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Fireball XL5

Fireball XL5 is a science fiction themed children's television show following the missions of spaceship Fireball XL5, commanded by Colonel Steve Zodiac of the World Space Patrol.

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For Your Eyes Only (film)

For Your Eyes Only is a 1981 British spy film, the twelfth in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions, and the fifth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.

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Four Feather Falls

Four Feather Falls was the third puppet TV show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Television.

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Gerry Anderson

Gerry Anderson (born Gerald Alexander Abrahams; 14 April 1929 – 26 December 2012) was an English television and film producer, director, writer and occasional voice artist.

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Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

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GoldenEye

GoldenEye is a 1995 British spy film, the seventeenth in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 officer James Bond.

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Hammer Film Productions

Hammer Film Productions is a British film production company based in London.

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High Spirits (film)

High Spirits is a 1988 fantasy comedy film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Steve Guttenberg, Daryl Hannah, Beverly D'Angelo, Liam Neeson and Peter O'Toole.

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Hoover Dam

Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona.

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Hudson Hawk

Hudson Hawk is a 1991 American action comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann.

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James Bond in film

The James Bond film series is a British series of spy films based on the fictional character of MI6 agent James Bond, "007", who originally appeared in a series of books by Ian Fleming.

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Joe 90

Joe 90 is a 1960s British science-fiction television series that follows the adventures of a nine-year-old boy, Joe McClaine, who starts a double life as a schoolchild-turned-superspy after his scientist father invents a device capable of duplicating expert knowledge and experience and transferring it to a human brain.

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Krull (film)

Krull is a 1983 science fantasy swashbucklerNathan, Ian (10 October 2015).

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Krypton (comics)

Krypton is a fictional planet appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Les Bowie

Les Bowie (November 10, 1913 – January 27, 1979) was a Canadian-born special effects artist working mainly in Britain.

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Live action

Live action is a form of cinematography or videography that uses actors and actresses instead of animation or animated pictures.

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Live and Let Die (film)

Live and Let Die is a 1973 British spy film, the eighth in the ''James Bond'' series to be produced by Eon Productions, and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.

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Lotus Esprit

The Lotus Esprit is a sports car that was built by Lotus Cars at their Hethel factory in the United Kingdom between 1976 and 2004.

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Martin Campbell

Martin Campbell (born 24 October 1943) is a New Zealand TV and film director, best known for directing Bond movies GoldenEye (1995) and Casino Royale (2006).

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Matte painting

A matte painting is a painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows filmmakers to create the illusion of an environment that is not present at the filming location.

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Merle Oberon

Merle Oberon (born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson, 19 February 191123 November 1979) was an Anglo-Indian actress.

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Michael Balcon

Sir Michael Elias Balcon (19 May 1896 – 17 October 1977) was an English film producer, known for his leadership of Ealing Studios from 1938 to 1955.

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Michael G. Wilson

Michael Gregg Wilson, OBE (born January 21, 1942) is an American producer and screenwriter, best known for his association with the ''James Bond'' film series.

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Mio in the Land of Faraway

Mio in the Land of Faraway (Mio min Mio; Mio, moy Mio) is a 1987 fantasy film directed by Vladimir Grammatikov and starring Christopher Lee, Christian Bale, Nicholas Pickard, Timothy Bottoms and Susannah York.

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Moonraker (film)

Moonraker is a 1979 British spy film, the eleventh in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.

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Nuclear submarine

A nuclear submarine is a submarine powered by a nuclear reactor.

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Oil tanker

An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products.

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Pinewood Studios

Pinewood Studios is a British film and television studio located in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, about from Slough, from Uxbridge, and approximately west of central London.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Reg Hill

Reginald Eric "Reg" Hill (16 May 1914http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2baea3487c – 1999) was an English model-maker, art director, producer, and freelance storyboard artist.

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Santa Claus: The Movie

Santa Claus: The Movie (known on-screen as simply Santa Claus) is a 1985 British-American Christmas film starring Dudley Moore, John Lithgow, and David Huddleston in the title role.

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Scale model

A scale model is most generally a physical representation of an object, which maintains accurate relationships between all important aspects of the model, although absolute values of the original properties need not be preserved.

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Shepperton

Shepperton is a suburban village in the borough of Spelthorne, in the county of Surrey in England, southwest of Charing Cross, London, bounded by the Thames to the south and much of the east and which is in the northwest bisected by the M3 motorway.

