Radiohead video breaching copyright, say Trumpton creator's family unit - The Guardian

Camberwicker Man … Windy Miller, from the 1966 series Camberwick eco-friendly. photograph: BBC

Radiohead had been accused of "tarnishing the company" of the Trumptonshire trilogy in their video for the one Burn the Witch.

William Mollett, the son-in-law of Gordon Murray – who created the babies's tv series Trumpton, Chigley and Camberwick eco-friendly – told the Mail on Sunday: "Radiohead should have sought our consent as we accept as true with this a tarnishing of the manufacturer. It isn't anything we would have accepted. We accept as true with that there's a breach of copyright and we're figuring out what to do subsequent."

The video for Burn the Witch, directed via Chris Hopewell, became unmistakably based on the Trumptonshire programmes, which first aired on the BBC between 1966 and 1969. instead of the idyll portrayed within the original indicates, despite the fact, Burn the Witch grew to become into a horror movie, with an outsider ending up internal a burning wicker man. Animator Virpi Kettu suggested the video was a touch upon European fears in regards to the refugee disaster.

now not most effective does the stop-motion animation trend of Burn the Witch in shape the Trumptonshire trilogy, however figures comparable to to the customary characters Windy Miller, the mayor of Trumpton and the florist Mrs Cobbit additionally seem.

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Mollett said he would not be displaying the video to his father in legislations, who is now ninety five, because "Gordon could be appalled".

in the instant aftermath of the video's free up on 3 might also, Mollett instructed Pitchfork he became not aware of it. Radiohead's consultant turned into not available when Pitchfork requested no matter if the community had permission from the Trumptonshire rights holders to make the video. Radiohead's UK publicist had no comment on this story.

Radiohead are removed from the first band to invert the secure world of Trumpton, Chigley and Camberwick green to contain modern fears. in the mid-80s, Half Man Half Biscuit recorded a pair of songs that did the identical. In Trumpton Riots they portrayed Trumptonshire as a place of superb firemen, militant socialism, and military coups. In a version of The coach track from Chigley, the educate driver's gentle phrases have been reconfigured: "every Saturday I get the Chigley skins / and that they all the time smash my home windows 'cos the domestic facet at all times wins."