Post by cjones on Feb 23, 2012 17:33:56 GMT
This is not exactly on topic, but I was doing some research recently when I came across the following article in a 1967 edition of the Welsh-language weekly newspaper Y Cymro (14 September, p. 16), and thought members might be interested. I took a very bad cameraphone image of the photo that illustrated the article (not a rare pic at all I think - a yeti next to the Tardis with the valley floor in the distance - but I'll post it if anyone wants me to). Here's a translation of the text (it’s somewhat rough! – apologies):
Arswyd y byd Ieti (‘The dread of the Yeti’s world’)
Very strange creatures were seen lurking between the rocks at the head of [Dyffryn] Nant Ffrancon last week – some sort of hairy grey bears, seven foot tall and with feet like massive eagles. This, they say, is how the Yeti lives in the Himalayas.
If you should see one of these on its own in the night – or in the day, come to that – you’ll soon be hot-footing it to Bethesda as fast as your legs can carry you!
But again – they were completely innocent. Two and three-year-old children went up to them to give them a hug.
The environs of Nant Ffrancon were chosen to stand in for the Himalayas by a BBC unit to film a new serial for Dr. Who. The new series will begin on 30 September. The story is being kept completely secret – as there is a twist in the tale.
All of the location filming for the serial was done in Nant Ffrancon but the fight scenes… were limited to the four walls of the studio – in a mountain made of fibre-glass.
Among the actors who came to Eryri [Snowdonia] were Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who), Frazer Hines (Jamie), Deborah Watling (Victoria) a Jack Watling (Travers).
The severe gale that howled over Llyn Ogwen in the middle of the week provided a very fitting atmosphere in which to evoke the bleakness of the Himalayas. The only ones who managed to keep warm were the four Yetis – four six-foot, strapping actors in costumes of fur and nylon. The costumes cost £100 each and weighed 90 pounds.
The producer of the series is Innes Lloyd, a native of [Gwynedd village] Penmaenmawr, and the director is Gerald Blake, a Londoner, who was an evacuee sent to Trebanos in Cwm Tawe [in south Wales] during the war.’
A dreadful pity Mr. Lloyd of Penmaenmawr never kept prints of this serial *sigh*
Arswyd y byd Ieti (‘The dread of the Yeti’s world’)
Very strange creatures were seen lurking between the rocks at the head of [Dyffryn] Nant Ffrancon last week – some sort of hairy grey bears, seven foot tall and with feet like massive eagles. This, they say, is how the Yeti lives in the Himalayas.
If you should see one of these on its own in the night – or in the day, come to that – you’ll soon be hot-footing it to Bethesda as fast as your legs can carry you!
But again – they were completely innocent. Two and three-year-old children went up to them to give them a hug.
The environs of Nant Ffrancon were chosen to stand in for the Himalayas by a BBC unit to film a new serial for Dr. Who. The new series will begin on 30 September. The story is being kept completely secret – as there is a twist in the tale.
All of the location filming for the serial was done in Nant Ffrancon but the fight scenes… were limited to the four walls of the studio – in a mountain made of fibre-glass.
Among the actors who came to Eryri [Snowdonia] were Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who), Frazer Hines (Jamie), Deborah Watling (Victoria) a Jack Watling (Travers).
The severe gale that howled over Llyn Ogwen in the middle of the week provided a very fitting atmosphere in which to evoke the bleakness of the Himalayas. The only ones who managed to keep warm were the four Yetis – four six-foot, strapping actors in costumes of fur and nylon. The costumes cost £100 each and weighed 90 pounds.
The producer of the series is Innes Lloyd, a native of [Gwynedd village] Penmaenmawr, and the director is Gerald Blake, a Londoner, who was an evacuee sent to Trebanos in Cwm Tawe [in south Wales] during the war.’
A dreadful pity Mr. Lloyd of Penmaenmawr never kept prints of this serial *sigh*
