A meat cleaver was taken to the 1968 documentary, which detailed the cost-cutting and compromises that led to the resignation of Danish architect Jørn Utzon, in the basement of the BBC.
Australian filmmaker John Weiley was gobsmacked to discover his 1968 BBC documentary detailing the cost-cutting and compromises that led to the resignation of the Opera House’s Danish architect Jorn Utzon had been chopped to extinction. With a meat cleaver.from being screened in Australia or again on the BBC or anywhere else in the world – and stave off legal threats about its inflammatory content – it was destroyed soon after airing in the United Kingdom.
A recreation from the documentary about the destruction of a controversial film about the Opera House that was destroyed.Its destruction also blindsided Weiley’s boss and supporter, the now famous wildlife documentary maker Sir David Attenborough. “The notion that it could be physically destroyed was a surprise to me,” Attenborough said. “It was taken out of my hands.
There was an element of the surreal about the project. Maynard said: “Here is a country building an Opera House, and they don’t have an opera company.”
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