{"id":73193,"date":"2016-08-06T18:53:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T17:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/?p=73193"},"modified":"2016-08-06T18:53:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T17:53:25","slug":"marcel-r-van-cleemput-chief-designer-at-corgi-toys-in-1960s-and-70s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/marcel-r-van-cleemput-chief-designer-at-corgi-toys-in-1960s-and-70s\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcel R.Van Cleemput (Chief Designer at Corgi Toys in 1960’s and 70’s)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 1998 I was able to interview Marcel R.Van Cleemput the former chief designer at Corgi toys, about the some of classic TV and film models that he had designed for the company over the years. This was originally filmed for a sadly aborted video project about 1960\u2019s spy related toys that I was working on. Recently I came across some of my recording from that meeting. So here published for the first time are some extracts from that meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>JB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong> How did you come about choosing which characters you would produce a model vehicle for?<\/p>\n

MVC:<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well as you know it all started with the very first model The Saint, The Saint Volvo. I can\u2019t really remember why we decided to do that, we\u2019d got a Volvo in the range and of course the programme was quite popular and it was sort of a quick way to get into the market put a label of The Saint on the bonnet and there we were, it proved very successful. \n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t