Ian Scoones

I was so engrossed in the front-of-camera personnel in my last post - Hammer Connections - that I neglected to mention the late, great Ian Scoones. One of this country's best visual effects men, who worked on several Hammer films as well as some classic 1970's Doctor Who. To appreciate his work, watch the DVD extra on The Invisible Enemy in which Matt Irvine interviews him - appropriately enough at a Hammer Convention at Bray Studios. Or, as well as the fore-mentioned story, just watch Curse of Peladon, Frontier In Space, City of Death...