United Press International Oddity

[adriane17]

I was recently given a UPI publicity press photo of a shot from The Moonbase "streets of Ealing" session. This particular shot shows seven Cybermen standing at a bus stop.

The text on the back is headed : " PLA I543706 RO - THE CYBERMEN HIT LONDON (FIRST OF FIVE)" and reads :" THESE SEVEN MEN-THINGS OR MOON MONSTERS ARE THE CYBERMEN, THE LATEST ENEMY OF THE BBC'S SPACE EXPLORER, DR. WHO."

Underneath the text is :" CREDIT (UPI PHOTO) and the date "2/25/67".

The still bears a stamp from UPI New York.

If Dr Who wasn't sold to the USA in the 1960s then why would this set of stills have been made? Any ideas?

[Richard Bignell]

A lot of big photo agencies take credit for pictures that weren't taken by them, but have rather been "acquired" by them via one route or another. In this case, the pictures were taken by a British agency (I can't recall which off the top of my head), but some of them are currently up on Mirrorpix.

mirrorpix.com/webgate/preview.php?UURL=0a0f3b64193707d15a3b3f6a73d6728c&IMGID=00284808

[Paul Vanezis]

Sept 15, 2011 18:46:32 GMT Richard Bignell said:

In this case, the pictures were taken by a British agency

I think they were originally owned by Popperfoto...

[Paul Vanezis]

In fact now part of Getty and credited to Keystone...

...but subtley different...

www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/3142924/Hulton-Archive

www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/3287129/Hulton-Archive

and this one credited to Fox Photo's and taken by a stringer...

www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/2661953/Hulton-Archive

although I always thought it was BBC.