Radiohead Burn the Witch Intertextuality

Trumpton

  • 1960s children's television series
  • First shown on the BBC in 1967
  • The second series in the Trumptonshire trilogy (Camberwick Green, Trumpton, Chigley).
  • Created using stop motion animation (pictures following each other) and actual 3D scaled down models.
Features of the episodes:
  • Starts with the same sequence of a clock.
  • Trivial issues in a small town e.g. squeaky floorboard.
  • Uses a voiceover for narration.
  • Whilst doing the jobs, they are singing.
  • Fire brigade save the day- well known sequence of names- "Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub."

The Wicker Man 

  • 1973 British horror film
  • Plot summary:Sergeant Howiearrives on the small Scottish island of Summerisle to investigate the report of a missing child. A conservative Christian, the policeman observes the residents' frivolous sexual displays and strange pagan rituals, particularly the temptations of Willow, daughter of the island magistrate, Lord Summerisle. The more Sergeant Howie learns about the islanders' strange practices, the closer he gets to tracking down the missing child. Believing that the girl (Rowan) is to be sacrificed for the bad harvest he finds her and runs off with her into a cave. However he finds out that the person to be sacrificed is him as he fits the criteria: 'willing, king-like, virgin, fool'. He is burnt alive inside a giant wicker man statue with the villagers singing and him reciting Psalm 23.
  • Significant images/symbols- sun as a face, rabbits/hare e.g. cake, dead, phallic symbol, animal masks etc.

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