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The first film of the Gongman was created in 1935 using former British heavyweight boxing champion "Bombardier" Billy Wells to make the first film sequence. By combining the strength of a perfect physical specimen of a man with the deep resonance of a huge gong the intention was to achieve a simultaneous impact in vision and sound. However, at the time, Billy Wells was over 40 years old and the gong was made of plaster. The sound of the Gong was created by James Blades on a Chinese instrument called a Tam Tam . The Gongman was often parodied over the years. In '' Carry On Up The Khyber '', Kenneth Williams ' character refers to an over-enthusiastic gongman's attitude as "rank stupidity". In addition, the opening to the ATV Thursday Picture Show used an animated version. According to Sub-TV, who has a video of the opening, "the gong-smasher here is a non-muscley man in an old-fashioned swimming costume and a cloth cap!" The man whacks an ATV logo, not a gong, and the logo smashes into pieces when it gets whacked. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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