Catweazle

Re: Catweazle 1972 UK TV, Low camera angles?

Now that'a a blast from the past! I remember watching the show back in ´76 when I was a wee nipper... don't remember much of the plot though, just a scrawny sorcerer-type bearded dude, magic and stuff.
Not entirely impossible that J.K. Rowling watched the show in her youth...

Come to think of it, the Discword character Rincewind shares some traits with Catweazle as well.
 
Re: Catweazle 1972 UK TV, Low camera angles?

Ah Catweazle,
fond memories of a kid watching this.
Good old Geoffery Bayldon (also played the Crow-man from Worzel Gummage another fave). "Electrickery!?"
Neil Mcarthy the guy who played Calibos from the original Clash of The Titans was also in it.

I think the camera angles/height may have had something to do with giving the action all the point of view of a child (Carrot). Not sure though.
 
Re: Catweazle 1972 UK TV, Low camera angles?

Loved it as a kid here in the u.k. Geoffrey Bayldon was awsome as the lead . a wizard living in a tree hous kind of thing as i recall.
 
Re: Catweazle 1972 UK TV, Low camera angles?

Yeah, it was to view from a Childs perspective as that's how they see all grown ups
 
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Oh man - I had a Brit girlfriend back in the day who used to tell me about this show and how much she loved it as a kid. I haven't heard the name in YEARS.
 
Re: Catweazle 1972 UK TV, Low camera angles?

blip said:
He can't recall ever owning a driod...:)
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That's somehow even funnier taken with this still.

blip said:
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Re: Catweazle 1972 UK TV, Low camera angles?

SATOR
AREPO
TENET
OPERA
ROTAS

- burned in my brain from an early age. Never worked though. NOTHING WORKS!!!!
 
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Catweazle!!!!!
If you tried to describe this show to someone who never heard of it, they'd think you were making it up!

Rich
 
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Only have hazy memories of this, but really wanna see it again now after reading this thread...
 
Re: Catweazle 1972 UK TV, Low camera angles?

blip said:
I'd say to them:
He's like Obi Wan in Star Wars 1977 but his use of the force is more hit and miss, while his lightsaber is smaller and made of flint.

He's probably how Obi Wan was in George's mind, before Sir Alec smoothed him out.

I wonder if George was watching T.V. in the U.K. while doing Star Wars?
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Yeah, you could be right!
 
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