"Watch, not do!"

An odd film from Nigel Kneale, only now extant in black and white due to the BBC tradition of incinerating all works more than a week old, but leaving copies in distant foreign archives.

Starts with trumpet music and the words "Sooner than you think". Titles then an orgiastic scene with a tannoy saying "standby, studio". Pans to a "production pod", and then cuts to a TV production studio where a bank of TV screens shows the orgiasts, reminiscent of nothing so much as Big Brother. Appropriate as the only think I know about this film is that it is credited with predicting reality TV.

Make them think "Sex is not to do, sex is to watch."

"Watch not do."

Stops war, breeding, etyc.