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Shout at the Devil (film)

Shout at the Devil is a 1976 British war adventure film directed by Peter R. Hunt and starring Lee Marvin and Roger Moore.

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Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as part of the Space Shuttle program.

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Special Achievement Academy Award

The Special Achievement Award is an Academy Award given for an achievement that makes an exceptional contribution to the motion picture for which it was created, but for which there is no annual award category.

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Special effect

Special effects (often abbreviated as SFX, SPFX, or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the film, television, theatre, video game and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual world.

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Spies Like Us

Spies Like Us is a 1985 American comedy film directed by John Landis and starring Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, and Donna Dixon.

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St Pancras, London

St Pancras is an area of central London.

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Stingray (1964 TV series)

Stingray is a British children's Supermarionation television series, created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and produced by AP Films for Associated Television and ITC Entertainment between 1964 and 1965.

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Submersible

A submersible is a small vehicle designed to operate underwater.

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Supercar (TV series)

Supercar was a children's TV show produced by Gerry Anderson and Arthur Provis' AP Films for ATV and ITC Entertainment.

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Supergirl (film)

Supergirl is a 1984 British superhero film directed by Jeannot Szwarc and written by David Odell.

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Superman (1978 film)

Superman (informally titled Superman: The Movie in some listings and reference sources) is a 1978 superhero film directed by Richard Donner and based on the DC Comics character of the same name.

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Superman II

Superman II is a 1980 superhero film directed by Richard Lester, based on the DC Comics character Superman.

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Superman III

Superman III is a British-American 1983 superhero film directed by Richard Lester, based on the DC Comics character Superman.

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Superman in film

The fictional character Superman, an American comic book superhero in DC Comics publications, has appeared in movies almost since his inception.

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Supermarionation

Supermarionation (a portmanteau of "super", "marionette" and "animation")La Rivière, p. 67.

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The Bahamas

The Bahamas, known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic state within the Lucayan Archipelago.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Land That Time Forgot (1975 film)

The Land That Time Forgot is a 1975 British-American fantasy/adventure film based upon the 1924 novel The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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The Man with the Golden Gun (film)

The Man with the Golden Gun is a 1974 British spy film, the ninth in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions, and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.

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The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter

The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter is a 1990 German-American fantasy film and sequel to The NeverEnding Story.

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The NeverEnding Story III

The NeverEnding Story III: Escape from Fantasia (also known as: The NeverEnding Story III: Return to Fantasia) is a 1994 film, the second sequel to the fantasy film The NeverEnding Story (following the first sequel, The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter).

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The Secret Service

The Secret Service is a British children's espionage television series, filmed by Century 21 for ITC Entertainment and broadcast on Associated Television, Granada Television and Southern Television in 1969.

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The Spy Who Loved Me (film)

The Spy Who Loved Me is a 1977 British-American spy film, the tenth in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions, and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional secret agent James Bond.

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Thunderbird 6

Thunderbird 6 is a 1968 British science-fiction adventure film written by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, directed by David Lane and produced by Century 21 Cinema.

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Thunderbirds (TV series)

Thunderbirds is a British science-fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, filmed by their production company AP Films (APF) and distributed by ITC Entertainment.

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Thunderbirds Are Go

Thunderbirds Are Go is a 1966 British science-fiction adventure film based on Thunderbirds, a 1960s television series starring marionette puppets and featuring scale model effects in a filming process dubbed "Supermarionation".

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Tim Burton

Timothy Walter BurtonTim Burton's middle name is cited as Walter by the Museum of Modern Art on its and covering Burton's career as an artist and filmmaker, though it is cited as William by other sources, such as the (born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator.

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Torchy the Battery Boy

Torchy the Battery Boy was the second television series produced by AP Films and Gerry Anderson, running from 1960 to 1961.

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Transylvania

Transylvania is a historical region in today's central Romania.

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UFO (TV series)

UFO is a 1970 British science fiction television series about an alien invasion of Earth.

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Z.P.G.

Z.P.G. (short for "Zero Population Growth") is a 1972 Danish-American dystopian science fiction film starring Oliver Reed and Geraldine Chaplin and directed by Michael Campus.

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007 Stage

The Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage is one of the largest sound stages in the world.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Meddings

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