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Stanley Unwin was more than just a British comedian and comic writer. He was an inventor of his own language, 'Unwinese', referred to in the film as gobbledegook. This was a special and mangled form of English in which only a few words were intelligible; this was enough to make the listener think he was being talked to - but without actually allowing him to understand the sentence concerned, the effect of which was make the listener feel deaf or daft.
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Here is the real live Stanley Unwin as he appears in the titles of The Secret Service. This program was unlike anything else done by the Andersons. The Secret Service attempted to 'trump' Captain Scarlet and Joe 90 by freely mixing live shots with standard Supermarionation puppet and model shots. Did it work? Well, reviews are mixed! It certainly did not please ITC's Lew Grade who ordered the series cancelled after 13 episodes, telling Gerry Anderson that 'The Americans will never understand it'.
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Stanley Unwin died in 2002 in Daventry, England. He is buried in the churchyard at Long Buckby, Northamptonshire with his wife, who pre-deceased him. Their gravestone has the epitaph, "Reunitey in the heavenly-bode - Deep Joy".
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The Hobbit was reviewed by 10-year-old Rayner Unwin, the son of Stanley Unwin. He was asked to review this book because it was considered a book for his age group. He was paid the standard fee of one shilling. As he later said, "It was the best shilling the firm ever spent".
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At the age of 90 Stanley fell into ill health and on 12th January 2002 he died peacefully in his sleep at Dantre Hospital in Daventry. He had prepared his own valediction for his Service of Thanksgiving, which was held at St Lawrence's Church in Long Buckby:
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In late 1942, Allen & Unwin printed 1,500 copies of a third impression under their imprint and 3,000 copies for the childrens book club sold by the bookseller Foyles. The third impression is dated 1942. The third impression printings were supplied to Foyles unbound. They were bound independently, without maps, in yellow, gilt-stamped cloth over boards. The dustjacket was black, orange and white, featuring a drawing of a dandified Hobbit. Needless to say, Tolkien and anyone familiar with the story detested this depiction of Bilbo.
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