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Pye Electronics: John Cleese

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East Anglian Film Archive at the University of East Anglia
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Pye Electronics: John Cleese

Actor, comedian, and Monty Python, John Cleese plays to type as a sophisticate loony in this advertisement for Pye Electronics of Cambridge.

A cinema and television advertisement from Cambridge-based electronics manufacturer, Pye featuring comedian John Cleese, who at the time would have been a very familiar face appearing on television screens every week as a member of the Python team in the BBC comedy sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus.

A cinema and television advertisement from Cambridge-based electronics manufacturer, Pye featuring comedian John Cleese, who at the time would have been a very familiar face appearing on television screens every week as a member of the Python team in the BBC comedy sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus.

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